Lukasz Golab

Lukasz Golab is a Professor in the Department of Management Sciences and is cross-appointed to the Cheriton School of Computer Science. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Data for Good. Before joining Waterloo, he was a Senior Member of Research Staff at AT&T Labs. He has a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto (2001; with High Distinction) and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo (2006; with Alumni Gold Medal for top PhD graduate).

• Data science
• Data systems
• Data for good
• Blockchains

• 2006, Doctorate Computer Science, Waterloo, Canada
• 2001, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Toronto, Canada

• MSCI 342 - Principles of Software Engineering
  • Taught in 2020
• MSCI 346 - Database Systems
  • Taught in 2019
• MSCI 446 - Introduction to Machine Learning
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023
• MSCI 623 - Big Data Analytics
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• MSCI 720 - Topics in Information and Information Systems
  • Taught in 2020

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Professor has chair renewed to mine ‘data for good’
• Researchers use blockchain to drive electric-vehicle infrastructure