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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

CS professor Jimmy Lin named 2022 ACM Fellow

Professor Jimmy Lin has been named a 2022 ACM Fellow for his contributions to question answering, information retrieval, and natural language processing.

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Waterloo leads university and industry consortium to advance Canada’s security and defence

Today, the University of Waterloo announced a 5G and beyond mobile network technology consortium to develop secure 5G mobile networks and improve Canada’s security and defence. The group is funded by the Department of National Defence (DND) through its Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program. A team of computer scientists at Waterloo is leading the $1.5 million multi-partner consortium.

Thursday, April 28, 2022

Computer science researchers use machine learning to understand substance abuse

$Enamul Haque$

In developing countries, people with substance-abuse issues can sometimes face shame and find it difficult to get help.

Now, a research team is using machine learning and anonymized data to get a clearer picture of the underlying factors that influence tendencies to abuse drugs and alcohol.

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Layton Lab releases new videos in latest work on knowledge translation and research communications

$Anita Layton$

The Layton Lab is producing videos to communicate research impact to a broad, non-academic audience.

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Daniel Vogel and Jian Zhao receive grant from Meta to build the metaverse

$Daniel Vogel and Jian Zhao$

L to R: Daniel Vogel and Jian Zhao.

Daniel Vogel, an associate professor and Cheriton Faculty Fellow in the School of Computer Science, and Jian Zhao, an assistant professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, were named among a select group of researchers in a recent funding announcement from Reality Labs Research.