New research from the University of Waterloo’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute demonstrates that any artificial intelligence (AI) image watermark can be removed, without the attacker needing to know the design of the watermark, or even whether an image is watermarked to begin with.
The winning team, consisting of Sophie Rus, Le Anne Du, and Olivia Guo, won for their app LinkAge, which connects young adults aged 16-25 to lonely senior citizens with similar interests.
Professors Chengnian Sun and Hongyang Zhang have each been awarded $60,000 USD through the 2025 Google Research Scholar Program.
Math is in Khushee Kapoor’s genes.
Established in 2019, the annual award recognizes outstanding doctoral research at the Cheriton School of Computer Science and includes a $1,000 prize.
Congratulations to Matthew Regehr, a PhD student in computer science, on receiving the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute’s (CPI) Graduate Excellence Scholarship.
Created in 2005, the Outstanding Performance Awards recognize excellence in teaching and scholarship from faculty members across all of the University of Waterloo’s Faculties.
SIGMOD Research Highlights showcase research projects that exemplify core database research.
The honour specifically acknowledges his pioneering work on establishing lower bounds for multi-pass streaming algorithms, a long-standing and challenging problem in the field.