Murder on the Mountain (Workshop on Databases)

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

This session is for high-school students.

Try to solve a computer science murder mystery! Teams will be asked to answer computer science-related questions in order to interview suspects and solve the case.
Bring your laptop/tablet to the workshop!

Location: DC 2582

Speaker: Besat Kassaie is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Waterloo, supervised by Prof. Renée Miller, and a member of the Data Intelligence Lab and the Data Systems Group. Her research focuses on data systems, with particular interests in data intelligence, information extraction, unstructured data quality, and information retrieval. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, where her dissertation, supervised by Prof. Frank Tompa, introduced and addressed the problem of updatability in document databases.