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🦅 What if your gym routine consisted of gliding across a forest, skewing fruits like a ninja, or racing on a Formula 1 track? 🏁
🎮 That’s the vision behind Hiro. They're supporting children with disabilities by gamifying physiotherapy exercises.
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🎮 That’s the vision behind Hiro. They're supporting children with disabilities by gamifying physiotherapy exercises.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/news/clinic-...
#UWaterloo
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🦅 What if your gym routine consisted of gliding across a forest, skewing fruits like a ninja, or racing on a Formula 1 track? 🏁
🎮 That’s the vision behind Hiro. They're supporting children with disabilities by gamifying physiotherapy exercises.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/news/clinic-...
#UWaterloo
🎮 That’s the vision behind Hiro. They're supporting children with disabilities by gamifying physiotherapy exercises.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/news/clinic-...
#UWaterloo
Congrats to Prof Chengnian Sun and his collaborators Vu Le and Zhendong Su on winning the OOPSLA 2025 Most Influential Paper Award for their work on automated compiler testing. Their research introduced a new way to expose previously undetected bugs in compilers.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Congrats to Prof Chengnian Sun and his collaborators Vu Le and Zhendong Su on winning the OOPSLA 2025 Most Influential Paper Award for their work on automated compiler testing. Their research introduced a new way to expose previously undetected bugs in compilers.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/chengni...
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/chengni...
🎉 Congratulations to Datacurve, which was founded by former CS students Serena Ge and Charley Lee 🎉
Datacurve uses a “bounty hunter” system to attract skilled software engineers to complete the hardest-to-source datasets.
Datacurve raises $15 million to take on ScaleAI | TechCrunch
Datacurve uses a “bounty hunter” system to attract skilled software engineers to complete the hardest-to-source datasets.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Datacurve, which was founded by former CS students Serena Ge and Charley Lee 🎉
Congrats to Postdoctoral Research Besat Kassaie, Dr. Andrew Kane and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Frank Tompa, winners of the Best Paper Award at DocEng’25. Their work combines LLMs for query reformulation with reciprocal rank fusion to improve mathematical IR.
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October 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Congrats to Postdoctoral Research Besat Kassaie, Dr. Andrew Kane and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Frank Tompa, winners of the Best Paper Award at DocEng’25. Their work combines LLMs for query reformulation with reciprocal rank fusion to improve mathematical IR.
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Congrats to CS Prof Edith Law, who has been named the Google Chair in the Future of Work and Learning. This Chair is situated within a broader initiative, the Future of Work Institute, in which she’ll lead research on how AI is transforming education & career readiness.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Congrats to CS Prof Edith Law, who has been named the Google Chair in the Future of Work and Learning. This Chair is situated within a broader initiative, the Future of Work Institute, in which she’ll lead research on how AI is transforming education & career readiness.
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CS Prof Maura Grossman comments on a recent California case, thought to be one of the first to involve a genAI–fabricated recording submitted as evidence, highlighting the difficulty courts face in verifying authenticity of digital evidence.
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September 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
CS Prof Maura Grossman comments on a recent California case, thought to be one of the first to involve a genAI–fabricated recording submitted as evidence, highlighting the difficulty courts face in verifying authenticity of digital evidence.
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PhD student Anudeep Das awarded $58.1k USD from Open Philanthropy to lead research on stealthy and resilient backdoors in LLMs. Working with Prach Chantasantitam & Gurjot Singh, he will uncover vulnerabilities in LLMs and develop strategies to improve their security.
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September 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
PhD student Anudeep Das awarded $58.1k USD from Open Philanthropy to lead research on stealthy and resilient backdoors in LLMs. Working with Prach Chantasantitam & Gurjot Singh, he will uncover vulnerabilities in LLMs and develop strategies to improve their security.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/anudeep...
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/anudeep...
🤖 #UWaterloo researchers have discovered major privacy weaknesses in collaborative robots— calling for stronger defenses.
🏆 This study won the Best Research Paper Award at ARES 2025, one of the biggest conferences in #cybersecurity.
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🏆 This study won the Best Research Paper Award at ARES 2025, one of the biggest conferences in #cybersecurity.
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September 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
🤖 #UWaterloo researchers have discovered major privacy weaknesses in collaborative robots— calling for stronger defenses.
🏆 This study won the Best Research Paper Award at ARES 2025, one of the biggest conferences in #cybersecurity.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/news/robots-...
🏆 This study won the Best Research Paper Award at ARES 2025, one of the biggest conferences in #cybersecurity.
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Shai Ben-David has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest national recognition for researchers. His work spans an impressive breadth, from ML theory and computational complexity to logic in computer science, mathematical logic and set theory.
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September 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Shai Ben-David has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest national recognition for researchers. His work spans an impressive breadth, from ML theory and computational complexity to logic in computer science, mathematical logic and set theory.
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🎮 PhD student Yuzhe You is using video games to make AI more accessible to non-technical users.
🏆 She has received $145K from various scholarships to support her game-changing plan.
🔗 Read more at: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...
#womeninstem #UWaterloo #XAI
🏆 She has received $145K from various scholarships to support her game-changing plan.
🔗 Read more at: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...
#womeninstem #UWaterloo #XAI
September 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
🎮 PhD student Yuzhe You is using video games to make AI more accessible to non-technical users.
🏆 She has received $145K from various scholarships to support her game-changing plan.
🔗 Read more at: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...
#womeninstem #UWaterloo #XAI
🏆 She has received $145K from various scholarships to support her game-changing plan.
🔗 Read more at: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...
#womeninstem #UWaterloo #XAI
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This is so great, and in part because it's so heartening to see that real scientific research is still alive elsewhere in the world!
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🎮 PhD student Yue Lyu is creating AR-based games to equip children with autism spectrum disorder with social and emotional skills.
⭐ Her visionary plan could save $1.4 billion in educational expenses for Ontario.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...
#womeninstem #UWaterloo
⭐ Her visionary plan could save $1.4 billion in educational expenses for Ontario.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...
#womeninstem #UWaterloo
July 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is so great, and in part because it's so heartening to see that real scientific research is still alive elsewhere in the world!
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Enjoy the long weekend.
August 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Enjoy the long weekend.
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At the University of Waterloo, co-op is more than a stepping stone, it’s a launchpad for future leaders 🚀
Two Faculty of Math Co-op Student of the Year alumni shed light on their careers after graduation: uwaterloo.ca/co-operative...
Two Faculty of Math Co-op Student of the Year alumni shed light on their careers after graduation: uwaterloo.ca/co-operative...
Math Co-op Students of the Year reflect on career-defining moments and paying it forward | Co-operative Education | University of Waterloo
Two Faculty of Math Co-op Student of the Year alumni shed light on their careers after graduation.
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July 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
At the University of Waterloo, co-op is more than a stepping stone, it’s a launchpad for future leaders 🚀
Two Faculty of Math Co-op Student of the Year alumni shed light on their careers after graduation: uwaterloo.ca/co-operative...
Two Faculty of Math Co-op Student of the Year alumni shed light on their careers after graduation: uwaterloo.ca/co-operative...
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Dr. Don Cowan (MSc ’61, PhD ’65) and Ian McPhee (BMath ’73, MMath ’79) were among key Waterloo pioneers that transformed the computing world with the creation of WATCOM - Waterloo's first software spinoff.
Today, the technology is still a game-changer.
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Today, the technology is still a game-changer.
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July 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Dr. Don Cowan (MSc ’61, PhD ’65) and Ian McPhee (BMath ’73, MMath ’79) were among key Waterloo pioneers that transformed the computing world with the creation of WATCOM - Waterloo's first software spinoff.
Today, the technology is still a game-changer.
More: uwaterloo.ca/news/magazin...
Today, the technology is still a game-changer.
More: uwaterloo.ca/news/magazin...
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University of Waterloo researchers have built a tool that can quickly remove watermarks identifying content as artificially generated — and they say it proves that global efforts to combat deepfakes are most likely on the wrong track.
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Canadian researchers create tool to remove anti-deepfake watermarks from AI content
University of Waterloo researchers have built a tool that can quickly remove watermarks identifying content as artificially generated — and they say it proves that global efforts to combat deepfakes a...
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July 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
University of Waterloo researchers have built a tool that can quickly remove watermarks identifying content as artificially generated — and they say it proves that global efforts to combat deepfakes are most likely on the wrong track.
www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
Diogo Barradas has won the FOCI Rising Star Award for his contributions to censorship-resistant communications. Presented at the Free and Open Communications on the Internet conference, the award honours early-career researchers whose work advances Internet freedom.
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July 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Diogo Barradas has won the FOCI Rising Star Award for his contributions to censorship-resistant communications. Presented at the Free and Open Communications on the Internet conference, the award honours early-career researchers whose work advances Internet freedom.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/diogo-b...
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/diogo-b...
🎮 PhD student Yue Lyu is creating AR-based games to equip children with autism spectrum disorder with social and emotional skills.
⭐ Her visionary plan could save $1.4 billion in educational expenses for Ontario.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...
#womeninstem #UWaterloo
⭐ Her visionary plan could save $1.4 billion in educational expenses for Ontario.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...
#womeninstem #UWaterloo
July 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🎮 PhD student Yue Lyu is creating AR-based games to equip children with autism spectrum disorder with social and emotional skills.
⭐ Her visionary plan could save $1.4 billion in educational expenses for Ontario.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...
#womeninstem #UWaterloo
⭐ Her visionary plan could save $1.4 billion in educational expenses for Ontario.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...
#womeninstem #UWaterloo
🚀 From Co-op Student of the Year to Silicon Valley.
🧳 Henry Shi (BCS '14), the co-founder of travel app Super.com, discusses how #UWaterloo's co-op shaped his career journey.
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🧳 Henry Shi (BCS '14), the co-founder of travel app Super.com, discusses how #UWaterloo's co-op shaped his career journey.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/co-operative...
July 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🚀 From Co-op Student of the Year to Silicon Valley.
🧳 Henry Shi (BCS '14), the co-founder of travel app Super.com, discusses how #UWaterloo's co-op shaped his career journey.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/co-operative...
🧳 Henry Shi (BCS '14), the co-founder of travel app Super.com, discusses how #UWaterloo's co-op shaped his career journey.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/co-operative...
Chengnian Sun and Hongyang Zhang have each received $60k USD through the Google Research Scholar Program. Professor Sun’s project will focus on enhancing compiler optimizations; Professor Zhang’s project aims to improve the speed and efficiency of reasoning in LLMs.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/chengni...
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/chengni...
July 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Chengnian Sun and Hongyang Zhang have each received $60k USD through the Google Research Scholar Program. Professor Sun’s project will focus on enhancing compiler optimizations; Professor Zhang’s project aims to improve the speed and efficiency of reasoning in LLMs.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/chengni...
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/chengni...
Aseem Baranwal has received the 2025 Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award. His PhD thesis, Statistical Foundations for Learning on Graphs, explores the theoretical underpinnings of machine learning methods for graph-structured data.
Congrats, Aseem!
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Congrats, Aseem!
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July 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Aseem Baranwal has received the 2025 Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award. His PhD thesis, Statistical Foundations for Learning on Graphs, explores the theoretical underpinnings of machine learning methods for graph-structured data.
Congrats, Aseem!
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/aseem-b...
Congrats, Aseem!
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A US federal judge has fined 2 lawyers $3k each for filing a court document with hallucinated cases generated by AI. Research Prof Maura R. Grossman warns that as gen AI becomes more common, so too do the risks. Her advice to lawyers? “Trust nothing — verify everything.”
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July 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A US federal judge has fined 2 lawyers $3k each for filing a court document with hallucinated cases generated by AI. Research Prof Maura R. Grossman warns that as gen AI becomes more common, so too do the risks. Her advice to lawyers? “Trust nothing — verify everything.”
www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...
www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...
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Congratulations to my PhD student Matthew Regehr (@matt19234.bsky.social) on winning the University of Waterloo CPI Graduate Excellence Scholarship!
This $10,000 prize recognizes his incredible achievements and potential in privacy research.
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This $10,000 prize recognizes his incredible achievements and potential in privacy research.
@uwcheritoncs.bsky.social
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Matthew Regehr awarded 2025 CPI Graduate Excellence Scholarship | Cheriton School of Computer Science | University of Waterloo
A new article about Matthew Regehr, a PhD student who has been awarded the 2025 Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute Graduate Excellence Scholarship.
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July 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Congratulations to my PhD student Matthew Regehr (@matt19234.bsky.social) on winning the University of Waterloo CPI Graduate Excellence Scholarship!
This $10,000 prize recognizes his incredible achievements and potential in privacy research.
@uwcheritoncs.bsky.social
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/matthew...
This $10,000 prize recognizes his incredible achievements and potential in privacy research.
@uwcheritoncs.bsky.social
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/matthew...
Congratulations to Toshiya Hachisuka, Xi He, Florian Kerschbaum, Ondřej Lhoták, Shane McIntosh, Victoria Sakhnini and Jian Zhao, recipients of 2024 Outstanding Performance Awards.
The recognition honours faculty who demonstrate exceptional teaching and scholarship.
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The recognition honours faculty who demonstrate exceptional teaching and scholarship.
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July 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Congratulations to Toshiya Hachisuka, Xi He, Florian Kerschbaum, Ondřej Lhoták, Shane McIntosh, Victoria Sakhnini and Jian Zhao, recipients of 2024 Outstanding Performance Awards.
The recognition honours faculty who demonstrate exceptional teaching and scholarship.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cherito...
The recognition honours faculty who demonstrate exceptional teaching and scholarship.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cherito...
Professor Xiao Hu and her collaborators Binyang Dai and Ke Yi at HKUST have received a 2025 SIGMOD Research Highlight Award for their paper, Reservoir Sampling over Joins. This award marks the third recognition of her research excellence this year!
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July 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Professor Xiao Hu and her collaborators Binyang Dai and Ke Yi at HKUST have received a 2025 SIGMOD Research Highlight Award for their paper, Reservoir Sampling over Joins. This award marks the third recognition of her research excellence this year!
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/xiao-hu...
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/xiao-hu...
Congrats to Liam Hebert, recipient of the 2025 Nick Cercone Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science. The $7,500 award recognizes doctoral students at a Canadian university who demonstrate exceptional, far-reaching research and a strong commitment to helping others.
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July 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Congrats to Liam Hebert, recipient of the 2025 Nick Cercone Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science. The $7,500 award recognizes doctoral students at a Canadian university who demonstrate exceptional, far-reaching research and a strong commitment to helping others.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/liam-he...
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/liam-he...