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Waterloo Math @waterloomath.bsky.social · 3h

Join CEMC Professors in a series of online workshops to help you prepare for the Canadian Senior Mathematics Contest!

These sessions are aimed at Gr. 11 + 12s interested in participating in the Canadian Senior Math Contest in November

Register here: uwaterloo.ca/.../csmc-pre...

A dark pink background with white text at the top stating "CSMC Part A: Medium difficulty problems". A lighter pink circle has text that reads: Morning Session Thursday, October 23, 2025 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM EDT. Evening Session Thursday, October 23, 2025 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT" Underneath that text is a graphic of a triangular ruler, a compass, a notepad, and a calculator. Under those items and beneath the circle are the University of Waterloo Faculty of Math and The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing logos.

Waterloo Math @waterloomath.bsky.social · 1d

🎉Last week, we proudly celebrated our 2025 Alumni Achievement Award recipients! Congrats again to:

Manisha Dias (BMath ’13)
Ian MacKinnon (BMath ’06, MMath ’08)
Farhan Thawar (BMath ’98)
Kim Tremblay (BMath CS ’84)

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Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social · 8d

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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L to R: Andrew Kane, Frank Tompa and Besat Kassaie pose with a Best Paper Award certificate the research team received for "Exploiting Query Reformulation and Reciprocal Rank Fusion in Math-Aware Search Engines," research presented at DocEng'25.

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Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social · 13d

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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L to R: Raouf Boutaba, Charmaine Dean, Edith Law, Jochen Koenemann, Vivek Goel, Nolan Quinn, Sabrina Geremia, Jules Walter

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Waterloo Math @waterloomath.bsky.social · 19d

🎖️We are proud to announce the recipient of the 2025 J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation!

Congratulations to Farhan Thawar (BMath ’98)!

More on Farhan and the other recipients here: uwaterloo.ca/math/news/ce...

Waterloo Math @waterloomath.bsky.social · 20d

🎖️We are proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 Alumni Achievement Medals and the J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation!

Congratulations to Alumni Achievement Medal Recipient, Kim Tremblay (BMath CS ’84)!

Read all about Kim and the other recipients here: uwaterloo.ca/math/news/ce...

Waterloo Math @waterloomath.bsky.social · 21d

We are proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 Alumni Achievement Medals and the J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation!

Congratulations to G.O.L.D Achievement Medal Recipient, Manisha Dias (BMath '13)!

Read all about Manisha and the other recipients here: uwaterloo.ca/math/news/ce...

Waterloo Math @waterloomath.bsky.social · 22d

We are proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 Alumni Achievement Medals and the J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation!

First up is Alumni Achievement Medal Recipient, Ian MacKinnon!

Read all about Ian and the other recipients here: uwaterloo.ca/math/news/ce...

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Waterloo Math @waterloomath.bsky.social · 27d

🎉 Congratulations to Applied Mathematics researchers, Jun Liu and Maxwell Fitzsimmons, for receiving the Oded Maler Award at the International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS)!

Read more here: uwaterloo.ca/applied-math...

Applied Math Researchers Win Best Paper Award | Applied Mathematics | University of Waterloo

Applied Math Researchers Win Best Paper Award

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Waterloo Math @waterloomath.bsky.social · 28d

The MUO is welcoming you back for Fall term with a FREE pancake brunch!

Join us on Wednesday, September 24th from 10:00am - 12:30pm in the DC Fishbowl (DC 1301), bring your appetite and your friends. We can’t wait to see you there! 🩷

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Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social · Sep 4

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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Professor Shai Ben David stands in front of a blackboard

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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · Aug 8

There’s even a road named after @waterloomath.bsky.social mathematician William Tutte (of Tutte polynomial fame) on the @uwaterloo.ca campus:

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Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social · Sep 2

🎮 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

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Waterloo Math @waterloomath.bsky.social · Jul 30

Jimmy Lin is proving that academic research can launch startups and lead AI innovation on a global scale!

Dr. Lin, a CS prof and co-director of Waterloo.AI, is also the chief scientist at Yupp, an AI startup that recently launched with over $33M in seed funding.

Read more here: bit.ly/3IMdlv5

From the lab to the marketplace | Waterloo News

Is it possible for a University of Waterloo professor to successfully bridge academic research and industry innovation, especially in the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence (AI)? The an...

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Waterloo Math @waterloomath.bsky.social · Jul 29

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...

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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Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social · Jul 28

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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Professor Diogo Barradas in Waterloo's Davis Centre

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University of Waterloo @uwaterloo.ca · Jul 25

Inspired by her late father to build a successful career in software engineering, Disney Lam (BMath ’14) is creating technical systems to drive business outcomes at tech giants like Google & NVIDIA.

🔗 uwaterloo.ca/news/magazin... | #UWaterlooMagazine

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Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social · Jul 25

🎮 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

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Waterloo Math @waterloomath.bsky.social · Jul 22

🏆 Congratulations to the members of Generation Linkers, a Technovation Girls Waterloo team who were named a North American Regional Honoree in the Technovation Global semi-finals for their app LinkAge!

📲 Read more about the team here: uwaterloo.ca/math/news/wa...

#TechnovationGirls

Left to Right are three girls with blue shirts that say Technovation Girls Waterloo. They are wearing Waterloo laynards and are smiling directly at the camera. The girls in order from left to right are: Olivia Guo, Sophie Rus, and Le Anne Du.

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Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social · Jul 2

Professor Sepehr Assadi has won the 2025 Presburger Award, a prestigious honour recognizing his exceptional contributions to theoretical computer science, in particular his pioneering work on establishing lower bounds for multi-pass streaming algorithms.

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Professor Sepehr Assadi stands by a bench in Waterloo's Peter Russell Rock Garden.

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Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social · Jul 7

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...

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Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social · Jul 8

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...

A banner showing the seven Outstanding Performance Award recipients.

Top row (L to R): Toshiya Hachisuka, Xi He, Florian Kerschbaum, Ondřej Lhoták

Bottom row (L to R): Shane McIntosh, Victoria Sakhnini, Jian Zhao

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · Jul 10

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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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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Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social · Jul 11

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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Maura R. Grossman in Waterloo's Davis Centre. She is a Research Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science and an adjunct law professor at York University's Osgoode Hall Law School.

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Waterloo Math @waterloomath.bsky.social · Jul 21

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Rahim Moosa, professor of Pure Mathematics and Math Faculty Research Chair, who has been named a Fellow of the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS).

Read more here: uwaterloo.ca/math/news/ra...

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