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Congratulations to CS Prof Ian Goldberg and his colleagues Aniket Kate and Greg Zaverucha on winning the 2025 Asiacrypt Test-of-Time Award. Their highly cited 2010 paper introduced constant-size polynomial commitment schemes central in the design of ZK proof systems.

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L to R: Ian Goldberg, Aniket Kate, Gregory Zaverucha. Ian Goldberg is a Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science and the Canada Research Chair in Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Aniket Kate is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and a University Faculty Scholar at Purdue University. Greg Zaverucha is a software engineer in the Microsoft Research Security and Cryptography group.
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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⚖️ Professors Maura R. Grossman, Yuntian Deng, and Wenhu Chen join CIFAR's Solution Networks to tackle AI safety in the legal system and linguistic inequality 🗣️

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November 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Al-generated evidence is increasingly appearing in court cases and judges say they are not ready. Research Professor Maura R. Grossman warns that generative Al has democratized fraud and courts must shift from "trust but verify" to "don't trust and verify."

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Research Professor Maura R. Grossman in Waterloo's Davis Centre
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Cameron Seth is breaking down the world’s hardest CS problem piece by piece.

“What I’m doing is looking at a series of smaller problems related to the broader P vs. NP problem. Essentially, what I’m asking is if we can solve these other related problems,” Cam says.

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PhD candidate Cameron Seth in front of a blackboard
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Congrats to Professors Meng Xu and Sihang Liu, recipients of a $254k grant from National Cybersecurity Consortium to strengthen security of LLM agents.

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Left to right: Professors Meng Xu and Sihang Liu in the Davis Centre
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The Cheriton School of Computer Science is recruiting!

We invite applications for multiple positions in data management and data systems, as well as in other areas of CS — ML, robotics, computer vision, bioinformatics, and computer systems and architecture.

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The University of Waterloo's campus as seen from the Graduate House.
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Congrats to Waterloo Black, represented by Kevin Guo (4A CS), Kevin Yang (4A CS) and Kelly Dance (Master’s C&O). The trio finished second at the 2025 ICPC East Central North America contest. They will represent Waterloo at the ICPC North America Championship in 2026!

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L to R: Professor Ondřej Lhoták, Kevin Guo, Kevin Yang, Kelly Dance and Professor Troy Vasiga at the 2025 ICPC East Central North America contest
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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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.

🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/news/clinic-...

#UWaterloo
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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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Professor Chengnian Sun in Waterloo's Davis Centre
October 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to Datacurve, which was founded by former CS students Serena Ge and Charley Lee 🎉
October 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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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.
October 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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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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L to R: Raouf Boutaba, Charmaine Dean, Edith Law, Jochen Koenemann, Vivek Goel, Nolan Quinn, Sabrina Geremia, Jules Walter
October 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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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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Research Professor Maura R. Grossman in the Davis Centre
September 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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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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L to R: Prach Chantasantitam, Anudeep Das and Gurjot Singh (inset) in the University of Waterloo's Davis Centre.
September 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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🤖 #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-...
September 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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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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Professor Shai Ben David stands in front of a blackboard
September 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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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
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September 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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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
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July 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Enjoy the long weekend.
Waterloo sign and Dana Porter Library in mid summer as the sunsets
August 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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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...
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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
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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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Dr. Don Cowan standing by a van with a license plate that says WATCOM
July 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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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
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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
July 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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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
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July 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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🚀 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...
July 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM