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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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November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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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⚖️ 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
⚖️ 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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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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November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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."
NBC News: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
NBC News: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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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“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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November 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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.
uwaterloo.ca/news/mathema...
“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.
uwaterloo.ca/news/mathema...
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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November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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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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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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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November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/open-p...
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.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/open-p...
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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November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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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🦅 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.
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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.
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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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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.
Free, subscription required: www.law.com/therecorder/...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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#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
Enjoy the long weekend.
August 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Enjoy the long weekend.
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.
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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.
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#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.
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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.
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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...
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...
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