Craig S. Kaplan @isohedral.ca has been named a 2025 ACM Distinguished Member in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the design and modelling of computational geometric patterns and non-photorealistic rendering. Congrats on your 4th major accolade of 2025! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/craig-s...

Freda Shi and her UBC colleagues have won an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2025. Their work introduces a new benchmark that evaluates how effectively large language models perform meta-linguistic reasoning — using LLMs to better understand languages themselves. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/freda-s...

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. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ian-gol...

⚖️ 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 🗣️ 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cs-prof... #uwaterloo

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...

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...

Key Clues 2026 is quickly approaching! Watch as Josephine breaks down one of her puzzles from the 2025 challenge and then register your team for the 2026 challenge: keyclueschallenge.uwaterloo.ca youtu.be/byHZBzZnc_s?... #PuzzleHunt #KeyClues2026

🎮 PhD student Yuzhe You is using gaming to make AI more understandable and accessible for non-technical users! She even received $145K from various scholarships and research funds to support her vision 📲Read more here: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...

Congrats to Professors Meng Xu and Sihang Liu, recipients of a $254k grant from National Cybersecurity Consortium to strengthen security of LLM agents. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/meng-xu...

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...

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! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo...

Drop by M3 2nd floor to get a free headshot on November 19th! Open to all Math students!

We sat down with dean Jochen Koenemann to discuss everything from his priorities for his term to what his favourite hobbies are outside of work! Watch the full video here: youtu.be/dpjUY7KpD4s

🦅 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

Join the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing for their final Canadian Senior Math Contest (CSMC) prep workshops taking place on November 6, 2025. These sessions are aimed at students in Grades 11-12. Register here: uwaterloo.ca/math/undergr...

Happy Halloween! 👻

On Nov. 5th, drop in to preview and share feedback on the draft Campus Plan! Just like cities have urban plans, @uwaterloo.ca has a Campus Plan, a roadmap for how our spaces evolve to support learning, research, community, and sustainability. Session info here: uwaterloo.ca/campus-plan/...

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...

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/math/undergr...

Join us on Oct. 23 for a Mathematics meets Economics workshop featuring Professor Elliot Lipnowski from Yale University! 📅October 23, 2025 ⏰5:30 PM - 6:30 PM 📍HH 373 Register here: bit.ly/3Jicp1R

On November 4th, 2025 you are invited to attend Dr. Edward Doolittle’s lecture, Indigenous Mathematics: Foundations. The lecture is open to everyone and free to attend! More info here: uwaterloo.ca/hagey-lectur...

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...

🎉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)

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. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/besat-k...

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. uwaterloo.ca/news/media/g...

🎖️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...

🎖️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...

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...

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...

🎉 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...

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! 🩷

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. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/shai-be...

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

🎮 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

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

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...

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...

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 @waterloomath.bsky.social

🎮 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

🏆 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

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. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/sepehr-...

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...

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...

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...

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...

🎉 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...

🏆 We have many faculty members who have been honoured with a 2024 Outstanding Performance Award! Created in '05, these awards recognize excellence in teaching and scholarship from faculty members across the University of Waterloo. Check out all our winners here: uwaterloo.ca/math/news/20...

For Khushee Kapoor, a career in data science was the natural evolution of a family tradition. Coming from a long line of math teachers, Kapoor has loved crunching numbers ever since she was a child. Read about why Kapoor chose MDSAI at UWaterloo: uwaterloo.ca/math/news/th...

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...

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...