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...

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...

🌟Become a Math Ambassador for 2025-2026!⁣ ⁣ As a Math Ambassador, you'll make a real impact on someone's university experience, connect with like-minded people, and more! (plus there's free swag 😉) ⁣ 🎯Applications are open until Sunday, July 13, 2025 Apply today: bit.ly/4kfQ6Hk

Great news as we head into the long weekend ... Professor Craig S. Kaplan has been named a 2025 Fields Institute Fellow, an honour that recognizes his exceptional contributions to math, computational geometry and computer graphics, and their intersections with art. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/craig-k...

Three Waterloo grads — Isabella Di Biasio, Veronika Sustrova and Katarina Makivic — teamed up to automate blood stem cell analysis using ML and a custom scripting language. Their tool, developed with Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, aims to speed up cancer research. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/biochem...

Dr. Shu (Joy) Jiang (PhD ’18) has been recognized as one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 in health care for her work in developing tools to help women screen for breast cancer before it’s life-threatening. @waterloomath.bsky.social @forbes.com 🔗 uwaterloo.ca/news/magazin... | #UWaterlooMagazine

🎉 Five @vectorinstitute.ai scholarship winners are joining our School this year! ⭐ Using #AI, these students will work toward transforming human-computer interaction, information retrieval and natural language processing research. 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/meet-ch... #UWaterloo

As we approach the end of June, we bid farewell to Mark Giesbrecht, our outgoing Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, whose five-year term concludes this month. Thank you Mark for your leadership and dedication and we wish you the best on your next chapter!

🥳 PhD student Yuzhe You has won the Michael A.J. Sweeney Award for Best Student Paper at Graphics Interface 2025. 🤖 She was recognized for VATRA, a visual analytics tool for adversarial training. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #cybersecurity #GI2025 #UWaterloo

🏆 Jiawen Stefanie Zhu (BCS ’24) has won the Best Poster award at #GI2025, Canada’s top conference on computer graphics and visualization, and HCI. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Her study reveals how technology can help displaced immigrant families bond. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #uwaterloo

We sat down with Dr. Jesse Peterson, the newest member of the Department of Pure Mathematics, to talk about his career, research and why he’s excited to join the Faculty of Math at the University of Waterloo! 📲 The full interview here: uwaterloo.ca/math/news/me...

🎉 Congratulations to five incoming Data Science master’s students who are the recipients of the Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence. Read about the students here: uwaterloo.ca/math/news/fi...

Congrats to undergrads Hadas Barabash and Leyi Yan! They’ve received the 2025 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, a recognition that comes with $1,000 prize each for outstanding final-year research. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/hadas-b...

Become a Math Ambassador for 2025-'26! You'll have the opportunity to make a real impact on someone's university experience, connect with others who share your passion, much more! 📲Apply now! Applications are open until Sun, June 1st @ 11:59 PM! bit.ly/4kfQ6Hk

Real Life Robotics, a pioneering robotics and automation company at Velocity has announced a first-of-its-kind robot-powered delivery partnership with Skip, Canada’s homegrown delivery network. More: uwaterloo.ca/news/media/s... | #UWaterlooNews

Take a break from studying and join the MUO on June 4th in MC Comfy for Paws and Plants! 🐾🪴 🎨 Paint a pot & plant a succulent from 10AM–12PM 🐶 Hang out with therapy dogs from 12PM–1PM We can’t wait to see you there! Undergraduate Math students only. WatCard required. While supplies last.

🧱 #UWaterloo researchers explored if labour leads to love for complex creation tasks. 🏆 Their paper, Intermittent Interaction in Digital Fabrication, won a Best Paper Honourable Mention Award at #CHI2025. 🔗 Read more uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...

William Wang, 4B Computer Science student, has won 71 hackathons! He shares the top three things he wishes he knew before getting started! 🧑‍💻🎯

MUO Advising Power Hours this Friday (and next)! 💪📚

📝A #UWaterloo exchange student is using AI to make grading faster, fairer, and stronger for computer science classes! ⚡From flagging common coding mistakes to suggesting comments, this tool can transform student learning. Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #NTNU

This Thursday is #UWaterlooGivingDay and your support for our faculty contributes to shaping a prosperous future for our community! Donate to the Math General Fund: bit.ly/43afg2X #GiveTodayBuildTomorrow

The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing supports learners and educators in Canada and internationally. Their important work is made possible through your support! This #UWaterlooGivingDay support the CEMC! More info here: cemc.uwaterloo.ca/about-us/sup... #GiveTodayBuildTomorrow

Sepehr Assadi and his collaborators have won a STOC 2025 Best Paper Award! Their result is a near optimal solution to a foundational problem in graph theory: A randomized algorithm that computes a (∆ + 1)-edge colouring in only O(m log ∆) time, with high probability. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/sepehr-...

This #UWaterlooGivingDay your generosity will shape a more sustainable and prosperous future for our faculty. M4 will be a pillar of this future, empowering students and researchers to solve the world's most pressing issues. Support M4 here: uwaterloo.ca/mathematics-4/ #GiveTodayBuildTomorrow

Happy International Women in Math Day! May 12th marks the birthdate of the late mathematician, Maryam Mirzakhani. She was an Iranian mathematician, a Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University, and the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal! #InternationalWomeninMathematicsDay