🔥 Congratulations to our students on winning the QEII-GSST, one of Ontario's top scholarships 🔓 These #UWaterloo students are transforming the world of computer science, from strengthening cybersecurity and privacy to enhancing algorithmic design 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cherito...

Professor Pascal Poupart has been awarded $170k through the NSERC Alliance Grant program, with $85k in funding complemented by industry partner Manulife Financial, to develop an agentic system to automate internal workflows in insurance underwriting. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/pascal-...

👏 Congratulations to 6 CS graduate students who won the prestigious Ontario Graduate Scholarship. 🚗 From enhancing AI safety to paving the way for self-driving cars, our students offer a glimpse into Ontario’s next generation of researchers. 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/compute... #UWaterloo

Professor Brown discusses the opportunities and limitations of generative AI and explores the ethical, legal and societal questions these technologies raise about creativity, copyright, and the future of creative work. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/qa-prof...

Technovation Girls Waterloo is celebrating two major milestones — Power Puck Girls (on left) is the first Waterloo team to be a World Summit finalist, and The Stellar Squad (on right) is North America's second-ranked intermediate team. Congratulations to both teams: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/technov...

🏆 Rising distributed systems researcher Ahmed Alquraan has won the 2026 Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award. ☁️ His research has influenced academia and industry, including production systems at #Microsoft and Oracle. 🔗 Read more at: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ahmed-a... #UWaterloo

Our very own Professor Dave Tompkins has won the 2026 Faculty of Mathematics Award for Distinction in Teaching! The annual award is conferred to instructors who have demonstrated outstanding teaching skills and a deep commitment to student education. Congrats, Dave: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/dave-to...

Professors @vzhong.bsky.social and Jimmy Lin have been awarded $1.64M in NSERC Alliance funding to develop deep research agents for natural science R&D. This grant is complemented by more than $1.8M in combined cash and in-kind contributions from partner BASF Canada. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/victor-...

PhD candidate Zeping Mao and an international research team have developed a zero-shot ML algorithm for de novo sequencing of post-translationally modified proteins. It can identify disease-linked changes in cells without being trained on examples. AI for biology: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/compute...

Yaoliang Yu has won the Faculty of Math Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award for his contributions to the design & analysis of secure, private and interpretable AI systems. His work on AI trustworthiness combines creativity, technical ability & visionary thinking: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/yaolian...

Congratulations to Professors Samer Al-Kiswany, Jo Atlee, Jeff Avery, Martin Karsten, Jimmy Lin, Mei Nagappan, Rafael Oliveira and Meng Xu on receiving 2025 Outstanding Performance Awards in recognition of their excellence in research, teaching and service. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cherito...

🏅Nikhita Joshi has won one of Canada’s highest academic honours, the Governor General’s Gold Medal. ⏲️ She explored whether constraining UI features like prompting or commenting can unlock user potential, revealing new technology designs. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #UWaterloo

Niloy Saha, Noura Limam, Yang Xiao and Raouf Boutaba have received the Best Paper Award at NOMS 2026. Their work introduces a sketch-based telemetry system that detects QoS anomalies in 5G user planes with greater accuracy and lower bandwidth than existing schemes. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/systems...

Professor Marina Meila has been appointed the Canada Research Chair in Reliable Structure Discovery. Her research focuses on developing mathematically and statistically grounded methods to discover, validate and interpret emergent structures in large datasets. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/marina-...

Prof. Raouf Boutaba, Director of the Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been appointed the Canada Research Chair in Network Intelligence. His pioneering contributions to automated network management have helped drive the evolution toward autonomous networking. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/raouf-b...

Congratulations to PhD alum Ryusuke Sugimoto on receiving not one, not two, but THREE prestigious dissertation awards: the Eurographics PhD Award, the Alain Fournier PhD Dissertation Award, and the SCA Doctoral Dissertation Award. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ryusuke...

A well-deserved honour for Professor Jian Zhao, recipient of the 2025 Early Career Research Award from CS-Can | Info-Can. He and his team develop novel interactive systems and visual representations that strengthen the interplay between humans, computers and data. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/jian-zh...

Congrats to recent master’s grad Evelien Riddell and the SE research team on receiving the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at FORGE 2026 for their paper “Stalled, Biased, and Confused: Uncovering Reasoning Failures in LLMs for Cloud-based Root Cause Analysis.” cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/se-rese...

As courts struggle with the rise of deepfakes, Research Professor Maura R. Grossman warns that current federal rules of evidence may be too permissive in an age where fake and altered audio or video is becoming increasingly convincing and easy to create. www.law.com/legaltechnew...

U.S. federal judges are asking if new rules for deepfake evidence are needed when 98% of judges haven't encountered AI-generated evidence challenges in court. But as more real-world cases emerge Research Prof Maura Grossman urges the time to act is now. myemail.constantcontact.com/U-S--FEDERAL...

Professor Yizhou Zhang has been awarded the 2026 AITO Dahl–Nygaard Junior Prize, a major honour for rising stars in programming languages research. Congratulations, Yizhou! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/yizhou-...

Vasisht Duddu @vasishtduddu.bsky.social is 1 of 39 outstanding early-career researchers from institutions across the globe to be named a 2026 MLCommons Rising Star, an honour recognizing his contributions to machine learning and systems research. Well done, Vasisht! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/vasisht...

We spoke with Prof Santhoshini Velusamy about her work in streaming algorithms and algorithmic game theory. In this Q&A she discusses her research, advice for aspiring computer scientists, and what excites her about joining the Cheriton School of Computer Science: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/q-and-a...

Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com has won the 2026 Presburger Award! This honour recognizes his exceptional contributions to theoretical CS, notably his development of computationally efficient algorithms for fundamental estimation tasks under robustness constraints. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/gautam-...

N. Asokan has been named a University Professor, a prestigious honour conferred by Waterloo to recognize scholarly achievement and international pre-eminence. His work has shaped theory and practice, leading to widely deployed technologies and new research directions: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/univers...

Congratulations to Professor Matei Zaharia of UC Berkeley, recipient of the 2025 ACM Prize in Computing. He is a graduate from Waterloo, where he earned a Bachelor of Mathematics in 2007 with a double major in Computer Science and Combinatorics & Optimization. awards.acm.org/acm-prize

AI is reshaping litigation and CS Research Prof Maura R. Grossman is leading efforts to help courts assess whether digital evidence is real or fake, focusing on explainability, not just simple binary answers so courts can decide what weight to give evidence: www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion...

CIBC is supporting AI research at Waterloo for the first time with a $50k grant. The sponsorship supports William Loh's research on advancing representation learning for complex tabular data, while helping grow national AI talent for the financial sector and beyond: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cibc-fu...

🪳A new AI tool can automate bug reproduction tests, saving developers hours of manual work and speeding up software fixes. 🤖 The tool, Assertflip, can outperform most open-sourced BRT tools. 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/new-ai-... #UWaterloo #cybersecurity

Congratulations to Kevin Guo (4B CS), Kai Wen (Kevin) Yang (4A CS) and Kelly Dance (C&O MMath candidate), silver medallists at 2026 ICPC North America Championship! With this second-place win they advance to the 2026 ICPC World Finals this fall in Dubai! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo...