David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

The Cheriton School of Computer Science is named for David R. Cheriton, who earned his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in 1978. In 2005, Professor Cheriton made a transformational gift to the school that supports named chairs, faculty fellowships, and graduate scholarships.

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Anudeep Das, Vasisht Duddu and N. Asokan in the Davis Centre CODASPY 2025 BPA
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Anudeep Das, Vasisht Duddu, Rui Zhang and N. Asokan win Best Paper Award at CODASPY 2025

Anudeep Das, Vasisht Duddu, Rui Zhang and N. Asokan have received the Best Paper Award at CODASPY 2025, the 15th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy.

Their paper, Espresso: Robust Concept Filtering in Text-to-Image Models, introduces a new technique to improve the effectiveness, safety and reliability of generative AI systems that create images from natural language text prompts.

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Monday, June 2, 2025

Ranking AI: Professor Kate Larson wins Paper Award at AAMAS

Renowned AI researcher Professor Kate Larson has won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS).

Established in 2002, AAMAS is the world’s leading conference for research in AI, autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Every year, it brings researchers and practitioners worldwide to discuss the latest developments in agent technology. This year’s conference took place in Detroit, Michigan, from May 19 to May 23, 2025.

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