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.
News
Yuzhe You wins best student paper award at GI 2025 for novel cybersecurity tool
PhD student Yuzhe You has won the Michael A.J. Sweeney Award for Best Student Paper at Graphics Interface 2025. Held annually by the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, GI is the nation’s top conference on computer graphics and visualization, and human-computer interaction.
The award recognizes Yuzhe’s paper, Exploring Comparative Visual Approaches for Understanding Model Trade-offs in Adversarial Machine Learning, co-authored with Professor Jian Zhao, her supervisor.
Research on long-distance immigrant family communication wins award at GI 2025
Jiawen Stefanie Zhu (BCS ’24) has won the Best Poster award at Graphics Interface 2025, Canada’s top conference on computer graphics and visualization, and human-computer interaction.
Jiawen completed her undergraduate studies at the Cheriton School of Computer Science in 2024. Now, as a PhD student at the University of Washington, her research focuses on interactive systems that can enhance human–human and human–AI collaboration. In particular, she is “exploring ways to help people navigate our multilingual world.”
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.
Events
IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecture • Beyond the Horizon: Terahertz Communications Inclusion in 6G Networks
Please note: This distinguished lecture will take place in DC 1304.
Nizar Zorba, Professor
Electrical Engineering Department, Qatar University
PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity • Directed Isoperimetry and Monotonicity: Property Testing in the Analytic Setting
Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2314 and online.
Renato Ferreira Pinto Jr., PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Eric Blais
PhD Seminar • Data Systems • UI-Vision: A Desktop-centric GUI Benchmark for Visual Perception and Interaction
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 3301.
Xiangru Jian, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Tamer Özsu