Alec Azad
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
a2azad (at) cs (dot) uwaterloo (dot) ca
About
I am currently working towards a Masters of Mathematics (M.Math) degree in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Working under the supervision of Professor Edward Lank as part of the HCI Group, my interests span Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Information Retrieval (IR) and any combination thereof.
Research
Shared Displays; Large Displays; Smart Interfaces
Publications
- Azad, A., J. Ruiz, D. Vogel, M. Hancock, and E. Lank, "Territoriality and Behaviour On and Around Large Vertical Publicly-Shared Displays", DIS 2012, 2012.
Teaching Assistant Positions
| CS 343 | Concurrent and Parallel Programming | Fall 2011 | Prof. Peter Buhr |
| CS 349 | User Interfaces | Spring 2011 | Prof. Michael Terry |
| CS 349 | User Interfaces | Winter 2011 | Prof. Edward Lank |
| CS 246 | Object-Oriented Software Development | Fall 2010 | Prof. Peter Buhr |
| CS 408 | Software Engineering (@UofT) | Winter 2010 | Prof. Alan Rosselet |
Graduate-Level Courses
| CS 889 | Advanced Topics in HCI: Experimental Methods in HCI | Spring 2011 | Prof. Edward Lank |
| CS 789 | Computational Linguistics [Audit] | Spring 2011 | Prof. Chrysanne Di Marco |
| CS 848 | Machine Learning for Information Retrieval | Winter 2011 | Prof. Gordon V. Cormack |
| CS 676 | Computational Finance [Audit] | Winter 2011 | Prof. Peter A. Forsyth |
| CS 848 | Information Retrieval | Fall 2010 | Prof. Charles Clarke |
| CS 686 | Introduction to Artificial Intelligence | Fall 2010 | Prof. Peter van Beek |
Undergraduate-Level Courses
I completed my undergraduate co-op program in Computer Science and Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto in 2010 with High Distinction.
- 21 courses in Computer Science [Software Engineering Specialist]
- 10 courses in Physics and Astrophysics [Major]
- 7 courses in Mathematics & Statistics
- 3 electives