Congratulations to the Top 50 Legal Innovators in Academia, among them Research Professor Maura R. Grossman. She has changed how the legal profession understands, evaluates, and adopts AI and has established the empirical foundation for technology-assisted review: natlawreview.com/article/2026...

We're delighted to announce three new postdoctoral research fellows: David Aleman Espinosa (from @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social), Daniel Paul Pena (UCSC) and Cameron Seth (@uwcheritoncs.bsky.social) We look forward to welcoming David, Daniel and Cameron to #USyd and to our forthcoming impactful research!

Today's my last day at @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social, before I go on leave. I applied to 30+ faculty positions in Fall 2017. 3 interviewed me, only 1 offer. I'm deeply grateful that Waterloo CS alone saw potential here. I'm sad to be leaving and I will remain its loudest advocate.

🏆Congratulations to our alum Negar Arabzadeh for winning the ACM SIGIR Community Engagement Award! ⭐ Negar shares what this award and community engagement mean to her in our latest article. 🔗 Read more at: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...

Negar Arabzadeh wins ACM SIGIR community engagement award | Cheriton School of Computer Science | University of Waterloo

Negar was recognized for her contributions in community engagement in the information retrieval community

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⭐ Before being named an MLH top 50 honoree at 16 and scaling up hackathons, Jeffrey Zang learned to build by embracing failure. 🔗 Read more: www.analyticsinsight.net/tech-news/je... #UWaterloo

Jeffrey Zang Learned to Build by Showing Up Scared

Jeffrey Zang almost did not go to the hackathon that changed his life.It was JAMHacks 6, one of Canada’s largest high school hackathons, and the obstacle was no

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🫆Are behavioural biometrics used to protect or invade customers’ privacy? 🔎 #UWaterloo researchers examined the use of behavioural biometrics across 9,502 American banks and CrUX Top 100k websites. 🏆This research won the Best Paper Award at ACM's SACMAT. 🔗Read at: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/trackin...

“Tracking for Good”: Cybersecurity team wins Best Paper Award at SACMAT 2026 | Cheriton School of Computer Science | University of Waterloo

Researchers investigated whether behavioural biometrics are used to protect or invade customers’ privacy

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🏆 PhD student Bella Chen has won $10K in seed funding at ARC's Pitch Day. 🏁 Her technology is helping children with ADHD build their attention skills. 🔗 Learn more about AttentionGo and her journey from academia to entrepreneurship at: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/attenti... #UWaterloo

Attention, attention! Bella Chen wins big at ARC Pitch Day 2026 | Cheriton School of Computer Science | University of Waterloo

PhD student wins seed funding for her technology that supports children with ADHD

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👏 Float, co-founded by former computer science students, has closed an $85M CAD all-equity Series C funding 👏 🪙 This funding will enhance Float's financial tools that streamline financial operations for Canadian businesses. 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/rising-... #UWaterloo #UWaterlooProud

Rising fintech firm Float secures $85M in funding | Cheriton School of Computer Science | University of Waterloo

Co-founded by former CS students, Float helps Canadian businesses move fast and cut through red tape

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We were the runner up for the Caspar Bowden PETS award. This recognized our work on differentially private fine tuning of language models. It was a big effort by a sizeable group across NA, Europe, and Asia. Thanks to the committee for the recognition.

⭐ Prof. Gautam Kamath and colleagues have won the runner-up 2026 Caspar Bowden PET Award. 🔐 Their paper on LLMs was seen as a landmark contribution to privacy-preserving machine learning. 🔗 Read more at: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/gautam-...

Gautam Kamath and colleagues receive runner-up 2026 Caspar Bowden PET Award | Cheriton School of Computer Science | University of Waterloo

An article announcing that Professor Gautam Kamath and his international collaborators have received the runner-up Caspar Bowden Award at PETS 2026.

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🔥 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...

🍁The federal government is investing $630M to foster discovery research in Canada. 💊 Our computer scientists were part of this cohort. They will use this support to tackle a range of issues, from sustainability to AI safety. 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo... #UWaterloo

Waterloo computer scientists receive more than $1.3M in federal funding | Cheriton School of Computer Science | University of Waterloo

From exploring medicine to sustainability to AI accountability, Cheriton researchers embody Canadian research excellence

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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...

Wonderful news! Congratulations to Gautam Kamath and his collaborators on their foundational research on robust estimation being recognized with the 2026 Gödel Prize, the top award in theoretical computer science.

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Laudatio: sigact.org/prizes/g%C3%... Article by @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social comms guy Joe Petrik. Pic's a few years old (you can tell by the gray hairs). He joked, this shot is for when you win the Turing or the Gödel. Didn't think we'd actually get to use it. 7/7 cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/gautam-...

📣 I am hiring postdoctoral fellows in agentic AI at the R2L Lab @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social Lead your own agenda - systems that read, reason & act. Top-venue publishing, substantial compute, weekly PI 1:1s, and a real path to faculty/industry. Apply 👉 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32140

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...

🏆 Three computer science graduate students have received the 2026 Faculty of Mathematics Doctoral Prize— the first time in the award's history. 🛜 From advancing HCI to cloud computing research, our alumni have exuded research and academic excellence. 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/compute...

Computer science students win prestigious Faculty of Mathematics Doctoral Prizes | Cheriton School of Computer Science | University of Waterloo

From advancing HCI to cloud computing research, our alumni have demonstrated exceptional research and academic achievements

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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...