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...

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...

⭐ The Technovation Girls Waterloo Chapter held their annual Regional Pitch Event at #UWaterloo. 🎮 Students exhibited apps that tackled real-world problems, from helping immigrants find healthcare to transforming physiotherapy into AR games. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/math/news/wa... #womeninstem

Waterloo Technovation showcases girl-powered technology | Mathematics | University of Waterloo

From tackling food security to healthcare accessibility, Technovation Girls Waterloo presents the next generation of tech entrepreneurs

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Excited to have Kyunghyun Cho @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social visiting us next week at UWaterloo @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social to give a distinguished lecture! uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...

This research solves a major open problem in post-translational modification search for de novo peptide sequencing. It will help enable the development of new diagnostic tests and treatments.

Nature Biotechnology@natbiotech.nature.com · 3mo ago

Zero-shot de novo peptide sequencing with open posttranslational modification discovery - @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social go.nature.com/4ujx08d

Sad but proud to send a batch of students on their next journey! @argymouz.bsky.social: postdoc UT Austin IFML Shubhankar Mohapatra: senior scientist A*STAR @viverson03.bsky.social, Matthew Y. R. Yang, Chris Trevisan: PhD at MIT EECS @xingtu-liu.com: PhD at UCLA Stats & DS 1/n

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...

🎵A playable “floor” ocarina. A commentary on modern-day surveillance and technology. A growing tree with people’s memories as leaves 🍂 What do they all have in common? These are some of the artworks featured in the annual CS 383 exhibit 🎨 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/coding-... #UWaterloo

Coding Art into Masterpieces | Cheriton School of Computer Science | University of Waterloo

The annual CS 383 exhibit showcases the intersection between computer science and art

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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...