Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science
@UWCheritonCS
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Nearly $100K in prizes. 17 students. One unforgettable ETHDenver. @UWCheritonCS + @wlooblockchain showed up in force at ETHDenver 2025; sweeping community votes, sponsor bounties, and BUIDLathon finalist spots. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-scien…
✏️ CodeShaping is a sketch-based code editing approach where programmers annotate on and around code to guide AI in shaping the code structure, flow, and syntax #CHI2025 paper preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.03719 video here: youtube.com/watch?v=QeI61Y…
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 12:30 pm CT: Talks at TTIC presents Janani Sundaresan of @UWCheritonCS with a talk titled "Distributed Triangle Detection is Hard in Few Rounds." Please join us in Room 530, 5th floor.
It’s been ~4 weeks since we launched @yupp_ai – a consumer-first approach to robust & trustworthy AI evaluation. We’re still early but have already gathered 2M+ high-quality human preference feedback datapoints on 500+ models across diverse use cases. 🧵 x.com/pankaj/status/…
1/24 I’m thrilled to share what my co-founder @gilad and I’ve been cooking up over the past year. Check out @yupp_ai – a fun and easy way for anyone to discover, compare and get the best answers across the latest AIs, all for free! Yes, even the most powerful pro models.
This project was part of my undergrad at @UWCheritonCS, supervised by @jeffjianzhao. I'm honoured that it received a Best Poster award 🏆 at #GI2025! (2/2)
Our CTO #DataScience Speaker Series welcomes @UWCheritonCS's Victor Zhong (@hllo_wrld) to our Toronto #AI office for a talk with our research engineers around the globe about building & evaluating generalist language agents bloom.bg/3FgPNwW #AgenticAI #GenAI #ML #NLProc
We were very lucky to have Peter Bartlett visit @UWCheritonCS and give a Distinguished Lecture on "Gradient Optimization Methods: The Benefits of a Large Step-size." Very interesting and surprising results. (Recording will be available eventually)
Vector Faculty Member and Assistant Professor Freda Shi’s distinguished lecture, ‘Linguistic Insights Deepen Our Understanding of AI Systems: The Cases of Reference Frames and Logical Reasoning.’ Now on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=HijH8G…
👋 Missed @fredahshi's March 14 Vector Distinguished Lecture on using linguistics to understand AI systems? Watch it now on YouTube! In this lecture, Vector Faculty Member and @UWCheritonCS Assistant Professor Freda Shi demonstrates how linguistic principles can help us: ✅…
Wednesday, April 16 at 11:00 am CT: TTIC's Young Researcher Seminar Series presents Vihan Shah of @UWCheritonCS with a talk titled "Space Complexity of Minimum Cut Problems in Single-Pass Streams." Please join us in Room 530, 5th floor.
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🎓Student Alumni Highlight: @FredahShi, now an Assistant Professor at @UWCheritonCS + CIFAR AI Chair at @VectorInst! Shi’s path reflects a deep commitment to grounded language learning, multilingual #NLP, and #LLMs. Read more: 🔗 buff.ly/oYoRdZf
📢 Join us for the ACL Mentorship Session @naaclmeeting #NAACL2025 • Session Link: mentorship.aclweb.org/schedule • Ask Questions: app.sli.do/event/kzWigUJa… Mentors: • @amuuueller (@BUCompSci) • @fredahshi (@UWCheritonCS @VectorInst) • @maojiayuan (@MIT_CSAIL) • @ziqiao_ma…
Franklin is a third-year @WaterlooMath student. He talks about finding a co-op job that suits him and how he hones his skills to match his career goals. Read more about Franklin's co-op journey: bit.ly/3BwAazz #Math #MyCoopExperience #UWaterlooCoop #UWaterloo
It's a bit damp today, but spring has officially sprung. Happy vernal equinox.
Big win for Waterloo Blockchain at the @FlareNetworks x @googlecloud Verifiable AI Hackathon at Berkeley! 2DeFi by @hitarthkhurana and @0xpane brings TradFi investors into DeFi instantly, securely and effortlessly with AI and Google Cloud TEE. @UWCheritonCS @UWaterloo
The future of crypto x AI
🚀 WORKSHOP RECAP: Web3 & Solana 101 That’s a wrap on our Web3 & Solana Workshop with @SuperteamCAN 🇨🇦! 🎉 With 20+ attendees, we covered: ✅ Blockchain fundamentals & Solana’s ecosystem ✅ How to break into Web3 without coding (thanks to @Psilodelic for the insights!) Great…
🔋 Small change, big energy impact 🔋 Martin Karsten & Joe Damato at Fastly have reworked 30 lines of Linux code, which cuts data centre energy use by up to 30%. Now in Linux 6.13, the code change optimizes network traffic handling, boosting efficiency. spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-en…
This is actually to be happening tomorrow, Friday, March 14. Looking forward to seeing everyone soon!
🚨 Only ONE WEEK left to register! Ever wonder why AI struggles to understand different perspectives in the same context? Join Vector Faculty Member and @UWCheritonCS Assistant Prof. @fredahshi on Feb 14 at 11AM ET to explore how AI handles multimodal reasoning with reference…
Behind the VFX of blockbusters are complex physics simulations. Prof Christopher Batty explains that part of the goal is to offload the physics onto computers so artists can focus on their vision. His group advances simulations to make CGI more lifelike. aps.org/apsnews/2025/0…
Deepfakes are increasingly challenging the legal system, raising issues of truth, cost and access to justice. Research Professor Maura R. Grossman co-authored a proposed U.S. court rule to manage AI-altered evidence, aiming to protect fairness in trials. abajournal.com/columns/articl…
