Waterloo Math

Left to right: Professor Lila Kari and PhD student Monireh Safari, the authors of the study from Waterloo’s Cheriton School of Computer Science.

What if DNA doesn’t record only ancestry but also carries an imprint of the environment in which an organism evolved?

A new genomics study suggests precisely that, revealing compelling evidence of genetic convergence across the deepest divide in the tree of life: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/does-dn...

collage of Waterloo CS women researchers and entrepreneurs

🎉 Happy (early) International Women’s Day! To celebrate, we are recognizing our phenomenal women researchers and entrepreneurs.

⭐ From groundbreaking discoveries to accelerating patient care, #UWaterloo Computer Science women shine!

🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/interna...

#IWD #womeninstem

Left to right: Professors Luis Ricardez-Sandoval and Pascal Poupart in Waterloo's Davis Centre

CS Professor Pascal Poupart and Professor Luis Ricardez-Sandoval from the Department of Chemical Engineering have received $480k in support from BMO and Mitacs to strengthen Canada’s supply of critical minerals by applying AI to the recycling of rare earth elements.

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In Conversation with Mix and Recording Engineer George Seara YouTube video by Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo

Former CS student, and award-winning mix and recording engineer, George Seara sat down to talk with us about how @uwaterloo.ca guided him to where he is today!

Watch here: youtu.be/MZsC9Jo_Mg8?...

In honour of 30 years of Black History Month in Canada, the Math Equity Office, Black Studies Program, National Society for Black Engineers, and Black in Math are hosting a screening of The Revival: Women and the Word!

📅 February 25

🕝 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM

🔗 bit.ly/4qxDWfu

This event is free.

The Math of Curling YouTube video by Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo

Curling is a sport of high strategy based on statistics.

📲Watch Masters of Biostatistics student Keeley Isinghood break down the game theory of this Olympic sport!

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The Math of Figure Skating YouTube video by Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo

Have you ever wondered my most figure skating jumps are doubles or triples?

📲Watch David McKinnon easily explain with math!

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Key Clues 2026 has officially ended! Congrats to geese geese go on winning the Enigma Cup by being the first team to complete the meta and to Rocq-hard Compilers for being top of the leaderboard!

And thank you to everyone who participated!!

CS Research Professor Maura R. Grossman in Waterloo's Davis Centre.

In The Walrus, CS Research Prof Maura Grossman warns that genAI could erode trust in the courts, and that Canada’s justice system isn’t ready for a world where seeing and hearing no longer mean believing. “You could make a deepfake of my voice in two minutes,” she says.

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Gr. 10 students and their supporters are invited to learn more about applying to university! Our experts will share info on topics like admissions and finances, while current students will share what it was like to go from high school to university.

Register here: uwaterloo.ca/future/grade...

Have you seen these puzzles around campus?

Key Clues officially starts on January 26th at 11:30 AM EST. Get ready for a puzzle hunt out of this world!

Register as an individual or a team here: keyclueschallenge.uwaterloo.ca

We are hosting a Job Fair TOMORROW! Connect with employers, explore different career paths, and discover co-op and job opportunities! 📋📝

🗓️ Wednesday, January 21

⏰ 1:00pm - 4:00pm

📍DC Foyer

Left to right: Valentio Iverson, Alice Moayyedi and Beihao Zhou in Waterloo's Davis Centre.

Congrats to Valentio Iverson, Alice Moayyedi and Beihao Zhou, recipients of the Computing Research Association’s 2026 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards! They are among an outstanding group of research-focused undergrads from universities across N. America.

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Interested in studying Math @uwaterloo.ca but don't know what to take?

Join our Math Majors webinar where we get into the many majors that the Faculty of Mathematics has to offer!

Register here: uwaterloo.ca/math/form/ex...

🎉 Ring in the new year with #UWaterloo's Computer Science!

🤖 Throughout 2025, our faculty, students and alumni have pushed the boundaries of curiosity, from discovering cybersecurity risks to creating novel accessibility technology.

🔗 Check out our recap story at: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/recap-2...

A black and white photo of Maura R. Grossman in Waterloo's David Centre.

In this Girl Power Q&A, Research Prof Maura R. Grossman reflects on a career spanning psychology, law and AI. A pioneer of technology-assisted review with Cheriton colleague Gordon V. Cormack, she now focuses on ethical AI and the threat genAI poses to the courts.

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L to R: Yelizaveta Brus, Rungroj Maipradit, Professors Earl T. Barr and Shane McIntosh

Recent master’s graduate Yelizaveta Brus, former postdoc Rungroj Maipradit, and Profs Earl T. Barr and Shane McIntosh have won an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ASE 2025.

Their work examined a common and costly issue in modern software development.

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🎉 Congratulations to the Waterloo Blockchain students who took home over $25,000 at ETHGlobal Buenos Aires!

Read about the students and their winning projects here: uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/news/waterloo-blockchain-wins-25850-usd-ethglobal-buenos-aires

Be a part of Key Clues 2026! 👽🛸🧩

Open to everyone, Key Clues is a puzzle hunt run by enigmatologists from the University of Waterloo!

Register as an individual or a team!

A HUNT 101 course as well as all the info you need about Key Clues is here: keyclueschallenge.uwaterloo.ca

Waterloo Blockchain standing in front of a screen and doing the "W" hand sign

✈️ Waterloo Blockchain flew to South America for #ETHGlobal Buenos Aires and came home with $25,850 USD 🏆

🔗 Read more about our students' hackathon win at cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo...

#uwaterloo #laurier #blockchain

Professor Craig S. Kaplan juggles chalk in front of a blackboard on which are elements of his research.

Craig S. Kaplan @isohedral.ca has been named a 2025 ACM Distinguished Member in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the design and modelling of computational geometric patterns and non-photorealistic rendering.

Congrats on your 4th major accolade of 2025!

cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/craig-s...

Professor Freda Shi in Waterloo's Davis Centre

Freda Shi and her UBC colleagues have won an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2025. Their work introduces a new benchmark that evaluates how effectively large language models perform meta-linguistic reasoning — using LLMs to better understand languages themselves.

cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/freda-s...

L to R: Ian Goldberg, Aniket Kate, Gregory Zaverucha. Ian Goldberg is a Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science and the Canada Research Chair in Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Aniket Kate is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and a University Faculty Scholar at Purdue University. Greg Zaverucha is a software engineer in the Microsoft Research Security and Cryptography group.

Congratulations to CS Prof Ian Goldberg and his colleagues Aniket Kate and Greg Zaverucha on winning the 2025 Asiacrypt Test-of-Time Award. Their highly cited 2010 paper introduced constant-size polynomial commitment schemes central in the design of ZK proof systems.

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⚖️ Professors Maura R. Grossman, Yuntian Deng, and Wenhu Chen join CIFAR's Solution Networks to tackle AI safety in the legal system and linguistic inequality 🗣️

🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cs-prof...

#uwaterloo

PhD candidate Cameron Seth in front of a blackboard

Cameron Seth is breaking down the world’s hardest CS problem piece by piece.

“What I’m doing is looking at a series of smaller problems related to the broader P vs. NP problem. Essentially, what I’m asking is if we can solve these other related problems,” Cam says.

uwaterloo.ca/news/mathema...

Research Professor Maura R. Grossman in Waterloo's Davis Centre

Al-generated evidence is increasingly appearing in court cases and judges say they are not ready. Research Professor Maura R. Grossman warns that generative Al has democratized fraud and courts must shift from "trust but verify" to "don't trust and verify."

NBC News: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Key Clues Decoded: Josephine Explains YouTube video by Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo

Key Clues 2026 is quickly approaching!

Watch as Josephine breaks down one of her puzzles from the 2025 challenge and then register your team for the 2026 challenge: keyclueschallenge.uwaterloo.ca

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#PuzzleHunt #KeyClues2026

🎮 PhD student Yuzhe You is using gaming to make AI more understandable and accessible for non-technical users! She even received $145K from various scholarships and research funds to support her vision

📲Read more here: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...

Left to right: Professors Meng Xu and Sihang Liu in the Davis Centre

Congrats to Professors Meng Xu and Sihang Liu, recipients of a $254k grant from National Cybersecurity Consortium to strengthen security of LLM agents.

cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/meng-xu...

The University of Waterloo's campus as seen from the Graduate House.

The Cheriton School of Computer Science is recruiting!

We invite applications for multiple positions in data management and data systems, as well as in other areas of CS — ML, robotics, computer vision, bioinformatics, and computer systems and architecture.

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