The Bluesky account of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. On a computer near you at https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/https://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mlly7i3hx22tCongrats 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.” https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/se-researchers-win-acm-sigsoft-distinguished-paper-award-forge-202611 May 2026 19:13 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlly7i3hx22thttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mlljlg77fs23🎵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: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/coding-art-masterpieces #UWaterloo11 May 2026 14:51 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlljlg77fs23https://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mldurdljxc2oAs 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. https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2026/05/07/as-deepfake-evidence-spreads-rulemaking-efforts-stay-stuck-in-development-/08 May 2026 13:50 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldurdljxc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3ml6v2w53322rU.S. federal judges are asking if new rules for deepfake evidence are needed when 98% of judges haven't encountered AI-generated evidence challenges in court. But as more real-world cases emerge Research Prof Maura Grossman urges the time to act is now. https://myemail.constantcontact.com/U-S--FEDERAL-JUDGES---Do-we-really-need-a-change-to-the-Federal-rules-of-evidence-about-deepfakes--.html?soid=1103577314770&aid=tIL1lzY3cHc06 May 2026 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6v2w53322rhttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mkpse3brok2dProfessor Yizhou Zhang has been awarded the 2026 AITO Dahl–Nygaard Junior Prize, a major honour for rising stars in programming languages research. Congratulations, Yizhou! https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/yizhou-zhang-receives-2026-aito-dahl-nygaard-prize30 Apr 2026 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpse3brok2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mknk5x2gkc2vVasisht Duddu @vasishtduddu.bsky.social is 1 of 39 outstanding early-career researchers from institutions across the globe to be named a 2026 MLCommons Rising Star, an honour recognizing his contributions to machine learning and systems research. Well done, Vasisht! https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/vasisht-duddu-named-mlcommons-rising-star-202629 Apr 2026 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknk5x2gkc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mkneel7w622fWe spoke with Prof Santhoshini Velusamy about her work in streaming algorithms and algorithmic game theory. In this Q&A she discusses her research, advice for aspiring computer scientists, and what excites her about joining the Cheriton School of Computer Science: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/q-and-a-professor-santhoshini-velusamy29 Apr 2026 14:58 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkneel7w622fhttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mknawtw6xs2p👏 Congratulations to Yuzhe You for presenting her work at the Adobe Sneaks. Only 7 presenters were selected among 500 submissions. 🎨 She demoed Project Test Kitchen, an image generator that supports brainstorming and creative exploration. 🔗 Read more: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/yuzhe-you-cooks-storm-adobe-summit-2026 #UWaterloo29 Apr 2026 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknawtw6xs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mki7wimv4k2eGautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com has won the 2026 Presburger Award! This honour recognizes his exceptional contributions to theoretical CS, notably his development of computationally efficient algorithms for fundamental estimation tasks under robustness constraints. https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/gautam-kamath-receives-eatcs-presburger-award27 Apr 2026 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mki7wimv4k2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mk44gdnn7s2nHappy #EarthDay 🌍 To celebrate, we are spotlighting our student, Enzo Porto, about his organization, Oceanica. 🌊 From beach clean-ups to surf simulations, Oceanica is empowering Peru’s youth to protect the ocean. 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/beach https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/beach22 Apr 2026 18:21 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk44gdnn7s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mjwrxiv55c2vN. Asokan has been named a University Professor, a prestigious honour conferred by Waterloo to recognize scholarly achievement and international pre-eminence. His work has shaped theory and practice, leading to widely deployed technologies and new research directions: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/university-waterloo-names-n-asokan-university-professor20 Apr 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwrxiv55c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mjpnxtmr4c2l💉 #UWaterloo-based company Rapid Novor created EasyM: a non-invasive and highly sensitive blood-based test for myeloma. 🩸EasyM is more effective and less painful than the current standard of care, bone marrow biopsy. 🔗 Read more at: https://uwaterloo.ca/news/diagnosing-cancer-drop-blood17 Apr 2026 19:30 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpnxtmr4c2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mjmmrl2bgs2b🏆 A #UWaterloo team won the Social Impact Award at CUCAI 2026, Canada's largest undergrad AI conference. 🤖 The team was recognized for their novel blood sugar forecasting technology 📈 🔗 Read more at: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ai-diabetes-waterloo-team-wins-social-impact-award-cucai16 Apr 2026 14:31 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmmrl2bgs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mjkjrhafas2vCongrats to CS PhD alum Ricardo Baeza-Yates on receiving the 2025 ACM Luiz André Barroso Award, which recognizes his pioneering contributions to algorithms and information retrieval, and his leadership in fostering a vibrant research community across Latin America: https://awards.acm.org/about/2025-barroso15 Apr 2026 18:32 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkjrhafas2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mj2yx45xfc24Congratulations to Professor Matei Zaharia of UC Berkeley, recipient of the 2025 ACM Prize in Computing. He is a graduate from Waterloo, where he earned a Bachelor of Mathematics in 2007 with a double major in Computer Science and Combinatorics & Optimization. awards.acm.org/acm-prize09 Apr 2026 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2yx45xfc24https://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3miyqffazx22i🪿 Anirudh Dabas built Waddleloo, an AI-powered platform that shows goose sightings on #UWaterloo and #Laurier campuses. ⭐ He hopes Waddleloo inspires students to leverage technology to tackle everyday problems, even the minor inconveniences. 🔗 Read more: https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/news/new-website-help-you-duck-duck-goose-campus08 Apr 2026 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3miyqffazx22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mihdeizlr22l🤖How will AI impact the future of computer scientists? ⭐ Many #UWaterloo students and alumni believe that #AI presents opportunities, not threats. They also believe it cannot replace human judgment. 🔗 Read more at: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterloo-students-and-alumni-weigh-ais-impact-future01 Apr 2026 18:34 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mihdeizlr22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mihbzy4ihs2lAI is reshaping litigation and CS Research Prof Maura R. Grossman is leading efforts to help courts assess whether digital evidence is real or fake, focusing on explainability, not just simple binary answers so courts can decide what weight to give evidence: https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion/ai-is-creating-more-opportunities-for-insight-and-more-risk-in-litigation/39391101 Apr 2026 18:10 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mihbzy4ihs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3migtvrgk2c2aCIBC is supporting AI research at Waterloo for the first time with a $50k grant. The sponsorship supports William Loh's research on advancing representation learning for complex tabular data, while helping grow national AI talent for the financial sector and beyond: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cibc-funding-supports-phd-sponsorship-for-ai-research-at-university-of-waterloo01 Apr 2026 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3migtvrgk2c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mhvhozp5yc2s🪳A new AI tool can automate bug reproduction tests, saving developers hours of manual work and speeding up software fixes. 🤖 The tool, Assertflip, can outperform most open-sourced BRT tools. 🔗 Read more: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/new-ai-tool-can-automate-bug-reproduction-tests #UWaterloo #cybersecurity25 Mar 2026 16:03 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhvhozp5yc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mhqtqrdmkc2nCongratulations to Kevin Guo (4B CS), Kai Wen (Kevin) Yang (4A CS) and Kelly Dance (C&O MMath candidate), silver medallists at 2026 ICPC North America Championship! With this second-place win they advance to the 2026 ICPC World Finals this fall in Dubai! https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterloo-takes-second-place-2026-icpc-north-america-championship23 Mar 2026 19:56 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqtqrdmkc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mhbkrqsi7k2aAI-generated evidence is becoming harder to detect and courts aren't ready. Maura Grossman says judges are unarmed in the battle as deepfakes enter litigation. Through a new AI safety solution network, she's designing a framework to flag fabricated evidence https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/features/an-ai-safety-solution-network-is-designing-a-framework-to-spot-ai-generated-evidence-in-litigation/39384917 Mar 2026 18:05 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhbkrqsi7k2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mh7birw7sk2aCS Prof Maura R. Grossman was on the “AI with Arun Show” to discuss how AI is transforming legal discovery, helping firms analyze massive volumes of documents faster and more accurately. She also explores the risks of AI, including bias, hallucinations and deepfakes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k33YAO_7aQ16 Mar 2026 20:14 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh7birw7sk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mh6obh37y22jStrengthening the research partnership between @uwaterloo.ca and @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social: Professor Ana Crisan receives $250k from Princess Margaret Cancer Centre to develop MedDataOS, a human-centered AI system to integrate complex head and neck cancer data. https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ana-crisan-receives-250k-support-princess-margaret-cancer-centre-develop-modular-ai-integrate-head-neck-cancer-data16 Mar 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh6obh37y22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mgpkhkpros27CS Prof Marina Meila has been named a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, recognizing her expertise in advancing the theoretical foundations of interpretable & explainable machine learning. In this Q&A, she talks about her research journey, current projects and future directions: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/marina-meila-named-canada-cifar-ai-chair10 Mar 2026 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgpkhkpros27https://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mgftdquim22p🎉 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: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/international-womens-day-celebrating-women-researchers-and #IWD #womeninstem06 Mar 2026 17:24 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgftdquim22phttps://bsky.app/profile/uwcheritoncs.bsky.social/post/3mgauhaohqc23CS 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. https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/pascal-poupart-luis-ricardez-sandoval-receive-480k-grant-bmo-mitacs-develop-reinforcement-learning-tools-for-ree-recycling04 Mar 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:66uiulb243irbnlttqeduutu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgauhaohqc23