David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Professor Freda Shi and her collaborators Changbing Yang, Franklin Ma and Jian Zhu from the University of British Columbia have received an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2025, the 30^th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.

Their paper, LingGym: How Far Are LLMs from Thinking Like Field Linguists?, introduced a new benchmark that evaluates how effectively large language models can perform meta-linguistic reasoning.

Professor Ian Goldberg and former Cheriton School of Computer Science doctoral students Aniket Kate and Gregory Zaverucha have received the 2025 Asiacrypt Test-of-Time Award. Their paper, Constant-Size Commitments to Polynomials and Their Applications, was presented originally at Asiacrypt 2010, the 16^th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security.

The Test-of-Time Award honours a paper presented 15 years earlier that has had a significant and lasting impact on the theory and practice of cryptography and information security.

Three Waterloo computer science professors are at the forefront of two new research initiatives that are developing cutting-edge, inclusive, and trustworthy AI systems.

The inaugural research initiatives — Solution Networks — are funded through the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research’s (CIFAR) Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI) Research Program. In 2024, the federal government launched the CAISI Research Program as part of its AI safety strategy.