David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

The Cheriton School of Computer Science is named for David R. Cheriton, who earned his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in 1978. In 2005, Professor Cheriton made a transformational gift to the school that supports named chairs, faculty fellowships, and graduate scholarships.

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Professor Shai Ben-David in front of a blackboard
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Shai Ben-David named 2025 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Professor Shai Ben-David has been named a 2025 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest national recognition for researchers in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.

He is among 102 individuals across Canada elected this year for their exceptional scholarly, scientific and artistic achievements.

Someone using a laptop to watch a soccer match. The team is huddled near the net. You can see the viewer's hand view on the laptoo but not their face
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Scoring high with AI

Two Cheriton alumni, David Radke and Kyle Tilbury, are using AI to make it easier for researchers to unlock sports insights— which were previously reserved for pro-teams. 

By leveraging the Google Research Football’s reinforcement learning environment, the duo created a system that can simulate and record unlimited soccer matches. They generated and saved data from 3,000 simulated soccer games, resulting in a rich and complex dataset of passes, goals, and player movements for researchers to study.

A person in a black velvet dress and gloves sits at a long wooden table in a historic dining hall with decorative wall panels and lamps. A large painting hangs on the wall behind them.
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Gamifying AI

Around 30% of Canadians rely on AI for personal and work use, from proofreading work emails to planning trips — but do we truly understand how AI works?

In today’s world, AI may dictate our everyday outcomes and choices more often than man-made decisions. Even the most essential sectors are adopting AI. Self-driving cars, a game-changer in transportation, use AI to sense its surroundings and control its movements. Some clinics are employing object detection and recognition models, a form of AI, to detect cancerous tumours from X-ray scans — and do it at a much faster and more accurate rate than human doctors.

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