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Congratulations to Gururaj Saileshwar, Shaopeng (Chris) Lin, Joyce Qu for winning the CSAW 25 (North America) Best Paper Award for Technical Impact for their work 'GPUHammer'! CSAW celebrates the most influential applied security research from top venues like IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, CCS, NDSS, CHI, and PETS. They nailed it—hammering home Canada’s first-ever CSAW win!

Congratulations to Niv Dayan, Navid Eslami and their co-author Ioana Bercea on receiving the Best Paper Award for their work 'Diva: Dynamic Range Filter for Var-Length Keys and Queries' at VLDB 2025 in London this September! A well-deserved award for a data structure that knows how to filter out the competition!

Assistant Professor Anwar Hithnawi, who joined the Department of Computer Science in January, has received Google Research Scholar Program funding and a Intel Outstanding Researcher Award for her work in privacy-preserving cryptographic systems.

Gururaj Saileshwar and his team, PhD student Chris (Shaopeng) Lin and undergrad Joyce Qu developed GPUHammer to investigate the vulnerability of GPUs to a critical hardware attack.

Anwar Hithnawi will join the Department of Computer Science & the Systems & Networks Group (SysNet) as assistant professor in January 2025.

2024 PhD graduate Christina Christodoulakis has worked to improve the ways data can be analyzed, integrated, and searched. She goes into more details in this spotlight.

CentML, founded by a team including CS faculty, PhD students & alumni, the company sprung from research at Prof. Gennady Pekhimenko's EcoSystem Lab.

Get to know Prof. Niv Dayan who joined the Dept. of Computer Science and SysNet in January 2023 in this spotlight.

Get to know Prof. Qizhen Zhang who joined the Dept. of Mathematical and Computational Sciences (UTSC) and the tri-campus graduate Dept. of Computer Science, as well as, SysNet in August 2023.

Get to know Prof. Gururaj Saileshwar who joined the Dept. of Mathematical and Computational Sciences (UTSC) and the tri-campus graduate Dept. of Computer Science, as well as, SysNet in August 2023.

PhD student Sejal Bhalla developed speech analysis software, alongside a team of computer scientists and clinicians, that uses AI to detect changes in vocal characteristics among patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Professors Nandita Vijaykumar and Igor Gilitschenski have jointly received a 2022 Sony Focused Research Award.

Effective July 1, 2023, Prof. Gennady Pekhimenko has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.

Prof. Eyal de Lara has been appointed Chair and Graduate Chair of the Department of Computer Science, effective July 1, 2022 until June 30, 2027.