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Dan Gillis

CS Professor Selected for Leave For Change

This year, Assistant Professor, Dan Gillis from the School of Computer Science was selected to take part in short-term international development projects through Leave for Change 2016. Dan, as well as six other U of G faculty and staff will contribute their skills, knowledge and time to organizations in developing countries.

The GPlace team accepting their 3rd place award in the ACM International Symposium on Physical Design 2016 FPGA Placement Contest.

Congratulations To Dr. Grewal & His Team

Congratulations to Dr. Gary Grewal and his team for a third-place finish at the ACM International Symposium on Physical Design 2016 FPGA Placement Contest.

Several weeks ago we reported that Dr. Gary Grewal and his team including the School of Engineering's Ryan Pattison (former SoCS student), Ziad Abuowaimer, Dr. Shawki Areibi, and Dr. Anthony Vannelli (Dean of CPES) were ranked top 5 in the ACM International Symposium on Physical Design 2016 FPGA Placement Contest.

MSc Defence – Niharika Guntamukkala

MSc candidate Niharika Guntamukkala will defend their thesis “A Novel Automated Approach to Evaluate the Transparency of Privacy Policies” on May 4, 2016, at 2:00pm in Reynolds 219.

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A Novel Automated Approach to Evaluate the Transparency of Privacy Policies

Ph.D. Seminar – Masood Zamani

Join us Tuesday, April 26 at 9:30am in Reynolds 219 for the 2nd Ph.D. seminar by Ph.D. Candidate Masood Zamani.

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Protein Secondary Structure (PSS) Prediction through a Novel framework of Predicting PSS Transition Sites and New Encoding Schemes.

MSc Graduate Nominated for the Prestigious D.F. Forster Medal

Congratulations to Corey Alexander who was selected as the College of Physical & Engineering Science nominee for the D.F. Forster Medal. Corey recently completed his Master's in Computer Science, focusing on the gamification of online surveys for public health data collection.

MSc Defence – Andrew D’Angelo

MSc candidate Andrew D'Angelo will defend his thesis “Analyzing the Gender Wage-Gap in Ontario's Public Sector” on April 20, 2016, at 1:30pm in Reynolds 219.

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Analyzing the Gender Wage-Gap in Ontario's Public Sector

The Big Bang Theory, Chess, And Computer Science

The Director and students of the School of Computer Science are featured on the University of Guelph website for bringing a pop culture twist to a class in artificial intelligence.

The full article can be found here.

Ph.D. Defence – Abdelwahab Elnaka

PhD candidate Abdelwahab Elnaka will defend their thesis “A Quality of Service Provisioning Framework for Heterogeneous Sessions with Diverse Traffic Flows in Future Networks and Applications” on May 3, 2016, at 9:30am in Reynolds 219.

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A Quality of Service Provisioning Framework for Heterogeneous Sessions with Diverse Traffic Flows in Future Networks and Applications

Roboticon 2016 Winners

Over the weekend of March 19th and 20th, Roboticon, our robot-building and programming challenge, entered its 15th year at the University of Guelph.

SoCS Team Achieves Top 5 Ranking

The School of Computer Science is proud to announce that Dr. Gary Grewal and his team of students have received a top 5 ranking in the ACM International Symposium on Physical Design 2016 FPGA Placement Contest.

Dr. Grewal is part of an interdisciplinary team from the SoCS and from the School of Engineering, including former SoCS student Ryan Pattison, as well as Ziad Abuowaimer (SoE), Dr. Shawki Areibi (SoE), and Dr. Anthony Vannelli (SoE, Dean of CPES).