Computer Science

  1. Sep Kamal

    Alum’s app helps UBC students find affordable food on campus

    It’s September and more than 10,000 first-year students are joining the UBC Vancouver community. And they’re all looking for a place to eat at a reasonable price—between 30 to 40 per cent of students are food insecure according to UBC’s Food Hub. Thanks to an app called Campus Nutrition… read more

  2. Dr. Vered Shwartz

    A common sense approach to machine learning

     Dr. Vered Shwartz points to a 2019 headline that spread the news: “Stevie Wonder announces he’ll be having kidney surgery during London concert”.“One of the properties of languages is that we only say what we believe to be complimentary to the listener’s knowledge,” says Dr. Shwartz. “I… read more

  3.  Dr. Jiarui Ding

    Cutting through genomics data noise to improve patients’ lives

    When Dr. Jiarui Ding joined UBC Computer Science in January 2022 as an assistant professor, it was a return to familiar ground—Dr. Ding had already completed his PhD studies as an early computational pioneer in single cell genomics at UBC.“I hope to make discoveries that can be passed on to future… read more

  4. Heartbleed Bug, fuzz-testing. It’s not what you think

     When Dr. Caroline Lemieux encountered computer science for the first time in her first year of undergraduate studies at UBC, she didn't realize that it would shape the course of her career."I liked math and thought it would be neat to take a computer class," says Dr. Lemieux, who returns to… read more

  5. Left: Jacquie Armstrong at the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts (Photo Michael Burns). Right: Armstrong has been working for Disney for nine years. (Photo: J. Armstrong).

    From curling to coding

    Jacquie Armstrong (BSc 1999) is Director of technology and guest experience for The Walt Disney Company’s Kelowna Studio. She discusses what athletics taught her about business, and shares advice for women who want to own the house in computer science.So you are a retired competitive curler.My… read more

  6. a computer motherboard

    Computer Science

    Computer science deals with using and improving computers as tools for numerous applications. For example, one stream of computer science is in computational intelligence, where people work to create computer systems that can perceive and reason about the world and surroundings. Bioinformatics is… read more

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