When alum Reza Shafii graduated from UBC in 1998 and immediately landed a job with Nortel, he thought it was always going to be this way. Dot com was booming, the company was growing exponentially, and there was a high demand for computer scientists. “We got raise after raise and I was like,… read more
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
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
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
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
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
Computer science at UBC gives you a thorough grounding in software design, and a broad choice of studies in other areas like machine learning, data mining, parallel computation, and advanced algorithms. You can attend reading groups offered by departmental labs, take directed studies courses, and… read more
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