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• COSC Student Awarded Prestigious Vector Institute Scholarship

  Thursday, May 09, 2024 | By rdegrande

  

  Exciting News from Sam Langdon!

  Join us in congratulating Sam from the MSc thesis program in Computer Science, a recipient of the prestigious 2024-25 Vector Scholarship in AI!

  With a $17.5K award towards her master’s degree, Sam has demonstrated exceptional promise and dedication to advancing AI innovation. This recognition underscores the Vector Institute‘s commitment to nurturing the next generation of AI talent and pushing the boundaries of what’s achievable in this remarkable field.

  We can’t wait to see the impact Sam will make as she enhances her AI skill set and contributes to the forefront of AI innovation. Congratulations, Sam!

  https://vectorinstitute.ai/24-25-vector-ai-scholarship-announcement/?utm_source=LinkedIn&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Programs

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• COSC Researchers Receiving the Social Impact Paper Award at the 2024 EMNLP

  Monday, November 18, 2024 | By rdegrande

  Robert Morabito, Sangmitra Madhusudan, Tyler McDonald, and Professor Ali Emami received the Social Impact Paper Award at the 2024 EMNLP (2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) with the work entitled “STOP! Benchmarking Large Language Models with Sensitivity Testing on Offensive Progressions”.

  Among roughly 1300 works, only 3 received social impact awards. This award recognizes research papers that demonstrate significant potential to positively impact society through the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, highlighting studies that address social issues and contribute to positive change through their findings and methods.

  Congratulations on your feat, Robert, Sangmitra, Tyler, and Prof. Emami!

  The 2024 EMNLP Awards are listed at this link.

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• COSC Students at 2024 ICPC Programming Contest

  Monday, November 18, 2024 | By rdegrande

  COSC had a team of students, Quinn Flavel, Kartikkumar Kirankumar Parekh, and Yuvraj Sehgal, participating and securing a good plate in the 2024 ICPC Programming Contest (International Collegiate Programming Contest).

  The students successfully completed 8 out of the 13 programming problems within the allocated 5 hours, including one within the first 4 minutes of the contest!

  This contest is distributed throughout various sites. At the Windsor site, which had all teams from Ontario, Brock’s team finished only behind teams from the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto. They beat out teams from all the other Ontario universities in attendance, as well as some of the other UofT teams. Within the wider region (East-Central North America, which includes a lot of US universities), the team finished 19th overall.

  Please refer to this link for the full standings.

  

   

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• 2024 Brock AI Day

  Monday, November 18, 2024 | By rdegrande

  2024 Brock AI Day took place at the Pont Inlet, Brock University, on November 7th, 2024.

  It was a successful full day with talks, presentations, and interesting discussions from students, faculty members, and knowledgeable researchers in the field.

  Please access the event website for more details.

  

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• Professor Emami giving a public talk at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre

  Friday, October 18, 2024 | By rdegrande

  Professor Ali Emami will give a public talk at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre Recital Hall in St. Catharines. His talk is about “How Large Language Models are Shaping Our Reality
  (And How We are Shaping Theirs!)” and will happen on November 1st, at 7 pm.

  More details about his public talk can be found at this link.

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• Professor Emami receives the FMS Excellence in Teaching Award

  Thursday, June 20, 2024 | By rdegrande

  Dr. Ali Emami joined the Department of Computer Science in 2021. Three years later, he received the 2024 FMS Excellence in Teaching Award.

  Professor Emami has a special high enthusiasm when teaching, which captivates students.

  His efforts in motivating and attracting students to several computer science subjects have granted him a great reputation among students.

  The award is a result of his hard work and drive to always improve teaching.

  The article is fully featured at the following link.

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• COSC Graduate won Governor General’s Gold Medal

  Sunday, June 16, 2024 | By rdegrande

  Ethan Gibbons obtained his BSc in Computer Science in 2022 and MSc in Computer Science in 2024, both in the Department of Computer Science at Brock University.

  His very high final average in his MSc program, 98, earned him notoriety through the Governor General’s Gold Medal – a well-deserved achievement after his dedication and efforts in his studies.

  Congratulations, Ethan! We hope that his award is one of many in your future career!

  More details about this are posted at Brock News at this link.

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• Yifeng Li’s Work Featured in Brock News!

  Thursday, May 09, 2024 | By rdegrande

  Yifeng Li is a Canadian Research Chair and Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Biological Sciences.

  His work on drug design through the power of Artificial Intelligence has valuable, lasting contributions to disease treatment.

  The full article is featured at the following link.

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• GAME Students Won Top Awards at 2024 Ontario Level Up Showcase

  Wednesday, April 24, 2024 | By rdegrande

  Teams composed of Brock GAME and IASC students participated in a province-wide competition, Level Up Showcase, and secured many top awards.

  Level Up Showcase is very competitive. This year, it had around 150 student teams.

  Congratulations to GAME and IASC students for their achievement!

  The whole story is featured in Brock News (article).

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• COSC co-op student featured the Maclean’s Ultimate Guide to Canadian Universities

  Tuesday, March 26, 2024 | By rdegrande

  With great pride, we have Basil Syed, one of our COSC co-op students, featured in the 2024 edition of “The Ultimate Guide to Canadian Universities” by Maclean’s.
  

  Basil Syed is in the third year of the COSC co-op program. Congratulations!
  

  The Department of Computer Science appreciates and is proud of the efforts of its students, faculty, and staff, bringing its COSC program to be recognized as one of the “Standout Computer Science Programs.”

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