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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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• Profs. Betty Ombuki-Berman and Blessing Ogbuokiri Receive Federal Research Funding

  Thursday, May 14, 2026 | By rdegrande

  Betty Ombuki-Berman and Blessing Ogbuokiri have been featured in Brock News for receiving funding through the Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) – Exploration grants.

  Prof. Ombuki-Berman is leading the project “Healing Algorithms: Decolonizing AI for Health Equity in Indigenous and Black Communities,” which explores equitable AI frameworks for healthcare systems. The interdisciplinary team includes Prof. Ogbuokiri, Prof. Lyn Trudeau, and Prof. Valerie Michaelson, and will work closely with Indigenous and Black community advisory boards.

  This recognition highlights the Department of Computer Science’s continued success in advancing impactful interdisciplinary research in AI and health technologies.

  The full Brock News article is available here.

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• Prof. Naser Ezzati-Jivan Secures Federal Funding to Advance EDI Research

  Tuesday, May 12, 2026 | By rdegrande

  Naser Ezzati-Jivan has been featured in Brock News for securing federal funding through the Government of Canada’s Dimensions Program to support research on integrating equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) into the research process.

  The project, led by Prof. Ezzati-Jivan and collaborators, aims to develop an open-access bilingual framework and digital decision-support tool to help researchers integrate EDI considerations into research planning, particularly in AI-assisted research workflows.

  This recognition further highlights the continued success of the Department of Computer Science in advancing impactful research and securing funding in strategic and emerging areas.

  The full Brock News article is available here.

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• COSC Honours Student (Jay Shah) receives President’s Surgite Award

  Friday, April 10, 2026 | By rdegrande

  We are delighted to share that Jay Shah, a third-year COSC honours student, received the prestigious President’s Surgite Award.
  More details can be found in the article featured on Brock News.

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• Open Faculty Position – Artificial Intelligence

  Thursday, August 14, 2025 | By rdegrande

  The Department of Computer Science has a tenure-track position in Artificial Intelligence. More details about the position and instructions about the application process can be found on this page.

   

   

   

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• COSC students (McDonald and Madhusudan) received the prestigious Vector Scholarship in AI

  Wednesday, July 02, 2025 | By rdegrande

  Sangmitra Madhusudan and Tyler McDonald, both COSC students, have been awarded the prestigious Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence.

  Each student secured this competitive scholarship, which is a $17,500 merit-based award that financially supports students entering AI-related master’s programs in Ontario.

  More details about this can be found in the article featured on the Brock News.

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• COSC student (Aws Al Jumaily) Governor General Gold Medal

  Wednesday, July 02, 2025 | By rdegrande

  We are pleased to share that Aws Al Jumaily, COSC BSc’23 and MSc’25, was awarded the prestigious Governor General Gold Medal.

  More details about it can be found in the article featured on the Brock News.

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• Blessing Ogbuokiri’s Work Featured in Brock News!

  Wednesday, May 07, 2025 | By rdegrande

  Professor Ogbuokiri’s work on using AI to assess heart issues has been featured at Brock News!

  Please check the full article at this link.

  

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• Mentorship, peer support boost Computer Science students’ research success

  Wednesday, March 19, 2025 | By rdegrande

  Please refer to this link for more details on the article featured in Brock News!

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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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