Computer Science Assistant Professor Yifeng Li teaches his Reinforcement Learning course using sports-related video games. This interesting application is an excellent example of Canada Games-related course, where computer agents are trained to take optimal actions. The initiative helps students to learn essential concepts, such as dynamic programming, Monte Carlo methods, temporal-difference algorithms, and neural network-based RL methods.
More details are in this link.
Amirali Madani concluded his MSc thesis in Computer Science in 2021. Together with his master’s degree in Computer Science, Amirali received the overnor General’s Gold Medal, an award presented annually at Spring Convocation to the graduate student with the highest academic average.
The award was a well-deserved recognition of Amirali’s hard-working and dedication to his graduate studies, achieving an outstanding high average of 97.
More details about Amirali and his achievement can be found at this link.
COSC students are developing a Chatbot for Canada Games.
This interesting and useful application is part of a Computer Science Software Engineering course project under the supervision of Prof. Naser Ezzati-Jivan.
More details can be found at Brock News.
The Department of Computer Science has one open tenure-track position. More details about the position and instructions about the application process can be found on this page.
The Department of Computer Science is excited to report that a new Ph.D. in Intelligent Systems and Data Science has been given final approval. The program is expected to start in the near future. This doctoral program is being jointly offered with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Stay tuned to our website for developments!
Computer Science or MIS Students with at least two semesters of coursework…
You could be eligible to apply for the David L. Squires Scholarship
David L. Squires was a staff member at the Memorial University of Newfoundland who was always willing to help worthwhile students. David was also a hard-working, respected member of the Data Processing Management Association (DPMA). The Squires Foundation was created in honour of David L. Squires by his DPMA peers to help students.
The Squires Foundation was incorporated in 1994 to:
The Squires Foundation provides scholarships each year to students who:
A student must meet all the above requirements to qualify.
Go to www.iticanada.ca and select the Scholarship tab on the right side of the home page. The application is online. The deadline is October 31, 2021.
The Department of Computer Science is happy to share great news at the beginning of this Fall 2021 term!
The recent hiring processes were very successful. Three outstanding researchers will join the department as new faculty members this Fall 2021, Prof. Dividino and Prof. Emami, and the following Winter 2022, Prof. Carvalho!
Provenance, Web Science, Semantic Web Foundations, Querying & Reasoning, Web Data, Knowledge Graphs, Information Integration
Natural language processing, Machine Learning, Common Sense Reasoning, AI & Ethics, Interpretability, Fairness and Bias, Language Understanding & Generation, Causality
Computer and Network Security, Ethical Hacking and Network Defense, Computer Networks and Network Engineering, Operating Systems & System Programming
Welcome to COSC and Brock!
The Department of Computer Science is proud to share the news that Dr. Poling (Baoling) Bork is leading an app development team for the Canada Games.
More details about the news and the app can be found at this link.
COSC students have been awarded NSERC Undergraduate research grants (USRA).
Their project proposals have been selected from a pool of applications across Brock University.
You can access the full article at this link.
Prof. Glaucio Carvalho