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Industry Relations

The School of Computing Science values forming partnerships with industry and business that benefit everyone.

Our industry and business partners have access to some of the world’s leading computing science researchers through joint research partnerships and networking events. Our partners also help prepare our students for employment through co-op and professional development opportunities and in some cases, work with Researchers to develop internship opportunities.

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Benefit from our undergraduate and graduate students’ skills and education and make a meaningful impact on their professional development. Opportunities include developing co-op work opportunities, hosting employer information sessions to promote careers within your organization, and building mentorship partnerships with the School.

Co-op work opportunities

Co-operative education at SFU (co-op) is a partnership between you, the School of Computing Science and the students you hire. It’s an opportunity for you to hire an engaged and talented student and to help develop their workplace and professional skills.

Through co-op, undergraduate and graduate students undertake work-term(s) with an employer. Each co-op work term counts as academic credit and makes up part of a student’s completed degree.  Co-op placements are paid, supervised work terms and must relate to a student’s academic program. It must include 420 hours of work over a four- to eight-month period.  All placements must adhere to BC employment standards requirements.

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Research Partnerships

Undertaking a joint research project with our faculty can help you address a specific application in your field and advance knowledge in computing science. Here are a few of our partnerships:

MDA Corporation

Researchers in the School of Computing Science, including Dr. Uwe Glaesser, partnered with MDA on research projects to develop advanced situation analysis decision support systems and novel video analysis techniques.

Google

  • Dr. Robert Cameron, a professor in the School of Computing Science, has been awarded a Google Faculty Research Award. The award is in support of Dr. Cameron's Research Proposal entitled "Unicode Level 2 Support in Parabix Regular Expression Matching". 
  • School of Computing Science associate professor Dr. Alexandra Fedorova won a Google Research Award that enabled her to work with students to address the issues of power consumption and efficiency in data centres. 
  • Associate professor Dr. Greg Mori and PhD student Weilong Yang won a Google Research Award to work with Google researchers to refine video searches. The award recognizes the growing need to retrieve and organize video information more effectively. 

The Boeing Co.

Researchers from Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia, including Dr. Fred Popowich and Dr. Anoop Sarkar collaborated with industry partners to launch the Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics with a $1.25-million investment from the Boeing Co. The new institute will help Vancouver become a major centre for innovation in visual analytics.

Start-up Companies

The School of Computing Science collaborates with numerous small start-up companies to provide them with novel research that can provide a competitive advantage in their market.

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A research partnership with SFU’s School of Computing Science can benefit your company in many ways. Find out more.

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