# Distinguished Lecture Series
**Source**: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/distinguished-lecture-series
**Parent**: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca
This annual series showcases outstanding researchers, scholars and thinkers in the field of computer science and related disciplines, and gives them a forum to present their views and ideas to students, faculty, and the interested public.
## 2025–2026 Distinguished Lecture Series
**Erol Gelenbe****, Professor**\
*Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics\
Polish Academy* *of Sciences*
[*The Random Neural Network and its Applications to Image Processing, Network Routing, and Cyberattack Detection*](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/dls-erol-gelenbe)
**Tuesday, November 11, 2025\
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 1302 | Online distinguished lecture**
## Quick Links
[Lecture videos on YouTube](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/distinguished-lecture-series-videos)
**2025-2026 DLS** (you are here)
- Erol Gelenbe
[2024-2025 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/2024-2025-distinguished-lecture-series)
- Adam Smith
- John Stasko
- Vinton G. Cerf
- Nitin Saxena
- I.F. Akyildiz
- Ion Stoica
- Virginia Vassilevska Williams
- Peter Bartlett
[2022-2023 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/3196)
- Pascal Van Hentenryck
- Sheila McIlraith
- Tim Roughgarden
- Tanya Berger-Wolf
- Sharad Goel
- Earl T. Barr
[2021-2022 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/3176)
- Raquel Urtasun
- Karl J. Friston
- Milind Tambe
- Kai Li
- Tony Chan
[2020-2021 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/3156)
- Moshe Y. Vardi
- Oren Etzioni
- Mary Czerwinski
- Laurie Williams
- Leonard Kleinrock
[2018-2019 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/3121)
- Donald Knuth
- Vitalik Buterin
- Margo Seltzer
- Barbara Liskov
- Shafi Goldwasser
[2017-2018 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2950)
- Silvio Micali
- James Demmel
- Jeff Ullman
- Jennifer Widom
- Joe Mitchell
[2016-2017 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/3080)
- Gail Murphy
- Ophir Frieder
- Eric Horvitz
- Daniel Alan Spielman
[2015-2016 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/distinguished-lecture-series-2015-2016)
- Margaret Martonosi
- Mike Stonebraker
- Tony Chan
- Robert Tarjan
- Susan Dumais
- Kevin Leyton-Brown
[2014-2015 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/distinguished-lecture-series-2014-2015)
- Michael Zyda
- Deborah Estrin
- Harry Shum
- Leslie Pack Kaelbling
- Laurie Hendren
[2013-2014 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/distinguished-lecture-series-2013-2014)
- Frans Kaashoek
- David Sankoff
- Mary Lou Soffa
- Pat Hanrahan
- Maria Klawe
[2012-2013 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/distinguished-lecture-series-2012-2013)
- Zvi Galil
- Hector Levesque
- Jennifer Chayes
- Renée Miller
- Maneesh Agrawala
- David Eppstein
[2011-2012 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/distinguished-lecture-series-2011-2012)
- Bruno Buchberger
- Saul Greenberg
- Ed Lazowska
- Jeannette Wing
- Cynthia Dwork
[2010-2011 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/distinguished-lecture-series-2010-2011)
- Stuart Feldman
- Madhu Sudan
- Susan Landau
- Gilles Brassard
- Joe Marks
- Jon Kleinberg
[2009-2010 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/distinguished-lecture-series-2009-2010)
- Andy Yao
- Paul Van Oorschot
- Shafi Goldwasser
- Adi Shamir
- Fran Allen
[2008-2009 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/distinguished-lecture-series-2008-2009)
- Alan Kay
- Eric Brewer
- Anne Condon
- Nancy Leveson
- Tom Furness
[2007-2008 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/distinguished-lecture-series-2007-2008)
- David Patterson
- Manuela Veloso
- David D. Clark
- Christos Papadimitriou
[2006-2007 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/distinguished-lecture-series-2006-2007)
- Kurt Mehlhorn
- Ben Shneiderman
- Barbara Liskov
- Vint Cerf
[2005-2006 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/distinguished-lecture-series-2005-2006)
- Umesh Vazirani
- Stephen Cook
- Andrew Tanenbaum
- Andries van Dam
[2004-2005 DLS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/distinguished-lecture-series-2004-2005)
- Alfred Aho
- Brian Kernighan
- Jim Gray
- Barbara Grosz
- Jim Mitchell