Claudio Canizares, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected to receive the prestigious Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision.
A company headed by a graduate of Waterloo Engineering will also have its moment in the spotlight when the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals meet Sunday in Super Bowl LVI.
Ross Video is providing the state-of-the-art technology to power a gigantic, 360-degree screen hovering over the playing field in the new, $5-billion SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
Graduate students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Boyun Zhang and Puneet Gill, along with ECE Professor Mahesh Tripunitara, and industry collaborator Nelu Mihai, were awarded 'Best Student Paper' at the 2021 Second International Symposium on Emerging Information Security and Applications (EISA) for their work “Granularity and Usability in Authorization Policies” – a paper that focuses on the relative ease of administration of security policies in a modern cloud computing system when compared to the legacy UNIX filesystem.
A startup company co-founded by a Waterloo Engineering alumnus to help people manage their cryptocurrency investments has joined the ranks of unicorns.
CoinTracker, an online service based in San Francisco, recently announced a US $100-million funding round that gives it a valuation of US $1.3 billion.
Company co-founder and chief executive officer Jon Lerner, who was born in Russia and grew up in Ottawa, graduated from Waterloo in 2010 with a degree in computer engineering.
Professor Kankar Bhattacharya has been selected as the new Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
Bhattacharya, who will take over from interim Chair Manoj Sachdev, is scheduled to begin a four-year term May 1.
Sherman Shen, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recently elected to serve as President of IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), the world's leading organization for communications professionals with headquarters
Waterloo's IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) Student Branch Chapter was recently awarded the Outstanding Student Chapter Award for 2021 by the local IEEE KW Section. Formed only in 2020, it is the first IEEE EPS Student Branch Chapter in Waterloo region. In less than two years it is recognized for its active organization of events and seminars to promote the EPS charter.
A Waterloo electrical and computer engineering professor has been honoured with the Award of Merit for 2021 by the Chinese Canadian Professionals (Ontario) Education Foundation.
Electrical and computer engineering professor, Claudio Canizares, has been selected to be a recipient of the Faculty of Engineering Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision.