The University of Waterloo offers a wide range of AI-related academic programs for both undergraduate and graduate students.
For program details, please refer to the undergraduate or graduate sections.
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News
Donor powers graduate research in embodied AI research
The Tang Family Foundation donated $500,000 to Waterloo.AI to support graduate research in embodied AI, AI systems that perceive and act in the physical world through sensors and actuators (like robots), as opposed to purely text-based AI.
The inaugural cohort of eight graduate students from the faculties of Engineering and Math each received $15,000 scholarships to support their research. Their work spans robotics, exoskeletons, control systems, and the ethical questions around AI operating near people.
Waterloo.AI Director Dr. Stephen Smith explained the value of directing philanthropic funding toward students specifically: it gives them more time to focus on foundational research, which is where real long-term impact lies.
Roger Tang, founder of the Tang Family Foundation, sees embodied AI as the next major step in industrial development and views philanthropy as well-suited to backing high-risk foundational research that commercial markets later scale. He has had a growing relationship with Waterloo since establishing a Chair in New Energy Materials and Sustainability in 2023.
A second round of scholarships is expected to open in the fall.
Simantic scales from Waterloo startup to global AI hardware innovator
As artificial intelligence (AI) learns to write code, it still struggles to test firmware without access to physical hardware. For University of Waterloo founders Seungmin Hong (BASc ’26) and Ahnaf Shahriar (BASc in progress), that challenge represented an opportunity.
Hidden risks in AI data centres spark new battery safety research
As artificial intelligence (AI) drives a global surge in data centres in Canada and around the world, a less visible but increasingly urgent challenge is growing alongside it. Researchers are beginning to investigate ways to manage the risks posed by the lithium-ion batteries that keep those facilities running.