ECE professor Mohamed Kamel has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Please read the full article.
CPAMI Member Professor Tizhoosh talks about the challenges and opportunities of big data in medical imaging fields, using machine learning and distributed computing ecosystem Hadoop.
ECE professor Mohamed Kamel has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the IEEE Canada A.G.L. McNaughton Gold Medal.
Professor Mohamed Kamel has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the IEEE Canada A.G.L. McNaughton Gold Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems. Established in 1969, the McNaughton Gold Medal is IEEE Canada's highest honour and is awarded to outstanding Canadian engineers recognized for their exemplary contributions to the engineering profession.
ECE professor Otman Basir is a nominee in the Globe and Mail newspaper's Innovators At Work competition. They have a video profile showcasing his nomination.
Mehrdad Gangeh, a Pattern Analysis and Machine Intellingence PhD candidate, was awarded the "Savvas Chamberlain Graduate Scholarship", from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, in November 2012. Congratulations to Mehrdad on this achievement!
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Professor Fakhri Karray, the inaugural co-director from the newly established Center of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (CPAMI), has been appointed recently by the University as a University Research Chair Professor. A statement by the University of Waterloo Provost reads: "The University Research Chair was established to recognize exceptional achievement and preminence in a particular field of knowledge. Your appointment is a clear recognition of your scholarly contributions and I wish to give my congratulations".