Sevag Gharibian, a PhD graduate from the David R. Cheriton School and current postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkley, has been awarded a prestigious NSERC Banting Postdoctoral fellowship based on his work while at the University of Waterloo.
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Tian Qi (Dinah) Shi of Mississauga was awarded one of three BlackBerry scholarships and will be joining the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science pursing a degree in software engineering programs this term. Shi joins Anastasia Santasheva of Maple, ON, a new Waterloo Engineering systems design engineering student, and Xiao Yan (Cheyenne) Guo of Toronto who joins the Faculty of Mathematics.
Jim Mitchell, Vice President, Photonics, Interconnects and Packaging at Oracle Labs, is a Waterloo alumnus who graduated not only with a degree in Mathematics/Physics Option, but with some extraordinary firsthand experience. As an undergraduate, he was one of the four developers of the first WATFOR FORTRAN compiler.
Waterloo ranked at 43 in the world for Engineering and amongst the top 200 universities overall globally.
Math and computer science teachers from across the globe gather at the University of Waterloo for professional development
Mashael AlSabah, Kevin Bauer, and Tariq Elahi along with supervisor Ian Goldberg were awarded the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award at the 13th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2013) last week for their paper The Path Less Travelled: Overcoming Tor's Bottlenecks with Traffic Splitting (PDF).