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Researchers at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) recorded an interaction between light and matter 10 times larger than previously seen. The strength of the interaction between photons and a qubit was so large that it opens the door to a realm of physics and applications unattainable until now.

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ECE's Mohamed El Badawe, PhD candidate supervised by Professor Omar Ramahi, has won a 2016 Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) Libyan Student Excellence Award.  When he was awarded his scholarship through the Libyan-North American Scholarship Program, Mohamed decided focus his research on enabling communities to better utilize their resources and develop a renewable energy source to replace Libya’s dependence on fossil fuels. Read the full story.

ECE master's student Yunzhe Li has been awarded the 2016 Teledyne DALSA, Inc. Componentware/CAD Award.  Li is supervised by Professors Karim Karim and Peter Levine.  The award was presented in Montreal yesterday at the 2016 CMC Microsystems Texpo (Innovation 360).

Congratulations!

 

ECE's Mahsa Emami-Taba, PhD student, and her supervisor, Professor Ladan Tahvildari, win IBM's 2016 Best Student Paper Award for their work "A Bayesian Game Decision-Making Model for Uncertain Adversary Types".  The paper will be presented on November 2 at CASCON 2016 - the 26th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering.

Congratulations!

Monday, October 17, 2016 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

STATE-OF-THE-ART MANY-OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS FOR OPTIMIZATION

IEEE Distinguished Lecture

STATE-OF-THE-ART MANY-OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS FOR OPTIMIZATION

Speaker:  Gary G. Yen, Regents Professor, FIEEE, FIET

Oklahoma State University, School of Elecrical and Computer Engineering, USA

Place:  University of Waterloo, EIT 3142

*Refreshments will be provided

Wednesday, October 5, 2016 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Stop and Talk with President Feridun Hamdullahpur

Come to "Stop and Talk", a chance to chat with President Feridun Hamdullahpur in the Great Hall of the Student Life Centre (SLC). There's no agenda or formal remarks, just a chance to connect and talk about how your term is going and anything else that's on your mind. 

ECE professor, Alfred Yu, has been awarded the IEEE Ultrasonics Early Career Investigator Award for his exceptional contributions to ultrasound flow imaging and key discoveries in therapeutic ultrasound biophysics.  This award recognizes the achievements of a researcher in the area of ultrasonics and its applications, and is specific to those researchers in the early stages of their career.

Congratulations Alfred!

Friday, September 16, 2016 9:30 am - 9:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Chamath Palihapitiya & Dean Pearl Sullivan: A Fireside Chat

Chamath Palihapitiya (BASc ’99, Elect) and Brigette Lau (BASc ’99, Comp), founders of Social Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, are returning to campus to talk to Engineering students about two amazing opportunities that could change students' lives. 

Fireside Chat: Chamath and Pearl Sullivan, Dean of Engineering, will have a lively 40 minute Fireside Chat where they will discuss some of the amazing opportunities for Engineering undergraduate and graduate students. 

More and more robots are definitely coming to the commercial world and a Waterloo Engineering researcher hopes to speed their arrival by developing cheaper, general-purpose control systems.

At the moment, the high cost of customized robotics applications in workplaces such as warehouses and manufacturing plants largely limits them to huge companies with plenty of money to invest.