Electrical and computer engineers shape the future through innovation. They develop and improve systems that serve everyday needs of society spanning from high-voltage engineering and sustainable energy, to breakthroughs in wireless technology. Our faculty and students do everything from creating low-cost digital x-ray imagers to combat tuberculosis in developing countries, to building real-time embedded systems to advance the design and reliability of commercial products. ECE - the future is what we do.
Research
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is a dynamic and innovative hub of cutting-edge advancements in technology and engineering. Faculty members lead pioneering research in areas such as robotics, artificial intelligence, communications, embedded systems, and renewable energy, addressing real-world challenges and driving technological breakthroughs.
Resources
Events
Latch-Up 2026: Conference on Free and Open Source Silicon
Latch-Up 2026 invites the free and open-source silicon community to Canada. The FOSSi Foundation is hosting Latch-Up, a conference dedicated to free and open-source microelectronic chip design, taking place over the weekend of May 1–3, 2026.
Latch-Up is a weekend of presentations and networking for the open-source digital design community, bringing together students, researchers, and industry professionals interested in open hardware and semiconductor innovation.
PhD Defence Notice: Advanced Circuit and System Techniques for High-Performance Beamforming Front-end
Candidate: Mehran Hazer Sahlabadi
Date: May 1, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: EIT 3142
Supervisors: Boumaiza, Slim
PhD Comprehensive Proposal Examination Notice: Ensuring Code Quality in GenAI: A Digital Twin-Guided Framework
Candidate: Mingyang Xu
Date: May 1, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: EIT 3151-53
Supervisor: Tahvildari, Ladan
News
Electrical and computer engineering alumnus, Dr. Ahmed Sayed, receives prestigious Best Thesis Award from Drones
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is proud to celebrate the outstanding achievement of Dr. Ahmed Sayed, a former PhD student in our department, who has been awarded the Best PhD Thesis Award from Drones. Drones is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by MDPI—a pioneer in scholarly, open-access publishing, supporting academic communities since 1996.
Electrical and computer engineering graduate students earn international recognition for radar research
Congratulations to Zhenan Liu, a MASc student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, whose ground-breaking research has earned international recognition. Liu’s paper, “Real-Time 4D Radar Perception for Robust Human Detection in Harsh Enclosed Environments,” has received Honorable Mention in the prestigious 2025 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Student Paper Competition.
Incoming ECE PhD student Zahra Dehghani Tafti receives Maks Wulkan Graduate Scholarship
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is pleased to announce that Zahra Dehghani Tafti, an incoming PhD student, has been selected as the sole Faculty of Engineering recipient of the Maks Wulkan Graduate Scholarship for Fall 2025.