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After a record-breaking number of registrations for the 2025 GRADflix competition, Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs announced the finalists whose videos will be featured at the upcoming GRADflix Showcase. The competition, which invites graduate students from across campus to create 60-second videos showcasing their research, highlights students’ ability to combine creativity and scientific communication while gaining visibility for their work and expanding their professional networks.

Dr. Kami Vaniea, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo and a leading researcher in privacy and human-computer interaction, has just returned from the prestigious Dagstuhl Seminar on “Grand Challenges for Research on Privacy Documents.” Held in Germany, the seminar brought together some of the world’s foremost experts to tackle urgent privacy challenges and their growing impact on technology. As a member of Waterloo’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, Dr. Vaniea’s participation highlights the institution’s ongoing commitment to addressing critical privacy issues in the digital age.

The Broadband Communication Research Group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo has achieved remarkable success at the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2024, held in Cape Town, South Africa, from December 8-12, 2024. The group’s innovative research and exceptional talent were recognized with two major awards at one of the IEEE Communications Society’s flagship conferences, which is renowned for fostering advancements in communication technologies.

Congratulations to the authors of a collaborative research paper, including electrical and computer engineering adjunct associate professor Dr. George Shaker, for receiving a Best Paper Award (second place) in the General Paper Category at the prestigious 2024 IEEE Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation Conference (MAPCON).

The paper, titled “Radar-Based In-Home Monitoring System for Supporting Aging and Wellness,” presents innovative advancements in the use of radar technology to enable in-home health monitoring, addressing critical challenges faced by aging populations.

On November 28th, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Waterloo unveiled the future of software engineering with its second Project Showcase for the graduate course Engineering Self-Adaptive Software Systems (ESASS). Led by Dr. Ladan Tahvildari, this innovative course, with support from IBM, integrates cutting-edge industry technologies with research-driven, hands-on learning to tackle real-world challenges in software adaptability.

Congratulations to Ryan Liu, a PhD student in electrical and computer engineering (ECE); Shreya Shinde, ECE alum from the MEng program; Dr. Ladan Tahvildari, Professor in ECE; and IBM collaborators Dr. Mark Stoodley, Dr. Marius Pirvu, and Vijay Sundaresan on their remarkable achievement!

Their paper, "Using Semeru Cloud Compiler to Enhance Cloud-Native Java Application Performance," was honored with the Best Paper Award at the 34th International Conference on Collaborative Advances in Software and Computing (CASCON).

Congratulations to PhD student Elaheh (Ellie) Sanoubari. Sanoubari won a Best Presentation Award at the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2024) in Odense, Denmark in October for her work "What Makes an Educational Robot Game Fun? Framework Analysis of Children's Design Ideas.”

Imagine shrinking satellite technology that predicts the weather into a device that transmits vital information about the health of the person wearing it.

University of Waterloo engineers have achieved that technological feat that will help diabetics to monitor their glucose levels and other people faced with other chronic health problems.

Electrical and computer engineering (ECE) alumni, Samira Ghanbarian and Arpan Mukhopadhyay, along with ECE professor, Dr. Ravi Mazumdar, and Dr. Fabrice Guillemin, project leader at Orange Labs, won a Best Paper Award at ACM MOBIHOC 2024 last week.

Electrical and computer engineering graduate student, Roshan Nepal, received the EuMC Student Grant from the European Microwave Association for his paper entitled "Joint RF Energy Harvesting and Nanoelectronics for Self-Powered Water Leak Detection."