News archive - July 2022

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Alum investor backs tech that taps human potential

Brigette Lau (BASc ’99, computer engineering) is the co-founder of a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, a poker player and mother to three children. She’s also a self-described introvert with deep expertise investing in early-stage technology.

As a teenager in the mid-1990s, Lau was thrilled to get a job at a big-box store and doubted that she ever needed to go to university. Her parents, however, had other ideas: “I grew up as an immigrant in Canada” Lau says.

Monday, July 11, 2022

Electrical and computer engineering (ECE) PhD student, Davina (Liuyang) Ren, wins Best Student Paper Award at the 16th edition of the ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems

ECE PhD student, Davina (Liuyang) Ren, supervised by Professor Paul Ward, has won a Best Student Paper Award at the 16th edition of the ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS) for her work entitled “Toward Reducing Cross-shard Transaction Overhead in Sharded Blockchains.”

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