Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Professor Yash Pant awarded $80K by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation

Congratulations to electrical and computer engineering professor, Yash Pant; he was awarded $80,000 from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation through its John R. Evans Leaders Fund for his project "Advancing Safety of Autonomous Systems for Real-world Applications."

Pant is one of numerous Waterloo Engineering researchers involved in projects awarded federal funding on Wednesday. $64 million dollars was awarded country-wide to 251 research projects at 40 universities.

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

First-year computer engineering student win $30K Amazon scholarship

Four incoming students at the University of Waterloo are backed by $30,000 scholarships through an Amazon program that was created to boost diversity in technology fields.

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Electrical and computer engineering professor, George Freeman, receives Waterloo Engineering Society Friend of Natalie Award

Electrical and computer engineering professor, George Freeman, has been recognized with the Friend of Natalie Award by the Waterloo Engineering Society for his contribu

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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