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.
“Canada is world-renowned for our state-of-the-art institutions and talented researchers,” François-Philippe Champagne, the minister of innovation, science and industry, said in a media release.
Campus-wide at the University of Waterloo, 23 projects were awarded more than $3.8 million for infrastructure to help attract talented researchers and spur significant advances.