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In 2018, Canadians could see a woman’s face on their currency other than the Queen’s – and two weeks from now, they’ll find out which one. The Bank of Canada released a shortlist of five women ahead of an announcement on Dec. 8 when the winner will be chosen. 

Elizabeth “Elsie” Muriel Gregory MacGill, first female graduate of electrical engineering at the University of Toronto (1927), has made this shortlist.  Read the full story in the Globe and Mail.

ECE Professor Lin Tan and her collaborators have won the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the 2016 International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) for their paper entitled "Detecting Sensitive Data Disclosure via Bi-directional Text Correlation Analysis"

For more details, please visit: http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/fse2016/

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Eager for a challenge when she looked into attending Waterloo Engineering as a 17-year-old, Paldus (Elect, Math ’93) did a double undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and applied math at the same time, before moving on to graduate studies at Stanford University.

Waterloo Engineering graduates Brian Howe (Mech ’84), Bill Gastmeier (Physics ’74, Elect ’76) and Brian Chapnik (SD ’88, ’90) founded HGC, a Toronto-based acoustical consulting firm, in 1994, and were later joined by fellow alumnus Rob Stevens (Mech ’92, ’03).

Their diverse skills and personalities helped them build a worldwide reputation in the measurement, assessment and mitigation of noise and vibration problems, as well as the acoustical optimization of architectural spaces and products.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Kankar Bhattacharya, has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized for his contributions to electricity markets and reactive power ancillary services.

The Waterloo Chapter of the Sandford Fleming Foundation has awarded  Hossam Amer, a PhD student in ECE, the Sandford Fleming Foundation Teaching Award for 2016!

ECE Professor Vijay Ganesh has won the prestigious ACM Test-of-Time Award at the ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2016 conference for his 2006 paper entitled "EXE: Automatically Generating Inputs of Death".

The ACM Test-of-Time Award is given to researchers whose papers have been deemed as having the most impact over a 10 year period in a sub-field of computer science.

More details can be found at the CCS 2016 conference website.

Professor Nachiket Kapre, a recent hire in the ECE department, and his team have won the Best Paper award at the IEEE/ACM CASES 2016 conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Their paper "CaffePresso: An Optimized Library for Deep Learning on Embedded Accelerator-based Platforms" shows how to  deploy machine learning routines on constrained embedded platforms.

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ECE's PhD student, Jianbing Ni, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kuan Zhang and their supervisor, Professor Sherman Shen, win the SecureComm 2016 Best Paper Award for their work "Cloud-Based Privacy-Preserving Parking Navigation through Vehicular Communications", joint with Professor Xiaodong Lin (UOIT, Canada) and Professor Yong Yu (UESTC, China). The paper was presented on October 10 at SecureComm 2016 – the 12th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks.

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