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We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of Dr. Robert (Bob) H. MacPhie, an internationally recognized researcher in antennas and propagation, and a cherished former member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Dr. MacPhie earned his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1963 and joined the University of Waterloo shortly thereafter as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department (now the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering). He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1966 and to Professor in 1971. After a distinguished career spanning more than three decades, he retired in 1996 and was later named a Distinguished Professor Emeritus.

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is deeply saddened by the loss of Professor Kostadinka Bizheva, fondly known as Dida, whose pioneering work in biomedical optics advanced both science and clinical practice.

Dr. Adel Sedra, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and former Dean of Engineering at the University of Waterloo, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Canada’s Semiconductor Council. The prestigious honour was presented at the Council’s Annual Awards Dinner in Ottawa last week.

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.

Members of the Broadband Communications Research (BBCR) Lab, here in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, have won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) 2024 for their work entitled "Transmission Protocol Customization for On-demand Tile-based 360° VR Video Streaming."  Congratulations are extended to the authors of this work: Yannan Wei (PhD student), Drs. Qiang Ye and Kaige Qu (former ECE PhD students), and electrical and computer engineering professors, Drs. Weihua Zhuang, and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen.

Congratulations to electrical and computer engineering PhD student, Omid Bagheri for winning a Best Student Paper Award (third place) for his work entitled “Radar Antennas Employing a Modified Dielectric GRIN Luneburg Lens” at the 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization (NEMO).

Last week electrical and computer engineering PhD student, Anshul Goyal, and his supervisor, electrical and computer engineering professor, Kankar Bhattacharya, won the Best Poster Award in the Power Engineering Track for a poster Goyal presented for their accepted paper entitled “Impact of Multi-Colored Hydrogen System Participation in Electricity Markets,” at the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2024 (CCECE).

Waterloo Engineering researchers have paired inexpensive wireless communication antennas with artificial intelligence (AI) to improve how doctors can detect bone fractures.

Led by Dr. Omar Ramahi, an electrical and computer engineering professor, the team has created a new system to detect bone fractures that is fast, accurate and safe.

Congratulations to former PhD students, Mushu Li, Nan Cheng, Jie Gao, Yinlu Wang, and Lian Zhao, and Professor Sherman Shen for winning the IEEE Best Land Transportation Paper Award for their paper: “Energy-Efficient UAV-Assisted Mobile Edge Computing: Resource Allocation and Trajectory Optimization,” IEEE Trans Veh. Techn., Vol. 69, No. 3, pp. 3424-3438, February 2020.