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WATERLOO — The heavy steel door inside Room 1018 of the Engineering 5 building at the University of Waterloo looks more like a bank vault than the entrance to a laboratory.

When you step inside, however, the outside world just melts away. The background noise of automobile traffic, air conditioners, birds and even the wind in the trees is silenced. This is the anechoic chamber at UW, a $15 million research lab and the quietest spot in Waterloo Region.

ECE Professor Fakhri Karray was inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering during a ceremony that took place in Calgary on June18th in conjunction with the Academy’s 2018 Annual General Meeting and Symposium.  At the induction ceremony, Academy President, Dr.

Safieddin (Ali) Safavi-Naeini, professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS), is receiving $4 million through the Ontario Research Fund: Research Excellence progr

Dr. Arpan Mukhopadhyay, former Waterloo ECE PhD student, has been awarded the prestigious 2018 International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) Rising Scholar Award for fundamental mathematical results on mean-field approximations. Mukhopadhyay's solid theoretic contributions extend a versatile performance analysis method to a broad range of applications.

WATERLOO — A San Francisco-based company that uses blockchain technology for processing international transactions is funding University of Waterloo researchers who are working in this evolving area of global commerce.

Waterloo is the only Canadian institution participating in Ripple's University Blockchain Research Initiative. Ripple, launched in 2012, uses blockchain to process international transactions quickly and inexpensively.

Vice-President, Academic & Provost George Dixon has announced the winners of the 2017 Outstanding Performance Award.

The University of Waterloo established an Outstanding Performance Fund to reward faculty members for outstanding contributions in teaching and scholarship. The award came into effect in May 2005 in accordance with the 2003 Faculty Salary Settlement.

The 2017 winners from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are:

The University of Waterloo's Laboratory for Knowledge Inference in Medical Image Analysis (Kimia Lab) recently announced that its AI project for digital pathology has been awarded a grant by the Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence program (ORF-RE).

ECE Professor, Sherman Shen, and his PhD students, Cheng Huang, Dongxiao Liu and Jianbing Ni, have won the IEEE ICC 2018 Best Paper Award for their article "Reliable and Privacy-preserving Selective Data Aggregation for Fog-based IoT" at the IEEE Communications Society's flagship conference -International Conference on Communications in May. Their paper was selected from 2431 submitted papers.

ECE Professor Nachiket Kapre and his collaborator, Waterloo alumnus, Jan Gray (B. Math CS/EEE), recently won the ACM TRETS 2017 Best Paper Award for their journal article “Hoplite: A Deflection-Routed Directional Torus NoC for FPGAs”. This award recognizes the best paper published in the premier FPGA journal ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems; it was selected among the best 28 papers of that year.  Kapre and Gray presented the paper at the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines in May.