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Recent MASc graduate Talal Alharbi and his supervisor Professor Kankar Bhattacharya received a Best Conference Paper Award for their paper, “Optimal Energy Management and Smart Charging of PEVs in Isolated Microgrids”, at the 2015 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC) held in October 2015 at London, Ontario, Canada.

ECE professor Werner Dietl delivered three talks at the recent JavaOne conference in conjunction with professor Michael Ernst from the University of Washington.

ECE professor Sherman Shen has been selected as the recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Joseph LoCicero Award for Exemplary Service to Publications. The citation will read: “For outstanding service as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Network and as a Founding Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.”

ECE professor Ravi Mazumdar and his PhD student Arpan Mukhopadhyay are co-authors of a paper that received the best paper award at Performance 2015 just concluded in Sydney, Australia. Performance along with Sigmetrics is the top conference for the performance modeling and evaluation community. Another co-author (A. Karthik) was recent post-doc in our department. The paper is titled "Mean Field and Propagation of Chaos in Multi-Class Heterogeneous Loss Models for Cloud Applications" by Arpan Mukhopadhyay, A. Karthik, Ravi R. Mazumdar, Fabrice Guillemin.

A research paper published in the Journal of Renewable Energy by PhD student Omar Hafez and Professor Kankar Bhattacharya was selected for one of the 2015 Renewable Energy Top Paper awards by Elsevier Publications.  The award is based on the number of Web of Science citations received until 2014.

No cheering allowed: Blue Jays official scorer hails from Waterloo

TORONTO — Josh Donaldson has just launched his 40th home run of the year into the upper deck of the Rogers Centre and 48,000 delirious Blue Jays fans are losing their minds. Everyone, that is, except Stephen Utter.

Zhou Wang wins Emmy for developing technology that assesses video and image quality - affecting millions of viewers everyday

ECE professor Christopher Wilson is part of a research group that has just published a paper in Nature Physics titled "Probing the quantum vacuum with an artificial atom in front of a mirror".  Please see the news item at the Institute for Quantum Computing for more details.  Professor Wilson was also featured in an article

The University of Waterloo will award 24 outstanding female students a total of $288,000 over the next four years as part of a new scholarship supporting ongoing efforts to achieve comprehensive, long-term and sustainable gender equality.

This year’s recipients of the University of Waterloo HeForShe IMPACT Scholarships included Computer Engineering's Jenny Ma.  Click here for the full story.

ECE professor Ravi Mazumdar and his PhD student Arpan Mukhopadhyay are co-authors of a paper that received the best paper award at the 27th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) held in Ghent, Belgium from September 8-10. The other co-author is Dr. F. Guillemin of Orange Labs, France. The paper is titled "The Power of Randomized Routing in Heterogeneous Loss System".