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KITCHENER -- Driving in the winter is more challenging than on sunny summer days, even for self-driving cars.

Researchers at University of Waterloo are conducting studies to help train future self-driving cars to handle wintry conditions.

They say it's the first publically-available set of data in the world for self-driving cars in winter.

Kankar Bhattacharya, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and Professor in ECE, has been selected to receive the prestigious Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision.  He will be honored at convocation in June.

Under the supervision of ECE Professor Nachiket Kapre, undergraduate student Long Chung Chan, and alumnus, Gurshaant Malik have won a Best Paper Award for their work “Partitioning FPGA-Optimized Systolic Arrays for Fun and Profit” at FPT 2019 in Tianjin, China in December 2019.

Kazem Izadinasab has been awarded the Jim and Diane Ohi Memorial Award for his leadership contributions to the department as well as his high academic achievement.

University of Waterloo researchers are in the latest episode of 'The Age of A.I."

While he's not becoming an engineer, Robert Downey Jr. is spearheading a new organization called the Footprint Coalition which aims to use technology to benefit the environment. 

Downey Jr. is also the voice of the YouTube series 'The Age of A.I', and the latest episode has a local connection.

On January 15, Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs hosted its second annual GRADflix Showcase, a red-carpet event featuring the 23 best one-minute videos made by graduate students to describe their research. GRADflix is a research communication opportunity for graduate students. Participants create a video, moving slide show, or animation of no longer than 60 seconds (one minute) in length that describes their research. 

ECE PhD student, Navjot Khaira, has received the J.Alan George Student Leadership Award.

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering mourns the untimely deaths of all those aboard the Ukraine International Airlines flight that crashed near Tehran this week.  Our thoughts go out to the families, friends and colleagues – both in Waterloo and at our peer institutions – affected by this unfathomable tragedy. 

Numerous victims in the crash had strong ties to our department’s faculty, staff and students; among the victims, husband and wife, Pedram Mousavi and Mojgan Daneshmand, and their two daughters Daria (14 years) and Dorina (9 years).

ECE alumna, Lin Cai, has been named an IEEE Fellow, being recognized for her contributions to topology control of wireless networks.  Cai received her MASc and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2002 and 2005, respectively. Since 2005, she has been with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Victoria, where she is currently a Professor.

Leo Liu, an undergraduate student in electrical engineering, has received Honorable Mention for the Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award for 2020.

This award program recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.