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Graduate students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Boyun Zhang and Puneet Gill, along with ECE Professor Mahesh Tripunitara, and industry collaborator Nelu Mihai, were awarded 'Best Student Paper' at the 2021 Second International Symposium on Emerging Information Security and Applications (EISA) for their work “Granularity and Usability in Authorization Policies” – a paper that focuses on the relative ease of administration of security policies in a modern cloud computing system when compared to the legacy UNIX filesystem.

A startup company co-founded by a Waterloo Engineering alumnus to help people manage their cryptocurrency investments has joined the ranks of unicorns.

CoinTracker, an online service based in San Francisco, recently announced a US $100-million funding round that gives it a valuation of US $1.3 billion.

Company co-founder and chief executive officer Jon Lerner, who was born in Russia and grew up in Ottawa, graduated from Waterloo in 2010 with a degree in computer engineering.

Professor Kankar Bhattacharya has been selected as the new Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Sherman Shen, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recently elected to serve as President of IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), the world's leading organization for communications professionals with headquarters

Waterloo's IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) Student Branch Chapter was recently awarded the Outstanding Student Chapter Award for 2021 by the local IEEE KW Section. Formed only in 2020, it is the first IEEE EPS Student Branch Chapter in Waterloo region. In less than two years it is recognized for its active organization of events and seminars to promote the EPS charter.

Electrical and computer engineering professor, Claudio Canizares, has been selected to be a recipient of the Faculty of Engineering Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision.

A new basketball-playing robot called MyJay is part of a vision for a future in which social robots are accessible to children in public schools and libraries.

By Beth Gallagher University Relations

Engineering prof Alfred Yu wins Steacie fellowship to pursue high-risk, high-reward research

By Brian Caldwell

Faculty of Engineering

For now, Alfred Yu is focused on two distinct lines of research as he works to develop the next generation of ultrasound technology – one involving diagnosis and the other involving therapy.