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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.

ECE Professor, Alfred Yu, has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM). AIUM fellow membership is a way to recognize individuals who have contributed in a most distinguished fashion to the field of ultrasound.

A medical technology startup co-founded by two Waterloo Engineering students topped more than 100,000 applicants to take first place and the $500,000 USD prize in an international competition staged in Saudi Arabia.

NERv Technology, which is based at the Velocity Garage in downtown Kitchener, won the Entrepreneurship World Cup (EWC) following a startup boot camp and several rounds of competition in Riyadh.

ECE Professor, Fakhri Karray, has been named an IEEE Fellow.  He is being recognized for "Contributions to Intelligent Systems."

WATERLOO — The student sits in front of a bank of computer screens that replicate the experience of driving down a busy Waterloo street.

He sits in a bucket-style car seat, with one hand on the steering wheel. When he reaches for his Tim Hortons coffee cup, a robotic voice barks out, "Careful!" and keeps nagging until he puts the cup down.

Read the full article featured in The Record.com.

A small, inexpensive sensor could save lives by triggering an alarm when children or pets are left alone in vehicles.

The new device, developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo, combines radar technology with artificial intelligence (AI) to detect unattended children or animals with 100-per-cent accuracy.

Small enough to fit in the palm of a hand at just three centimetres in diameter, the device is designed to be attached to a vehicle’s rear-view mirror or mounted on the ceiling.

Electrical and computer engineering professors, Werner Dietl and Lan Wei, are recipients of Early Researcher Awards (ERA).  The Early Researcher Awards program recognizes promising new researchers with $140,000 each to build a research team.

The Ontario government awarded funds to their projects:

ECE graduate students took top honours at CMC Microsystems’ 2019 TEXPO Graduate Student Competition and Exposition.