News

ECE Professor, Kerstin Dautenhahn, has been elevated to Fellow of the IEEE for her contributions to social robotics and human-robot interaction.

IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation.

Before the dot-com bubble burst, Marc Morin got in, made his millions and got out. Getting back to the top has been an adventure that has taught him a lot about business and success.

The workforce at Marc Morin's startup grew by more than 200 per cent this year and the hiring continues.

The co-founder and chief executive at Auvik Networks has been here before. He is a serial entrepreneur who founded or has co-founded four startups and pursued opportunities on the way to multimillion dollar exits.

ECE Professor, Sherman Shen, and his PhD students, Huaqing Wu, Wenchao Xu and Jiayin Chen, have won the IEEE GLOBECOM 2018 Best Paper Award for their article "Matching-based Content Caching in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks" at the IEEE Communications Society's flagship conference, IEEE Global Communications in December in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Their paper was selected from 2562 submitted papers.

From CTV Kitchener's Tyler Calver: Yourika is an app that uses AI technology to help students struggling with math problems.

Watch the video.

As our climate changes and forest fires increase in number and intensity, what does our future with forest fires look like?

British Columbia experienced a state of emergency this summer when wildfires burned across the province, destroying more area than in any other season on record. The fire currently raging in California has become the deadliest wildfire in the state's modern history.

With climate scientists predicting warmer, drier weather in many regions across Canada, finding solutions to combat the devastation of forest fires has never been more pressing.

ECE's Professor Karim Karim and University of Waterloo startup KA Imaging were featured last night on CTV news.  Watch the video. 

To support new and innovative research in the area of Test and Verification, Facebook invited university faculty to respond to a call for Testing and Verification research proposals.

ECE alumnus Mohammed Ridwanul is a software engineer on Shopify's Eventscale team.  Mohammed is featured in Shopify's series called Behind The Code, where they share stories of their employees and how they’re solving meaningful problems at Shopify and beyond.

Read the full article and learn more about Mohammed and his life since graduation.

ECE's Nitin Padmanabhan, PhD student, is the recipient of a 2018 Energy Council of Canada (ECC) Energy Policy Research Fellowship.

The University of Waterloo has awarded six first-year students with HeForShe IMPACT scholarships in the fields of science, technology, engineering or mathematics. The scholarships are part of the University of Waterloo’s commitment to encourage more young minds to pursue careers in STEM, an area where those who identify as women or non-binary groups are currently underrepresented.