Two electrical and computer engineering researchers are among 11 campus-wide to receive Early Researcher Awards worth over $2 million.
Joint effort with Friends of the Earth Canada to support the Great Canadian Bumble Bee Count
Dinah Shi, John Salaveria and Luisa San Martin won first prize at the 2018 Software Engineering Capstone Design Symposium for their bumble bee tracking app.
Sebastian Fischmeister, the executive director of the University of Waterloo’s Centre for Automotive Research and an associate professor of computer engineering, says while automated vehicles have been taught how to handle roads, highways, and traffic signals, they are still lacking dependability when it comes to an element of the road that’s much more unpredictable: humans.
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Richardus (Dick) van Heeswijk, ECE Professor Emeritus, has passed at the age of 92. Professor van Heeswijk joined the department in 1961 specializing in the area of high voltage. He will be remembered for the enthusiasm and passion he brought to the classroom.
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Karly Smith, 3A biomedical engineering studen at UW and student of ECE adjunct professor George Shaker, has qualified to the Top 75 in Canada for NSERC's Science, Action! competition.
The video explores the possibilities of mm-wave radars, which can be directly applied for use in healthcare, smart homes, and autonomous vehicles.
Good luck, Karly and Prof. Shaker!
ECE's Denny Lee (adjunct professor), Ahmet Camlica (PhD student), Karim S. Karim (professor), and Vieworks' Hyunsuk Jang (R&D Engineer), received an Honorable Mention Poster Award at the 2018 SPIE Medical Imaging meeting for their poster titled "A novel radiation detector with proportional charge gain."
While humans may be able to drive in all kinds of weather, and at night, the sensors that will enable a central-processing unit to do the same – safely – do not yet exist. Krzysztof Czarnecki, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Waterloo, envisions the timeline being eight to 10 years before all-weather autonomous driving is a viable option.
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ECE Professors Guang Gong and Zhou Wang have both been designated with the title of ‘University Research Chair.’ The University owes much of its reputation and stature to the quality of its professors and their scholarly accomplishments. Designation of this title recognizes a professor’s exceptional achievement and pre-eminence in a particular field of knowledge. A University Research Chair may be held for up to seven years, with the possibility of a re-nomination.
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ECE students and , ECE professors Vijay Ganesh, Krzysztof Czarnecki and Computer Science's Professor Pascal Poupart's paper entitled "An Empirical Study of Branching Heuristics through the Lens of Global Learning Rate