ECE Professor Fakhri Karray was inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering during a ceremony that took place in Calgary on June18th in conjunction with the Academy’s 2018 Annual General Meeting and Symposium. At the induction ceremony, Academy President, Dr.
ECE Professor Hamed Majedi is named one of the "2018 Visiting Scholars of the University of Bordeaux" in France under the University of Bordeaux Initiative of Excellence (IdEx Bordeaux). Professor Majedi is working in collaboration with the Bordeaux Nanophotonics Group under the leadership of Professor Brahim Lounis on "Graphene Magnetophotonics".
Congratulations Hamed!
Safieddin (Ali) Safavi-Naeini, professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS), is receiving $4 million through the Ontario Research Fund: Research Excellence progr
Dr. Arpan Mukhopadhyay, former Waterloo ECE PhD student, has been awarded the prestigious 2018 International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) Rising Scholar Award for fundamental mathematical results on mean-field approximations. Mukhopadhyay's solid theoretic contributions extend a versatile performance analysis method to a broad range of applications.
WATERLOO — A San Francisco-based company that uses blockchain technology for processing international transactions is funding University of Waterloo researchers who are working in this evolving area of global commerce.
Waterloo is the only Canadian institution participating in Ripple's University Blockchain Research Initiative. Ripple, launched in 2012, uses blockchain to process international transactions quickly and inexpensively.
Vice-President, Academic & Provost George Dixon has announced the winners of the 2017 Outstanding Performance Award.
The University of Waterloo established an Outstanding Performance Fund to reward faculty members for outstanding contributions in teaching and scholarship. The award came into effect in May 2005 in accordance with the 2003 Faculty Salary Settlement.
The 2017 winners from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are:
ECE Professor, Sherman Shen, and his PhD students, Cheng Huang, Dongxiao Liu and Jianbing Ni, have won the IEEE ICC 2018 Best Paper Award for their article "Reliable and Privacy-preserving Selective Data Aggregation for Fog-based IoT" at the IEEE Communications Society's flagship conference -International Conference on Communications in May. Their paper was selected from 2431 submitted papers.
ECE Professor Nachiket Kapre and his collaborator, Waterloo alumnus, Jan Gray (B. Math CS/EEE), recently won the ACM TRETS 2017 Best Paper Award for their journal article “Hoplite: A Deflection-Routed Directional Torus NoC for FPGAs”. This award recognizes the best paper published in the premier FPGA journal ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems; it was selected among the best 28 papers of that year. Kapre and Gray presented the paper at the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines in May.
Researchers in Canada have found a way to generate microwaves using inexpensive silicon which could dramatically lower the cost of production and improve sensors in devices such as driverless cars.
“Until now, this was considered impossible,” said CR Selvakumar, an engineering professor at the University of Waterloo who proposed the concept several years ago.
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