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Professor En-Hui Yang, has been awarded the 2023 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research for his contributions to source coding theory and its commercialization in Canada.

The Canadian Society of Information Theory (CSIT) presents the Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research (CATR) biennially, recognizing distinguished contributions made by an individual in Canada to research in the field of telecommunications.

Professor Yang is an internationally renowned researcher in the area of data compression and information theory. He holds a Canada Research Chair in information theory and is a past winner of a Premier's Research Excellence Award and the prestigious 2021 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award.

Electrical and computer engineering master's student, Xiaomeng Lei, and Professor Mahesh Tripunitara have won a 'Best Paper' award at the 2023 ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT) for their work "The Hardness of Learning Access Control Policies." This paper identifies the computational hardness of several machine learning problems in an aspect of information security.

We recently received the very sad news that our former colleague, Dr. Andrei Sazonov, passed away suddenly on Tuesday, May 16, 2023.

Andrei was an electrical and computer engineering associate professor for over 12 years at Waterloo (2006 – 2018) and was well-known for his nanotechnology and thin film materials expertise. Andrei had a passion for sports – especially tennis – and loved to play in local games or tournaments when he could.

Sriram Ganapathi Subramanian, a recent grad of electrical and computer engineering's PhD program, was selected as the winner of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association's (CAIAC) Best Doctoral Dissertation Award. This award recognizes an outstanding PhD thesis completed at a Canadian university in the field of artificial intelligence. Sriram will give an acceptance talk on his thesis research at the CAIAC 2023 conference this year in Montreal.

Electrical and computer engineering master’s student, Serene Abu-Sardanah, has been awarded a prestigious 2023 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society C. J. Reddy Travel Grant to further her research and present her paper entitled “A Wearable mmWave Radar System for Continuous Cardiopulmonary Monitoring” at the annual IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering has been awarded more than $1 million in federal funds to lead a research project to develop quantum-enhanced sensors.

Dr. Na Young Kim, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, is principal investigator of the project.

Electrical and computer engineering professor, Patrick Lam has been awarded an Amazon Research Award (ARA) for his proposal "Statically inferring contracts from assertions & tests."

ARA recipients gain access to more than 300 Amazon public datasets, along with AWS AI/ML services and tools.

Dr. Ravi Mazumdar, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Waterloo, has been elected as a fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).

Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, has released the 2023 Edition of its R

Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have been recognized for the impact of their work on sensors to help save lives by preventing children from being left alone in vehicles.