Two first-year electrical and computer engineering students begin their studies backed by $100,000 Loran scholarships
Originally published in Waterloo News.
Two new students with impressive leadership potential began their academic careers at the University of Waterloo this fall backed by prestigious national scholarships worth up to $100,000 over four years.
Congratulations to electrical and computer engineering professor Ladan Tahvildari, who was recently elected Chair for a second two-year term of the IEEE Computer Society TCSE. She is the first woman, and only the second member from Canada, to chair the organization after holding numerous positions within the IEEE.
Congratulations to Professor William Wong, who was recently elected to the Board of Directors for the Materials Research Society (MRS).
A video technology company that was born at Waterloo Engineering has reason to celebrate after its acquisition this week by an entertainment industry giant.
SSIMWAVE Inc., an award-winning, Waterloo-based company, has joined forces with IMAX to lead the charge in video image quality in a deal worth $18.5 million in cash and $2.5 million in stock, plus additional earnout potential of $4 million.
Congratulations to electrical and computer engineering professor, Yash Pant; he was awarded $80,000 from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation through its John R. Evans Leaders Fund for his project "Advancing Safety of Autonomous Systems for Real-world Applications."
Pant is one of numerous Waterloo Engineering researchers involved in projects awarded federal funding on Wednesday. $64 million dollars was awarded country-wide to 251 research projects at 40 universities.
Four incoming students at the University of Waterloo are backed by $30,000 scholarships through an Amazon program that was created to boost diversity in technology fields.
First-year computer engineering student Hewan Amare, is among 10 first-year students across the country announced last week as a winner of an Amazon Future Engineer Canada scholarship.
Electrical and computer engineering professor, George Freeman, has been recognized with the Friend of Natalie Award by the Waterloo Engineering Society for his contributions to improving the mental health of his students.
Brigette Lau (BASc ’99, computer engineering) is the co-founder of a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, a poker player and mother to three children. She’s also a self-described introvert with deep expertise investing in early-stage technology.
As a teenager in the mid-1990s, Lau was thrilled to get a job at a big-box store and doubted that she ever needed to go to university. Her parents, however, had other ideas: “I grew up as an immigrant in Canada” Lau says.
ECE PhD student, Davina (Liuyang) Ren, supervised by Professor Paul Ward, has won a Best Student Paper Award at the 16th edition of the ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS) for her work entitled “Toward Reducing Cross-shard Transaction Overhead in Sharded Blockchains.”
Congratulations to electrical and computer engineering PhD student, Sheida Gohardehi, winner of the TEXPO 2022 Award for Micros