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ECE alumna, Pirathayini Srikantha, has been awarded the prestigious 2022 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards (OPEA) Engineering Medal in the Young Engineer category by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE).  Now an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at York University, Srikantha received both her BASc degree in systems design engineering (2009) and MASc degree in electrical and computer engineering (2013) from the University of Waterloo.

Waterloo Engineering improved its standing in three subjects in world rankings released today by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) for 2022.

The faculty was rated 33^rd globally in electrical engineering, 49^th in mechanical engineering and 75^th in chemical engineering, all improvements on the 2021 results released by the influential United Kingdom company.

Congratulations to electrical and computer engineering's Ali Noormohammadi and Abhinav Dahiya (PhD students), Alexander Mois Aroyo (postdoctoral fellow), and professors Kerstin Dautenhahn and Stephen Smith - recipients of a Best Poster Award at HAI 2021 conference for their work "the Effect of Robot Decision Making on Human Perception o

Claudio Canizares, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected to receive the prestigious Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision.

A company headed by a graduate of Waterloo Engineering will also have its moment in the spotlight when the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals meet Sunday in Super Bowl LVI.

Ross Video is providing the state-of-the-art technology to power a gigantic, 360-degree screen hovering over the playing field in the new, $5-billion SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.

Graduate students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Boyun Zhang and Puneet Gill, along with ECE Professor Mahesh Tripunitara, and industry collaborator Nelu Mihai, were awarded 'Best Student Paper' at the 2021 Second International Symposium on Emerging Information Security and Applications (EISA) for their work “Granularity and Usability in Authorization Policies” – a paper that focuses on the relative ease of administration of security policies in a modern cloud computing system when compared to the legacy UNIX filesystem.

A startup company co-founded by a Waterloo Engineering alumnus to help people manage their cryptocurrency investments has joined the ranks of unicorns.

CoinTracker, an online service based in San Francisco, recently announced a US $100-million funding round that gives it a valuation of US $1.3 billion.

Company co-founder and chief executive officer Jon Lerner, who was born in Russia and grew up in Ottawa, graduated from Waterloo in 2010 with a degree in computer engineering.

Professor Kankar Bhattacharya has been selected as the new Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo.