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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

Electrical and computer engineering professor, Claudio Canizares is the recipient of the 2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Prize Paper Award for a paper he co-authored entitled "Definition and Classification of Power System Stability Revisited & Extended."

Waterloo recognizes six PhD students for earning the highest academic status within their faculty and their innovative research

By Angelica Marie Sanchez. This article was originally published on Waterloo News.

For graduating PhD students, completing their dissertation defence is a significant milestone and convocation is an exciting time to celebrate their accomplishments with friends and family.

The Office of the Vice-President, Academic & Provost has announced the winners of the 2021 Outstanding Performance Awards.

The 2021 Outstanding Performance Award winners in electrical and computer engineering are: