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Alum company is taking off with pilotless plane ambitions
An autonomous aircraft company co-founded by an alumnus of Waterloo Engineering has grown from modest beginnings to the point where it has contracts and repeat sales with multiple agencies of the Canadian government.
Waterloo-based Ribbit, whose chief operating officer is alum Dr. Jeremy Wang (PhD ’23, mechanical and mechatronics engineering), is on a mission to bring efficient, reliable transportation to the world’s most remote locations.
Trust will lead the next chapter of AI, Dean Wells argues
Dr. Mary Wells, the dean of Waterloo Engineering, argued in a recent opinion piece published by The Hill Times that Canada should make its mark in the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution by producing leaders who understand the importance of responsibly embedding trust in the technology.
“For the past decade, Canada has rightly celebrated its role in inventing modern artificial intelligence (AI),” she wrote. “Canadian researchers helped lay the scientific foundations for today’s AI revolution, and those investments continue to pay dividends.
Student startup Simantic joins Y Combinator
Simantic, a hardware simulation startup founded by two Waterloo Engineering students, has raised roughly $600,000 USD and won spots in both the Velocity incubator and Y Combinator's Fall 2026 cohort.
Seungmin Hong (BASc '26) launched Simantic in 2025 with Ahnaf Shahriar (BASc in progress) joining as a co-founder in 2026. The company builds simulation technology that lets engineers and AI systems build, test and validate firmware in virtual environments before physical hardware exists.