News archive - December 2016

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Flood warnings key goal of watershed models

James Craig

As a “guy who likes to solve puzzles,” James Craig is certainly in an appropriate field.

There is no end of tough ones to tackle as the University of Waterloo civil and environmental engineering professor pursues the development and refinement of computer models to predict what will happen in watersheds.

Monday, December 19, 2016

ECE doctoral candidate wins IBM paper award

Mahsa Emami-Taba, an electrical and computer engineering PhD student, won the CASCON 2016 Best Student Paper Award for her work entitled A Bayesian Game Decision-Making Model for Uncertain Adversary Types.

The award was presented at CASCON 2016, the 26th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering sponsored by IBM Canada Lab Centre for Advanced Studies. 

Emami-Taba is supervised by Ladan Tahvildari, a Waterloo electrical and computer engineering professor.

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Researchers edge out leading institutions to win AI award

William J. Dally and Javad Shafiee

An artificial intelligence (AI) paper written by Waterloo systems design engineering researchers edged out work by 21 other leading research institutions and companies at a prestigious AI conference.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

ECE professor elected to IEEE Technical Council of Software Engineering

Ladan Tahvildari

Ladan Tahvildari, an electrical and computer engineering professor, was elected Member-at-Large for the IEEE Technical Council of Software Engineering. Her term runs from November 2016 to October 2018. 

Monday, December 5, 2016

CEE professor named new Canada Research Chair

James Craig

James Craig, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Waterloo Engineering, has been named a Canada Research Chair and awarded $500,000 in research funding over five years.

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