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A new kind of imaging technology invented at Waterloo Engineering could tell cancer doctors exactly where to cut during surgery to remove tumors.

That would eliminate secondary surgeries to get malignant tissue that was missed the first time, which happens in about 10 per cent of all cancer cases that involve tumors.

Parsin Haji Reza works in his lab at Waterloo Engineering.

Talented young creators from around the world are coming together at the University of Waterloo this weekend for the sixth annual Hack the North event.

The largest hackathon in Canada and one of the largest in North America with 1,500 participants this year, the free student-run event gets crucial support from the Faculty of Engineering and is based in the three newest engineering buildings.

Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have uncovered a problem that could skew the results everywhere groundwater levels are monitored and used to set government policies.

Their study revealed that a discrepancy between scientific data and anecdotal reports on groundwater levels in southern India was caused by a statistical phenomenon known as ‘survival bias.’

Nandita Basu

Engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo have unearthed inherent gender and age biases buried in a popular image dataset used to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems around the world.

The discovery will help researchers find ways to rebalance the data so it better reflects demographic diversity, ultimately paving the way for more accurate AI models.

A startup company with roots at Waterloo Engineering made a pitch to investors in California this week as a participant in the Y Combinator accelerator program.

SannTek Labs, which is based in the Velocity Garage in downtown Kitchener, is one of almost 200 startups in the three-month summer cohort of the high-profile Bay Area program. Participants typically receive $150,000 in seed funding.