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The company behind a smartphone app for healthcare professionals has announced plans for a powerful new machine-learning feature after months of collaboration with Waterloo Engineering professor Alexander Wong.

Joshua Landy, co-founder of Figure 1, told the recent International Congress on Electrocardiology that it will provide free, high-quality electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis on its popular social network for doctors.

Engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo are working with Ciena to find solutions to help network operators and service providers respond to the insatiable demand for faster and faster data transmission over the Internet.

A doctoral candidate at Waterloo Engineering is ahead of the pack as he works on ways to unravel how powerful artificial intelligence (AI) computer programs make their decisions in fields including medical diagnosis and autonomous vehicles.

Two Waterloo Engineering faculty members and three alumni are new fellows of the prestigious Canadian Academy of Engineering.

A study by a Waterloo Engineering researcher suggests that saving yourself first before trying to save others is the best strategy for overall survival rates in life-and-death disasters involving groups of people.

A system developed by Waterloo Engineering researchers could help organizations with service vehicles save money and reduce emissions by putting waste energy to good use.

“Given that most companies or governments cannot afford to transition their entire fleets over to cleaner vehicles all at once, this system could represent a cost-effective way to make current vehicles more fuel efficient in the short term,” said Amir Khajepour, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering.

Waterloo Engineering professor Alexander Wong is cited in an online U.S. magazine story about a company planning to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) into a social network for doctors.

Wong, a systems design engineering professor and Canada Research Chair in medical imaging systems, is collaborating with Figure 1 of Toronto on work involving electrocaridiograms and machine-learning software.

A group of six Waterloo Engineering students is building on a successful aid project in Bangladesh by launching a not-for-profit organization to make even more of a difference in the developing world.

Engineers For Hope began two years ago as a student design team made up of civil engineering classmates Adnan Abu Atiya, Tariq Hasan, Rumman Rahman, Shihab Saadeldeen, Nirbhay Singh and Youssef Zaki.

Waterloo Engineering professor William Melek was featured in a recent story in the Financial Post about the slow but increasing adoption of automation and robotics in Canada’s energy sector.

“Repetitive, tedious tasks can be given to robots, but skilled labour will still be needed,” said Melek, the director of mechatronics engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Steven Waslander, a mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor at the University of Waterloo, shared his insights on the near future of autonomous and connected cars in a recent article in the Report on Business in the Globe and Mail.