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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Amir Khandani and Kankar Bhattacharya, both Waterloo electrical and computer engineering professors, have been named IEEE Fellows.
Dignitaries pulled up to the podium in a high-tech car nicknamed Autonomoose today as the University of Waterloo was announced as one of the first three participants in a pilot program to test automated vehicles on Ontario roads.
Future plans were highlighted along with past achievements this week as hundreds of students, staff, faculty, alumni and donors gathered for the annual Waterloo Engineering Awards Dinner.
In addition to more than 1,200 students recognized for their academic and extracurricular successes, the event at Federation Hall honoured distinguished graduates in four categories and a local family for its generous support.
Ensuring hands-on education remains a focus at Waterloo Engineering is a common denominator for new leaders recently appointed to the top posts in three of its eight departments or academic units.
A graduate student from Libya was recognized by a national organization this week for his academic achievements at Waterloo Engineering and volunteer work in the broader community.
Mohamed El Badawe, an electrical and computer engineering PhD candidate, was one of four students honoured at a ceremony in Ottawa with a Libyan Student Excellence Award worth $2,000.