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ThinkLabs AI, a specialized AI development and deployment company, has secured $39-million to scale its physics-informed artificial intelligence platform for electric utility companies.

Founded in 2024 by Waterloo Engineering alum Joshua Wong (MASc '10, electrical and computer engineering), the investment will power the company’s capabilities to help utility providers modernize power grid infrastructure for electricity-hungry AI data centres.

Six Faculty of Engineering graduate students were named finalists in the 2026 GRADflix competition, with two taking top honours for creative videos explaining their research to a general audience.

Chemical engineering student Chen and electrical and computer engineering student Pan earned first- and second-place recognition in the University of Waterloo contest, hosted by Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs. 

Student startup Colare makes it easier for an employer to hire the right engineer for the job. The company uses simulation-based assessments to test candidates on real-world engineering tasks, such as CAD modelling and printed circuit board design.

Waterloo Engineering student Nain Abdi, inspired by his own co-op hiring experiences, co-founded Colare in 2025 with Esther Thomas to improve how engineering talent is evaluated.

The Faculty of Engineering is mourning the passing of a long-time leader whose work in electromagnetics helped shape modern antenna research and guided generations of students and colleagues.

Dr. Robert (Bob) H. MacPhie, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus and former faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, passed away on December 3, 2025, at the age of 92. 

A new Faculty award has been introduced to honour the resilience that carries many doctoral researchers through periods of profound personal or systemic challenge.

This year’s inaugural recipient, doctoral candidate Ahmed El Ashmawy, was recognized for completing major milestones in his electrical and computer engineering PhD while navigating extended family illness, caregiving responsibilities and significant personal loss.

A Waterloo Engineering research team earned major international recognition for advancing multimodal approaches to continuous sign language understanding.

Electrical and Computer Engineering master’s student Md Rezwanul Haque and alumnus S. M. Taslim Uddin Raju (MASc ’25, Electrical and Computer Engineering) earned recognition at the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision 2025 for a paper supervised by Dr. Fakhri Karray. 

A research team led by Waterloo Engineering professors received $2 million in new federal funding to safeguard Canada’s critical cybersecurity infrastructure by identifying and countering threats that could emerge through the supply chain.

Led by Dr. Sebastian Fischmeister, an electrical and computer engineering professor, and Dr. Michael Mayer, a professor in mechanical and mechatronics engineering, the Materials-based Cybersecurity in Electronics (MATSEC) project brings together a collaborative team of Waterloo Engineering researchers.
 

Five professors from Waterloo Engineering were named among the most influential researchers worldwide for their citation impact, according to the 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list from Clarivate.

The recognition highlights global research leaders whose work continues to advance knowledge and drive innovation across disciplines.

Two electrical and computer engineering professors were among the latest Canada Research Chairs (CRC) recipients recognized for advancing technologies that support people and power the next generation of electronics.

Dr. Kerstin Dautenhahn and Dr. Lan Wei, both professors in electrical and computer engineering, were recognized as Tier 1 and Tier 2 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) CRCs, respectively.

A Waterloo Engineering professor was recognized internationally for advancing ultrasound technology used in medical imaging and therapeutic applications.

Dr. Alfred Yu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and the University of Waterloo's associate vice-president of partnerships, entrepreneurship and commercialization, received the 2025 Carl Hellmuth Hertz Award for his extensive contributions to ultrasound imaging technology and therapeutic ultrasound.