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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.

The Faculty of Engineering community is mourning the loss of a professor whose pioneering work in biomedical optics advanced both science and clinical practice.

Kostadinka Bizheva, known as Dida to her colleagues and friends, was cross-appointed in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the School of Optometry and Vision Science, with her main appointment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Ottawa-based semiconductor company Ranovus plans to invest $100 million to expand its local operations and create new jobs.  

Co-founded in 2012 by Waterloo Engineering alum Hamid Arabzadeh (BASc ’88, electrical engineering), the company develops chips that help AI run faster and more efficiently in data centres worldwide.

An electrical and computer engineering professor has received international recognition for advancing renewable energy research that supports more sustainable power systems worldwide.

Earlier this week, Dr. Claudio Cañizares was awarded the 2025 Power & Energy Society (PES) Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his leadership in integrating renewable energy into complex energy infrastructures.

Five professors at Waterloo Engineering were awarded a combined total of just over $7 million in funding today through a federal initiative to advance quantum science and technology. 

Dr. Bradley Hauer. Dr. Michael Reimer, Dr. Lan Wei and Dr. Christopher Wilson, all from electrical and computer engineering, and Dr. Sushanta Mitra, of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, were among 13 researchers campus-wide to receive $16.2 million from the National Quantum Strategy for 16 projects.