PhD candidate Erinn Atwater, an expert in the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy group at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, has developed an Android app for reporters and activists so they can encrypt their smartphones to protect sensitive information before crossing the border.
After her mother suffered a stroke, Aries Lee devised an entrepreneurial idea that would change her mother’s life and bring a sense of style to home assistance living aids.
Native to China, Lee came to Canada to complete high school and went on to pursue a Bachelor of Mathematics, graduating in 2005 from the University of Waterloo. “It’s known for being the top school for math, so getting into Waterloo was my ideal goal,” Lee explained.
Looking Back At Women In Math At Waterloo
Dean's Letter
Waterloo alumni Henry Shi and Hussein Fazal share the early experiences that helped prepare them to launch SnapTravel
The Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute was formed to uncover new approaches to security and privacy and educating Canada’s future leaders to be able to understand and respond to emerging online threats.
Today Canadians nearing retirement expect to work longer, and many that have just retired had that same expectation. Within that group, the majority believe they’ll also have low liquid retirement assets.
Mathematicians and computer scientists are natural problem solvers. It is this innate curiousity and tenacity that provides fertile ground for ideation, creation. For the entrepreneurial-minded, the logical outcome is commercialization.
Dean's Letter
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing our lives – transforming how we work, how we travel, how we treat disease, how we communicate, and how we learn.