Class notes

Annie Hardock (BMath ’85): Annie Hardock is the CEO of Easy Math for Kids, one of the businesses selected for the 2022 Blueprint: Backing BIPOC Businesses, a mentorship and grant program that supports the advancement of Black, Indigenous or People of Colour (BIPOC) business owners in Canada. Read more... 

Dave McKay (BMath ’87): Dave McKay, CEO of RBC, was named Canada's Outstanding CEO of the Year for 2022. Read more...

Shannon White (BMath ’91, MMath ’94): Chirp, co-founded by Shannon White, has developed a solution to help aging adults live in their homes longer. Read more...

Robert Madej-Madison (BMath ’92, MMath ’94): PureFacts CEO Robert Madej is on a mission to do business differently. He wants PureFacts to provide as many people as possible with wealth-building opportunities that can make a difference. Read more...

Fraser Gibbs (BMath ’95): Eleven-x, which was co-founded by Fraser Gibbs, has been selected for one of the biggest deployments of smart-parking technology in North America. Read more... 

Mark Zekulin (BMath ’03): Greentech company Invert, where Mark Zekulin is the Co-Founder and Executive Chair, is joining forces with a Brazilian company to help fund efforts to protect hundreds of thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest. Read more...

Alex Hoff (BMath ’04): Auvik Networks, where Alex Hoff is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, was recognized as one of "Waterloo Area's Top Employers" for 2023. Read more...

Raveel Afzaal (BMath ’07): Next Hydrogen, where Raveel Afzaal is the President and CEO, received a $5 million investment through Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC). Read more... 

Sarah Sun (BMath ’11): Sarah Sun, Director of Data Science at Scotiabank, was a guest panelist at the Women in STEM Conference hosted by Assumption College. Read more...

Cameron Meaney (BMath ’17, MMath ’19, In Progress PhD): Cameron Meaney is the lead researcher of a study that reveals how machine learning can predict brain tumor progression. Read more...

Joy Jiang (PhD ’18): Joy Jiang, a PhD graduate from the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo, has been named one of Forbes’s “30 Under 30” for health care for 2022. Read more...

Jimmy Lin (Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science): Jimmy Lin has been named a 2022 ACM Fellow for his contributions to question answering, information retrieval, and natural language processing. Read more...

Anita Layton (Professor, Applied Mathematics): Anita Layton is one of ten recipients of funding from the newly created Graham Seed Fund. Read more...

Sophie Spirkl (Assistant Professor, Combinatorics & Optimization): Sophie Spirkl is one of the recipients of the Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Read more...

Sepehr Assadi (Incoming Associate Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science): Sepehr Assadi is one of the recipients of the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship. Read more...

Methane researchers team up to fight climate change. Read more...

Waterloo leads university and industry consortium to advance Canada's security and defence. Read more...

CS professor Jimmy Lin names 2022 ACM Fellow. Read more...

Entrepreneurship and Impact Series brings innovators up close and personal. Read more...

Anita Layton beneficiary of Graham Seed Fund. Read more...

Student-produced mathNEWS turns 50. Read more...

Scotiabank Data Science Discovery Days encourage real-life problem-solving. Read more...

Self-driving car team achieves personal best in Vegas. Read more...

Cheriton School of Computer Science data systems researchers receieve 2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award. Read more...

New mathematical model shows how the body regulates potassium. Read more... 

Stanley George Gray, 81, passed away on January 15th, 2022 in Richmond, BC. He was born on January 13, 1941 in Kelowna, BC to Dennis and Doris Gray. He was the third of four children, the younger sibling of Marion and Norman and big brother to Sharon. Read more...

"This is my farewell. As you read this, I will have already died in quiet peace and dignity with MAiD, my final act of agency. Living with ALS for six years beat the odds, yet the burden of longevity grew relentlessly to outweigh any remaining quality of life." Read more...

Jason Bramham, beloved son and friend, passed away on Wednesday, June 1, 2022, at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, AB, after battling the H1N9 infection and its complications for more than two years. Read more...

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of David Bialo on June 1, 2022.  Dave died surrounded by his family after a brief battle with cancer.  He is survived by Carol, his wife of 44 years, along with his children Scott (Jordanna), Krista (Jason), and Devin (Teresa), as well as six grandchildren, Evan, Sean, Isaac, Mallory, Inez, and Henry. Read more... 

It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother and uncle, John Peter Sprung, on June 7, 2022, in his 84^th year. Peter Sprung was born on September 28, 1938, in Kitchener, Ontario, the third of six children to Lyall and Doreene Sprung. Read more...

Beloved husband of Susan (née Gerner) Moskal. Dear father of Stephanie Fysh (Stephen) and Daphne Moskal (Bill Tanzola). Loved grandfather of Micah, Esme, and Sebastian Fysh, and Nathan, Malcolm, and Elliott Bruce. Predeceased by his sister Genevieve and his parents Thomas Moskal and Caroline Zabarylo. Read more...

We are very greatly saddened to announce that our beloved friend and colleague, Professor Ken Seng Tan, passed away on January 1, 2023. Read more...