Applications are open to participate in the Zero Experience programs focused on innovation and entrepreneurship for students of all backgrounds and levels of entrepreneurial experience.
At the Cheriton School of Computer Science, researchers are using unsupervised machine learning to determine taxonomic relationships between organisms.
Lila Kari, a professor of computer science, along with her PhD students Pablo Millán Arias and Fatemeh Alipour and her colleague Professor Kathleen Hill at Western University’s Department of Biology pioneered this new method, titled Deep Learning for Unsupervised Clustering of DNA Sequences, or DeLUCS for short.
The Math & Computing Research Discovery Days is a new multi-day showcase featuring research from the University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics. The inaugural iteration of this annual event will bring together current and prospective industry partners to engage in discussion about leading research topics and the impacts this research will have. Fostering and supporting student engagement in mathematical innovation and entrepreneurship will be at the forefront of this initiative.
This in-person event will feature an impressive lineup of keynote speakers, research demonstrations, lighting rounds, panel discussions, networking opportunities, and more.