A powerhouse of discovery and innovation

$coin icon$ 21.8
million dollars in research funding (2018/19)

$earth icon$ 40,750
graduates in 105 countries

$badge icon$ Top 40
in the world for mathematics and computer science

Feb. 18, 2020Beyond Tradition – A documentary about Waterloo and its early days in computer science research and application
$Wes Graham at the University of Waterloo beside an IBM 360/75$
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Ken McLaughlin has spent his career uncovering and shaping the stories of our local communities into urban portraits that breathe with the life of great biographies.
Jan. 30, 2020Computer servers now able to retrieve data much faster
$Ahmed Alquraan (left), Professor Samer Al-Kiswany (centre, kneeling) and Ibrahim Kettaneh (right) pictured in one of the server$
Computer scientists at the University of Waterloo have found a novel approach that significantly improves the storage efficiency and output speed of computer systems.

Current data storage systems use only one storage server to process information, making them slow to retrieve information to display for the user. A backup server only becomes active if the main storage server fails.
Jan. 24, 2020CS graduate student awarded coveted 2020 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
$Amine Mhedhbi$
PhD candidate Amine Mhedhbi is one of 10 recipients across North America and the only recipient from Canada to receive a 2020 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship.

Feb. 20, 2020Grade 10 Family Night
$Recruiter talking to student$

If you're in Grade 10 and planning to attend university, you and your parents are invited to learn what you can do now to prepare.

Academic and student services booths – 6 to 7 p.m.
Presentations and questions – 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Learn about:
Feb. 28, 2020 Privacy, Infrastructures, Policy
$People under CCTV cameras$

Media, government, and industry commonly frame Security and Privacy as diametrically opposed: protecting one requires sacrificing the other.
Mar. 10, 2020Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Math Faculty Heat
$1 slide, 3 minutes, outstanding ideas$

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges research-based graduate students to articulate the impact and breadth of their research in a 3 minute presentation, using just 1 static power point slide.