News for Alumni

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

CS professor Jimmy Lin named 2022 ACM Fellow

Professor Jimmy Lin has been named a 2022 ACM Fellow for his contributions to question answering, information retrieval, and natural language processing.

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Waterloo leads university and industry consortium to advance Canada’s security and defence

Today, the University of Waterloo announced a 5G and beyond mobile network technology consortium to develop secure 5G mobile networks and improve Canada’s security and defence. The group is funded by the Department of National Defence (DND) through its Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program. A team of computer scientists at Waterloo is leading the $1.5 million multi-partner consortium.

Friday, December 23, 2022

Math in the news: 12 great stories from 2022

From helping combat Covid-19 misinformation to climate change research, we look back at twelve big research stories from the Faculty of Mathematics in 2022.

Thursday, December 1, 2022

AI Industry Day brings together Waterloo experts, government officials, and business leaders

Anil Arora, Chief Statistician of Canada for Statistics Canada, was the keynote speaker at the Fall Industry Day on Monday, hosted by the Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute (Waterloo.AI) and Communitech.

Monday, November 28, 2022

Donate to a Mathematics Challenge Fund on November 29

Thanks to our three Giving Tuesday Challenge Champions, you can support Mathematics students today by making a donation of any amount and becoming one of the 20 donors needed to unlock the challenge champions’ gifts.