As Canada’s aviation sector struggles through post-pandemic turbulence, a major University of Waterloo initiative has taken off to offer it stability — and even clearer skies ahead. Since its founding in late 2021, the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Aeronautics (WISA) has assembled a diverse, multidisciplinary team of more than 100 academics pooling world-class talents to deal with the challenges facing this vital industry, all while mentoring a new generation who will continue the job.
In honour of International Women's Day, Waterloo is highlighting one researcher from each Faculty who is helping create a more sustainable future for Canadian aviation. One of those researchers is Math's Anita Layton, professor of applied mathematics. Layton is working to develop a new method “to generalize flight arrival prediction models, allowing models trained on data-rich regions to be transferrable to a different, data-poor region.”
To learn more about Layton's work, the other five profiled researchers, and the WISA, read the full story.