Congratulations to Professors Shai Ben-David, Penny Haxell and Alexander Schied on their appointments as University Research Chairs. All three researchers have illustrious careers and are well-known in their fields.
University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics students help create a web-based data-gathering platform that has been promoted by Montreal’s public health authority to its citizens in an effort to flatten the curve of COVID-19 in that city.
The University of Waterloo appointed Professor Richard Cook a “University Professor” in recognition of his outstanding research contributions in the field of Biostatistics. Waterloo’s designation of University Professor acknowledges exceptional scholarly achievement and international pre-eminence.
The first director of the University of Waterloo's computing centre was the late J. Wesley "Wes" Graham. Graham has long been known as the father of computing at Waterloo, because of persistence in procuring powerful computing equipment and his belief that students should have early access to the equipment.
The Faculty of Mathematics celebrates the outstanding achievements of Yinan Li and Yilin Chen, the two recipients of the 2020 Huawei Prize for Best Research Paper by a Mathematics Graduate Student. Both students published research papers that advance their field of study with an innovative approach to a complex problem.
Director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, Florian Kerschbaum, received a 2019 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award from CS-Can/Info-Can, the nation’s professional society dedicated to representing all aspects of computer science and the interests of the discipline to Canadians.
Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Jesse Hoey has had a curious career trajectory.
His academic life began with an undergraduate degree in physics, followed by a master’s in physical oceanography, then a PhD in computer science with specialization in artificial intelligence. He even had a stint working with occupational therapists as part of his postdoctoral studies, where he applied his expertise in AI to develop assistive technologies for people with dementia.
At this year’s Concept $5K competition, three University of Waterloo roommates returned home with a coveted $5,000 prize to invest in their growing startup.
Almost daily, scientists release another study documenting the growing influence of human-caused global warming. Driven by ever-increasing amounts of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, mostly from coal, oil and natural gas we burn for energy, the Earth’s average surface temperature has risen by almost 1ºC since the late 19thcentury, with much greater increases predicted ahead.