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.
Dr. Aukosh Jagannath, assistant professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, has won a prestigious Outstanding Paper award at NeurIPS 2022. NeurIPS, short for Neural Information Processing Systems, is the foremost international conference for research on AI and Machine Learning.
On November 16, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $15 million in funding for the University of Waterloo’s Faculties of Mathematics and Environment to work with Indonesian partners on climate-change adaptation and mitigation strategies in the country.
Today the Government of Canada, through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), announced an investment of $64 million in research infrastructure to support 251 projects at 40 universities across the country.
Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Stacey Watson, and their colleagues Manisha Kamarushi, Garreth Tigwell, and Roshan Peiris at Rochester Institute of Technology, have received best paper award at MobileHCI 2022.
Mathematics Statistics alumni Joy Jiang (PhD ‘18) has been named as one of the inaugural 40 Under 40 Public Health Catalyst Award recipients. The Boston Congress of Public Health recognized these 40 individuals as representatives of the next generation of leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, scientists, activists, intellectual provocateurs, authors, and directors who inspire and catalyze a more just and equitable world.
Stephanie Whitney joined the Faculty of Mathematics this summer as the Director of Research and Innovation Partnerships. She works closely with Professor Charlie Clarke, the Faculty of Math’s Associate Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, to raise research profiles, initiate and develop industry and government relationships, and secure funding to support student entrepreneurship.
Two Cheriton School of Computer Science affiliated researchers are working on a new era glucometer. Nathalia Nascimento, a postdoctoral fellow, and Glaucia Melo dos Santos a Ph.D. candidate, alongside a team of researchers and health professionals are developing new health technology through a startup company called OrientaMED.
As we dawn on the age of quantum computing and work to harness its power and potential, there is an inherited risk of new types of cyber attacks from these increasingly powerful computers.