Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Jesse Hoey has teamed up with Professor Robert Freeland, a sociologist at Wake Forest University, to conduct novel research at the intersection of computer science and social psychology.
Congratulations to the three students nominated for the Jessie W.H.
Three graduating PhD students in the Faculty of Mathematics were awarded the inaugural Mathematics Doctoral Prizes. Hanmeng (Harmony) Zhan from Combinatorics and Optimization placed first, and Boyu Li and Ruizhang Jin from Pure Mathematics won second and third places respectively.
The University Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Global Research Rankings of Actuarial Science and Risk Management and Insurance has ranked the University of Waterloo the number one non-business, degree-granting school worldwide. Waterloo was ranked first in both the number of papers in the leading risk and insurance journal, as well as in the top four leading actuarial journals.
Out of 100 students competing at the Data Open Championship, 11 of them were from the University of Waterloo, making it the institution with the largest number of competitors to compete in the championship.
Professors Kate Larson, Matthew Kennedy, and N. Sri Namachchivaya have all been appointed as University Research Chair in recognition of their outstanding research contributions. Waterloo’s designation of University Research Chair recognizes exceptional achievement of faculty and their pre-eminence in a field of knowledge.
A team of three computer science students has won the Pasupalak Velocity CS Capstone Award for its entry in the 2019 Computer Science and Software Engineering Capstone Design Symposium, an exhibition in which final-year students develop new products and practical solutions to problems across a variety of indu
The Faculty of Mathematics recognizes six graduate students for their outstanding research papers. Andrew Giuliani in the Department of Applied Mathematics, Stefan Sremac in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, Ruizhang Jin in the Department of Pure Mathematics, Rui Qiao in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, and Nik Unger and Ahmed Alquraan from the David R.
PhD candidate Priyank Jaini is one of 10 recipients nationally to receive a Borealis AI 2019 Graduate Fellowship.
The Waterloo team placed 10th at the recent William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition. The team members were Albert Gevorgyan, Anzo Teh, and Fengyang Wang. Both Gevorgyan and Wang are also Michael and Ophelia Olympiad Scholarship winners.