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When Hurricane Dorian battered the Bahamas in the Fall of 2019, Waterloo-based satellite imagery startup SkyWatch was quick to assist the reeling nation.

The company gave relief agencies emergency access to its vast satellite image datasets. This enabled these organizations to survey the damage in real-time and coordinate their response accordingly.

Karl Zhu, a double degree student in computer science and business, was awarded a prestigious medal to recognize his ongoing efforts as a volunteer.

The Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers is an annual award that recognizes exceptional dedication to community service.

Climate change is making wild weather increasingly common—and raising the stakes for weather forecasters.

The Layton Lab is producing videos to communicate research impact to a broad, non-academic audience.

The Lab is directed by Anita Layton, Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematical Biology and Medicine, professor of applied mathematics, computer science, pharmacy, and biology, and the Faculty of Mathematics’ associate dean for research and international.

The University of Waterloo ranked 25th in computer science and 41st in mathematics in a recently released global ranking of universities.

Erik Demaine (PhD ’02) and a team of researchers, including his father, have published a proof on a geometric problem involving infinite folds.

Demaine is currently a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who had a storied academic career at Waterloo. He was admitted to graduate studies at the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the age of 14.

When Bilal Akhtar graduated from Waterloo’s software engineering program in 2019 he saw a bright future ahead. Not only had he landed a dream job at Cockroach Labs, a database company where he interned during his undergraduate degree, but he also led the company’s expansion to create a Toronto-based office.

L to R: Daniel Vogel and Jian Zhao. 

Daniel Vogel, an associate professor and Cheriton Faculty Fellow in the School of Computer Science, and Jian Zhao, an assistant professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, were named among a select group of researchers in a recent funding announcement from Reality Labs Research.

The faculty’s Community Health and Well-being team has released its 2022-27 Health and Well-being Strategy.

The new strategy was developed in consultation with the Student Health and Well-being Committee, Employee Health and Well-being Committee and various campus stakeholders.

We are saddened to announce that our dear friend, mentor and colleague Edward Lank, Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, passed away on March 21, 2022 at the age of 49.