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The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science is proud to announce the appointment of Mary Hary and Gord Willmot as Distinguished Professor Emerita and Distinguished Professor Emeritus,  recognizing their exceptional contributions to research, teaching, mentorship, and academic leadership over decades of dedicated service.

Anudeep Das, Vasisht Duddu, Rui Zhang and N. Asokan have received the Best Paper Award at CODASPY 2025, the 15^th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy. 

As we celebrate our PhD graduands at Spring 2025 Convocation, we invite you to learn more about a few of their stories.

Congratulations to our 2025 Waterloo valedictorians and fellow graduates, who now join a powerful network of more than 255,000 alumni who are making an impact on the world.

Professor Emeritus Douglas Robert Stinson has received the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from CS-Can | Info-Can, the national non-profit organization dedicated to representing computer science and the interests of the discipline across Canada.

A specialist in Operator Algebras, he joins the University of Waterloo after seventeen years at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Established in 2002, AAMAS is the world’s leading conference for research in AI, autonomous agents and multiagent systems.

More than 100 researchers and students from across Canada and around the world attended the 53^rd annual Canadian Operator Algebras Symposium (COSY), which took place from May 26-30 at the University of Waterloo.

Their paper explored intermittent interaction in digital fabrication, particularly 3D printing.

The Waterloo team analyzed a range of YouTube videos that focused on learning music by ear and identified four simple ways music learning technology can better aid prospective musicians.