From improving rural health care to presenting innovative sustainability solutions, students are empowered by employers to make an impact in shaping a better future for all.
Postdoctoral researcher Besat Kassaie, Dr. Andrew Kane and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Frank Tompa have won a Best Paper Award at DocEng’25, the 25th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering.
Today, University of Waterloo and Google announced a research collaboration that will examine the impact of artificial intelligence on education and career readiness. The partnership includes a $1 million research agreement to create the Google Chair in the Future of Work and Learning.
Anudeep Das, a graduate student at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, has received a $58,100 USD grant from Open Philanthropy to support his research on security of large language models. His project focuses on developing stealthy and resilient backdoors in LLMs, an emerging area of research as these models become more widely used.
Computer Science Professors Diogo Barradas and Urs Hengartner have won the Best Research Paper Award at the 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), held in Ghent, Belgium, from August 10 to 13, 2025.
The Faculty of Mathematics is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 Alumni Achievement Medals and the J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation.
Congratulations to Dr. Anita Layton, who has received the Ernest H. Starling Distinguished Lecture of the American Physiological Society (APS) Water & Electrolyte Homeostasis (WEH) Section for her research mathematically modeling kidney function.
Nearly 30 students from across Canada gathered at the University of Waterloo this summer for the first Climate Mathematics CREATE Summer School, a five-day program exploring the mathematical tools used to understand and address climate change.
Researchers in Applied Mathematics, Jun Liu and Maxwell Fitzsimmons, have received the Oded Maler Award, a distinction presented for the best paper at FORMATS 2025.
Though the building’s designers aren’t math professors, they are constantly thinking about optimization – making the best decisions with limited resources to achieve their goals.