They won for their class MATH 106 – Applied Linear Algebra 1, an intensive first-year course for non-math majors that encourages students to learn through exploration and collaboration.
“Women’s health, in the past, has not been a big focus compared to other areas of research,” Jiang says. “We know that breast cancer is the leading cancer in women, but the risk prediction stratification strategies are still not up to standards compared to other disease areas.”
He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Virginia, where he was advised by Professor Samira Khan.
Yesterday 1,478 students from the Faculty of Mathematics received their degrees from the University of Waterloo, including 1,286 undergraduates, 161 master’s students and 31 PhDs.
In the last five years, she has completed 53 courses (13 more than the average graduate), with a stunning final average in her Faculty of Mathematics courses of 98.500%.
Dr. Carlos Andrés Araiza Iturria recently completed a PhD in actuarial science. His doctoral research and dissertation, “Discrimination in insurance pricing,” was co-supervised by Dr. Mary Hardy and Dr. Paul Marriott.
Fourteen exceptional students have been chosen to represent the graduating class of 2023. Three of them are from the Faculty of Mathematics.
Muhammad Sulaiman, Mahdieh Ahmadi, Mohammad A. Salahuddin, and Raouf Boutaba from the Cheriton School of Computer Science and their colleague Aladdin Saleh from Rogers Communications have won the NOMS 2023 Best Paper Award for “Generalizable Resource Scaling of 5G Slices using Constrained Reinforcement Learning.”
Just as a trio of Waterloo coders had in 2021, a team of three Waterloo algorithmic programmers topped the competition at the 2023 International Collegiate Programming Contest North America Championship, held on May 29 at the University of Central Florida.
Laura Bumbulis always assumed she would go to the University of Waterloo. Her parents, two of her uncles and her older brother are all Waterloo alumni – a Waterloo family.
Beyond family tradition, she had been drawn to Waterloo because of the co-op program. She liked the idea of getting to try a few different fields before committing to a career.