Just months ago, an international team of four that includes Cheriton School of Computer Science professor Dr. Craig Kaplan discovered a single shape that tiles the plane — an infinite, two-dimensional surface — in a pattern that can never be made to repeat.
Computer scientists at the University of Waterloo have discovered a method of attack that can successfully bypass voice authentication security systems with up to a 99% success rate after only six tries.
Dr. Justin Wan from the Cheriton School of Computer Science will begin his two-year tenure on September 1.
Last weekend, University of Waterloo students on a multi-school autonomous racing team achieved a personal best speed of 173.8 kph at a race on the Monza F1 Circuit in Milan, Italy.
The University of Waterloo hosted this week the 14th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC), held over five days at Federation Hall.
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%.