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.
“Good teaching should be inclusive,” says Faculty of Mathematics teaching fellow and continuing lecturer Diana Skrzydlo.
Since 1975, Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest has recognized the achievements of hundreds of local women with the K-W Oktoberfest Rogers Women of the Year Awards.
They want to empower East African farmers to pasteurize milk cheaply and easily, with the ultimate goal of ending milk-transmitted disease.
Now in its fifth year, the award was established to recognize excellence in computer science doctoral research. In addition to the recognition, recipients receive a cash prize of $1,000.
Named after its first recipient, the award was established in 1987 to honour Waterloo Applied Mathematics Professor Arthur Beaumont for his many years of service to the society.