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Tiadora Ruza’s journey at the University of Waterloo began long before she started university. The inaugural winner of the Germain-Erdős Award spent many years as a teenager participating in the Math Circles program, a math outreach and enrichment program conducted on campus by the Centre for Education in Math and Computing.

“Most of my work is in making VR more accessible for people with motor disabilities or impairments by using the input devices they already have rather than potentially inaccessible VR controllers,” Wentzel says. 

Maria Esipova and Vikram Subramanian are this spring’s winners of the Jessie W. H. Zou Memorial Award. The award was established by Computer Science professor Ming Li in honor of his late wife Jessie Wenhui Zou, with the aim of celebrating undergraduate research done by students now in their final year at Waterloo.

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Robin Cohen has received the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science from CS-Can | Info-Can, the non-profit society dedicated to representing all aspects of computer science and the interests of the discipline across Canada.

Only 10 per cent of IEEE’s more than 400,000 members receive this designation, an honour conferred to those who have experience reflecting professional maturity, professional practice experience of at least ten years, and significant achievements. 

Stephanie Whitney's (BASc ’04, MEB ’13, PhD ’19) Waterloo experience has been a marathon, not a sprint.

On May 12, the Waterloo Women’s Impact Network (WWIN) is celebrating International Women in Mathematics Day with round-table discussions and a presentation by Hilary Bergsieker, associate pro

From April 28-30, the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science hosted the American Statistical Association (ASA) DataFest: an international challenge in which teams of undergraduates work to “find and share meaning in a large, rich, and complex data set.” 

“A big part of math is looking for patterns and that helps with curling,” explains April. “On any given day, you have to analyze the angles and take into account what the ice is doing or what impact sweeping is having.”

As a defenseman for the Soo Thunderbirds, Colorado College Tigers and Waterloo Warriors hockey teams, David Radke often felt that his contribution wasn’t completely captured by the sport’s offensively-biased statistics–goals, assists, and shots on net.