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The C&O department is very pleased to welcome Professor Walaa Moursi, its newest faculty member.
Haonan Duan has received a prestigious Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence from the Vector Institute. Valued at $17,500, these master’s-level scholarships recognize promising AI talent in Ontario and support recruitment of top students into AI-related master’s programs to prepare them with the skills and competencies essential to building a strong AI ecosystem.
Ping Yan's latest work explores systematic treatment of the mathematical underpinnings of work in the theory of outbreak dynamics and their control, covering balanced perspectives between theory and practice including new material on contemporary topics in the field of infectious disease modelling. Learn more about the book.
The book "An introduction to Quantum and Vassiliev Knot Variants", written by C&O Distinguished Professor Emeritus David Jackson and Professor Iain Moffatt (University of London), has been published by Springer. Learn more about the book.
The key to people trusting and co-operating with artificially intelligent (AI) agents lies in their ability to display human-like emotions, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Waterloo.
Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Jesse Hoey has teamed up with Professor Robert Freeland, a sociologist at Wake Forest University, to conduct novel research at the intersection of computer science and social psychology.
Congratulations to the three students nominated for the Jessie W.H.
Three graduating PhD students in the Faculty of Mathematics were awarded the inaugural Mathematics Doctoral Prizes. Hanmeng (Harmony) Zhan from Combinatorics and Optimization placed first, and Boyu Li and Ruizhang Jin from Pure Mathematics won second and third places respectively.
Researchers have developed a system that allows data owners to regulate how much of their privacy may be breached when personal information is being analyzed.
The novel system, APEx, also lessens the burden on data scientists who traditionally have had to compromise the accuracy of their analysis in order to give their clients certain privacy guarantees.
The University Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Global Research Rankings of Actuarial Science and Risk Management and Insurance has ranked the University of Waterloo the number one non-business, degree-granting school worldwide. Waterloo was ranked first in both the number of papers in the leading risk and insurance journal, as well as in the top four leading actuarial journals.