Marcelo Cortes
Calculating the future
How a former Waterloo student is helping local retailers prepare and predict the impacts of COVID-19
With the sweeping arrival of COVID-19, Marcelo Cortes was quick to realize the devastating impact it could have on small, local businesses.
Schien Dong, BCS '07
“The University fundamentally changed my core perspectives and ways of thinking. The seeded changes have had a lasting impact on how I navigate my career choices.”
Marilyn Sandford, BMath ’87
“A Waterloo math degree is not like any other math degree. It is an elite institution.”
Mark Noskiewicz, BMath '82
“I loved mathematics and in ’78, Waterloo was the place to go.”
Robert Jackson, MMath '88
“Building a company from the ground floor to an industry-leading firm is an incredibly rewarding experience.”
Naghmeh Ghafari, MASc ’03, PhD ’09
"I am looking at systems and manufacturing techniques and trying to analyze safety to ensure that it is safe to put this device into someone’s heart."
James Hamilton, MMath '97
“You can’t work in hardware or software anywhere in the world and not respect the University of Waterloo."
Ian MacKinnon, BMath ’06, MMath ’08
"Hackathons are the best networking you will ever find to meet new developers."
Nina Thomsen, BMath '83
"Computer Science was just blossoming in the late 70s and early 80s.”
Mike Carter, BMath '71, MMath '74, PhD '80
"I enjoy working on practical applications of math."
Bruce Neve, BMath '77
“My math background has helped me approach problem solving in different ways, in creative ways.”
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
2007 recipient of the J.W. Graham Medal
PhD '88 Computer Science
Ricardo’s PhD research in the late eighties was a key component in the New OED project which formed the basis of the world's first full fledged web search engine, as deployed by a then small UWaterloo spinoff company in 1995.
Abdel El-Shaarawi
PhD 1973 Statistics
A notable alumnus of the University of Waterloo is Dr. Abdel El-Shaarawi. After completing his PhD in Statistics in 1973, Dr. El-Shaarawi went to work as a research scientist at the National Water Research Institute at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters in Burlington.
Ilya Grigorik
2012 Young Alumni Achievement Award Winner
Ilya Grigorik is a web performance engineer and developer advocate on the "Make The Web Fast" team at Google, where he spends his days and nights on making the web fast and driving adoption of performance best practices.
Jane E. Kinney
2013 Alumni Achievement Award Winner
Vicki Greenwood, BMath '85
During Y2K, “I celebrated New Year’s early with my family and then, went in to the office.”
Eric Veach
2008 recipient of the J.W. Graham Medal
BMath '90, Computer Science
Jennifer Chu-Carroll
2013 Alumni Achievement Award Winner
Charles Lee
Charles M.C. Lee is the Joseph McDonald Professor of Accounting at the Graduate School of Business (GSB), Stanford University. He is also a senior academic fellow of the Asian Bureau of Financial and Economic Research (ABFER), and co-founder of Nipun Capital, LLC, a San Francisco-based asset management firm focused on Asian equities.
Bruce Ballantyne, BMath '79
F. David Boswell
2003 recipient of the J.W. Graham Medal
BMath '78, MMath '80
David held executive management positions with software companies ranging across the spectrum of growth stages, including LivePage Corporation, Sybase Inc., Powersoft Corporation and Watcom.
Zack Urlocker
2011 recipient of the J.W. Graham Medal
MMath ’86, Computer Science
Michael Jutan
2012 Young Alumni Achievement Award Winner
Mike decided very early on in life that he wanted to study computer science at the University of Waterloo. Attracted to the honours Computer Science co-op program because of its connection to industry, Mike knew Waterloo could help him fulfil his dream of working in digital animation.
