Current students

Mei Lin Chen
MASc Candidate, Faculty of Engineering
> Member, Bionics Lab, Department of Systems Design Engineering
> Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology

A Waterloo research team is developing technology that will one day predict what you want to do – before you do it – by reading your brain signals without invasive surgery.

Mikal Skuterud
Professor, Faculty of Arts

Mikal Skuterud is the first to admit his research results—although influential—might not win him any popularity contests in Canada.

Katarina Ilic (BASc ’13)
Alumnus, Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science
> Co-Founder, Voltera Inc.

Our digital future is becoming faster, cheaper and easier to manufacture.

Suzanne Tyas
Professor, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
> School of Public Health and Health Systems

Nearly a century of data on hundreds of North American nuns is driving new discoveries into how early life may affect your risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

Mike Hudson
Professor, Faculty of Science

Waterloo scientists have created the first composite image of the cosmic web of filaments that link galaxies.

Vinh Nguyen
Professor, Faculty of Arts

When the heartbreaking photo of Alan Kurdi, the drowned three-year-old Syrian boy, made global headlines in 2015, it galvanized many Canadians into action.

Julie Friddell
Faculty of Environment
> Director, Canadian Cryospheric Information Network/Polar Data Catalogue

There’s a visceral difference between reading a list of figures that tell you polar ice is melting, and actually watching it disappear.

Jane Tingley
Professor, Faculty of Arts
> Stratford Digital Media Campus

In an Internet-of-Things world, we are surrounded by devices that instantly connect us globally to almost anywhere.