Marianna Foldvari
Professor, Faculty of Science
> School of Pharmacy
> Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN)
What if gene therapy could not only treat age-related diseases but cure them altogether? It’s a lofty goal — but one that’s well within reach.
Canada’s supply chains will get a powerful boost from artificial intelligence (AI) as an industry-led network of partners teams up with Waterloo Engineering to help drive economic growth through technological innovation.
The use of powerful artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the financial world is a step closer thanks to research at Waterloo Engineering to explain how they work.
Deep-learning AI software has the potential to generate stock market predictions, assess applicants for mortgages, set insurance premiums and perform other key financial functions.
A fast, simple and inexpensive test developed by researchers at Waterloo Engineering could help billions of people in the developing world avoid getting sick from contaminated water.
Engineering projects that could be the next big thing will be on display at the annual Capstone Design Symposia taking place in March.
Formerly known as fourth-year design projects, Capstone Design is the culmination of the Waterloo Engineering student experience. During their senior year, students, generally working in teams of four, conceptualize and design a project related to their chosen discipline.
School's not quite out for Wayne Brodland who retired from Waterloo Engineering last year.
After more than three decades of teaching and conducting research, he launched the Brodland Commons website, which provides students and others with access to resources he and his teams developed over the years.
Ted Livingston saw the future on a smartphone while he was a Waterloo Engineering student doing a string of co-op work terms at BlackBerry.
Now, more than a decade later, he is determined to both shape that future and make it pay as founder and CEO of Kik Interactive, a mobile chat platform that achieved unicorn startup status - one of six unicorns with roots at Waterloo Engineering - with a US $1-billion valuation in 2015.
Accomplished alumni, outstanding current students and generous supporters were all celebrated when more than 400 people got together last November for the 2017 Waterloo Engineering Awards Dinner.
The annual event honoured graduates in three categories and a foundation dedicated to helping produce engineers, plus hundreds of top students for their academic and extracurricular achievements.
Pearl Sullivan, dean of Waterloo Engineering, wrapped up the evening at the University’s Federation Hall by urging everyone to wear their connections to the Faculty on their sleeves.
With a degree in systems design engineering in his back pocket, Sisun Lee was more than happy pursuing a career as a product manager at Tesla in sunny California.
But when an unlikely side project born of personal experience picked up steam, the 2014 Waterloo systems design engineering graduate took a deep breath and switched gears from electric cars to hangover prevention.
Neo is making a clean sweep inside hundreds of buildings throughout the world.
Launched by Kitchener-based Avidbots in early 2017, the robot is gaining a reputation for effectively cleaning and scrubbing large spaces in over 100 locations such as commercial and industrial buildings, shopping malls, airports, education facilities and healthcare centres.
Neo is the creation of Avidbots co-founders Pablo Molina and Faizan Sheikh, both alumni of Waterloo’s mechatronics engineering program.