Nikolas Stewart (BASc ’08)
Alumnus, Faculty of Engineering
> Autonomous Vehicles Program Manager
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.
Melanie Goodchild
PhD Student, Faculty of Environment
> Senior Indigenous Research Fellow
> Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience
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.
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.