David Jao
Professor, Faculty of Mathematics
> Chief Cryptographer, EvolutionQ Inc.
> Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute
The COVID-19 pandemic hobbled economies around the world, but Waterloo spinoff companies such as evolutionQ are working to secure Canada’s recovery.
Marcelo Cortes
Faculty of Mathematics
> CTO and Co-founder, Faire
Since the age of 11, Marcelo Cortes has been passionate about computers and coding. By 13, he was considered the “resident computer expert” after his parents bought a system for their family-owned store in Brazil.
She has been called the most dangerous lawyer in America for her research and advocacy on technology-assisted review (TAR).
Maura R. Grossman is a practicing attorney in New York. In 2016, she joined the University of Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science to further her research on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to the field of law. Her ground-breaking research has some people in the legal community feeling pretty threatened.
Jochen Koenemann
Professor, Faculty of Mathematics
> Chair, Department of Combinaotrics and Optimization
Kristine Boone
Student, Faculty of Science
> Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)
Florian Kerschbaum
Professor, Faculty of Mathematics
> David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
> Executive Director, Waterloo Cyber security and Privacy Institute
Originally built as a way to secure cryptocurrency transactions, blockchain is a digital platform that verifies and records exchanges. Blockchains are global networks that can have millions of users, each adding information/data which is secured through cryptography. This creates an indisputable history of these transactions that cannot be modified by a single user, eliminating opportunities for fraud, and it is this feature that has some heralding blockchain as a way of increasing cybersecurity.
David Cory
Professor, Faculty of Science
> Institute for Quantum Computing
> Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Quantum Information Processing
Cecylia Bocovich (MMath ’14)
PhD Student, Faculty of Mathematics
> David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
> Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research
The information age is making the world much smaller for most of us.
Raymond LaFlamme, O.C.
Professor, Faculty of Science
> Institue for Quantum Computing
> Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis "John von Neumann" Chair in Quantum Information
> Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information
The quantum race will not be won by the first to develop a quantum computer.