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The aerospace industry is at a turning point—where artificial intelligence is no longer a concept of the future but a necessity for advancing safety, efficiency and sustainability. To accelerate this transformation, Dr. David Del Rey Fernández has been named as Pratt & Whitney Canada’s new Industry-Sponsored Research Chair in Industrial Artificial Intelligence, reinforcing its commitment to cutting-edge research that will shape the next generation of aircraft propulsion.

On Saturday, July 6, nearly two hundred students gathered for an ask-me-anything event with Vitalik Buterin, the co-creator of the Ethereum blockchain and a former University of Waterloo student.

StarterHacks, the beginner-friendly hackathon returning to Waterloo campus this May, grew out of a friendship between co-founders William Nippard and Marium Kirmani based on the principle that opposites attract.

On November 2 the Faculty of Mathematics will host the second-ever Research Discovery Days, an event that showcases cutting-edge faculty and student research and facilitates partnerships with industry leaders and the larger community.

Researchers at the Cheriton School of Computer Science have applied machine learning to identify tumour-specific antigens, which could help make personalized cancer vaccines practically feasible and more accurate.

In cancer, when a mutation occurs in a cell’s DNA, a substitution takes place. This substitution is flagged as an invader by our immune system and is referred to as a neoantigen, a mutated peptide that appears on the surface of cancer cells.