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Company led by Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) Professor Parsin Haji Reza caught Microsoft's attention for their use of the Azure Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform. 

Professor Haji Reza, who is the Director of Photomedicine Labs and Founder and Chief Technology Officer of the medical imagining startup, illumiSonics Inc., patented a tissue imaging techn

SYDE professor honoured for distinguished service

Stanford University recently published a comprehensive list that identified the top 2% of scientists worldwide. 11 of these top scientists are faculty in the Department of Systems Design Engineering (SYDE):

Professor and Chair Lisa Aultman-Hall was a panelist in the Alumni Speaker Series: "Autonomous Vehicles: The Hope and Hype of Self-Driving Cars". 

Drivers between the ages of 18 to 24 and 35-55 with a G or G2 driver's license and at least one year of driving experience are invited to participate in a research study on driving performance in a semi-autonomous vehicle simulator. 

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Research by Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) Professor John McPhee was featured in the Golf Digest article, Golf’s ruling bodies take next step in limiting driver length.

Incoming engineering student starts his studies at Waterloo backed by a $100,000 scholarship

For the second year in a row, a winner of a prestigious national scholarship has chosen to study systems design engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Malik Dahel of Montreal started his academic career at Waterloo Engineering this fall as a 2021 Loran Scholar backed by up to $100,000 over four years for living expenses, tuition, summer work opportunities and other benefits.

Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) and Biomedical Engineering (BME) welcomed incoming undergraduate students with First Year Design Dayz.

SYDE and BME students kicked off their undergraduate degree programs with Design Dayz, a department orientation tradition in its sixth year. Each Design Dayz offers new activities, with the core goals of community building, teamwork, and design culture.

Deep-learning AI techniques can identify players by their sweater numbers with 90-per-cent accuracy

Researchers have made a key advancement in the development of technology to automatically analyze video of hockey games using artificial intelligence.

Engineers at the University of Waterloo combined two existing deep-learning AI techniques to identify players by their sweater numbers with 90-per-cent accuracy.

This year’s incoming class of Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) students will be navigating their first semester at the University of Waterloo alongside visitors from the far-off planet TsTs.