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Identifying infections through x-rays and AI

The Department of Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) has installed a piano in the Engineering 7 6^th floor atrium (E7 6301) in honour of Professor Igor Ivkovic, who passed away suddenly in 2020. Professor Ivkovic was a passionate teacher and leader in the SYDE community and is greatly missed.

Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) students took second and third place in this year's Waterloo.AI GRADflix, a video competition for University of Waterloo graduate students. The competition challenges grad students to create a one minute video that describes the goals and outcomes of their research work. 

ERS 275: Indigenous Sustainability Entrepreneurship is a new course available to Engineering students for Winter term 2022. 

Offered by the School of Environment, Resources, and Sustainability (SERS), this course provides an overview and introduction to environmental sustainability through the lens of Indigenous entrepreneurship. The course can be counted as a complementary studies elective and there are no prerequisites.

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. 

What are we trying to learn? 

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.