A fourth-year student team that consists of Joanne Magbitang (4B, Systems Design Engineering), Vincent Shadbolt (4B, Biomedical Engineering), and Haneya Yunus (4B, Biomedical Engineering), has won one of the six top prizes at the annual Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Awards Pitch Competition.
Dr. Alexander Wong, a professor in Systems Design Engineering, is featured in a PC Magazine article talking about the impact of bias on healthcare AI systems [Read more]
Dr. Alexander Wong, a professor in Systems Design Engineering, is featured in a Futurithmic Magazine article about the importance of edge AI as the next step to ambient computing [Read more]
John Yeow, a Waterloo systems design engineering professor, is the new VP of Educational Activities for the IEEE Nanotechnology Technical Council (NTC).
PODCAST/VIDEO INTERVIEWS by Stephen Ibaraki
Alexander Wong, P.Eng.: Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Medical Imaging, co-director of the Vision and Image Processing Research Group, associate professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, and Chief Scientist at DarwinAI
This week, Stephen Ibaraki has an exclusive interview with Alexander Wong.
Keith Hipel, a systems design engineering professor, was recognized with the 2019 China Friendship Award this fall.
Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have developed a new screening tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help fact-checkers identify false information online.
The system sets a new benchmark for accuracy in stance detection, a key area in efforts by scientists and engineers around the world to create fully automatic technology capable of detecting fake news.
Researchers have created a new scanner that can improve everything from surgical procedures to our understanding of landslides.
On paper, new disciplines in computer science and electrical engineering such as deep learning, facial recognition, and advanced graphics processing, look easy to exploit for universities wishing to update their STEM curricula. After all, the business press is awash with gushing propaganda on vertical applications for neural networks and pattern-recognizers exploiting big data sets.
A professor of systems design engineering at the University of Waterloo and Canada Research Chair in System Dynamics, Dr. John McPhee has devoted his career to studying things that move—researching the modelling, control, simulation and design of dynamic physical systems.
