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It is with great sadness that we share the news that Professor Igor Ivkovic passed away on Friday, November 27, 2020. 

Igor was a Lecturer and the Associate Chair Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Systems Design Engineering. He completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science and PhD degree in Software Systems Engineering, all at Waterloo. He was always a passionate supporter of the University.

Services for Professor Igor Ivkovic will be held December 9 at 11:00 AM EST (Waterloo, Canada time)

Based on the coroner’s report, Igor passed away suddenly on 27-November due to a massive heart attack caused by an unexpected travelling blood clot.

Could a novel non-contact photoacoustic microscopy technique that developed at the University of Waterloo provide pathologists with a time-saving alternative to traditional H&E staining and brightfield microscopy imaging?   The new publication in scientific reports led by Professor Parsin Haji Reza and his team at photomedicine labs suggests this technique may even be able to enable real-time #pathology assessment. This work recently highlighted by Nikon Instruments.

Linda Wang, a SYDE Masters student, was featured in a research story about rethinking research during the pandemic that highlights her research in artificial intelligence and computer vision.

When she started her engineering master’s degree in 2018, Linda Wang had no idea her research would be used to help detect a potentially deadly global virus less than two years later.

Artificial intelligence technology will be used to help modernize US federal pathology facility

Technology developed by engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo has been adopted by a major pathology facility in the United States.

Prof. Alexander Wong's work on TinySpeech, a family of compact deep neural networks for on-device speech recognition, was featured in the media, including in Synced and Hackster.io:

Prof. Alexander Wong was one of the leading experts featured in a Special Report entitled "Staying ahead of the curve – The business case for responsible AI" by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Click here to read more.

Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have taken an important step in the development of a microscope to precisely guide doctors during surgery to remove brain tumors.

For the first time, they used laser imaging technology to almost instantly identify cancerous tissue with accuracy comparable to laboratory tests that take up to two weeks.

Ellen McGee, 3A SYDE student, has won the prestigious Sandford Fleming Foundation (SFF) Memorial Leadership Award for 2020.

The award is granted to an undergraduate student in the Faculty of Engineering who has made outstanding contributions to the Faculty in the promotion of extracurricular activities.

A company founded by three Waterloo Engineering students 15 years ago will receive a national honour next week for its innovative approach to traffic management.

Miovision is the 2020 recipient of the Innovator of the Year award given out annually by the Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) to a company that “disrupts and transforms an industry in profound ways.”