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An experienced professor is leaving Vermont to join the University of Waterloo as the new chair of the Department of Systems Design Engineering.

Lisa Aultman-Hall, who comes to Waterloo as a tenured full professor by way of the University of Vermont, the University of Kentucky and the University of Connecticut, is scheduled to assume her post as chair Aug. 1 for an initial four-year term.

PhotoMedicine Labs student Saad Abbasi, supervised by Professor Parsin Haji Reza, won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2020 Optical Society of America (OSA) Biophotonics Congress for the paper titled “All-optical Reflection-mode Microscopic Histology of Unstained Human Tissues”.

Professor Parsin Haji Reza director of PhotoMedicine labs is among one of the 186 recipients of New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF). New Frontiers in Research Fund awards $46.3 million for Exploration projects that push research boundaries in Canada.

Eric Jihoon Song

Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Employer: Maisha Meds

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]

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.