PhD candidate Ahmed Alquraan is one of 16 recipients internationally and the only recipient from Canada to receive a prestigious 2021 IBM PhD Fellowship. Established in 1951, these intensely competitive fellowships have supported thousands of PhD students over seven decades.
Two teams from the University of Waterloo, each with a triad of exceptional programmers, competed virtually on April 22, 2021 at the East Division of the 2021 International Collegiate Programming Contest’s North America Division Championships.
Amelia Holcomb, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisors: Professors Srinivasan Keshav, Tim Brecht
The monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of forest plots, especially their tree-trunk diameters, is critical to achieving both forest protection and reforestation goals. Today’s MRV processes are mostly manual, error-prone, and costly to carry out.
We have all been in conversations where a friend, colleague or boss makes an off-handed or stereotypical comment. Such comments can be hurtful and make for a non-inclusive learning or working environment. We might let the comment slide because we want to move on and don’t want to make the speaker defensive. However, by not speaking up, we silently convey that such comments are OK with us and we help to normalize them.
Each year, the University of Waterloo honours and recognizes its dedicated faculty and staff by celebrating their milestones of distinguished service.
Waterloo faculty and staff who have served between 5 and 50 years were honoured across a series of virtual events to recognize their contributions and tireless efforts that have shaped the success of the university. These virtual events celebrated the 501 people who began employment at the University of Waterloo between 1971 and 2016.
Nathan Harms, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Eric Blais
Junyu Lai, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Justin Wan
Mennatallah El-Assady, Research Associate
Data Analysis and Visualization, University of Konstanz
Visualization for Information Analysis Lab, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Grace Liu, Postdoctoral Researcher
Cylab, Carnegie Mellon University
Xiangyuan Zeng, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Bin Ma