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Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Maura Grossman among panellists in Waterloo's Antagonism and Intimidation in Academia series

photo of Lai-Tze Fan, Kelly Grindrod, Maura R. Grossman, Trevor C. Charles

Waterloo researchers are renowned for their work that improves societies, economies, technologies and health for humanity. But, like many scholars, they have also experienced aggressive responses to their research.

In an effort to address this hostility, the Faculty of Arts in collaboration with the Office of Research hosted a recent panel discussion as part of their “Antagonism and Intimidation in Academia” series. 

Friday, December 1, 2023

Cohere hackathon challenges students to use AI to solve pressing problems

photo of Cohere Hackathon with Jimmy Lin

In a rapidly evolving world where artificial intelligence is reshaping not only entire industries but the world itself, students need to be prepared to harness this technology to solve pressing issues. With this goal in mind, Cohere and Waterloo.AI sponsored a student-led hackathon that focused on Retrieval Augmented Generation — also known as RAG — at the University of Waterloo’s IDEAs clinic.

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Partnership with Rogers to revolutionize the landscape of telecommunication and network management

photo of Professor Raouf Boutaba and his research team

The emergence of 5G technology is transforming telecommunications, granting people and industry remarkable capabilities. With research advancements, in the future we could see 5G offer speeds of up to 20 gigabits per second, far surpassing 4G’s capabilities. This speed not only enables lightning-fast downloads, its low latency, as low as 1 millisecond, is ideal for real-time applications like remote surgery and augmented or virtual reality. 

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

GraphNovo: Graph-based deep learning model may lead to highly personalized medicine to treat cancer and infectious diseases

Computer scientists at the Cheriton School of Computer Science are using a graph-based deep learning model to analyze proteins on the surface of cells, which could lead to personalized medicine to treat cancer and infectious diseases.  

The researchers developed GraphNovo, a new program that provides a more accurate understanding of cellular peptide sequences, linear chains of amino acids.

Monday, November 27, 2023

University Professor Ming Li tackles cancer with personalized immunotherapy made possible by machine learning

photo of University Professor Ming Li

Immunotherapy is a powerful new way to treat cancer, harnessing the body’s natural defences to find and kill cancer cells.

By applying machine learning, researchers at the Cheriton School of Computer Science are working to strengthen this mechanism, making it possible to develop personalized cancer-fighting drugs.

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