Melodie Roschman

How Computer Science grad Areena Akhter took her passion for helping others to Waterloo, Bloomberg, Apple and beyond

Dr. Roberto Hernández Palomares grew up in a working-class family in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, where a career in mathematics often felt like an impossible dream. Despite the odds, Hernández Palomares earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics at Mexico’s Universidad de Guanajuato, then pursued his MSc. and PhD at Ohio State before accepting post-doctoral

Donors, alumni, faculty, staff and students gathered on October 28 to celebrate the official groundbreaking for Mathematics 4 (M4), the new Faculty of Mathematics building that begins construction this fall. The five-storey, 120,000 square foot building will serve as the heart of the mathematics district on campus, and include increased classroom space, labs and a cutting-edge

“I used to think Waterloo was boring, but maybe I was just boring,” laughs Kaitlyn Bowles, a mathematics and business administration student. “Doing an exchange taught me how to make whatever reality I was living in the one I wanted it to be.” Bowles is one of the thousands of students who have participated in Waterloo’s exchange program, which is based on reciprocal

David Del Rey Fernández named Pratt & Whitney Canada Industry-Sponsored Research Chair

Chemical company BASF and the University of Waterloo’s Data and Artificial Intelligence Institute (Waterloo.AI) are joining forces to advance AI applications through a collaborative research agreement that will run from 2025 to 2028. This partnership is designed to facilitate knowledge sharing and develop advanced AI systems to drive operational excellence, enhance customer

BASF and the University of Waterloo are uniting their expertise to develop advanced AI systems that deliver real-time insights for business users

New research from the University of Waterloo is making inroads on one of the biggest problems in theoretical computer science. But the way to do it, according to Cameron Seth, a PhD researcher working in the field of algorithmic approximation, is by breaking the problem down into smaller pieces. “Everyone working in computer science and mathematics knows about the ‘P vs. NP’

Using AI to accelerate drug development

“Quantum field theory is eighty years old and we still haven’t solved it,” say Dr. Paul-Hermann Balduf, a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University’s Math Institute who will join the Faculty of Mathematics this October. “That’s why collaboration – between different countries, institutions, and fields – is so important.” Balduf will be spending at least two years doing