Melodie Roschman

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

For the last seven decades, astrophysicists have theorized the existence of “kugelblitze,” black holes caused by extremely high concentrations of light. These special black holes, they speculated, might be linked to astronomical phenomena such as dark matter, and have even been suggested as the power source of hypothetical spaceship engines in the far future. However, new

“I decided to do mathematics out of defiance,” Marian Forster says, chuckling and leaning forward in her chair. “I pretty much got a message from society, my school, and my family that I was not very smart, and that I should take typing in Grade 10 and become a typist like my mother. And then that would be it.” Forster (BSc ’64) was one of the first female math students at the

StarterHacks, the beginner-friendly hackathon returning to Waterloo campus this May, grew out of a friendship between co-founders William Nippard and Marium Kirmani based on the principle that opposites attract. When the friends met while working as residence hall dons at Waterloo in 2014, they could not have been more different. Nippard was a self-described “C’s get degrees”

Fahim Ahmed is a computer science and finance student at Waterloo, and the president and co-founder of Waterloo Blockchain. But what feels like a direct path to success now, took him a while to find. Ahmed was only 12 years old when he started crypto-mining. “I had seen people talking about it a lot online, so I set up my own hardware to do mining in my bedroom,” he recalls.

A decade after it was first established, the Waterloo-founded Open Quantum Safe project now has a permanent home. Today, the Linux Foundation announced the launch of the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance (PQCA), an initiative that unites public and private technology leaders including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco, Google, IBM, IntellectEU, Keyfactor, Kudelski IoT, NVIDIA,

In an interview with Down Beat magazine, the jazz legend Thelonious Monk once said that “All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.”

As the triumphant last notes of Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 rang out, the packed auditorium filled with thunderous applause. Catherine He, the pianist performing the concerto, is not a professional musician, or even a music major, but rather an undergraduate computer science student at the University of Waterloo. He, who has been playing the piano

Math Event will tackle risks of AI By Melodie Roschman. On November 2 the Faculty of Mathematics will host the second-ever Research Discovery Days, an event that showcases cutting-edge faculty and student research and facilitates partnerships with industry leaders and the larger community. The event, which is sponsored by the Math Innovation Office, will focus on “Mitigating

Stephanie Whitney's (BASc ’04, MEB ’13, PhD ’19) Waterloo experience has been a marathon, not a sprint. When Whitney enrolled at the University of Waterloo in 1998 to study environmental and chemical engineering and management science, she pictured herself acing her classes, building professional connections in co-op, and then moving forward to a career in industry.

For Jalisa Karim, interdisciplinary work comes naturally. This fall, Karim will graduate with a BMath in biostatistics and a BA in sexuality, marriage and family studies. While some might question her choice to pursue degrees from two very different sides of campus, for her the pairing makes sense.…

In Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp Through M.I.T.’s Male Math Maze, Gioia de Cari explores the persistent sexism and isolation she faced as a Mathematics PhD student at MIT in the 1980s. As de Cari explains in the prologue to the show, she decided to tell her story decades after leaving MIT, in respon…