Richard Cook, a professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, is the recipient of a major Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funding award.
Faculty of Mathematics alumni and students featured prominently in the new ranking of top 100 tech companies to watch for in 2022, a listing created by the FoundersBata network.
ݮƵ-affiliated companies account for a third of the list, while Faculty of Mathematics graduates are involved in several of the ventures.
Jeremy Hartmann recently defended his PhD dissertation in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, where he worked with the Human Computer Interaction Lab under the supervision of professor Daniel Vogel.
Now, Hartmann has launched a new venture, which offers virtual reality streaming services to gamers as well as a virtual club house.
Reserchers in applied mathematics have developed models to better understand what happens to a woman’s kidneys during pregnancy.
The research team includes Anita Layton, professor of applied mathematics and Canada 150 Research Chair in mathematical biology and medicine, and Melissa Stada, a master’s researcher in applied mathematics.
The Faculty of Mathematics welcomes the 2022 ݮƵ.AI and ݮƵ Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) joint workshop on “Artificial Intelligence for Science & Engineering.”
The three-day virtual workshop runs from January 18 to 20 and features several researchers affiliated with the Faculty of Mathematics.
Researchers from the Department of Applied Mathematics are part of a team using artificial intelligence to analyze sentiment and interaction about contentious topics in social media.
Two researchers in the Cheriton School of Computer Science are part of a research team that was recently awarded $24 million CAD by Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund as part of the BIOSCAN project, which aims to catalogue biodiversity.
Professors Lila Kari and M. Tamer Özsu are bringing their expertise in biodiversity informatics and data science to the research team.
Computer science undergraduate students (l-r) Nicholas Vadivelu, Kelvin Jiang, Sourav Biswas, and Vikram Subramanian were named in the annual CRA awards program.
Pivot-RP is a new searchable database of research funding opportunities for ݮƵ researchers, purchased and supported by the Office of Research and launched in August 2021.
A few years ago, one of Trisha Kothari’s sisters asked their aging grandmother a thought-provoking question: “If you were reborn into our generation, what would you do with your life?”
Their grandmother, Barji, who had grown up in India at a time when women had few rights and even fewer opportunities, wasted no time answering.
“Oh, I’d definitely not get married. I would study and start a business,” she told her.