Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Jo Atlee has been named a recipient of the
SE2024 student Ryan Dancy will Ìýat the in Texas next month, based on his Ìý´Ú°ù´Ç³¾Ìý Spacecraft Design and System Engineering, taken while on exchange at in Switzerland. This project applies the decision-oriented approach to systems architecture to design a mission conceptÌýfor an explorer probe to Europa.
Europa is a moon of Jupiter that was discovered by Galileo in 1610, and is known to have water and ice. NASA has existing plans to send a probe to Europa, and this project considered a different point in the design space.Ìý
Ryan has also had three co-op internships in the aerospace field. In summer 2022 he worked on AR/VR applications for lunar rovers at the European Space Agency's European Space Operations Centre () in Darmstadt, Germany. He is currently on his second co-op internship at in Ottawa, which is on track to be the first company to ever demonstrate deep learning on the .
Bilal Akhtar, SE2019, is tackling the GTA housing crisis as part of MNTO (More Neighbours Toronto):
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À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ won the , and advances to 45th ICPC World Finals. ICPC is the International Collegiate Programming Contest.ÌýÀ¶Ý®ÊÓƵ's team includes 4A SE student Wesley Leung, and solvedÌý12 problems in contest. No otherÌýcompetitor solvedÌýmore than 9 problems.Ìý
SE 2021 Capstone Team (formerly Tutturu) won theÌý$50K Palihapitiya Venture Creation Fund, to help fund their startup. The team consists of SE students Philip Scott,ÌýAmby Balaji, Declan Goncalves, and former SEÌýstudent Keer Liu (now BCS). Hyperbeam is a shared web browser that allows friends to watch videos and surf the web together from different locations. They have over 1 million users, including over 170,000 who are active each month.
SE2016 alumnus Josh Kalpin is part of the volunteer "vaccine hunter" team that has created a Twitter account to inform people of available vaccine appointments. The with them to disseminate information to the public.
, a startup by SE2022 student Ahmed Hamodi and BCS student Greg Maxin, pitch competition. ArbitriumÌýis a digital end-to-end decision-making platform that allows organizations to make unbiased group decisions about charitable donations that involve multiple stakeholders.
À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Black, including SE's own Wesley Leung, won first at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC)Ìýregional competition for , competing against 67 teams fromÌýCarnegie Mellon, Purdue, University of Toronto, Ohio State, and University of Michigan, along with other universities across Ontario, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. Congratulations!
, including SE's own Kyle Anderson, won 4th place in the virtual race #3, also capturing the Rising Star Award. The IAC brings together 18 university teams from 11 countries on 4 continents in the world’s first head-to-head, high-speed autonomous race at the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS).
ECE ProfessorÌýLadan Tahvildari has been named Chair of the .