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 .
(UÀ¶Ý®ÊÓƵ alumni and recipient of theÌýJ.W. Graham Medal in Computing & Innovation) gave a guest on software architecture. The talk discussed how the decision-oriented approach to software architecture could provide leverage in systems design. Carrière is currently Senior VP Engineering at Datadog, and has had technical leadership roles in industry for twenty years. Prior to joining industry,ÌýCarrière was a researcher at the at , where he worked onÌýsoftware architecture reconstruction and analysis.
Bilal Akhtar, SE2019, is tackling the GTA housing crisis as part of MNTO (More Neighbours Toronto):
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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.
SE 2021 project Yada (Yet Another Docs App) was one of six projects in the Faculty of Engineering to win the $10k Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Award.ÌýCongratulations Aravind Segu, Carl Shen,ÌýShehan Suresh and Akshay Pall!
, 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).