Yuko AI: skincare company founded by UW grad students
Yuko AI, a skincare company co-founded by graduate students at the University of Waterloo, seeks to make expert skincare advice accessible to everyone. The...
Company founded by UW alumni wins ‘Best Tech Startup’
DarwinAI, an Explainable AI (XAI) company founded by University of Waterloo alumni, won “Best Tech Startup” at the 2021 Timmy Awards for the Toronto...
UW takes vision research to a global level in Hong Kong
The University of Waterloo became one of numerous esteemed institutions to take part in Hong Kong’s multi-billion dollar initiative, InnoHK, to lead visionary eye...
OECMs: Another tool in our global biodiversity toolbox
Other effective area-based conservation measures, or OECMs, are an important tool in the world’s biodiversity toolbox and have many benefits for not only biodiversity,...
University of Waterloo engineering professor wins Steacie fellowship
Last month, University of Waterloo engineering professor Alfred Yu won the Steacie fellowship to research ultrasound technology.
Since 1965, the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships have...
How three women in science close the gap between arts and science
The fields of art and science have often been in opposition to each other; however, three authors have managed to connect them by writing...
Waterloo students compete in world’s first autonomous race
The world’s first autonomous race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway ended in a disappointing crash for two University of Waterloo students in late-October.
The team...
Contact lenses that deliver far more than vision correction
Newly emerging contact lens technologies from researchers at the University of Waterloo have the potential to change the way people see the world —...
Deep neural network identifying disease biomarkers in tissue samples created by UW researchers
Within University of Waterloo’s Cheriton School of Computer Science, researchers have developed a new deep neural network which identifies 98 per cent of peptide...
UW researchers develop AI to detect virus mutations before they occur
Researchers at the University of Waterloo created an artificial intelligence that is able to predict the most likely mutations that may occur in a...
