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Monday, March 16, 2026

## [Ana Crisan receives $250,000 in support from Princess Margaret Cancer Centre to develop modular AI system to integrate head and neck cancer data](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ana-crisan-receives-250k-support-princess-margaret-cancer-centre-develop-modular-ai-integrate-head-neck-cancer-data)

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre has awarded resources equivalent to $250,000 to Professor Ana Crisan through its Cancer Digital Intelligence team, supporting her research under the 2025–26 Grand Challenge: From AI Algorithm to Implementation.

The resources will support *MedDataOS: A Human-Centered Multi-Agent Framework for Biomedical Data Analysis*, a research project led by Professor Crisan that aims to develop a multi-agent AI system to integrate and analyze clinical data on head and neck cancers.

Monday, March 9, 2026

## [Marina Meila named Canada CIFAR AI Chair](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/marina-meila-named-canada-cifar-ai-chair)

Marina Meila has been named a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, recognizing her expertise in advancing the theoretical foundations of interpretable and explainable machine learning.

Friday, March 6, 2026

## [International Women’s Day: Celebrating women researchers and entrepreneurs](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/international-womens-day-celebrating-women-researchers-and)

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Mayuri Punithan

This Sunday, March 8 is International Women’s Day, a global event that recognizes the achievements of women around the world.

To celebrate, the Cheriton School of Computer Science is highlighting the research discoveries, achievements and entrepreneurial successes of women students, faculty members and alumni over the past year.

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

## [Pascal Poupart and Luis Ricardez-Sandoval receive $480k grant from BMO and Mitacs to develop reinforcement learning tools for rare earth element recycling](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/pascal-poupart-luis-ricardez-sandoval-receive-480k-grant-bmo-mitacs-develop-reinforcement-learning-tools-for-ree-recycling)

Professors Pascal Poupart of the Cheriton School of Computer Science and Luis Ricardez-Sandoval of the Department of Chemical Engineering have received $480,000 to strengthen Canada’s supply of critical minerals by applying artificial intelligence to the recycling of rare earth elements.

Thursday, February 26, 2026

## [From computer science to Grammy nominations](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/computer-science-grammy-nominations)

Today, George Seara is an award-winning mix and recording engineer. He has been nominated for multiple Juno and Grammy awards, including winning the 2012 Juno for Recording Engineer of the Year, and collaborated with household names like Shawn Mendes, Rihanna, Drake, Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift.

For a long time, however, he was just a kid who loved music and computers and couldn’t figure out a way to combine the two.

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

## [Waterloo-based graph database start-up Kùzu acquired by Apple](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterloo-based-graph-database-start-up-kuzu-acquired-apple)

University of Waterloo–based graph database start-up Kùzu has been acquired by tech giant Apple.\
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According to a recent report in BetaKit, Apple reached an agreement in October 2025 to purchase all shares of the company and hire select members of its team.

Monday, February 23, 2026

## [The TTC race](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ttc-race)

A first-year Waterloo student has developed a program that tracks the real-time speed of every streetcar line in Toronto. Called the TTCLeaderboard, the app is set up like keeping score of a race, ranking the lines from fastest to slowest.

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

## [Does DNA carry an imprint of the environment?](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/does-dna-carry-imprint-of-the-environment)

Evolutionary biologists have long known that DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of all organisms, contains a record of ancestry.

But could genomes also bear an imprint of the environments in which organisms evolved? According to a recent bioinformatics study, the answer, at least for some life forms and for some extreme environments, is an unexpected yes.

Thursday, February 12, 2026

## [The hidden dangers of black carbon in snow](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/hidden-dangers-black-carbon-snow)

As Canada experiences record snowfall, new research from the Cheriton School of Computer Science suggests that tiny amounts of industrial pollution trapped in snow can change how sunlight reaches the ground below and significantly alter fragile environments.  \
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The culprit is black carbon, a sooty form of pollution produced when fossil fuels burn incompletely. It can come from vehicle exhaust, industrial emissions and other combustion sources. While black carbon is already known to contribute to warming, the Waterloo research highlights another, less visible effect: how it alters the “light environment” under snow in ways that affect plant growth.

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

## [Circle signs an agreement to acquire Interop Labs, blockchain interoperability company with deep roots at the Cheriton School of Computer Science](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/circle-signs-agreement-acquire-interop-labs-blockchain-interoperability-company-deep-roots-cheriton-school-cs)

Circle has signed an agreement to acquire the Interop Labs team along with its proprietary intellectual property, the company behind the development of the Axelar Network