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Looking for career inspiration, practical advice and an opportunity to expand your professional network?

Join us for the 3rd annual Alumni Career Success Panel, where our accomplished alumni will share their personal career journeys, lessons learned and advice for student preparing to launch their own careers.

Date: Thursday, October 1
Location: DC 1302
Time: 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. (Panel), followed by a networking reception in DC 1301 with delicious refreshments from Oh Graze.

This year's panelists:

Natalie Gordon, BMath’04 (Computer Science and Combinatorics & Optimization), CEO and Founder, Babylist (Oakland, California)

Susan Heystee, BMath '86 (Mathematics/Business Administration), Vice Chair Board of Directors, Ouster (Orange County, California)

Jacob Jackson, BMath’19 (Computer Science and Combinatorics & Optimization), Research Lead, SpaceXAI (San Francisco, California)

Heath Windcliff, BMath '98 (Applied Mathematics), MMath '00 (Applied Mathematics), PhD '03 (Computer Science), Ex*****on, Quadrature (Manhattan, New York)

Han Zhao, MMath’15 (Computer Science), Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, Illinois)

Take advantage of the opportunity to learn from alumni who were once in your shoes and are now leaders in their fields.

Register today: https://ticketfi.com/event/7135/alumni-career-success-panel-2026

Need quick answers to your advising questions? 💬✨ Come by the Math Undergraduate Office (MC 4022) for our Advising Power Hours!

📅 Mondays: September 14, 21, 28 & October 5
⏰ 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
⏱️ 5–10 minute drop-in sessions
📍 No appointment needed!

Looking for a longer conversation? Book an appointment here: https://uwaterloo.ca/math/undergraduate-studies/student-experience-and-supports/academic-advising

There is still time to apply for the Futures Lab Fall 2026 cohort!

Futures Lab is an eight-week workshop at the University of Waterloo, run with Google. Participants work in small, interdisciplinary teams to learn to design and deploy AI agents that do real work. No code, AI background, or prior technical experience required.

No cost and open to every student at the University of Waterloo.

When: Fridays, October 2 - November 27, 2026 | 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Where: Ideas Clinic, E7 2409

Register here: https://uwfutureslab.ca/

We were honoured to host the 27th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2026), bringing together mathematicians and engineers from 6 continents working in systems theory, networks, and control.

Held from August 17 to 21, the biennial conference featured a rich technical program that included plenary and semi-plenary lectures and numerous presentations spanning control theory, optimization, machine learning, networked systems, robotics, and energy systems.

It was wonderful to see the exchange of ideas, foster collaborations, and explore new research directions at the intersection of mathematics and engineering. Many thanks to the organizers, John Simpson-Porco, Stephen L. Smith, Kirsten Morris, and Roberto Guglielmi for making this conference a success. And thank you to Waterloo Engineering and The Fields Institute for their support.

University of Waterloo

Jeffrey Zang is a first-year Cheriton School of Computer Science student. At 15, he landed his first internship and completed four software internships before his 19th birthday.

In 2023, Jeffrey was named a Major League Hacking (MLH) Top 50 honouree, selected from a global community of more than 500,000 hackers. At 16, he became the second-youngest recipient in the program’s history.

Jeffery discusses how learning to embrace failure has shaped his journey: https://www.analyticsinsight.net/tech-news/jeffrey-zang-learned-to-build-by-showing-up-scared

University of Waterloo

Jeffrey Zang Learned to Build by Showing Up Scared Jeffrey Zang almost did not go to the hackathon that changed his life.It was JAMHacks 6, one of Canada’s largest high school hackathons, and the obstacle was no

Congratulations to Cheriton School of Computer Science PhD student, Bella Chen, on winning $10,000 in seed funding at the Academy of Research Commercialization’s (ARC) inaugural Pitch Day for her technology designed to support neurodivergent children!

Bella created AttentionGo, a home-based program that helps children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) strengthen their attention skills. The program leverages neurofeedback training (NFT), a computer-based program that gives real-time feedback in the form of sounds or games to help people regulate their own brain activity.

Read more here: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/attention-attention-bella-chen-wins-big-arc-pitch-day-2026