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A new quantum computing startup co-founded by Waterloo Engineering professor Dr. Christopher Wilson is accelerating toward commercialization with $10.7 million in funding and a public listing just six months after launch.

QuantumCore — spun out of research at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) — is developing an amplifier that boosts read-out signals from superconducting quantum chips operating at near absolute zero temperatures. 

Retired Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor John Shortreed passed away on April 15. Dr. Shortreed joined the University of Waterloo in 1965 as an assistant professor in the Civil Engineering department. He was named associate professor in 1969 and full professor in 1977.

His areas of research included transportation, freeway simulation, risk analysis and assessment, the movement of hazardous goods, and urban transit. He joined the University's transport research group and helped launch the UWaterloo-based Institute for Risk Research.

A professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering has received the University of Waterloo's most prestigious academic honour.

Dr. John McPhee, the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Biomechatronic System Dynamics, was named a University Professor at this week's Board of Governors meeting — a designation recognizing exceptional scholarly achievement and international pre-eminence. Waterloo awards the designation to at most three faculty members each year.