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A paper co-authored by Management Science and Engineering professor Lukasz Golab and his Data Science Master’s student Anastasiia Avksientieva won the best demo paper award at the 2025 International Conference on Extending Data Base Technology (EDBT).  This paper proposed a new data-driven method to assess bias in machine learning models.  A model is explicitly biased if it is more accurate for some subgroups than others.  For example, a biased healthcare model might generate more accurate diagnoses for younger or older individuals.  However, even an explicitly unbiased model may be implicitly biased if it is harder for some subgroups to flip the model's decision to a favourable one.  For example, what if married individuals whose loan applications were rejected would only need to increase their incomes by an average of ten percent to be approved, but single individuals would need 20 percent higher salaries?  In their paper, Golab and co-authors present a software tool that identifies implicit bias in prediction models, toward responsible deployment of AI models in practice.

This year, along with most other things around the world, our Management Sciences Annual Spring Awards ceremony was abruptly put on hold due to the covid-19 global crisis.

That can't stop Management Sciences from celebrating the achievements of our undergraduate Management Engineers (MGTE) and our Management Sciences graduate students (MMSc, MASc & PhD)!

Help us Congratulate all our winners!

A management engineering Capstone Design project that explored the need for pay-and-display parking machines in Toronto took top prize in an international competition. Milan Preet Kaur, a recent management engineering graduate, presented her team’s Capstone project at the 2019 Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) Undergraduate Operations Research Prize Competition, which took place at the 

Molly Beckel, a graduate of the 2013 management engineering class was recently honoured with a 2018 Young Women in Energy award. Molly works as a Facilities Integrity and Reliability engineer for the TransCanada Corporation. She is active in the energy industry and serves as Calgary Chapter Chair for the Young Pipeliners Association of Canada, a pipeline advocacy group. 

Read the full article here.

Congratulations Molly!

Umair Shah, a lecturer in the Department of Management Sciences has adopted an innovative approach to bridge the ‘industry-academe’ divide by piloting the use of the Riipen  platform at the University of Waterloo.

Research on help-seeking and help-giving conducted by Management Sciences alum Mahdi Roghanizad during his PhD studies was recently featured in the Harvard Business Review.

A report released in March 2016 by Statistics Canada suggests "...Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods graduates were the top earners among male and female bachelor's degree holders in 2010."

The Economic Insights report goes on to put Management graduate degrees in the top five earners by field of study.

Read the full Stats Canada report at Earnings of Postsecondary Graduates by Detailed Field of Study

Following up on a statement made in the 2016 presidential campaign trail regarding the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA), the NY Times contacted our own Jim Bookbinder for his input on the consequences proposed.

Check out the NY Times article: Donald Trump Trashes Nafta. But Unwinding It Would Come At A Huge Cost. 

The Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo has launched a Graduate Diploma in Data Analytics (GDDA). The GDDA equips students with deep quantitative skills and technical expertise that can be leveraged by organizations to create competitive advantage in the era of big data.

Management Engineering alumni Ari Paunonen (MGMT '12) and fellow Waterloo graduate, Mike Darlington sit down with Josh O'Kane of The Globe and Mail to talk about the music label they founded, it's success and how it's a big part of changes happening in the music industry.