Dr. Paul Ward

Associate Professor

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Biography

Paul Ward is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He serves as the Associate Director of Software Engineering and is a faculty fellow at the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies. Professor Ward specializes in distributed systems and computer networks, with a focus on dependable self-managing distributed systems and their management. His research also delves into fault detection and diagnosis in web services. In the area of networks, he has worked on raising the abstraction level of networks from basic packet delivery to service-oriented networks, addressing issues such as service discovery and the coupling of functional and non-functional attributes. Professor Ward studies problems related to capacity and fairness in wireless mesh networks as well as routing in delay-tolerant networks. He is a co-holder of multiple patents, including those for novel methods in mobile web services discovery and solving application failures through social collaboration.

Research Interests

Courses

CS 493 - Team Project 1 CS 494 - Team Project 2 ECE 356 - Database Systems ECE 650 - Methods and Tools for Software Engineering ECE 656 - Database Systems SE 101 - Introduction to Methods in Software Engineering SE 490 - Design Project 1 SE 491 - Design Project 2

Requirements for University of Waterloo

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
IELTS
Listening
Required:6.5
Reading
Required:6.5
Writing
Required:6.5
Speaking
Required:6.5
Overall
Required:7
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:22
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:90
Prerequisites
Honours Bachelor's degree in Psychology or related field Strong background in Statistics
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Specialization Notes

Includes fields like Clinical, Cognitive, Developmental, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology.