# International, national, provincial and institutional awards and recognitions

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Our faculty members have received many international, national, provincial and institutional awards and recognitions for their research, teaching and service excellence. Where available, names are linked to articles and announcements that provide further detail about the individual’s prestigious achievement.

## International awards and recognitions

**ACM Presidential Award** —  [M. Tamer Özsu](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2798)

**Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery**—  [Jo Atlee](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2250), [Charles Clarke](https://www.acm.org/media-center/2015/november/distinguished-members-2015),  [Don Cowan](https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/cowan_1134808),  [Khuzaima Daudjee](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2675), [Mark Giesbrecht](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2151), [Ian Goldberg](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2295), [Ihab Ilyas](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2180), [Craig S. Kaplan](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/craig-s-kaplan-named-2025-acm-distinguished-member), [Florian Kerschbaum](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2463),  [Anna Lubiw](https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/lubiw_2950848), [Kenneth Salem](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2295), [Jeffrey Shallit](https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/shallit_1470962),  [Daniel Vogel](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2747)

**Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University** — [M. Tamer Özsu](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2548)

**Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science**— [M. Tamer Özsu](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2298)

**Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence**—  [Peter van Beek](https://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-current.php), [Kate Larson](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/kate-larson-elected-2025-aaai-fellow)

**Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics** — [Jimmy Lin](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/jimmy-lin-named-2024-fellow-association-computational-linguistics)

**Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery** —N. Asokan,  [Shai Ben-David](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2750),  [Ian Goldberg](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2750), [Srinivasan Keshav](https://uwaterloo.ca/math/news/acm-fellowship-s-keshav),  [Ihab Ilyas](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2550), Ming Li,  [Jimmy Lin](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2676), J. Ian Munro, M. Tamer Özsu, Frank Tompa

**Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers**— N. Asokan, Raouf Boutaba, J. Alan George,  [Ihab Ilyas](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2610), [Florian Kerschbaum](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/florian-kerschbaum-named-2026-fellow-ieee), [Srinivasan Keshav](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2377), Ming Li, M. Tamer Özsu

**Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics** — J. Alan George

**Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters** — [Jeffrey Shallit](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2530)

**Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers**   **Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award** — [M. Tamer Özsu](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2592)

**Presburger Award** — [Sepehr Assadi](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/sepehr-assadi-receives-2025-presburger-award)

**Grand Cross of Scientific Merit, Brazilian National Order of Scientific Merit** — Don Cowan

**Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship** — Janusz (John) Brzozowski

**Medal of Merit, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland** — Janusz (John) Brzozowski

**Member of the Turkish Academy of Science** — M. Tamer Özsu

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## National awards and recognitions

**Canada Centennial Medal** — J. Wesley Graham

**Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Intelligence** — [Renée J. Miller](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2735)

**Canada Research Chair (Tier 1)****in Privacy Enhancing Technologies** — [Ian Goldberg](https://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/chairholders-titulaires/profile-eng.aspx?profileId=4614)

**Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Minimizing Human Error in Operating Modern Networks** — [Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/professor-mina-tahmasbi-arashloo-receives-crc-enhance-computer-networks)

**Canada Research Chairs (Tier 1)**, previous 

- **Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics** — Ming Li
- **Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design** — J. Ian Munro

**Canada Research Chairs (Tier 2)**, previous— Srinivasan Keshav, Justin Wan

**CANARIE IWAY Award for New Technology** — Stephen Watt

**C.C. Gotlieb Computer Award** (IEEE Canada) — [Ihab Ilyas](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ihab-ilyas-receives-cc-gotlieb-computer-award-advancing-cs)

**CIFAR AI Chairs** —  [Shai Ben-David](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2474), [Wenhu Chen](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2666), [Xi He](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2666), [Gautam Kamath](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2694), [Marina Meila](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/marina-meila-named-canada-cifar-ai-chair), [Pascal Poupart](https://www.cifar.ca/bio/pascal-poupart), [Freda Shi](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/freda-shi-victor-zhong-appointed-canada-cifar-ai-chairs-at-vector-institute), [Yaoliang Yu](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2474), [Victor Zhong](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/freda-shi-victor-zhong-appointed-canada-cifar-ai-chairs-at-vector-institute)

**CIFAR Fellow** — John Watrous

**E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship**— [Ming Li](https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Prizes-Prix/Steacie-Steacie/Profiles-Profils_eng.asp?ID=1072)

**Fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences** — [Craig Kaplan](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/craig-kaplan-named-2025-fields-institute-fellow)

**Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada** —  [N. Asokan](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2724), [Shai Ben-David](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/shai-ben-david-named-2025-fellow-royal-society-canada), [Raouf Boutaba](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2450),  [Richard Cleve](https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-for-quantum-computing/news/iqc-faculty-member-named-royal-society-fellow), [Ihab Ilyas](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/professor-ihab-ilyas-named-2024-fellow-royal-society-canada), J. Alan George,  [Srinivasan Keshav](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2450), Ming Li, [Renée Miller](https://rsc-src.ca/en/fellows/academy-science/academy-science-processes-and-2021-committees), J. Ian Munro,  [M. Tamer Özsu](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2241),  [Douglas Stinson](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2079)

**Governor General**’**s 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal** — J. Alan George

**Killam Prize** — [Ming Li](https://bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2010/apr/15th.html)

**Killam Research Fellow** — Ming Li

**Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association** — [Robin Cohen](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2338)

**Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can** — [Jo Atlee](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2778), [Janusz (John) Brzozowski](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2259), [Robin Cohen](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2700), [Don Cowan](https://uwaterloo.ca/stories/waterloo-computer-scientists-receive-lifetime-achievement),  [W. Morven Gentleman](https://cscan-infocan.ca/award/lifetime-achievement-award/w-morven-gentleman/), [Alan George](https://cscan-infocan.ca/awards/alan-george/),  [J. Wesley Graham](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2491), [Ric Holt](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2309),  [Ming Li](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2552), [J. Ian Munro](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2259), [M. Tamer Özsu](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2398), [Doug Stinson](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/doug-stinson-receives-lifetime-achievement-award-from-cs-can-info-can), [Frank Tompa](https://cscan-infocan.ca/awards/frank-tompa/)

**NSERC Industrial Research Chairs**

- **Thomson Reuters-NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Data Cleaning**            —  [Ihab Ilyas](https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Chairholders-TitulairesDeChaire/Chairholder-Titulaire_eng.asp?pid=1027)
- **NSERC/RBC Industrial Research Chair in Data Security** — [Florian Kerschbaum](https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Chairholders-TitulairesDeChaire/Chairholder-Titulaire_eng.asp?pid=1050)

**NSERC Synergy R&D Partnership Award**            — Keith Geddes, Mark Giesbrecht, George Labahn, Arne Storjohann, Stephen Watt, Frank Tompa, Johnny Wong

**Order of Canada** — [J. Wesley Graham](https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-8116)

**Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award, CS-Can/Info-Can**—  [Ian Goldberg](https://cscan-infocan.ca/awards/ian-goldberg/),  [Florian Kerschbaum](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2488), [Kate Larson](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2230),  [Lap Chi Lau](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2257), [Ondřej Lhoták](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2111), [Bin Ma](https://cscan-infocan.ca/awards/bin-ma/),  [Mei Nagappan](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2562), [Éric            Schost](https://cscan-infocan.ca/awards/eric-schost/), [Daniel Vogel](https://cscan-infocan.ca/award/daniel-vogel/)

**Rogers Research Chair in Network Automation** — [Raouf Boutaba](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/university-professor-raouf-boutaba-named-inaugural-rogers)

**Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal** — Frank Tompa

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## Provincial awards and recognitions — Ontario

**Early Researcher Awardees** — Ashraf Aboulnaga,  [Eric Blais](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2587), Dan Brown, Ian Goldberg, Ihab Iyas, Kate Larson, Ondřej Lhoták, Bin Ma,  [Shane McIntosh](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2641), Pascal Poupart, Arne Storjohann, David Toman, Olga Veksler, [Daniel Vogel](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2307),  [Yaoliang Yu](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2763)

**Premier Research Awardees, an earlier version of the ERA** — Raouf Boutaba, Timothy Chan, Brendan Frey

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## Institutional awards and recognitions — University of Waterloo

**Distinguished Teacher Award** —  [Robin Cohen](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2408)

**University Professors**—  [Raouf Boutaba](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2772), Ming Li, J. Ian Munro, [M. Tamer Özsu](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2313), Doug Stinson

**University Research Chairs**, current —  [Shai Ben-David](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2492), Raouf Boutaba, Ian Goldberg, Lila Kari,  [Kate Larson](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2415)

**University Research Chairs**, previous — Timothy Chan, Bin Ma, M. Tamer Özsu, Doug Stinson