# Awards
**Source**: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/research/awards-achievements
**Parent**: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca
Years: [2026](#awards-2026), [2025](#awards-2025), [2024](#awards-2024), [2023](#awards-2023), [2022](#awards-2022), [2021](#awards-2021), [2020](#awards-2020), [2019](#awards-2019), [2018](#awards-2018), [2017](#awards-2017), [2016](#awards-2016), [2015](#awards-2015), [2014](#awards-2014), [2013](#awards-2013), [2012](#awards-2012), [2011](#awards-2011), [2010](#awards-2010), [2009](#awards-2009)
## Achievements and awards — 2026
**Valentio Iverson, Alice Moayyedi, Beihao Zhou**, [Honourable mentions, 2026 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cheriton-cs-students-receive-2026-cra-outstanding-undergraduate-researcher-awards)
**Pascal Poupart, Luis Ricardez-Sandoval** (Chemical Engineering), [$480k grant, BMO, Mitacs](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/pascal-poupart-luis-ricardez-sandoval-receive-480k-grant-bmo-mitacs-develop-reinforcement-learning-tools-for-ree-recycling)
**Marina Meila**, [Canada CIFAR AI Chair](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/marina-meila-named-canada-cifar-ai-chair)
## Achievements and awards — 2025
**Chris Trevisan**, [2025 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, Computing Research Association](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cs-student-chris-trevisan-receives-2025-cra-outstanding-undergraduate-researcher-award)
**Ana Crisan**, with Melanie Tory, Lyn Bartram, Brittany Fiore-Gartland, [runner-up paper award, *IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications*](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/professor-ana-crisan-wins-ieee-paper-award-outstanding)
**Kate Larson**, [2025 Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/kate-larson-elected-2025-aaai-fellow)
**Dave Tompkins**, [winner, first computer science teach-off, Faculty of Mathematics](https://uwaterloo.ca/math/news/first-computer-science-teach-success)
**Ian Goldberg, Yousra Aafer, N. Asokan, Diogo Barradas, Sergey Gorbunov, Mohammad Hajiabadi, Urs Hengartner, Florian Kerschbaum, Meng Xu**, [$1.6 million CFI / ORF grant](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cheriton-researchers-awarded-1-6m-cfi-orf-protect-security-and-privacy-of-canadians)
**Vasisht Duddu**, [2024 IBM PhD Fellowship](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/vasisht-duddu-awarded-2024-ibm-phd-fellowship)
**CS undergrads Rahul Gudise and Rishabh Sambare, Haokun Qin (Computational Math)**, [$500k from Y Combinator](https://uwaterloo.ca/news/mathematics/waterloo-startup-joins-yc-make-hiring-global-talent-easy)
**Peter Forsyth**, with Ken Vetzal, Graham Westmacott, [2024 Chris Daykin Prize, International Actuarial Association](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/peter-forsyth-and-colleagues-receive-chris-daykin-prize-for-best-pension-paper)
**Gautam Kamath**, Senior Member of IEEE
**Yaoliang Yu**, Senior Member of IEEE
**Tamer Özsu**, [Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/tamer-ozsu-receives-award-excellence-graduate-supervision)
**Helia Yazdanyar, Sepehr Assadi**, [Best Paper Award, SOSA 2025](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/helia-yazdanyar-sepehr-assadi-win-best-paper-award-sosa-2025)
**Xiao Hu**, [Best Paper Award, PODS 2025](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/xiao-hu-wins-best-paper-award-at-pods-2025)
**Waterloo Blockchain**, [$100k USD win, ETHDenver 2025](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterloo-students-win-nearly-100k-usd-ethdenver-2025)
**Xiao Hu with Mahmoud Abo Khamis, Dan Suciu**, [Distinguished Paper Award, PODS 2025](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/xiao-hu-and-colleagues-win-distinguished-paper-award-pods-2025)
**Ryan Yen, Jian Zhao, Daniel Vogel**, [Best Paper Award, CHI 2025](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/new-ai-system-turns-sketches-code)
**Ludwig Wilhelm Wall, Oliver Schneider, Daniel Vogel**, [Honourable Mention, CHI 2025](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/interruptions-good-surprising-value-helping-machine-over)
**Gautam Kamath**, [2025 Ontario Early Research Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/gautam-kamath-receives-ontario-early-researcher-award-to-further-research-on-data-privacy)
**Jian Zhao**, [2025 Ontario Early Research Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/jian-zhao-receives-early-researcher-award-enhance-software-development-through-visual-interfaces)
**Sepehr Assadi** with Soheil Behnezhad, Sayan Bhattacharya, Martín Costa, Shay Solomon, Tianyi Zhang, [Best Paper Award, STOC 2025](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/sepehr-assadi-international-collaborators-stoc-2025-best-paper-award-vizings-theorem-near-linear-time)
**Robin Cohen**, [2024 Excellence in Online Teaching Award, Centre for Extended Learning](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/robin-cohen-receives-2024-excellence-online-teaching-award)
**Joel Wretborn, Alexey Stomakhin, Christopher Batty**, [Günter Enderle Best Paper Award, Eurographics 2025](https://www.eg.org/wp/eurographics-awards-programme/other-eg-awards/2297-2/)
**CS undergrad Valentio Iverson**, [2025 Germain-Erdős Undergraduate Award in Mathematical Research](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/valentio-iverson-wins-germain-erdos-undergraduate-award-in-mathematical-research)
**CS undergrad Hadas Barabash**, [2025 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/hadas-barabash-leyi-yan-receive-jessie-wh-zou-memorial-award-excellence-undergraduate-research)
**CS undergrad Leyi Yan**, [2025 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/hadas-barabash-leyi-yan-receive-jessie-wh-zou-memorial-award-excellence-undergraduate-research)
**Kate Larson** with Marc Lanctot, Michael Kaisers, Quentin Berthet, Ian Gemp, Manfred Diaz, Roberto-Rafael Maura-Rivero, Yoram Bachrach, Anna Koop, Doina Precup, [Best Paper Award, AAMAS 2025](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ranking-ai-professor-kate-larson-wins-paper-award-aamas)
**Doug Stinson**, [2024 Lifetime Achievement Award, CS-Can | Info-Can](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/doug-stinson-receives-lifetime-achievement-award-from-cs-can-info-can)
**Anudeep Das, Vasisht Duddu, Rui Zhang, N. Asokan**, [Best Paper Award, CODASPY 2025](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/anudeep-das-vasisht-duddu-rui-zhang-n-asokan-win-best-paper-award-codaspy-2025)
**Recent graduate Jiawen Stefanie Zhu, Jian Zhao**, [Best Poster Award, Graphics Interface 2025](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/research-long-distance-immigrant-family-communication-wins)
**Yuzhe You,****Jian Zhao**, [Michael A. J. Sweeney Award for Best Student Paper, Graphics Interface 2025](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/yuzhe-you-wins-best-student-paper-award-gi-2025-novel)
**Cara Ji, Lucas Kopp, Xiaoxi Luo, Hosna Oyarhosseini, Michael Solodko**, [2025 Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/meet-cheritons-vector-ai-scholarship-winners-2025-26)
**Craig S. Kaplan**, [2025 Faculty of Mathematics Award for Distinction in Teaching](https://uwaterloo.ca/math/news/craig-kaplan-and-henry-shum-win-awards-distinction-teaching)
**Sepehr Assadi, Wenhu Chen**, [2025 Faculty of Mathematics Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award](https://uwaterloo.ca/math/news/three-math-faculty-win-golden-jubilee-research-excellence)
**Liam Hebert**, [2025 Nick Cercone Graduate Scholarship](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/liam-hebert-receives-2025-nick-cercone-graduate-scholarship)
**Craig S. Kaplan**, [2025 Fellow, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/craig-kaplan-named-2025-fields-institute-fellow)
**Sepehr Assadi**, [2025 Presburger Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/sepehr-assadi-receives-2025-presburger-award)
**Xiao Hu with Binyang Dai, Ke Yi**, [2025 SIGMOD Research Highlight Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/xiao-hu-and-colleagues-receive-2025-sigmod-research-highlight-award)
**Toshiya Hachisuka, Xi He, Florian Kerschbaum, Ondřej Lhoták, Shane McIntosh, Victoria Sakhnini, Jian Zhao**, [2024 Outstanding Performance Awards](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cheriton-school-cs-faculty-members-receive-2024-oustanding-performance-awards)
**Xi He**, Senior Member of IEEE
**Matthew Regehr**, [2025 CPI Graduate Excellence Scholarship](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/matthew-regehr-awarded-2025-cpi-graduate-excellence-scholarship)
**Aseem Baranwal**, [2025 Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/aseem-baranwal-receives-2025-cheriton-distinguished-dissertation-award)
**Chengnian Sun, Hongyang Zhang**, [$60k USD Google Research Scholar Program funding](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/chengnian-sun-hongyang-zhang-receive-google-research-scholar-program-funding)
**Generation Linkers**, [North American Regional Honouree, Technovation Global semi-finals](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/generation-linkers-named-north-american-regional-honouree-2025-technovation-global-semi-finals)
**Diogo Barradas**, [2025 FOCI Rising Star Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/diogo-barradas-wins-foci-rising-star-award-advances-censorship-resistant-communications)
**Shai Ben-David**, [2025 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/shai-ben-david-named-2025-fellow-royal-society-canada)
**Stephen Mann**, 2025 ACM Senior Member
**Fiona Cai, Kaibo Huang, Michelle Jeon, Richard Si, Sean Zhang**, [2025 Schulich Leaders](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/meet-2025-computer-science-schulich-leaders)
**Diogo Barradas, Urs Hengartner, Cheng Tang, Yue Hu**, [Best Research Paper, ARES 2025](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cybersecurity-researchers-win-big-ares-2025-robotics)
**Anudeep Das with Prach Chantasantitam, Gurjot Singh**, [$58,100 USD grant, Open Philanthropy](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/anudeep-das-collaborators-awarded-58100-usd-open-philanthropy-advance-research-stealthy-resilient-llm-backdoors)
**Ross Evans** (first)**, Vasisht Duddu** (second)**, Shubhankar Mohapatra** (third, tie), **Sreeharsha Udayashankar**(third, tie), [2025 Cheriton Research Symposium poster winners](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/2025-cheriton-research-symposium-poster-winners)
**Besat Kassaie, Andrew Kane, Frank Tompa**, [Best Paper Award, DocEng25](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/besat-kassaie-andrew-kane-frank-tompa-win-best-paper-award-doceng25)
**Helen Dong**, [2025 K.D. Fryer Gold Medal](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/athlete-student-and-now-winner-helen-dong-wins-k-d-fryer)
**Chengnian Sun with Vu Le, Zhendong Su**, [Most Influential Paper Award, OOPSLA 2025](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/chengnian-sun-and-colleagues-receive-oopsla-2025-most-influential-paper-award)
**Kevin Guo (4A CS), Kevin Yang (4A CS), Kelly Dance (Master’s C&O)**, [second place, 2026 ICPC North America Championship](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterloo-black-advances-2026-icpc-north-america-championships)
**Meng Xu, Sihang Liu**, [$254k funding, National Cybersecurity Consortium](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/meng-xu-sihang-liu-254k-funding-national-cybersecurity-consortium-strengthen-security-llm-agents)
**Maura R. Grossman** (co-director), **Yuntian Deng, Wenhu Chen** (members), [$700k x 2 funding, CIFAR Solution Networks](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cs-professors-receive-new-cifar-grants-address-ai-safety)
**Ian Goldberg with Aniket Kate, Gregory Zaverucha**, [Test-of-Time Award, 2025 Asiacrypt](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ian-goldberg-colleagues-2025-asiacrypt-test-of-time-award-tools-reduce-communication-cost-cryptographic-protocols)
**Freda Shi with Changbing Yang, Franklin Ma, Jian Zhu**, [Outstanding Paper Award, EMNLP 2025](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/freda-shi-colleagues-win-emnlp-2025-outstanding-paper-award-research-llm-meta-linguistic-reasoning)
**Craig S. Kaplan**, [2025 ACM Distinguished Member](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/craig-s-kaplan-named-2025-acm-distinguished-member)
**Muhammad Sulaiman, Mahdieh Ahmadi, Mohammad Salahuddin, Raouf Boutaba, Aladdin Saleh**, [2025 CNOM Best Paper Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/muhammad-sulaiman-mahdieh-ahmadi-mohammad-salahuddin-raouf-boutaba-aladdin-saleh-2025-cnom-best-paper-award)
**Waterloo Blockchain**, [$25,850 USD win, ETHGlobal Buenos Aires](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterloo-blockchain-wins-25850-usd-ethglobal-buenos-aires)
**Florian Kerschbaum**, [2026 Fellow, IEEE](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/florian-kerschbaum-named-2026-fellow-ieee)
**Pascal Poupart with****Sriram Ganapathi**, [$412,500 USD grant, Coefficient Giving](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/professors-pascal-poupart-and-sriram-ganapathi-awarded)
**Yelizaveta Brus, Rungroj Maipradit, Earl T. Barr, Shane McIntosh**, [ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ASE 2025](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/se-research-team-receives-acm-sigsoft-distinguished-paper-award-ase-2025)
## Achievements and awards — 2024
**Daniel Vogel**, [2023 ACM Distinguished Member](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2747)
**Undergraduates Matthew Yang (finalist), Ruidi Wei, Jiawen Zhu and Alex Zhuang (honourable mentions)**, [Computing Research Association’s 2024 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2748)
**Ming Li**, [2024 IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2749)
**Shai Ben-David,** [2023 ACM Fellow](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2750)
**Ian Goldberg**, [2023 ACM Fellow](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2750)
**M. Tamer Özsu**, [2024 IEEE TCDE Education Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2759)
**Raouf Boutaba**, [2024 Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2760)
**Undergraduate Jessica Bohm**, [Co-op Student of the Year award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2761)
**Cheriton researchers**, [CFI, Alliance, and Insight Development grants](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2762)
**Yaoliang Yu**, [Ontario Early Researcher Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2763)
**Janani Sundaresan**, [2024 Faculty of Mathematics Graduate Research Excellence Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2764)
**Daniel Vogel**, [forms Inria Associate Team](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2765)
**Undergraduate William Wang**, [one of the top prizes at ETHDenver ($6.5k USD equivalent)](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2766)
**Florian Kerschbaum, N. Asokan**, [$2 million ORF grant](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2767)
**CS at Waterloo 21st globally**, [2024 QS World University Rankings](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2768)
**CS student-led startup SheepIt**, [$5k Velocity Pitch Competition](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2771)
**Raouf Boutaba**, [named University Professor](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2772)
**Andrew Qi Tang (4A CS, C&O minor), Ramazan Rakhmatullin (MMath C&O), Kevin Wan (4A CS/C&O Double Major)**, [eighth globally, first in North America, silver medallists, 47th ICPC World Finals](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2773)
**Marian Dietz (C&O MMath, graduated in June 2022), Chris Trevisan (3B CS), Wen Yuen Pang (4B CS)**, [18th globally, 46th ICPC World Finals](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2773)
**Nils Lukas**, [first place, 2024 Faculty of Mathematics Doctoral Prize](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2774)
**Benjamin Schneider, Hala Sheta, Xin Yan**, [2024 Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence](https://uwaterloo.ca/math/news/eight-incoming-masters-students-receive-vector-ai)
**Undergraduates Ruidi Wei, Ava Pun**, [2024 Jessie W. H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2779)
**Jo Atlee**, [2023 Lifetime Achievement Award, CS-Can | Info-Can](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2778)
**Wen Yuen Pang, Kevin Wan, Max Jiang,** [eighth place, 2024 ICPC North America Championship](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterloo-eighth-2024-icpc-nac-advances-to-48th-icpc-world-finals)
**Md. Faizul Bari, Arup Raton Roy, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Qi Zhang, Mohamed Faten Zhani, Reaz Ahmed, Raouf Boutaba**, [2024 CNOM Test of Time Paper Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2795)
**Nikhita Joshi, Daniel Vogel**, [Best Paper Award, CHI 2024](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2791)
**Xinyu Shi, Jian Zhao, Yinghou Wang, Yun Wang**, [Best Paper Award, CHI 2024](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2791)
**Damien Masson (PhD ’23), Sylvain Malacria, Géry Casiez, Daniel Vogel**, [Honourable Mention, CHI 2024](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2791)
**Yen-Ting Yeh, Nikhita Joshi, Daniel Vogel**, [Honourable Mention, CHI 2024](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2791)
**Damien Masson (PhD ’23)**, [Prix de thèse L'Association Francophone de l'Interaction Humain-Machine (AFIHM)](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/damien-masson-wins-two-dissertation-awards-outstanding-hci)
**Damien Masson (PhD ’23)**, [Bill Buxton Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Human-Computer Interaction](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/damien-masson-wins-two-dissertation-awards-outstanding-hci)
**Oseremen Joy Idialu, Noble Saji Mathews, Rungroj Maipradit, Jo Atlee, Mei Nagappan**, [2024 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, MSR 2024](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cheriton-researchers-awarded-acm-sigsoft-distinguished-paper-award-msr-2024)
**Vasisht Duddu, Sebastian Szyller, N. Asokan**, [Distinguished Paper Award, 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/vasisht-duddu-sebastian-szyller-n-asokan-distinguished-paper-award-45th-ieee-symposium-security-and-privacy)
**Liam Hebert**, [2024 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2796)
**Lawrence Folland**, [Honorary Member of the University of Waterloo](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2797)
**M. Tamer Özsu**, [2023 ACM Presidential Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2798)
**Ian Munro**, [Distinguished Professor Emeritus](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/university-professor-ian-munro-named-distinguished-professor-emeritus)
**Max Peeperkorn, Tom Kouwenhoven, Dan Brown and Anna Jordanous**, [Best Student Paper Award, ICCC’24](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/max-peeperkorn-dan-brown-tom-kouwenhoven-anna-jordanous-receive-best-student-paper-award-iccc24)
**Cheriton School of Computer Science Professors**, [Awarded $1.1 million in NSERC funding](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cs-professors-awarded-11m-nserc-grants)
**Gautam Kamath, colleagues Clément Canonne and Thomas Steinke**, [2024 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/gautam-kamath-and-colleagues-win-2024-caspar-bowden-pet)
**Xi He**, [2024 Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/professor-xi-he-wins-golden-jubilee-research-excellence)
**Raouf Boutaba**, [inaugural Rogers Chair in Network Automation](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/university-professor-raouf-boutaba-named-inaugural-rogers)
**Gautam Kamath, colleagues Florian Tramèr, Nicholas Carlini**, [Best Paper Award, ICML 2024](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/gautam-kamath-and-international-colleagues-win-best-paper-at-icml-2024)
**CS start-up Brewtrack**, [Velocity $5k grant](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cs-startup-brews-success-velocity-pitch-competition)
**Vasisht Duddu, Rasoul Akhavan Mahdavi**, [2024 Cybersecurity and Privacy Excellence Graduate Scholarship](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cpi-excellence-graduate-scholarships-awarded-vasisht-duddu)
**Ondřej Lhoták**, [2024 Faculty of Mathematics Award for Distinction in Teaching](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/professor-ondrej-lhotak-wins-maths-distinction-teaching)
**Meng Xu, PhD student Qingyang Zhou (members of team 42-b3yond-6ug)**, [$2 million semi-finalist team at](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterloo-cs-student-and-professor-international-team-winning)[DARPA AIxCC Cybersecurity Challenge](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterloo-cs-student-and-professor-international-team-winning)
**Ihab Ilyas**, [2024 C.C. Gotlieb Computer Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ihab-ilyas-receives-cc-gotlieb-computer-award-advancing-cs)
**Undergrads Rajan Agarwal (SE), Elijah Kurien (SE), Ishaan Dey (SE), Joshua Yan (CS)**, [top eight, Berkeley AI Hackathon](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/uwaterloo-students-dominate-berkeley-ai-hackathon)
**Ihab Ilyas**, [2024 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/professor-ihab-ilyas-named-2024-fellow-royal-society-canada)
**Nikhita Joshi**, [2024 Heidelberg Laureate Forum attendee](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/hci-researcher-nikhita-joshi-tapped-attend-heidelberg)
**Undergraduates Johnnie Chen (CS), Aditya Makkar (CS), Ronak Patel (SE), Emma Shi (CS), Pari Vansjalia (SE), Daniel Zhang (CS)**, [2024 Schulich Leaders](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/meet-waterloos-computer-science-2024-schulich-leaders)
**Nils Lukas**, [2024 Alumni Gold Medal](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/nils-lukas-receives-waterloos-2024-alumni-gold-medal)
**Nikhita Joshi**, [MIT’s Rising Star in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Workshop](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/nikhita-joshi-named-rising-star-electrical-engineering-and)
**Kevin Wan (double major CS and C&O), Wen Yuen Pang (CS), and Max Jiang (3A CS and C&O)**, [4th in North America, 30th globally, 48th ICPC World Finals](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterloo-coders-top-canadian-team-fourth-north-america-48-icpc-world-finals)
**Freda Shi, Victor Zhong**, [2024 Canada CIFAR AI Chairs and Faculty Members at Vector Institute](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/freda-shi-victor-zhong-appointed-canada-cifar-ai-chairs-at-vector-institute)
**Ryusuke Sugimoto (first-place), Weiming Ren (second place), Gustavo Sutter Pessurno de Carvalho (third place)**, [2024 Cheriton Research Symposium Poster Winners](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/2024-cheriton-research-symposium-poster-winners)
**Diogo Barradas with colleagues Daniela Lopes, Jin-Dong Dong, Pedro Medeiros, Daniel Castro, Bernardo Portela, João Vinagre, Bernardo Ferreira, Nicolas Christin, Nuno Santos**, [2024 Best Portuguese Internet Research Award, Portuguese Chapter of the Internet Society](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/security-researchers-honoured-2024-best-portuguese-internet-research-award-isoc-pt)
**Jeff Orchard, Kathryn Simone, Nicole Dumont, Madeleine Bartlett, colleagues P. Michael Furlong, Terrence Stewart, Chris Eliasmith**, [European Neural Network Society Best Paper Award, CANN 2024](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/theoretical-neuroscientists-receive-enns-best-paper-award-icann-2024)
**Kefan Cao**, [2024 K.D. Fryer Gold Medal](https://uwaterloo.ca/math/news/computer-science-graduate-kefan-cao-wins-kd-fryer-gold-medal)
**Cheriton School of Computer Science**, [number one nationally for the fifth year in a row, Maclean’s 2024 university rankings](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/macleans-ranks-waterloos-computer-science-program-first-in-canada-fifth-consecutive-year)
**Sujaya Maiyya, Florian Kerschbaum**, [$425k funding, National Cybersecurity Consortium](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cheriton-school-CS-researchers-receive-national-cybersecurity-consortium-funding)
**Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo**, [Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Minimizing Human Error in Operating Modern Networks](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/professor-mina-tahmasbi-arashloo-receives-crc-enhance-computer-networks)
**Joshua Duho Kim**, [one of ten finalists, ETHGlobal Hackathon in San Francisco](https://uwaterloo.ca/math/news/joshua-duho-kim-named-finalist-ethglobal-hackathon)
**Jackson Mills, Serena Ge, Charley Lee**, [Forbes 30 Under 30](https://www.forbes.com/30-under-30/2025/)
**Jimmy Lin**, [2024 Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/jimmy-lin-named-2024-fellow-association-computational-linguistics)
**Khuzaima Daudjee, Sujaya Maiyya,** [$440k grant, ORF-RI and CFI-JELF](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cheriton-cs-researchers-awarded-440k-through-orf-ri-cfi-jelf-to-develop-scalable-big-data-systems)
**Raouf Boutaba, Martin Karsten, Samer Al-Kiswany, Kate Larson and colleague Chui Min Yeum**, [$2M ORF-RE grant](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cs-researchers-secure-2m-orf-re-grant-develop-next-generation-5g-6g-network-innovations)
## Achievements and awards — 2023
**Raouf Boutaba, Noura Limam, Diogo Barradas, colleagues at BlackBerry, Rockport Networks, NoviFlow**, [$1.5-million Department of National Defence–funded university and industry consortium to develop secure 5G mobile networks](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2677)
**Jimmy Lin**, [2022 ACM Fellow](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2676)
**Cheriton students Jeremy Chen, Yuqing Huang and Mushi Wang, and Semih Salihoğlu and Ken Salem**, [2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2679)
**Master’s candidate Niki Hasrati and Shai Ben-David**, [Best Paper Award, ALT 2023](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2682)
**Sepehr Assadi**, [2023 Sloan Research Fellowship](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2681)
**Master’s graduate Mahbod Majid**, [2023 Faculty of Mathematics Graduate Research Excellence Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2683)
**Waterloo Black (Kevin Wan, Andrew Qi Tang and Ramazan Rakhmatullin)**, [second place at 2022 East Central NA Regional ICPC, qualify for the North American Championships](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2684)
**PhD students Nikhita Josh and Antony Albert Raj Irudayaraj, PhD graduate Jeremy Hartmann, Daniel Vogel**, [Best Paper Award, SUI 2022](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2686)
**PhD candidate Joel Wretborn and colleagues**, [Emerging Technology Award, 21st annual Visual Effects Society Awards for water simulation toolset used in *Avatar: The Way of Water*](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2687)
**Gautam Kamath**, [Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Vector Institute Faculty Member](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2694)
**Dan Berry and former PhD student Sri Fatimah Tjong**, [Most Influential Paper Award, REFSQ 2023](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2697)
**Ian Goldberg**, [Senior Member of IEEE](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2698)
**Recent PhD graduate Michael Abebe**, [2023 Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2699)
**Robin Cohen**, [2022 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can | Info-Can](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2700)
**SE undergraduate Vikram Subramanian**, [2023 Jessie W. H. Zou Memorial Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2701)
**CS and C&O undergraduate Tiadora Ruza**, [Inaugural Germain-Erdős Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2702)
**Jimmy Lin**, [Induction into 2023 ACM SIGIR Academy](https://sigir.org/awards/sigir-academy/)
**Justin Wan**, [2023 Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award, Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2704)
**Jimmy Di**, [Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2705)
**Ramazan Rakhmatullin** (master’s C&O) **Andrew Qi Tang** (third-year CS and C&O), **Kevin Wan** (fourth-year CS and C&O), [First place, 2023 ICPC North America Championship](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2706)
**PhD student Muhammad Sulaiman, Mahdieh Ahmadi, Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Raouf Boutaba, colleague Aladdin Saleh**, [Best Paper Award, NOMS 2023](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2708)
**Justin Wan**, [Assistant Vice-President, Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2712)
**Lap Chi Lau**, [University Research Chair](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2715)
**Peter A. Buhr**, [2023 Faculty of Mathematics Award for Distinction in Teaching](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2716)
**Master’s graduate Lindsey Tulloch, Ian Goldberg**, [Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award, PETS 2023](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2718)
**Master’s graduate Ende Jin, Yizhou Zhang, colleague Nada Amin,** [Distinguished Paper Award, PLDI 2023](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2720)
**Gautam Kamath**, [2023 Faculty of Mathematics Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2721)
**Sepehr Assadi**, [2023 Faculty of Mathematics Research Chair](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2722)
**Scott Hao, Caroline Huang, Manasva Katyal, Josephina Kim**, [2023 Schulich Leaders](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2723)
**N. Asokan**, [2023 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2724)
**Blake VanBerlo**, [2023 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2725)
**2023 Cheriton Research Symposium poster winners** ([article](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2726))
- **Liam Hebert, Nils Lukas**, First-place winners (two-way tie)
- **Shaikh Shawon Arefin Shimon, Runsheng (Benson) Guo, Max Zhang**, Second-place winners (three-way tie)
- **Lasantha Fernando, Senyu Fu**, Third-place winners (two-way tie)
**Cheriton School of Computer Science**, [number one nationally for the fourth year in a row, Maclean’s 2024 university rankings](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2727)
**David Khazzam**, [Faculty of Mathematics K. D. Fryer Gold Medal](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2728)
**Einstein shape**, [TIME’s 2023 Best Inventions List](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2730)
**Fairblock, company co-founded by Cheriton master's alumnus Peyman Momeni**, [secures $2.5M USD](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2731)
**Jo Atlee**, [one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women, Women’s Executive Network](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2732)
**Cheriton researchers**, [among recipients of $3.3M in NCC funding](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2733)
**Waterloo dominates at 2023 ICPC East Central North America Contest**, [Waterloo teams come in first, third and fourth](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2734)
**Renée J. Miller**, [named Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Intelligence](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2735)
**Catherine He**, [winner of 2023 Concerto and Aria competition](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2736)
## Achievements and awards — 2022
**Undergraduates Nicholas Vadivelu (runner up), Kelvin Jiang (finalist), Sourav Biswas and Vikram Subramanian (honourable mentions)**, [Computing Research Association’s 2022 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2614)
**Axelar (co-founded by Sergey Gorbunov)**, [raises $35 million USD Series B funding](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2618)
**Master’s student Cheryl Lao**, [2022 Adobe Research Women-in-Technology Scholarship](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2619)
**PhD student Greg Philbrick**, [Faculty of Mathematics Graduate Research Excellence Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2621)
**Waterloo teams Gold, Black and White**, [among top 10 at the East Central NA Regional International Collegiate Programming Contest](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2622)
**Jo Atlee**, [2022 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2623)
**Chengnian Sun with colleagues Yuan Tian and David Lo**, [Most Influential Paper Award, SANER 2022](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2652)
**PhD alumnus Mazen Melibari**, [among the 30 most prominent AI experts in Arab world, *MIT Technology Review* (Arabic version)](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2631)
**Former CS students Griffin Keglevich and Ruslan Nikolaev (co-founders of Float)**, [Float named among 2022 C100 Fellows](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2633)
**PhD graduate Akshay Ramachandran**, [2022 Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2634)
**PhD graduate Akshay Ramachandran**, [2022 Mathematics Doctoral Prize (second place)](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2634)
**PhD graduate Ryan Goldade**, [2021 Alain Fournier Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2636)
**Master’s student Sabrina Mokhtari**, [2022 Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2637)
**PhD graduate Shihab Chowdhury**, [NOMS 2022 Best Dissertation Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2640)
**PhD student Soheil Johari, with Raouf Boutaba, Nashid Shahriar, Massimo Tornatore and Aladdin Saleh**, [NOMS 2022 Best Student Paper Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2640)
**PhD students Muhammad Sulaiman and Arash Moayyedi, Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Raouf Boutaba and Aladdin Saleh**, [NOMS 2022 Best Paper Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2640)
**Shane McIntosh**, [2022 Early Researcher Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2641)
**Undergraduate Daekun Kim**, [2022 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2642)
**Chris Trevisan (first-year CS), Wen Yuen Pang (second-year CS) and Marian Dietz (CS master’s student)**, [second within east division and fourth overall in 2022 ICPC North America Championship (will advance to ICPC World Finals)](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2643)
**Undergraduate Leni Aniva**, [Governor General’s Silver Medal](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2644)
**University Professor Ming Li**, [elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2645)
**Robin Cohen, Khuzaima Daudjee, Ian Goldberg, Jesse Hoey, Florian Kerschbaum, Jimmy Lin, Victoria Sakhnini and Dave Tompkins**, [2021 Outstanding Performance Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2646)
**PhD student Anil Pacaci, M. Tamer Özsu, colleague Angela Bonifati**, [Best Paper Award, ICDE 2022](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2648)
**PhD student David Radke, Tim Brecht, and colleague Daniel Radke**, [Best Research Paper Award, LINHAC 2022](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2649)
**Florian Kerschbaum**, [2022 Faculty of Mathematics Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2650)
**Samer Al-Kiswany**, [2022 ACM Senior Member](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2651)
**Tudor Barsan (CS), Norman Chen (SE), Maggie Liu (CS), Ashwin Roperia (CS), Sarah Wilson (CS) and Michael Xu (SE)**, [2022 Schulich Leaders](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2655)
**Stacey Watson with Manisha Kamarushi, Garreth Tigwell and Roshan Peiris**, [Best Paper Award, MobileHCI 2022](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2657)
**Raouf Boutaba, Anita Layton and Jian Zhao**, [Canadian Foundation for Innovation awardees](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2658)
**Charles Clarke**, [Induction into 2022 ACM SIGIR Academy](https://sigir.org/awards/sigir-academy/)
**PhD student Ryusuke Sugimoto, Christopher Batty and Toshiya Hachisuka**, [Best Paper Award, SCA 2022](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2661)
**Distinguished Professor Emeritus Don Cowan**, [J.W. Graham Medal in Innovation and Computing](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2662)
**Cheriton School of Computer Science**, [Number one nationally third year in a row, *Maclean’s* 2023 university rankings](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2663)
**Former DSG students Jeremy Chen, Yuqing Huang and Mushi Wang, and Semih Salihoglu and Kenneth Salem**, [Best Experiment, Analysis and Benchmark Paper Award, VLDB 2022](https://vldb.org/2022/?conference-awards)
**FairBlock, start-up founded by recent master’s graduate Peyman Momeni**, [$400k USD equivalent funding from Cosmos](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2664)
**Wenhu Chen and Xi He**, [Canada CIFAR AI Chairs](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2666)
**Wesley Leung (BSE 2022), Jason Yuen (BMath CS 2022) and Ildar Gainullin (third-year BMATH student)**, [17th team internationally, 3rd in North America, and top team from Canada at 45th International Collegiate Programming Contest](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2668)
**Dhvani Patel, SE student and cofounder of RelayMD**, [one of four Velocity $5k finalists](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2672)
**Jo Atlee, colleagues and former students**, [Ten-year Most Influential Paper Award, VaMoS 2023](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2670)
**Khuzaima Daudjee**, [2022 ACM Distinguished Member](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2675)
## Achievements and awards — 2021
**Ihab Ilyas**, [Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2550)
**Maura Grossman**, [Shira Scheindlin Lifetime Achievement Award, Ediscovery Hero Awards](https://zapproved.com/blog/2021-ediscovery-hero-award-highlights/)
**Ming Li**, [2020 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2552)
**Mei Nagappan**, [2020 Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award, CS-Can/Info-Can](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2562)
**MMath graduate Simeon Krastnikov**, [2021 Huawei Prize for Best Research Paper](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2560)
**Waterloo Black (Ildar Gainullin, Jason Yuen and Wesley Leung)**, [top spot at East Central North America International Collegiate Programming Contest](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2557)
**Arbitrium (Greg Maxin, 4B CS, Ahmed Hamodi, 4A SE)**, [Concept $5K Winner](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2563)
**Waterloo Black (Ildar Gainullin, Jason Yuen and Wesley Leung),** [second place at 2021 ICPC North America Division Championships](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2565)
**PhD candidate Ahmed Alquraan**, [2021 IBM PhD Fellowship](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2566)
**PhD graduates Mike Schaekermann, Hong Zhou and Fiodar Kazhamiaka**, [Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Awards](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2568)
**PhD graduate Nashid Shahriar**, [2021 Mathematics Doctoral Prize](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2570)
**MMath students Alex Bie, Matt Regehr, Xinyu Shi and Yiping Wang**, [Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2572)
**Bin Ma**, [University Research Chair](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2573)
**PhD graduate Mike Schaekermann**, [2020 Distinguished Dissertation Award from CS-Can|Info-Can](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2574)
**Undergraduate CS student Nicholas Vadivelu**, [2021 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2575)
**PhD candidate Shenghao Yang**, [Borealis AI 2020–2021 Fellowship](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2577)
**Byron Weber Becker, Eric Blais, Raouf Boutaba, Lori Case, Ihab Ilyas, Anna Lubiw and Pascal Poupart**, [2020 Outstanding Performance Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2578)
**MMath graduate Abbas Abou Daya, Research Professors Mohammad A. Salahuddin and Noura Limam, and Raouf Boutaba**, [2021 CNOM best paper award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2580)
**PhD candidate Brad Glasbergen, recent CS graduate Fangyu Wu, and Khuzaima Daudjee**, [Best Demonstration Award, 2021 ACM SIGMOD/PODS](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2581)
**MMath graduate Iman Akbari with Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Leni Aniva, Noura Limam, Raouf Boutaba, Bertrand Mathieu, Stephanie Moteau and Stephane Tuffin**, [Best Student Paper Award, SIGMETRICS 2021](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2582)
**Peter Forsyth with Ken Vetzal and Graham Westmacott**, [2021 Brockett–Shapiro Actuarial Journal Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2584)
**Eric Blais**, [Early Researcher Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2587)
**Postdoctoral researcher Leili Rafiee Sevyeri**, [2021 ACA Early Researcher Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2588)
**Undergraduates Ildar Gainullin, Jason Yuen and Wesley Leung**, [first place, 2021 ICPC North America Division Championship](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2589)
**M. Tamer Özsu**, [2022 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2592)
**Undergraduates Saptarshi Bhattacherya, Alicia Bremer, Andrew Dong, Heidi Hon, Kushal Mujral and Eric Pei**, [2021 Schulich Leaders](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2596)
**Cheriton School of Computer Science**, [Top Computer Science Program in Canada, *Maclean’s* 2022 university rankings](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2599)
**PhD graduate Shihabur R. Chowdhury**, [2021 Alumni Gold Medal](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2602)
**Ihab Ilyas**, [Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2610)
**Former CS undergraduate Vitalik Buterin**, [Forbes 30 under 30 hall of fame](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2611)
## Achievements and awards — 2020
**Undergraduate students Steven Feng and Shannon Veitch**, [Honorable Mention, CRA 2020 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2478)
**PhD candidate Amine Mhedhbi**, [2020 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2479)
**MMath graduate Jason Hu and Ondřej Lhoták**, [Distinguished Paper Award, POPL 2020](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2481)
**Ming Li and his coauthor Paul Vitanyi**, [textbook on Kolmogorov complexity, 2020 McGuffey Longevity Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2484)
**Wes Graham**, [2019 Lifetime Achievement Award conferred posthumously, CS-Can/Info-Can](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2491)
**Florian Kerschbaum**, [2019 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award, CS-Can/Info-Can](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2488)
**W. Morven Gentleman** (University of Waterloo CS faculty member, 1969–1983), [2019 Lifetime Achievement Award conferred posthumously, CS-Can/Info-Can](https://cscan-infocan.ca/w-morven-gentleman/)
**Hugh Williams** (Waterloo alumnus, and Waterloo's first PhD graduate in computer science, 1969), [2019 Lifetime Achievement Award, CS-Can/Info-Can](https://cscan-infocan.ca/hugh-williams/)
**Shai Ben-David**, [University Research Chair](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2492)
**Undergraduate CS student Shivam Sharma**, [Concept $5K pitch competition winner](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2496)
**Recent PhD graduate Priyank Jaini**, [second place, Faculty of Mathematics Doctoral Prize competition](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2498)
**Jo Atlee**, [2020 IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering Distinguished Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2503)
**Recent CS graduate Steven Feng**, [Honourable Mention, 2020 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2506)
**MMath students Solaiappan Alagappan, Daniel Herman, Wanxin Li and Blake VanBerlo**, [Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2507)
**Women in Computer Science**, [NSERC PromoScience Program Grant](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2509)
**Maura R. Grossman**, [Faculty Teaching Award, York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2510)
**Recent CS graduate Jameson Weng**, [Governor General’s Silver Medal](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2512)
**Edward Lank, Kate Larson, Ondřej Lhoták, M. Tamer Özsu, Peter van Beek and Troy Vasiga**, [2019 Outstanding Performance Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2513)
**PhD candidates Brad Glasbergen and Michael Abebe, and Khuzaima Daudjee, Daniel Vogel and Jian Zhao**, [Best Demonstration Award, 2020 ACM SIGMOD Conference](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2514)
**Sergey Gorbunov, Gautam Kamath and Jian Zhao**, [NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2518)
**Undergraduate SE student Vikram Subramanian**, [ACM Student Research Competition, Undergraduate Division](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2519)
**Master’s graduates Rahul Iyer and S. Alex Yun, and Mei Nagappan and Jesse Hoey**, [ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Artifact Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2519)
**PhD candidate Stavros Birmpilis**, [Distinguished Student Author Award, ISSAC 2020](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2524)
**PhD candidate Hung Pham**, [ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ASE 2020](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2526)
**Undergraduates Anish Aggarwal, Jacob Mausberg, Jason Xiong, Peter Zhu and Yashvardhan Mulki**, [2020 Schulich Leaders](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2528)
**Jeffrey Shallit**, [Elected to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2530)
**Cheriton School of Computer Science**, [Top Computer Science Program in Canada, *Maclean’s* 2021 university rankings](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cheriton-school-of-computer-science-top-cs-program-in-canada)
**Recent PhD graduate Nashid Shahriar**, [2020 Alumni Gold Medal](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2533)
**N. Asokan and his colleagues** (Ian Liu, Assistant Professor at Zhejiang University, Wenting Li, Senior Software Developer at NEC Laboratories Europe, Ghassan Karame, Manager and Chief researcher of Security Group of NEC Laboratories Europe), [2019 Best Paper Award from *IEEE Transactions on Computers*](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2538)
**Shalev Ben-David and Eric Blais**, [Best Paper Award, FOCS 2020](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/shalev-ben-david-and-eric-blais-receive-prestigious-best-paper-award-at-focs-2020)
**M. Tamer Özsu**, [named Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2548)
## Achievements and awards — 2019
**Tamer Özsu**, [2018 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2398)
**Daniel Vogel**, [2018 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award, CS-Can/Info-Can](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2407)
**Robin Cohen**, [2019 Distinguished Teacher Award, University of Waterloo](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2408)
**PhD candidates Nik Unger and Ahmed Alquraan**, [2019 Huawei Prize for Best Research Paper](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2409)
**Undergrad CS students Jason Williamson, Bing Xu Hu and Rebecca Brown**, [Inaugural Pasupalak Velocity CS Capstone Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2414)
**Kate Larson**, [University Research Chair](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2415)
**Kevin Hyun**, [2019 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2419)
**Jesse Hoey**,[2019 Outstanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2422)
**Eldon Sprickerhoff** (BMath ’91), [2019 J.W. Graham Medal in Computing & Innovation](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2425)
**PhD candidate Xiang Fang and Stephen Mann**, [best poster award at Graphics Interface 2019](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2426)
**Pascal Poupart**, [Canada CIFAR AI Chair](https://cifar.ca/bios/pascal-poupart/)
**Ian Goldberg**,[tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Privacy Enhancing Technologies](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2434)
**Samer Al-Kiswany**, [elevated to grade of Senior Member by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2438)
**Visiting PhD student Davit Harutyunyan, PhD candidate Nashid Shahriar, Roberto Riggio and Raouf Boutaba**, [best student paper award at NetSoft 2019](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2441)
**PhD candidate Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, recent master’s graduate Anthony Anthony, and master’s students Haibo Bian and Tim Bai, and Raouf Boutaba**, [best paper award at NetSoft 2019](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2441)
**Md Faizul Bari**, [inaugural Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2440)
**Charlie Clarke, Gordon Cormack, Olga Vechtomova, and their former graduate students**, [2019 ACM SIGIR Test of Time Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2439)
**Ian Goldberg, and colleagues David Wagner, Randi Thomas and Eric Brewer**, [2019 USENIX Security Test of Time Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2444)
**PhD candidate JC Chang, Christopher Batty and Vinicius Azevedo**, [best poster award at SCA 2019](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2446)
**Jason Amri, first-year CS student**, [Schulich Leader Scholarship](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2448)
**Raouf Boutaba**, [Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2450)
**Srinivasan Keshav**, [Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2450)
**Vic DiCiccio**, [Honorary Member of the University of Waterloo](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2461)
**Florian Kerschbaum**, [ACM Distinguished Member](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2463)
**Florian Kerschbaum**, [NSERC/RBC Industrial Research Chair in Data Security](https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Chairholders-TitulairesDeChaire/Chairholder-Titulaire_eng.asp?pid=1050)
**Undergraduates Timothy Li, Wesley Leung and Arash Bigoldi**, [first place at 2019 East Central North America ICPC regional contest](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2464)
**PhD candidate Nashid Shahriar, recent master’s graduate Sepehr Taeb, PhD candidates Shihabur R. Chowdhury and Mubeen Zulfiqar, Massimo Tornatore, Raouf Boutaba, Huawei Technologies Canada research partners Jeebak Mitra and Mahdi Hemmati**, [best paper award at CNSM 2019](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2465)
**Distinguished Professor Emeritus Johnny Wong, Ye Hu, Marin Litoiu and Gabriel Iszlai**, [most influential paper award for research presented 10 years ago at CASCON 2009](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2467)
**Shai Ben-David and Yaoliang Yu**, [Canada CIFAR AI Chairs](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2474)
**Maura R. Grossman**, [named National and Global eDiscovery Leader by Who’s Who Legal 2020](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2475)
## Achievements and awards — 2018
**N. Asokan**, [Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery](https://www.aalto.fi/en/school-of-science/acm-names-professor-n-asokan-acm-fellow-and-announces-him-sigsac-awardee)
**N. Asokan**, [ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) Outstanding Innovation Award](https://www.aalto.fi/en/school-of-science/acm-names-professor-n-asokan-acm-fellow-and-announces-him-sigsac-awardee)
**Don Cowan**, [2017 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2309)
**Ric Holt**, [2017 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2309)
**Maura Grossman**, [named by Obelisk as one of top six women in law changing the legal industry](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2312)
**Tamer Özsu**, [University Professor](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2313)
**Khuzaima Daudjee**, [elevated to grade of Senior Member by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2319)
**PhD candidate Michael Cormier**, [Murray Martin Prize for Best Research Paper by a Mathematics Graduate Student](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2325)
**Women in Computer Science**, [2018 Equity and Inclusivity Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/wics-receives-2018-equity-and-inclusivity-award)
**Khuzaima Daudjee**, [ACM Senior Member](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2328)
**Mei Nagappan**, [early career achievement award from Mining Software Repositories Conference](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2327)
**Daniel Vogel**, [Faculty of Mathematics Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2336)
**PhD candidate Michael Abebe**, [2018 Facebook Emerging Scholar Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2337)
**Robin Cohen**, [Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2338)
**Ian Goldberg****, PhD candidate Nik Unger and colleagues**,[best paper awards at PETS 2018](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2346)
**PhD candidate Joseph Haraldson**, [ACM SIGSAM Distinguished Student Author Award at ISSAC 2018](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2350)
**John Brzozowski, Lila Kari, Bai Li and Marek Szykuła**, [Sheng Yu Award at CIAA 2018](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2351)
**PhD candidates Siddhartha Sahu and Amine Mhedhbi, Semih Salihoglu, Tamer Özsu and Jimmy Lin**, [VLDB 2018 Best Paper Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2354)
**Master’s student Aayush Rajasekaran, Jeffrey Shallit, Parthasarathy Madhusudan and Dirk Nowotka**, [EATCS Best Paper Award at MFCS 2018](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2355)
**First-year CS student Joey Yu**, [Gold medal at 2018 IOI](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2356)
**Postdoctoral fellow Andrew Kane, MMath graduate Dallas Fraser and Frank Tompa**, [best paper award at DocEng 2018](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2358)
**PhD candidate Yuhao Dong, master’s candidate Woojung Kim and Raouf Boutaba**, [best student paper award at Blockchain-2018](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2360)
**Katherine Gotovsky**, [2018 Loran Scholar](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2361)
**Maura Grossman**, [named Leading Individual in Canada by Who’s Who Legal 2018 for contributions to eDiscovery](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2364)
**PhD candidate Mike Schaekermann, Joslin Goh, Kate Larson and Edith Law**, [best paper award at CSCW 18](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2370)
**Amir-Hossein Karimi**, [Alumni Gold Medal](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2372)
**Ali Abedi and Mohammad Mazaheri**, [first place at ACM MobiCom 2018](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2374)
**Waterloo Back: Jason Yuen, Sean Purcell and Joakim Blikstad**, [first place in 2018 ICPC East Central North America Regional Contest](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2376)
**Srinivasan Keshav**, [Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2377)
**Shai Ben-David and colleagues**, [best paper award at NeurIPS 2018](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2380)
## Achievements and awards — 2017
**Janusz A. (John) Brzozowski**, [2016 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2259)
**J. Ian Munro**, [2016 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2259)
**N. Asokan**, [Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers](https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/professor-n-asokan-named-an-ieee-fellow)
**Ian Goldberg**, [ACM Distinguished Member](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2295)
**Ken Salem**, [ACM Distinguished Member](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2295)
**Daniel Vogel**, [Early Researcher Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2307)
**Peter Forsyth**, [Distinguished Professor Emeritus](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2273)
**Ihab Ilyas**, [named Vice-chair of ACM SIGMOD](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2274)
**Srinivasan Keshav**, [elevated to grade of Senior Member by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2302)
**Raouf Boutaba, PhD candidates Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury and Nashid Shahriar, postdoctoral fellows Sara Ayoubi and Reaz Ahmed and colleagues Jeebak Mitra and Liu Liu**, [best paper award at CNSM 2017](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2300)
**Jeff Orchard and undergraduate CS student Louis Castricato**, [best paper award at ICONIP 2017](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2299)
**M. Tamer Özsu**, [named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2298)
**Troy Vasiga**, [ACM Senior Member](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2297)
**Master’s student Corey Sinnamon and John Brzozowski**, [Sheng Yu Award for best paper at CIAA 2017](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/corey-sinnamon-and-professor-john-brzozowski-win-best-paper)
**PhD graduate Martin Derka, Therese Biedl and colleagues Markus Chimani and Petra Mutzel**, [best paper award at ISAAC 2017](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2285)
**Maura Grossman**, [pioneering contributions to e-Discovery and legal technology by the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists and Women in eDiscovery](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2283)
**Maura Grossman**, [2017 Fastcase 50 award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2278)
**Rudi Chen**, [Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2271)
**Distinguished Professor Emeritus Don Cowan and Kyle Young**, [Award of Merit from the Volunteer Action Centre of Kitchener Waterloo](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2267) and Area
**Jesse Hoey, Tobias Schröder and Kimberly Rogers**, [2017 Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association, and Outstanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology Paper Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2265)
## Achievements and awards — 2016
**Michael Godfrey**, [Most Influential Paper, IEEE](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2220) [International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, Reengineering](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2220)
**Ken Salem**,[Best Paper, 2015 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2015](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2210)
**Khuzaima Daudjee**,[Best Paper, 2015 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2015](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2210)
**Ashraf Aboulnaga**, [Best Paper, 2015 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2015](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2210)
**Shai Ben-David**, Best Paper, Transfer and Multi-Task Learning Workshop 2015
**David Toman**, 2016 Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize
**Grant Weddell**, 2016 Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize
**Therese Biedl**, 2015 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement
**Lap Chi Lau**, 2015 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement
**Bin Ma**, 2016 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement
**Timothy Chan**, 2016 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement
**Jimmy Lin**, 2016 NSERC Discover Accelerator Supplement
**Minyang (Young) Han**, [2016 Governor General’s Gold Medal for Highest Standing in a master’s program](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2236)
## **Achievements and awards — 2015**
**Tamer Özsu**, [2015 ACM SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2200)
**Kate Larson**, [2015 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award, CS-Can/Info-Can](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2230)
**Lila Kari**, [Rozenberg Tulip Award in DNA Computing, International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2208)
**Raouf Boutaba**, [Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2199)
**Trevor Grove**, [Honorary Member of the University](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2201)
**David Taylor**, Honorary Member of the University
**Johnny Wong**, Distinguished Professor Emeritus
**Tamer Özsu**, [Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2241)
## Achievements and awards — 2014
**Raouf Boutaba**, McNaughton Medal/IEEE
**Alan George**, [2015 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2227)
**Mark Giesbrecht**, ACM Distinguished Scientist\
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**Tamer Özsu**, Member, Turkish Academy of Science
**Frank Tompa**, [2015 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2227)
**Frank Tompa**, Honorary Degree, Dalhousie University\
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**Carol Fung**, 2013 Alumni Gold Medal (R. Boutaba, supervisor)\
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**Tiffany Inglis**, second place at ACM Student Research Competition (C. Kaplan, supervisor)
## Achievements and awards — 2013
**Raouf Boutaba**, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada\
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**Ondřej Lhoták**, [2012 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award, CS-Can/Info-Can](https://cscan-infocan.ca/ondrej-lhotak/)\
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**Ian Goldberg**, Canada Foundation for Innovation Award\
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**Srinivasan Keshav**, Cisco Chair
**Srinivasan Keshav**,Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery\
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**Doug Stinson**, University Professor\
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**Michael Terry**, MathSoc Instructor of the Year\
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**Henry Shi**, National Co-op Student of the Year Award\
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**Waterloo Black Programing Team: Tyson Andre, Benoit Maurin, and Anton Raichuk**, Bronze Medal at the 2012 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals
## Achievements and awards — 2012
**Raouf Boutaba**, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
**Don Cowan**, Honourary Degree, Doctor of Science, University of Guelph
**Ian Goldberg**, University Research Chair, Canada
**Doug Stinson**, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
**Jeremy Clark**, Doctoral Alumni Gold Medal
**John Champaign, Amit and Meena Chakma**, Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student
**Francisco Claude**, Google U.S./Canada PhD Fellowship in Research and Information Retrieval
**Carol Fung and Jacqueline Mok**, Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships
**The Waterloo Programing Team: Tyson Andre (1A SE), Brian Bi (1A CS),** **and Hanson Wang (2A CS)**, Bronze Medal at the 2012 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals
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## Achievements and awards — 2011
**Richard Cleve**, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
**Don Cowan**, ACM Distinguished Scientist
**Reza Dorrigiv**, Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies
**Ian Goldberg**, [2010 Outstanding Young Computer Researcher Award, CS-Can/Info Can](https://cscan-infocan.ca/ian-goldberg/)
**Ian Goldberg**, [Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/node/2085)
**Ming Li**, Killam Prize
**Tamer Özsu**, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
**Frank Tompa**, Fellow of the ACM
## Achievements and awards — 2010
**Ashraf Aboulnaga**, Ontario Early Researcher Award
**Raouf Boutaba**, IFIP/IEEE Dan Stokesburry Award and the IEEE Communications Society Joseph LoCicero Award
**Don Cowan**, Waterloo Award, the city’s highest civic honour
**Alan George**, Designation SIAM Fellow
**Elyot Grant**, CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
**Ian Goldberg**, Ontario Early Researcher Award
**Ming Li**, Appointed University Professor and Premier’s Discovery Award for Innovation Leadership
**Anna Lubiw**, ACM Distinguished Scientist
**Bin Ma**, [2009 Outstanding Young Computer Researcher Award, CS-Can/Info-Can](https://cscan-infocan.ca/bin-ma/)
**Bin Ma**, Premier’s Catalyst Award for Best Young Innovator
**Barbara Macdonald**, **Somayeh Moazeni**, and **Mona Mojdeh**, named Google Anita Borg Canada Scholarship Finalists
**Troy Vasiga**,Faculty of Mathematics Award for Distinction in Teaching
**Ziyu Wang**, Honourable mention for CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
**Jie Zhang**, Alumni Gold Medal for outstanding performance in a doctoral program
## **A**chievements and awards — 2009
**Ashraf Aboulnaga**, CAS Project of the Year Award
**Margareta Ackerman**, Achievement in Graduate Studies Designation
**Peter van Beek**,Fellow of the AAAI
**Christina Boucher**, Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
**Raouf Boutaba**,Fred W. Ellersick Prize Paper Award
**Richard Cleve**, CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
**Robin Cohen**, Distinction in Teaching Award and the Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision
**Iman Elghandour**,IBM PhD Fellowship
**Alan George**,AIMS Annual Research Prize
**Ric Holt**, Most Influential Paper Award at WCRE
**Ihab Ilyas**,Ontario Early Researcher Award
**Ian Munro**, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
**Pascal Poupart**,Ontario Early Researcher Award
**Claude-Guy Quimper**, Association for Constraint Programming Doctoral Research Award
**Jeff Shallit**,ACM Distinguished Scientist
**Stefaus du Toit**,Young Innovator Award
**John Watrous**,Fellow of the CIFAR
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