M. Tamer Özsu's Awards

Fellow, Balsillie School of International Affairs, 2022
IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award, 2022
Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), 2022
CS-Can/Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award, 2019
University Professor, University of Waterloo, 2018
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2017
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 2016
Elected Member, The Science Academy, Turkey, 2013
Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2006
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010
University Research Chair, University of Waterloo, 2004–2011
ACM Distinguished Lecturer, 2007–2014
IBM CAS Canada Research Faculty Fellow, 2010–present
Cheriton Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, 2013–2016; 2018–2021; 2021–2024
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada Discovery Accelerator Award, 2013
University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award, 2004, 2009, 2014
Ohio State University College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award, 2008
ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award, 2006
Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, 2000–2003
McCalla Professor, University of Alberta, 1993–1994
Sigma Xi – Scientific Research Society Member, 1994–present
NATO Ph.D. scholarship through TÜ̈BITAK–The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, 1979–1983

Test-of-Time Award, ACM SIGMOD (2015) for paper
- Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories, L. Chen, M. T. Özsu, and V. Oria, appeared in Proc. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2005, pages 491-502.
Best Paper Award, 38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (2022) for paper
- Evaluating Complex Queries on Streaming Graphs, A. Pacaci, A. Bonifati, and M.T. Özsu
Best Paper Award, 44th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (2018) for paper
- The Ubiquity of Large Graphs and Surprising Challenges of Graph Processing, S. Dahu, A. Mhedhbi, S. Salihoglu, J. Lin, M.T. Özsu
Best Paper Award, 23rd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2018) for paper
- Multi-Query optimization in Federated RDF Systems, P. Peng, L. Zou, M.T. Özsu
Best Paper Award Honourable Mention, 29th International Conference on Data Engineering (2013) for paper
- Main-Memory Hash Joins on Multi-Core CPUs: Tuning to the Underlying Hardware, C. Balkesen, J. Teubner, G. Alonso, and M.T. Özsu