Forbes Burkowski
Associate Professor Emeritus

519-888-4567, ext. 34445
Link to Personal Website or CV:
Group(s):
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
Jonathan Buss
Professor Emeritus

Degrees
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1986)
- B.Sc., California Institute of Technology (1982)
Research interests
- Computational complexity and models of feasible computation
Publications
Link to Personal Website or CV:
Group(s):
Faculty→Emeritus
Edward Chan
Associate Professor Emeritus

Donald Cowan
Distinguished Professor Emeritus

519-888-4690 or 519-888-4567, ext. 84690
Location:
DC 2555C
Degrees
- D.Sc. (honoris causa), University of Guelph (2011)
- Ph.D., University of Waterloo (1965)
- M.Sc., University of Waterloo (1961)
- B.A.Sc., University of Toronto (1960)
- Software engineering methods for constructing and verifying advanced software systems and applications
- Development of advanced software systems and applications incorporating novel database systems and artificial intelligence components
Link to Personal Website or CV:
Group(s):
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
William Cowan
Associate Professor Emeritus

519-888-4567, ext. 34527
Location:
DC 2111
Link to Personal Website or CV:
Group(s):
Faculty→Emeritus
Chrysanne DiMarco
Professor Emerita

Location:
DC 1308
Publications
Link to Personal Website or CV:
Group(s):
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
Peter Forsyth
Distinguished Professor Emeritus

519-888-4567, ext. 34415
Location:
DC 3622
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of Western Ontario (1979)
- M.Sc., Australian National University, Australia (1977)
- B.Sc., University of Western Ontario (1975)
- Computational finance
- Machine learning methods for optimal stochastic control in finance
Link to Personal Website or CV:
Group(s):
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
Keith Geddes
Professor Emeritus
Alan George
Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Degrees
- Ph.D., Stanford University (1971)
- M.Sc., University of Alberta (1966)
- B.Sc., University of Alberta (1964)
- My primary focus is the (numerous and varied) problems associated with solving very large sparse systems of equations
- Some examples include analysis of the complexity of certain algorithms, numerical stability issues, design of efficient data structures, design of software packages with good user interfaces, and automatic identification of exploitable parallelism in sparse matrix computations
Link to Personal Website or CV:
Group(s):
Faculty→Emeritus
Anna Lubiw
Professor Emerita

Degrees
- Ph.D., University of Toronto (1986)
- M.Math., University of Waterloo (1982)
- B.Sc., University of Toronto (1979)
- Algorithms, specifically computation geometry, graph algorithms and graph drawing
- Current topics include reconfiguration, triangulations of planar point sets, shortest path algorithms, and folding and unfolding problems
Link to Personal Website or CV:
Group(s):
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
Ian McKillop
Associate Professor Emeritus

Link to Personal Website or CV:
Group(s):
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
Ian Munro
Professor Emeritus

519-888-4567, ext. 34433
Location:
DC 2343
Feature article
University Professor Ian Munro’s Golden Jubilee — 50 years at the University of Waterloo
Degrees
- PhD, Computer Science, University of Toronto (1971)
- MSc, University of British Columbia
-
BA, University of New Brunswick
Research interests
- Data structures, particularly fast and space-efficient structures
- Design, analysis and implementation of algorithms
- Database systems and data warehousing, particularly efficiency issues
Publications
Link to Personal Website or CV:
Group(s):
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
Doug Stinson
Professor Emeritus

Degrees
- Ph.D., University of Waterloo (1981)
- M.Sc., Ohio State University, United States (1980)
- B.Math., University of Waterloo (1978)
- Cryptography and security: unconditionally secure cryptographic protocols, including secret sharing and authentication
- Combinatorics: construction and analysis of combinatorial designs, error correcting codes, orthogonal arrays
- Algorithms: algorithms to construct and analyze combinatorial structures
Link to Personal Website or CV:
Group(s):
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
David Taylor
Professor Emeritus

519-888-4567, ext. 34432
Location:
DC 3511
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of Waterloo (1977)
- M.Math., University of Waterloo (1974)
- B.Sc., University of Saskatchewan (1972)
- Distributed computer systems, focusing on the debugging and monitoring of distributed applications by viewing their execution histories as being fundamentally a partially ordered set of events
- Software fault tolerance, especially robust implementations of data structures
Link to Personal Website or CV:
Group(s):
Faculty→Emeritus
Frank Tompa
Distinguished Professor Emeritus

519-888-4567, ext. 34675
Location:
DC 1313
Degrees
- LL.D., Dalhousie University (2013)
- Ph.D., University of Toronto (1974)
- M.Sc., Brown University, United States (1970)
- B.Sc., Brown University, United States (1970)
- Database dependency theory, storage structure selection, query processing, materialized view maintenance, database integration, data retention, and access control
- Text management systems, text matching, XML processing, information retrieval, structured text conversion, and text classification
- Mathematics (text and formula) information retrieval
Link to Personal Website or CV:
Group(s):
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
Peter van Beek
Professor Emeritus

519-888-4567, ext. 35344
Location:
DC 3354
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of Waterloo (1990)
- M.Math., University of Waterloo (1986)
- B.Sc., University of British Columbia (1984)
- Artificial intelligence with a focus on representation and reasoning, constraint programming, constraint satisfaction, backtracking algorithms, planning, scheduling, combinatorial optimization, applied machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, and applications of artificial intelligence
- A recent additional interest is algorithms and techniques in computational photography
Link to Personal Website or CV:
Group(s):
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
Johnny Wong
Distinguished Professor Emeritus

519-888-4567, ext. 34431
Location:
DC 3502
Link to Personal Website or CV:
Group(s):
Faculty→Emeritus