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Monday, January 29, 2024

Meet Professor Shlomi Steinberg, a computer scientist who studies ray and wave optics, light transport and rendering

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Professor Shlomi Steinberg has a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. While pursuing his doctoral degree he was a recipient of an NVIDIA PhD fellowship. He received his MSc in mathematics and computer science from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel under the supervision of Professor David Harel. His master’s research centred on efficient execution and distribution of formally verifiable software paradigms.

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Shai Ben-David, Ian Goldberg named 2023 ACM Fellows

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Professors Shai Ben-David and Ian Goldberg have been named 2023 ACM Fellows. The Association for Computing Machinery is recognizing Professor Ben-David for his contributions to and research leadership in machine learning theory, and Professor Goldberg for his contributions to the development and deployment of privacy enhancing technologies.

Monday, January 22, 2024

Ming Li receives 2024 IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award

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University Professor Ming Li is the 2024 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award, a prestigious honour conferred for his pioneering and enduring contributions to modern information theory and bioinformatics.

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Cheriton School of Computer Science students receive 2024 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards

composite photo of Matthew Yang, Ruidi Wei, Jiawen Zhu, Alex Zhuang

Four students at the Cheriton School of Computer Science are recipients of the Computing Research Association’s 2024 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards. The annual CRA awards program recognizes students from universities across North America who have distinguished themselves by conducting exceptional computer science research as undergrads.

This year, Matthew Yang was a finalist, and Ruidi Wei, Jiawen Zhu and Alex Zhuang each received honourable mentions for their research.

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Daniel Vogel named 2023 ACM Distinguished Member

photo of Professor Daniel Vogel

The Association for Computing Machinery has named Professor Daniel Vogel a Distinguished Member for his fundamental contributions to human-computer interaction and applications of novel forms of interaction. He is among 52 individuals recognized internationally by ACM for their outstanding scientific contributions to computing.

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