The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) selected nine researchers from the University of Waterloo for increased funds to support their research deemed to be novel or potentially transformative, and likely to contribute to groundbreaking advances.
The recipients of the Discovery Accelerator Supplements announced today are among more than 100 researchers at Waterloo who have received more than $20 million to further their research through programs such as Discovery grants and grants for equipment.
“This funding provides a valuable boost to researchers entering a critical phase of their work and supports it at the next level. The results will, in turn, advance technology around the world and the Canadian economy,” said Professor D. George Dixon, vice-president, university research.
Of the nine researchers selected from Waterloo, five are from the Faculty of Mathematics, four of whom belong to the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science.
- Professor Ihab Ilyas: Improving data cleansing and restoration, including scalable and holistic data cleaning, to produce real solutions for business needs.
- Professor Ondrej Lhotak: Developing the underlying techniques that are used in software development tools that enable programmers to work more efficiently, and specifically to find bugs in programs.
- Professor M. Tamer Özsu: Studying techniques for efficient storage and querying of large graphs, such as social networks, and methods for analyzing such graphs, such as finding relationships between people in a social network.
- Professor John Watrous: Investigating the potential of quantum computers, as well as interactions among multiple quantum computers, leading to a better understanding of quantum information and how it can be used in our society.
with files from Waterloo News
