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Ondrej Lhotak, Associate Professor with the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science has been named an Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher by the Canadian Association of Computer Science. Lhotak joins Associate Professor Ian Goldberg (2010) and Professor Bin Ma (2009) in a growing list of distinguished faculty members who have won this researcher prize.

For the second year in a row, a student team from the School of Accounting and Finance, including Anqi Wang (CFM '13), took top prize at the CFA Research Challenge. The team will advance to the Americas Regional Competition held in Toronto in March.

Congratulations, Anqi!

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By Beth Gallagher

Communications and Public Affairs

Yuying Li looks deeply into the unpredictable and sometimes catastrophic events that haunt investors.

While her expertise is managing risk, the University of Waterloo computer science professor specializes in how to avoid huge losses on the stock market when random events hit unexpectedly.

The second 2012 Derick Wood Graduate Scholarship has been awarded to Vinayak Pathak. Pathak is a PhD student at the School who is studying for his PhD with Prof. Anna Lubiw. He previously earned his MMath degree under the supervision of Prof.

Professor Srinivasan Keshav of the Cheriton School has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his contributions to computer communication networks and systems.

The School of Accounting and Finance at the University of Waterloo is the second Canadian university to be recognized by the CFA Institute University Recognition Program.

At Facebook’s College Hackathon, Waterloo beats 17 other teams with its social version of Siri.

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CS professor named Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher

CFM student advances to Americas Regional Competition of CFA Research Challenge

Professor Yuying Li warns banks and investment firms to expect the unexpected

Derick Wood Scholar Announced

Keshav Named ACM Fellow

Computing Financial Management program recognized by CFA

Waterloo wins Facebook College Hackathon