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David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professor Joanne Atlee has been appointed as the first director of Women in Computer Science. A long time advocate of supporting women in computer science, Atlee explains that she is happy to take on the role and continue pushing for women to feel comfortable and confident in the field.

PhD candidates Xu Chu (Ihab Ilyas, Database Research) and Laura Inozemtseva (Reid Holmes, Software Architecture), have been invited to join the prestigious Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship Program. 

Ahmed E. Hassan, an alumnus of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been named CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher for 2014.

Urs Hengartner, an associate professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, was quoted in a CBC News Go Public investigation regarding sequencing fraud and credit card security. 

This article originally appeared on Waterloo Stories

By Cherri Greeno
Marketing and Strategic Communications

In a perfect world, computer science Professor Jo Atlee would like to glance around her classroom and see an even mixture of male and female students.

Robert Bridson (BMath '98, MMath '99) has been awarded a Science and Technical Academy Award for "early conceptualization of sparse-tiled voxel data structures and their application to modeling and simulation."

Danny Yaroslavski, a graduate from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science (2014) was named to the Forbes "30 under 30: Education" list, for his work in founding the company Lightbot. Lightbot teaches children ages four and up how to code though gaming. 

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professor Raouf Boutaba, former PhD student Qi Zhang, and former post-doctoral fellow Mohamed Faten Zhani were awarded Best Paper at the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil last week.