Years: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009
Achievements and awards — 2022
Undergraduates Nicholas Vadivelu (runner up), Kelvin Jiang (finalist), Sourav Biswas and Vikram Subramanian (honourable mentions), Computing Research Association’s 2022 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards
Axelar (co-founded by Sergey Gorbunov), raises $35 million USD Series B funding
Master’s student Cheryl Lao, 2022 Adobe Research Women-in-Technology Scholarship
PhD student Greg Philbrick, Faculty of Mathematics Graduate Research Excellence Award
Waterloo teams Gold, Black and White, among top 10 at the East Central NA Regional International Collegiate Programming Contest
Jo Atlee, 2022 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award
Chengnian Sun with colleagues Yuan Tian and David Lo, Most Influential Paper Award, SANER 2022
PhD alumnus Mazen Melibari, among the 30 most prominent AI experts in Arab world, MIT Technology Review (Arabic version)
Former CS students Griffin Keglevich and Ruslan Nikolaev (co-founders of Float), Float named among 2022 C100 Fellows
PhD graduate Akshay Ramachandran, 2022 Mathematics Doctoral Prize (second place)
PhD graduate Ryan Goldade, 2021 Alain Fournier Award
Master’s student Sabrina Mokhtari, 2022 Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence
PhD graduate Shihab Chowdhury, NOMS 2022 Best Dissertation Award
PhD student Soheil Johari, with Raouf Boutaba, Nashid Shahriar, Massimo Tornatore and Aladdin Saleh, NOMS 2022 Best Student Paper Award
PhD students Muhammad Sulaiman and Arash Moayyedi, Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Raouf Boutaba and Aladdin Saleh, NOMS 2022 Best Paper Award
Shane McIntosh, 2022 Early Researcher Award
Undergraduate Daekun Kim, 2022 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award
Chris Trevisan (first-year CS), Wen Yuen Pang (second-year CS) and Marian Dietz (CS master’s student), second within east division and fourth overall in 2022 ICPC North America Championship (will advance to ICPC World Finals)
Undergraduate Leni Venn, Governor General’s Silver Medal
University Professor Ming Li, elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
Robin Cohen, Khuzaima Daudjee, Ian Goldberg, Jesse Hoey, Florian Kerschbaum, Jimmy Lin, Victoria Sakhnini and Dave Tompkins, 2021 Outstanding Performance Award
PhD student Anil Pacaci, M. Tamer Özsu, colleague Angela Bonifati, Best Paper Award, ICDE 2022
PhD student David Radke, Tim Brecht, and colleague Daniel Radke, Best Research Paper Award, LINHAC 2022
Florian Kerschbaum, 2022 Faculty of Mathematics Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award
Samer Al-Kiswany, 2022 ACM Senior Member
Achievements and awards — 2021
Ihab Ilyas, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Maura Grossman, Shira Scheindlin Lifetime Achievement Award, Ediscovery Hero Awards
Ming Li, 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can
Mei Nagappan, 2020 Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award, CS-Can/Info-Can
MMath graduate Simeon Krastnikov, 2021 Huawei Prize for Best Research Paper
Waterloo Black (Ildar Gainullin, Jason Yuen and Wesley Leung), top spot at East Central North America International Collegiate Programming Contest
Arbitrium (Greg Maxin, 4B CS, Ahmed Hamodi, 4A SE), Concept $5K Winner
Waterloo Black (Ildar Gainullin, Jason Yuen and Wesley Leung), second place at 2021 ICPC North America Division Championships
PhD candidate Ahmed Alquraan, 2021 IBM PhD Fellowship
PhD graduates Mike Schaekermann, Hong Zhou and Fiodar Kazhamiaka, Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Awards
PhD graduate Nashid Shahriar, 2021 Mathematics Doctoral Prize
MMath students Alex Bie, Matt Regehr, Xinyu Shi and Yiping Wang, Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence
Bin Ma, University Research Chair
PhD graduate Mike Schaekermann, 2020 Distinguished Dissertation Award from CS-Can|Info-Can
Undergraduate CS student Nicholas Vadivelu, 2021 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award
PhD candidate Shenghao Yang, Borealis AI 2020–2021 Fellowship
Byron Weber Becker, Eric Blais, Raouf Boutaba, Lori Case, Ihab Ilyas, Anna Lubiw and Pascal Poupart, 2020 Outstanding Performance Award
MMath graduate Abbas Abou Daya, Research Professors Mohammad A. Salahuddin and Noura Limam, and Raouf Boutaba, 2021 CNOM best paper award
PhD candidate Brad Glasbergen, recent CS graduate Fangyu Wu, and Khuzaima Daudjee, Best Demonstration Award, 2021 ACM SIGMOD/PODS
MMath graduate Iman Akbari with Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Leni Ven, Noura Limam, Raouf Boutaba, Bertrand Mathieu, Stephanie Moteau and Stephane Tuffin, Best Student Paper Award, SIGMETRICS 2021
Peter Forsyth with Ken Vetzal and Graham Westmacott, 2021 Brockett–Shapiro Actuarial Journal Award
Eric Blais, Early Researcher Award
Postdoctoral researcher Leili Rafiee Sevyeri, 2021 ACA Early Researcher Award
Undergraduates Ildar Gainullin, Jason Yuen and Wesley Leung, first place, 2021 ICPC North America Division Championship
M. Tamer Özsu, 2022 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award
Undergraduates Saptarshi Bhattacherya, Alicia Bremer, Andrew Dong, Heidi Hon, Kushal Mujral and Eric Pei, 2021 Schulich Leaders
Cheriton School of Computer Science, Top Computer Science Program in Canada, Maclean’s 2022 university rankings
PhD graduate Shihabur R. Chowdhury, 2021 Alumni Gold Medal
Ihab Ilyas, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Former CS undergraduate Vitalik Buterin, Forbes 30 under 30 hall of fame
Achievements and awards — 2020
Undergraduate students Steven Feng and Shannon Veitch, Honorable Mention, CRA 2020 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards
PhD candidate Amine Mhedhbi, 2020 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
MMath graduate Jason Hu and Ondřej Lhoták, Distinguished Paper Award, POPL 2020
Ming Li and his coauthor Paul Vitanyi, textbook on Kolmogorov complexity, 2020 McGuffey Longevity Award
Wes Graham, 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award conferred posthumously, CS-Can/Info-Can
Florian Kerschbaum, 2019 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award, CS-Can/Info-Can
W. Morven Gentleman (University of Waterloo CS faculty member, 1969–1983), 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award conferred posthumously, CS-Can/Info-Can
Hugh Williams (Waterloo alumnus, and Waterloo's first PhD graduate in computer science, 1969), 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award, CS-Can/Info-Can
Shai Ben-David, University Research Chair
Undergraduate CS student Shivam Sharma, Concept $5K pitch competition winner
Recent PhD graduate Priyank Jaini, second place, Faculty of Mathematics Doctoral Prize competition
Recent CS graduate Steven Feng, Honourable Mention, 2020 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
MMath students Solaiappan Alagappan, Daniel Herman, Wanxin Li and Blake VanBerlo, Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence
Women in Computer Science, NSERC PromoScience Program Grant
Maura R. Grossman, Faculty Teaching Award, York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School
Recent CS graduate Jameson Weng, Governor General’s Silver Medal
Edward Lank, Kate Larson, Ondřej Lhoták, M. Tamer Özsu, Peter van Beek and Troy Vasiga, 2019 Outstanding Performance Award
PhD candidates Brad Glasbergen and Michael Abebe, and Khuzaima Daudjee, Daniel Vogel and Jian Zhao, Best Demonstration Award, 2020 ACM SIGMOD Conference
Sergey Gorbunov, Gautam Kamath and Jian Zhao, NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements
Undergraduate SE student Vikram Subramanian, ACM Student Research Competition, Undergraduate Division
Master’s graduates Rahul Iyer and S. Alex Yun, and Mei Nagappan and Jesse Hoey, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Artifact Award
PhD candidate Stavros Birmpilis, Distinguished Student Author Award, ISSAC 2020
PhD candidate Hung Pham, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ASE 2020
Undergraduates Anish Aggarwal, Jacob Mausberg, Jason Xiong, Peter Zhu and Yashvardhan Mulki, 2020 Schulich Leaders
Jeffrey Shallit, Elected to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Cheriton School of Computer Science, Top Computer Science Program in Canada, Maclean’s 2021 university rankings
Recent PhD graduate Nashid Shahriar, 2020 Alumni Gold Medal
N. Asokan and his colleagues (Ian Liu, Assistant Professor at Zhejiang University, Wenting Li, Senior Software Developer at NEC Laboratories Europe, Ghassan Karame, Manager and Chief researcher of Security Group of NEC Laboratories Europe), 2019 Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Computers
Shalev Ben-David and Eric Blais, Best Paper Award, FOCS 2020
M. Tamer Özsu, named Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University
Achievements and awards — 2019
Tamer Özsu, 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can
Daniel Vogel, 2018 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award, CS-Can/Info-Can
Robin Cohen, 2019 Distinguished Teacher Award, University of Waterloo
PhD candidates Nik Unger and Ahmed Alquraan, 2019 Huawei Prize for Best Research Paper
Undergrad CS students Jason Williamson, Bing Xu Hu and Rebecca Brown, Inaugural Pasupalak Velocity CS Capstone Award
Kate Larson, University Research Chair
Kevin Hyun, 2019 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award
Jesse Hoey, 2019 Outstanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology Award
Eldon Sprickerhoff (BMath ’91), 2019 J.W. Graham Medal in Computing & Innovation
PhD candidate Xiang Fang and Stephen Mann, best poster award at Graphics Interface 2019
Pascal Poupart, Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Ian Goldberg, tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Samer Al-Kiswany, elevated to grade of Senior Member by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Visiting PhD student Davit Harutyunyan, PhD candidate Nashid Shahriar, Roberto Riggio and Raouf Boutaba, best student paper award at NetSoft 2019
PhD candidate Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, recent master’s graduate Anthony Anthony, and master’s students Haibo Bian and Tim Bai, and Raouf Boutaba, best paper award at NetSoft 2019
Md Faizul Bari, inaugural Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award
Charlie Clarke, Gordon Cormack, Olga Vechtomova, and their former graduate students, 2019 ACM SIGIR Test of Time Award
Ian Goldberg, and colleagues David Wagner, Randi Thomas and Eric Brewer, 2019 USENIX Security Test of Time Award
PhD candidate JC Chang, Christopher Batty and Vinicius Azevedo, best poster award at SCA 2019
Jason Amri, first-year CS student, Schulich Leader Scholarship
Raouf Boutaba, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Srinivasan Keshav, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Vic DiCiccio, Honorary Member of the University of Waterloo
Florian Kerschbaum, ACM Distinguished Member
Florian Kerschbaum, NSERC/RBC Industrial Research Chair in Data Security
Undergraduates Timothy Li, Wesley Leung and Arash Bigoldi, first place at 2019 East Central North America ICPC regional contest
PhD candidate Nashid Shahriar, recent master’s graduate Sepehr Taeb, PhD candidates Shihabur R. Chowdhury and Mubeen Zulfiqar, Massimo Tornatore, Raouf Boutaba, Huawei Technologies Canada research partners Jeebak Mitra and Mahdi Hemmati, best paper award at CNSM 2019
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Johnny Wong, Ye Hu, Marin Litoiu and Gabriel Iszlai, most influential paper award for research presented 10 years ago at CASCON 2009
Shai Ben-David and Yaoliang Yu, Canada CIFAR AI Chairs
Maura R. Grossman, named National and Global eDiscovery Leader by Who’s Who Legal 2020
Achievements and awards — 2018
N. Asokan, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
N. Asokan, ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) Outstanding Innovation Award
Don Cowan, 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can
Ric Holt, 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can
Maura Grossman, named by Obelisk as one of top six women in law changing the legal industry
Tamer Özsu, University Professor
Khuzaima Daudjee, elevated to grade of Senior Member by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
PhD candidate Michael Cormier, Murray Martin Prize for Best Research Paper by a Mathematics Graduate Student
Women in Computer Science, 2018 Equity and Inclusivity Award
Khuzaima Daudjee, ACM Senior Member
Mei Nagappan, early career achievement award from Mining Software Repositories Conference
Daniel Vogel, Faculty of Mathematics Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award
PhD candidate Michael Abebe, 2018 Facebook Emerging Scholar Award
Robin Cohen, Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association
Ian Goldberg, PhD candidate Nik Unger and colleagues, best paper awards at PETS 2018
PhD candidate Joseph Haraldson, ACM SIGSAM Distinguished Student Author Award at ISSAC 2018
John Brzozowski, Lila Kari, Bai Li and Marek Szykuła, Sheng Yu Award at CIAA 2018
PhD candidates Siddhartha Sahu and Amine Mhedhbi, Semih Salihoglu, Tamer Özsu and Jimmy Lin, VLDB 2018 Best Paper Award
Master’s student Aayush Rajasekaran, Jeffrey Shallit, Parthasarathy Madhusudan and Dirk Nowotka, EATCS Best Paper Award at MFCS 2018
First-year CS student Joey Yu, Gold medal at 2018 IOI
Postdoctoral fellow Andrew Kane, MMath graduate Dallas Fraser and Frank Tompa, best paper award at DocEng 2018
PhD candidate Yuhao Dong, master’s candidate Woojung Kim and Raouf Boutaba, best student paper award at Blockchain-2018
Katherine Gotovsky, 2018 Loran Scholar
Maura Grossman, named Leading Individual in Canada by Who’s Who Legal 2018 for contributions to eDiscovery
PhD candidate Mike Schaekermann, Joslin Goh, Kate Larson and Edith Law, best paper award at CSCW 18
Amir-Hossein Karimi, Alumni Gold Medal
Ali Abedi and Mohammad Mazaheri, first place at ACM MobiCom 2018
Waterloo Back: Jason Yuen, Sean Purcell and Joakim Blikstad, first place in 2018 ICPC East Central North America Regional Contest
Srinivasan Keshav, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Shai Ben-David and colleagues, best paper award at NeurIPS 2018
Achievements and awards — 2017
Janusz A. (John) Brzozowski, 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can
J. Ian Munro, 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can
N. Asokan, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Ian Goldberg, ACM Distinguished Member
Ken Salem, ACM Distinguished Member
Daniel Vogel, Early Researcher Award
Peter Forsyth, Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Ihab Ilyas, named Vice-chair of ACM SIGMOD
Srinivasan Keshav, elevated to grade of Senior Member by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Raouf Boutaba, PhD candidates Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury and Nashid Shahriar, postdoctoral fellows Sara Ayoubi and Reaz Ahmed and colleagues Jeebak Mitra and Liu Liu, best paper award at CNSM 2017
Jeff Orchard and undergraduate CS student Louis Castricato, best paper award at ICONIP 2017
M. Tamer Özsu, named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Troy Vasiga, ACM Senior Member
Master’s student Corey Sinnamon and John Brzozowski, Sheng Yu Award for best paper at CIAA 2017
PhD graduate Martin Derka, Therese Biedl and colleagues Markus Chimani and Petra Mutzel, best paper award at ISAAC 2017
Maura Grossman, pioneering contributions to e-Discovery and legal technology by the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists and Women in eDiscovery
Maura Grossman, 2017 Fastcase 50 award
Rudi Chen, Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Don Cowan and Kyle Young, Award of Merit from the Volunteer Action Centre of Kitchener Waterloo and Area
Jesse Hoey, Tobias Schröder and Kimberly Rogers, 2017 Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association, and Outstanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology Paper Award
Achievements and awards — 2016
Michael Godfrey, Most Influential Paper, IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, Reengineering
Ken Salem, Best Paper, 2015 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2015
Khuzaima Daudjee, Best Paper, 2015 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2015
Ashraf Aboulnaga, Best Paper, 2015 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2015
Shai Ben-David, Best Paper, Transfer and Multi-Task Learning Workshop 2015
David Toman, 2016 Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize
Grant Weddell, 2016 Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize
Therese Biedl, 2015 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement
Lap Chi Lau, 2015 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement
Bin Ma, 2016 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement
Timothy Chan, 2016 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement
Jimmy Lin, 2016 NSERC Discover Accelerator Supplement
Minyang (Young) Han, 2016 Governor General’s Gold Medal for Highest Standing in a master’s program
Achievements and awards — 2015
Tamer Özsu, 2015 ACM SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award
Kate Larson, 2015 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award, CS-Can/Info-Can
Raouf Boutaba, Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering
Trevor Grove, Honorary Member of the University
David Taylor, Honorary Member of the University
Johnny Wong, Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Tamer Özsu, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
Achievements and awards — 2014
Raouf Boutaba, McNaughton Medal/IEEE
Alan George, 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can
Mark Giesbrecht, ACM Distinguished Scientist
Tamer Özsu, Member, Turkish Academy of Science
Frank Tompa, 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can/Info-Can
Frank Tompa, Honorary Degree, Dalhousie University
Carol Fung, 2013 Alumni Gold Medal (R. Boutaba, supervisor)
Tiffany Inglis, second place at ACM Student Research Competition (C. Kaplan, supervisor)
Achievements and awards — 2013
Raouf Boutaba, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada
Ondřej Lhoták, 2012 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award, CS-Can/Info-Can
Ian Goldberg, Canada Foundation for Innovation Award
Srinivasan Keshav, Cisco Chair
Srinivasan Keshav, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Doug Stinson, University Professor
Michael Terry, MathSoc Instructor of the Year
Henry Shi, National Co-op Student of the Year Award
Waterloo Black Programing Team: Tyson Andre, Benoit Maurin, and Anton Raichuk, Bronze Medal at the 2012 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals
Achievements and awards — 2012
Raouf Boutaba, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Don Cowan, Honourary Degree, Doctor of Science, University of Guelph
Ian Goldberg, University Research Chair, Canada
Doug Stinson, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Jeremy Clark, Doctoral Alumni Gold Medal
John Champaign, Amit and Meena Chakma, Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student
Francisco Claude, Google U.S./Canada PhD Fellowship in Research and Information Retrieval
Carol Fung and Jacqueline Mok, Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships
The Waterloo Programing Team: Tyson Andre (1A SE), Brian Bi (1A CS), and Hanson Wang (2A CS), Bronze Medal at the 2012 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals
Achievements and awards — 2011
Richard Cleve, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Don Cowan, ACM Distinguished Scientist
Reza Dorrigiv, Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies
Ian Goldberg, 2010 Outstanding Young Computer Researcher Award, CS-Can/Info Can
Ian Goldberg, Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award
Ming Li, Killam Prize
Tamer Özsu, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Frank Tompa, Fellow of the ACM
Achievements and awards — 2010
Ashraf Aboulnaga, Ontario Early Researcher Award
Raouf Boutaba, IFIP/IEEE Dan Stokesburry Award and the IEEE Communications Society Joseph LoCicero Award
Don Cowan, Waterloo Award, the city’s highest civic honour
Alan George, Designation SIAM Fellow
Elyot Grant, CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
Ian Goldberg, Ontario Early Researcher Award
Ming Li, Appointed University Professor and Premier’s Discovery Award for Innovation Leadership
Anna Lubiw, ACM Distinguished Scientist
Bin Ma, 2009 Outstanding Young Computer Researcher Award, CS-Can/Info-Can
Bin Ma, Premier’s Catalyst Award for Best Young Innovator
Barbara Macdonald, Somayeh Moazeni, and Mona Mojdeh, named Google Anita Borg Canada Scholarship Finalists
Troy Vasiga, Faculty of Mathematics Award for Distinction in Teaching
Ziyu Wang, Honourable mention for CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
Jie Zhang, Alumni Gold Medal for outstanding performance in a doctoral program
Achievements and awards — 2009
Ashraf Aboulnaga, CAS Project of the Year Award
Margareta Ackerman, Achievement in Graduate Studies Designation
Peter van Beek, Fellow of the AAAI
Christina Boucher, Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
Raouf Boutaba, Fred W. Ellersick Prize Paper Award
Richard Cleve, CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
Robin Cohen, Distinction in Teaching Award and the Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision
Iman Elghandour, IBM PhD Fellowship
Alan George, AIMS Annual Research Prize
Ric Holt, Most Influential Paper Award at WCRE
Ihab Ilyas, Ontario Early Researcher Award
Ian Munro, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Pascal Poupart, Ontario Early Researcher Award
Claude-Guy Quimper, Association for Constraint Programming Doctoral Research Award
Jeff Shallit, ACM Distinguished Scientist
Stefaus du Toit, Young Innovator Award
John Watrous, Fellow of the CIFAR
