Years: 2019, 2018, 2016 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
Achievements and awards — 2019
University Professor Tamer Özsu, 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science from CS-Can/Info-Can
Daniel Vogel, 2018 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award from CS-Can/Info-Can
Robin Cohen, 2019 Distinguished Teacher Award
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 graphics poster award at Graphics Interface 2019
Ian Goldberg, named a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Samer Al-Kiswany, elevated to grade of Senior Member by the IEEE
Visiting PhD student Davit Harutyunyan, PhD candidate Nashid Shahriar, Roberto Riggio and Raouf Boutaba, best student paper award at NetSoft 2019
PhD student 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 student JC Chang, Christopher Batty and Vinicius Azevedo, best poster award at SCA 2019
Jason Amri, first-year CS student, Schulich Leader Scholarship
Raouf Boutaba and Srinivasan Keshav, Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Achievements and awards — 2018
Don Cowan and Ric Holt, 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science from 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 IEEE
WiCS, 2018 Equity and Inclusivity Award
Khuzaima Daudjee, elevated to ACM Senior Member
Mei Nagappan, early career achievement award from Mining Software Repositories Conference
Edward Lank and Tamer Özsu, named 2018 Cheriton Faculty Fellows
Daniel Vogel, Faculty of Mathematics Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award
Robin Cohen, Lifetime Achievement Award from 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
Jason Yuen, Sean Purcell, Joakim Blikstad, first place in 2018 International Collegiate Programming Competition World Finals
Srinivasan Keshav, named IEEE Fellow
Shai Ben-David and colleagues, best paper award at NeurIPS 2018
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
Tamer Ozsu, 2015 ACM SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award
Kate Larson, Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher, Canadian Association of Computer Science
Raouf Boutaba, Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering
Alan George, Lifetime Achievement in Computer Science, Canadian Association of Computer Science
Frank Tompa, Lifetime Achievement in Computer Science, Canadian Association of Computer Science
Trevor Grove, Honorary Member of the University
David Taylor, Honorary Member of the University
Johnny Wong, Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Tamer Ozsu, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
Achievements and awards — 2014
Raouf Boutaba, McNaughton Medal/IEEE
Mark Giesbrecht, ACM Distinguished Scientist
Tamer Ozsu, Member, Turkish Academy of Science
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
Ondrej Lhotak, Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award
Ian Goldberg, Canada Research Chair, Canada Foundation for Innovation Award
Srinivasan Keshav, Cisco Chair, 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
The Waterloo Black Programing Team: Tyson Andre, Benoit
Maurin, and Anton Raichuk, Bronze Medal at the 2012 Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals
Achievements and awards — 2012
Raouf Boutaba, Fellow of the IEEE
Don Cowan, Honourary Degree, Doctor of Science, University of Guelph
Ian Goldberg, Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award
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), won a Bronze Metal at the 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, Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2011
Ming Li, Killam Prize
Bin Ma, Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2010
Tamer Özsu, Fellow of the IEEE
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
Ming Li, Appointed “University Professor” and Premier's Discovery Award for Innovation Leadership
Anna Lubiw, The designation ACM Distinguished Scientist
Bin Ma, The Premier's Catalyst Award for Best Young Innovator
Barbara Macdonald, Somayeh Moazeni, and Mona Mojdeh, named Google Anita Borg Canada Scholarship Finalists
Troy Vasiga, A Faculty of Mathematics Award for Distinction in Teaching
Ziyu Wang, An honourable mention for CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
Jie Zhang, The 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 ACM
Pascal Poupart, Ontario Early Researcher Award
Claude-Guy Quimper, Association for Constraint Programming
Doctoral Research Award
Jeff Shallit, ACM Distinguished Scientist Award
Stefaus du Toit, Young Innovator Award
John Watrous, Fellow of the CIFAR
