Why UofT CS?
The oldest computer science department in Canada, DCS has established itself with a worldwide reputation for excellence in the field. The page lists some of the reasons why.
INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS
The department has consistently topped international rankings:
- 2011: The QS World University Rankings named DCS 10th CS program in the world
- 2011: The Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai) rankings named DCS as 10th in the world (we have placed in the Top Ten since they started ranking Computer Science in 2009)
- 2011: US News & World Report named U of T 10th in Computer Science
- 2011: Re$earch Infosource Inc's #1 Research University of the Year was the University of Toronto
- 2011: Newsweek ranked University of Toronto as a top international school
RECENT INDUSTRIAL SUCCESSES
- Past faculty member Songnian Zhou's Platform Computing Corporation was acquired by IBM (2011)
- Alumnus Ameet Shah's Five Mobile was picked up by Zynga (2011)
- Alumnus Shahzad Malik's CognoVision was acquired by Intel (2010)
- Current faculty member Nick Koudas and alumnus Nilesh Bansal sold their company Sysomos to Marketwire (2010)
- Alumnus Anand Agarawala's BumpTop acquired by Google (2010)
- Cloud technology company Gridcentric launched by members of the department's Systems & Networks Lab (2009)
AWARDS
Our faculty are consistently honoured with the top awards in the field of Computer Science; below are some highlights:
- Turing Award: Stephen Cook
- Herzberg Medal: Geoffrey Hinton
- ACM Fellows: Stephen Cook, C.C. Gotlieb, J.N. Hume, Renee Miller
- Fellow of the Royal Society: Stephen Cook, Geoffrey Hinton
- Steacie Prize: Aaron Hertzmann
- Sloan Award: Mark Braverman, Michael Brudno, Ravin Balakrishnan, Aaron Hertzmann, Kiriakos Kutulakos, Michael Molloy, David Fleet
- Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Early Researcher Awards: Ravin Balakrishnan, Michael Brudno, Sven Dickinson, Yashar Ganjali, Aaron Hertzmann, Nick Koudas, Kyros Kutulakos, Leonid Libkin, Sheila McIlraith, Renee Miller, Mike Molloy, Gerald Penn, Toni Pitassi, Karan Singh
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements: Ravin Balakrishnan, Marsha Chechik, Eyal de Lara, Aaron Hertzmann, Kyros Kutulakos, Sheila McIlraith, Renee Miller, Michael Molloy, Toni Pitassi, Karan Singh, Daniel Wigdor, Rich Zemel
Our students are also earning accolades for their fantastic work:
- Jorge Baier was awarded the Honorable Mention for the Best Dissertation Award at ICAPS 2011
- Alex Levinshtein was awarded the CIPPRS Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2010
- PhD graduate Daniel Vogel received the 2010 Bill Buxton Best Canadian HCI Dissertation Award
- PhD grad Martin de Lasa was awarded the 2010 CAIAC dissertation prize
- PhD graduate Andres Lagar-Cavilla won the 2010 NSERC Doctoral Prize
- Ilya Sutskever was the first Canadian to win the Google Fellowship in 2010
- PhD grad Mark Braverman was awarded the 2009 NSERC Doctoral Prize
WHERE OUR PhD and MSc GRADUATES GO (Just some examples!)
- Academia (faculty positions): Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Catholic University of Chile, Cornell University, Duke University, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, MIT, McGill University, McMaster University, National University of Singapore, Princeton University, University of California, University College London, University of Maryland, University of Massachusetts (Amherst), University of Washington
- Industry: Autodesk, AMD, Bank of Montreal Financial Group, Bansal Hospital, Citibank, GE Transportation Systems, Google, IBMC Research, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft Research, Max Planck Institute, MDA Space Missions, Nokia Research