Leqi (Jimmy) Zhu
Leqi (Jimmy) Zhu (PhD 2019 Computer Science) is the recipient of the 2019 Canadian Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award from CS-Can/Info-Can, a national, non-profit society dedicated to representing all aspects of computer science. The annual award recognizes excellence in research and writing in a doctoral dissertation.
Zhu’s dissertation, entitled On the Space Complexity of Colourless Tasks, “comprises some of the most significant research results in the last decade in the area of distributed computing,” according to CS-Can/Info-Can’s award announcement.
Zhu’s supervisor, Professor Faith Ellen, nominated him for the award. In her nomination, she wrote, “This thesis contains a number of highly original results, has completely solved a longstanding open problem in the theory of distributed computing, has substantially improved a lower bound for another important problem, and has opened a new research direction within this field.”