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Awards & Honours

Ishtiaque Ahmed receives 2023 Google Award for Inclusion Research

Ishtiaque Ahmed receives 2023 Google Award for Inclusion Research

Assistant Professor Ishtiaque Ahmed is exploring ways to better serve rural communities in the Global South that integrate their traditional data curation practices with modern data-driven systems and AI applications. 

Team including U of T computer scientists wins ISSS 2023 Scientific Achievement Award for work on CERN Large Hadron Collider safety system

Team including U of T computer scientists wins ISSS 2023 Scientific Achievement Award for work on CERN Large Hadron Collider safety system

Professor Marsha Chechik and PhD student Torin Viger are among a team of researchers recognized with the 2023 Scientific Achievement Award from the International System Safety Society. 

Computer Science PhD students win 2023 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship with machine learning optimization project

Computer Science PhD students win 2023 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship with machine learning optimization project

Yaoyao Ding and Bojian Zheng have been awarded a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for their proposal, “Dynamic Deep Neural Network Compilation.” 

Two PhD alumni honoured with dissertation awards at ICAPS 2023

Two PhD alumni honoured with dissertation awards at ICAPS 2023

Recent PhD graduates Alberto Camacho and Rodrigo Toro Icarte were recognized for their doctoral theses at the 2023 International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling.  

Influential Paper Award: International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2022)

Influential Paper Award: International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2022)

Alumnus Christian Muise and professors Sheila McIlraith and J. Christopher Beck received an Influential Paper Award for their 2012 paper, “Improved Non-deterministic Planning by Exploiting State Relevance.” 

Richard Zemel receives 2023 CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award

Richard Zemel receives 2023 CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award

The Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association has presented Professor Richard Zemel with a 2023 CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding research excellence in artificial intelligence during his academic career.  

Award-winning text visualization research aims to support health-care workers navigating patient records

Award-winning text visualization research aims to support health-care workers navigating patient records

PhD graduate Nicole Sultanum has received the 2022 Bill Buxton Dissertation Award from the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society.  

‘It’s given me huge encouragement’: PhD grad wins 2022 Alain Fournier Dissertation Award for geometry processing research on stylization algorithms

‘It’s given me huge encouragement’: PhD grad wins 2022 Alain Fournier Dissertation Award for geometry processing research on stylization algorithms

Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu has been awarded the 2022 Alain Fournier Dissertation Award for his outstanding doctoral dissertation in computer graphics.  

Alec Jacobson wins CS-Can/Info-Can Outstanding Early Career Computer Science Research Award

Alec Jacobson wins CS-Can/Info-Can Outstanding Early Career Computer Science Research Award

Alec Jacobson has been named a 2022 recipient of the Outstanding Early Career Computer Science Research Award. The honour recognizes CS faculty members at Canadian universities who have made significant contributions early in their academic careers.

Transforming education through AI-powered adaptive experiments: U of T computer scientists’ team wins XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge

Transforming education through AI-powered adaptive experiments: U of T computer scientists’ team wins XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge

The Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator, led by Assistant Professor Joseph Jay Williams, aims to design inclusive and personalized learning experiences. 

U of T computer science students ‘level up’ at game design showcase

U of T computer science students ‘level up’ at game design showcase

Competing against dozens of teams from across Ontario, U of T video game design students took home top honours at the 10th anniversary edition of the Level Up Showcase.  

Computer Science faculty members awarded Catalyst Grants from Data Sciences Institute

Computer Science faculty members awarded Catalyst Grants from Data Sciences Institute

Department of Computer Science faculty members are among the 2023 recipients of the Data Sciences Institute’s Catalyst Grant competition. The grants are awarded to multidisciplinary collaborative research teams focused on harnessing the transformative nature of data sciences.