The David R. Cheriton Faculty Fellowships are a prestigious recognition. The awards support the work of leading faculty in computer science with an emphasis on supporting research that addresses problems associated with designing and implementing efficient and reliable computing systems, along with their effective integration.
These fellowships help the University of 蓝莓视频 and the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science continue their innovations in information technology teaching and research.
Current Cheriton Faculty Fellows
2024鈥2027
Lila Kari
Lila Kari is Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, where she moved from her previously held position in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario (1993-2017). She received her M.Sc. in 1987 from the University of Bucharest, Romania, and her Ph.D. in 1991 for her thesis 鈥淥n Insertions and Deletions in Formal Languages,鈥 for which she received the 听for the best doctoral thesis in mathematics thesis in Finland.
Author of more than 250 peer reviewed articles, Professor Kari is a recognized expert in the area of biomolecular computation, that is using biological, chemical and other natural systems to perform computations. In 2015 she received the Rozenberg Tulip Award for the DNA Computer Scientist of the Year, awarded at the 21st International conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming, Harvard University, USA , for her contributions in advancing formal theoretical models and exemplary leadership in the field. The award is presented by the International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering, ISNSCE, annually and recognizes a prominent scientist who has shown continuous contributions, pioneering, original contributions, and who has influenced the development of the field.
She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal (theory of natural computing), as well as Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Natural Computing Series. She has served as Steering Committee Chair for the听conference series, as Steering Committee member for the听 conference series, as well as on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the .听She serves on the editorial board of the journal and , on the advisory board for the EATCS-Springer series 听and , and was section editor for the .
She has additionally served as a member of the Board of Directors of the , the , on the NSERC Grant Selection Committee on Computing and Information Systems, the NSERC Herzberg-Brockhouse-Polanyi Prize joint selection committee, and NSERC Steacie Memorial Fellowship committee. At the University of Western Ontario she has received several awards, including the Florence Bucke Science Prize, the Faculty of Science Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and Canada Research Chair in Biocomputing (2002鈥2006, and again in 2007鈥2011). At the University of 蓝莓视频 she received the School of Computer Science Outstanding Performance Award in 2018, and was University Research Chair from 2017 to 2023. Her current research focuses on comparative genomics, biodiversity informatics, as well as theoretical aspects of bioinformation and biocomputation.
Florian Kerschbaum
Florian Kerschbaum is a Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science (joined in 2017), a member of the , and the since 2019. Previously, he worked as chief research expert at SAP in Karlsruhe (2005鈥2016) and as a software architect at Arxan Technologies in San Francisco (2002鈥2004).听
He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2010) and a master鈥檚 degree from Purdue University (2000). Professor Kerschbaum served as the inaugural director of the 蓝莓视频 Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute from 2018 to 2021. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist (2019), a winner of the Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award from CS-Can/Info-Can (2019) and a winner of the Faculty of Math Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award (2022).
He is interested in security and privacy in the entire data science lifecycle. He extends real-world systems with cryptographic security mechanisms to achieve (some) provable security guarantees. His 听work is used in several business applications.
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2023鈥2026
Khuzaima Daudjee
is a Research Associate Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science. He designs and develops systems that store and manage data. His research thrusts are large-scale data management, storage, and provision of systems-level support for applications such as streaming, graph processing and machine learning.
Khuzaima鈥檚 work has been recognized with several awards, among them two听SIGMOD Best Demonstration Awards (2020 and 2021) and an听ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing Best Paper Award. He has served as Associate Editor of PVLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, Distributed and Parallel Databases, and Information Systems. In recognition of his outstanding contribution to computer science, Khuzaima has been named an ACM Distinguished Scientist.
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Toshiya Hachisuka
is an Associate Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, affiliated with three research groups:听Computer Graphics, Scientific Computation, and Computational Mathematics.听
His research focuses on the numerical and mathematical aspects of light transport simulation for realistic image synthesis. By combining applied mathematics, computer science, and physics, he has been working on various problems related to visual simulation of objects.
Before joining the University of 蓝莓视频 in 2020, he worked as an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo and an Assistant Professor at Aarhus University. He received a PhD from the University of California, San Diego.听
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2022鈥2025
Eric Blais
is an听Associate Professor in the Algorithms and Complexity Theory group within the Cheriton School of Computer Science. His research interests span theoretical computer science with special focus on sublinear-time algorithms, randomness in computation, and complexity theory.听
His recent achievements include听being the recipient of a prestigious best paper award at FOCS 2020 for work with his colleague Professor Shalev Ben-David听that extended听Yao鈥檚 minimax theorem.听In 2021, Professor Blais received听an Ontario Early Researcher Award to develop new theoretical foundations for sublinear-time algorithms.
He has a听PhD from听Carnegie Mellon University and was a听Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT from 2012鈥14.
Semih Saliho臒lu
is an Associate Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science. His research focuses on graph databases, distributed systems for processing graphs, and algorithms and theories for evaluation of database queries. His systems work focuses on developing systems for managing, querying, or doing analytics on graph-structured data. He has co-architected and co-developed several graph data management, processing, visualizing, and debugging systems.
Some of his most notable systems include the GraphflowDB graph database management system and the GPS graph processing system.听He has served as the PC co-chair for SIGMOD鈥檚 demonstration track and co-chaired the GRADES-NDA workshop, the premier workshop on graph data management, and serves on its steering committee. He has a PhD from Stanford and is a recipient of several paper awards, among them a 2018 VLDB Best Paper Award, a 2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award, and a .
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Previous Cheriton Faculty Fellows
| Cheriton Faculty Fellows | Year |
|---|---|
| Jesse Hoey, M. Tamer 脰zsu | 2021鈥24 |
| Christopher Batty, Yaoliang Yu | 2020鈥23 |
| Lap Chi Lau, Daniel Vogel | 2019鈥22 |
| Edward Lank,听M. Tamer 脰zsu | 2018鈥21 |
| Urs Hengartner,听Bernard Wong | 2017鈥20 |
| Tim Brecht, Charles Clarke | 2016鈥19 |
| Dan Brown, Pascal Poupart | 2015鈥18 |
| Michael Godfrey,听Jesse Hoey | 2014鈥17 |
| Ihab Ilyas,听M. Tamer 脰szu | 2013鈥16听 |
| Raouf Boutaba, Kate Larson | 2012鈥15听 |
| Gladimir Baranoski, Peter Forsyth | 2011鈥14 听 听听 |
| Robin Cohen, Alejandro L贸pez-Ortiz | 2010鈥13 |
| Ken Salem, John Watrous | 2009鈥12 听 |
| Charles Clarke, Yuying Li | 2008鈥11听 |
| Raouf Boutaba,听Frank Tompa | 2007鈥10 听 |