Cheriton School of Computer Science Professors and have been named Fellowsof the Royal Society of Canada. They are among the seven University of ݮƵ researchers to receive this honour and among93 new fellows elected by their peers for outstanding scholarly, scientific, and artistic achievement across Canada.
“Congratulations
to
Professors
Raouf
Boutaba
andSrinivasan
Keshavon
their
becoming
Fellows
of
the
Royal
Society
of
Canada,
the
country’s
highest
academic
honour,”
said
Mark
Giesbrecht,
Director
of
the
Cheriton
School
of
Computer
Science.
“Professor
Boutaba’s
research
on
integrated
management
of
networks,
systems
and
services
in
wired
and
wireless
networks
has
been
groundbreaking
in
many
applications,
ranging
from
network
function
virtualization,
software-defined
networks
and
cloud
computing
to
improved
Internet
architecture,
security
and
privacy.
Professor
Keshav’s
research
at
the
intersection
of
computer
networking
and
energy
systems
and
more
recently
on
blockchain
have
been
instrumental
in
making
energy
production
and
use
more
efficient,
helping
us
to
lower
our
carbon
footprint.
We
are
extremely
proud
of
them
and
their
many
recognized
accomplishments.”
“The Royal Society of Canada is extremely fortunate to welcome these exceptionally talented scholars, artists and scientists as new Members of the Society,”said Royal Society of Canada President Chad Gaffield.“They have made outstanding contributions to their fields and to Canada’s intellectual and artistic breadth, and are making a tremendously positive impact on the world. We recognize them for all that they have done, and indeed will continue to do, to advance scholarly and public life in Canada and around the world.”
Raouf
Boutaba
Raouf Boutabais an internationally acclaimed authority and leading researcher in the management of communication networks.
He
is
particularly
known
for
his
pioneering
contributions
to
automated
management,
which
directly
led
to
the
trend
toward
autonomic
networking,
and
for
his
groundbreaking
work
on
network
virtualization
and
network
softwarization
expected
to
revolutionize
the
way
communication
networks
are
designed,
operatedand
managed.
Srinivasan
Keshav
Srinivasan Keshavhas an outstanding international reputation for his groundbreaking work in two distinct fields: computer networking and energy systems.
He has made innovative contributions to network congestion control and simulation; wireless networking; and the application of computer networking principles to energy systems in the emerging area of energy informatics. Heis a Fellow of both the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
With ProfessorsBoutabaand Keshav, eight faculty members in the Cheriton School of Computer Sciencehave been named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. Professors Richard Cleve, J. Alan George, Ming Li, J. Ian Munro, M. Tamer Özsu and Douglas Stinson previously receivedthis prestigious national recognition.