Professors Sepehr Assadi and Wenhu Chen have been named recipients of the 2025 Faculty of Mathematics Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Awards.
Established in 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Faculty of Mathematics, the $2,500 award celebrates early- and mid-career faculty members who have made outstanding research contributions.
Sepehr Assadi
Professor Sepehr Assadi received the award in the mid-career category.
鈥淚 am honoured to receive this award,鈥 Professor Assadi says.
His research concerns theoretical computer science, primarily algorithm design and complexity theory for modern models of computation. He is currently conducting research on graph colouring algorithms and multi-pass graph streaming lower bounds.
I would like to express my deep gratitude to all my mentors, both at the University of 蓝莓视频 and beyond, for their guidance and support,鈥 he says. 鈥淚 am especially thankful for my incredible team of graduate students 鈥 Vihan Shah, Janani Sundaresan, Parth Mittal, and Helia Yazdanyar 鈥 whose ideas, dedication, and creativity have been instrumental in making this research possible.鈥
Wenhu Chen
Professor Wenhu Chen received the award in the early-career category.
鈥淚 feel very honoured to receive this award,鈥 Professor Chen says.聽鈥淚t would not be possible without the hard work from my students and my collaborators. I would like to thank all of my students and collaborators.
He researches reasoning in foundation models, particularly how to incentivize the reasoning capabilities from foundation models.
Professor Chen shares the $2,500 prize with Professor聽David Del Rey Fern谩ndez, a faculty member in the Department of Applied Mathematics.