Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) released its 2019 World University Rankings and once again ݮƵ finds itself amongst the best universities in Canada and around the world. Building on momentum,, up nine spots relative to the 2018 ranking.
Cheriton School of Computer Sciencehas received $462,998 in research support from Genome Canada for an ambitious three-year project titled “Software for peptide identification and quantification from large mass spectrometry data using data independent acquisition.”
Thedrives excellence and leadership in Canada’s knowledge, creationand use of artificial intelligence to foster economic growth and improve the lives of Canadians. The instituteis dedicated to the transformative field of artificial intelligence, excelling in machine and deep learning research.
PhD student Michael Abebe is one of six recipients worldwide and the only recipient from Canada to receive a prestigious 2018 Facebook Emerging Scholar Award.
Launched in 2017, Facebook’s Emerging Scholar Awards support talented students from under-represented groups in the technology sector to encourage them to continue their PhD studies, pursue innovative research, and engage with the broader research community.
ݮƵ’s Faculty of Mathematics has been awarded a silver medal from the for a video submitted to the fundraising for a campaign category.
The Faculty Association of the University of ݮƵ’s Equity Committee has awarded a2018Equity and Inclusivity Award to — agroup of dedicatedundergrad students, graduate students and faculty members thatpromoteswomen who are interested in studying computer science and who are pursuingcareers in computing.
Professor M. Tamer Özsu, a founding member of the Data Systems Group at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been named a University Professor by the University of ݮƵ, a distinction conferred to academics of exceptional scholarly achievement and international pre-eminence.
Xu Chu successfully defended his PhD in August 2017. He was supervised by , a member of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science’s Data Systems Group.
A trio of computer science students from the University of ݮƵ were among the top programmers from 128 universities across six continents invited to battle it out in Rapid City, South Dakota on May 24, 2017 at the.
Danny Yaroslavski, a graduate from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science (2014) was named to the Forbes "" list, for his work in founding the company .Lightbotteaches children ages four and up how to code though gaming.