Professor Sepehr Assadi has won the 2025 Presburger Award, a prestigious honour recognizing his exceptional contributions to theoretical computer science. The honour specifically acknowledges his pioneering work on establishing lower bounds for multi-pass streaming algorithms, a long-standing and challenging problem in the field.
Professor Craig S. Kaplan has been named a 2025 Fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, an honour that recognizes his exceptional contributions to mathematics.
Professor Craig Kaplan has received this year’s Faculty of Mathematics Awards for Distinction in Teaching. Up to two awards are conference each year to teachers who have consistently demonstrated outstanding pedagogical skills and a deep commitment to our students’ education.
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PhD student Yuzhe You has won the at Graphics Interface 2025. Held annually by the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, GI is the nation’s top conference on computer graphics and visualization, and human-computer interaction.
The award recognizes Yuzhe’s paper, Exploring Comparative Visual Approaches for Understanding Model Trade-offs in Adversarial Machine Learning, co-authored with Professor Jian Zhao, her supervisor.
(BCS ’24) has won the Best Poster award at Graphics Interface 2025, Canada’s top conference on computer graphics and visualization, and human-computer interaction.
Jiawen completed her undergraduate studies at the Cheriton School of Computer Science in 2024. Now, as a PhD student at the University of Washington, her research focuses on interactive systems that can enhance human–human and human–AI collaboration. In particular, she is “exploring ways to help people navigate our multilingual world.”
Anudeep Das, Vasisht Duddu, Rui Zhang and N. Asokan have received the Best Paper Award at CODASPY 2025, the 15th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy.
Their paper, Espresso: Robust Concept Filtering in Text-to-Image Models, introduces a new technique to improve the effectiveness, safety and reliability of generative AI systems that create images from natural language text prompts.
Professor Emeritus Douglas Robert Stinson has received the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from CS-Can | Info-Can, the national non-profit organization dedicated to representing computer science and the interests of the discipline across Canada.
Valentio Iverson, a fourth-year Computer Science major, has won the 2025 Germain-Erdős award, a recognition conferred annually for “remarkable contributions to basic mathematical research” by a student who has done a successful Undergraduate Research Assistant placement.
Coming from a family of teachers, Norwegian exchange student has long been interested in using technology to support human intelligence.
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