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Professor Xiao Hu and her collaborators Binyang Dai and Ke Yi from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have received a 2025 SIGMOD Research Highlight Award for their paper, Reservoir Sampling over Joins.

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.

Liam Hebert, a PhD candidate in computer science, has been awarded the 2025 IEEE Canadian Foundation Nick Cercone Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science. The award recognizes a doctoral student at a Canadian university who demonstrates exceptional research promise with practical impact beyond the field of computer science, along with a strong commitment to helping others.

A trio of recent À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ graduates has tackled a long-standing problem in clinical research with an automated solution that could help scientists analyze blood stem cells faster and more accurately.

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.

Five incoming graduate students have been awarded .

Established in 2017, the Vector Institute supports AI talent, drives research excellence and fosters AI-based innovation in Canada. Its annual VSAI program recognizes top students across Ontario, who are enrolled in Vector-recognized master’s programs and those pursuing individualized AI study paths.

This year’s cohort of 120 scholarship recipients across the province will receive a total of $2.1 million in funding, with each student awarded $17,500.

Professor Jian Zhao has received an Ontario Early Researcher Award, which will provide $140,000 in funding to support his research on enhancing software development through visual interfaces and generative AI. 

The funding from the Ontario government is matched by an additional $50,000 from the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, bringing total funding to $190,000 over five years.

Professor Gautam Kamath has been awarded $140,000 from the Ontario Early Researcher Awards program to further his research on algorithms and machine learning techniques that preserve data privacy. 

The amount from the Ontario government is matched by $50,000 from the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, bringing total funding to $190,000.

Launched by the Computing Research Association in 2023, the UR2PhD program is designed to broaden access to undergraduate research experiences and inspire students to pursue graduate studies.

Among its institutional partners is the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, where Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Edith Law coordinates the program locally.