Professor Robin Cohen has received the 2024 Excellence in Online Teaching Award, an honour conferred by À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ’s Centre for Extended Learning.
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.Ìý
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.Ìý
The amount from the Ontario government is matched by $50,000 from the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, bringing total funding to $190,000.
Professor Freda Shi was featured in Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago's (TTIC), alumni highlight series.
, Ph.D. graduate from TTIC’s class of 2024 (advised by ProfessorsÌýÌýandÌý), joined the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in July 2024. In September 2024 she was named a CIFAR AI Chair and a faculty member at the Vector Institute.
Freda’s research focuses on computational linguistics and natural language processing, aiming to deepen the understanding of both natural language and human language processing. She explores how these insights can enhance the design of more efficient, effective, safe, and trustworthy NLP systems. She is particularly interested in learning language through grounding, computational multilingualism, and related machine learning aspects.
Professor Xiao Hu has received a Best Paper Award at the 2025 ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data for her research on optimizing join-aggregate queries.
Her paper, Output-Optimal Algorithms for Join-Aggregate Queries, addresses a long-standing open problem in database theory, establishing output-optimal bounds on the efficiency with which such queries can be processed.
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.
University Professor M. Tamer Öszu has received the Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision, a prestigious recognition conferred annually since 2005 by À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ’s Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs in collaboration with the Graduate Student Association.
Professor is an internationally renowned researcher in software engineering, who is a pioneer in automated analysis of software requirements. Recently, of remarkable women researchers, alongside Marie Curie and Margaret Hamilton. She co-penned one of the classic software engineering textbooks, Software Engineering: Theory and Practice.
But over the years, she noticed there was something that held her and other women back: how they were socialized to be risk-averse. ÌýÌý
Ana Crisan joined the Cheriton School of Computer Science as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in August 2024.
What follows is a lightly edited transcript of a conversation with Professor Crisan, where she discusses her research, her advice for aspiring computer scientists, and what excites her about joining the Cheriton School of Computer Science.
Peptide identification is a core challenge in proteomics, the study of proteins, their structure and functions. Unlike genomics, which examines an organism’s genetic information, proteomics is far more complex. The proteome — the complete set of proteins produced or modified by a cell or system — varies not only across different cell types but also over time.
DeepSearch, a novel deep learning–based end-to-end database search method developed by PhD student Yonghan Yu and University Professor Ming Li brings new capabilities toÌýprotein identification.