2024 Outstanding Performance Awards winners named

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Outstanding Performance Awards!

Created in 2005, the Outstanding Performance Awards recognize excellence in teaching and scholarship from faculty members across the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ. The 2024 Faculty of Mathematics winners are as follows:

Applied Mathematics

Jun Liu – professor of applied mathematics and Canada Research Chair in Hybrid Systems and Control

Joe West – associate professor, teaching stream

Pure Mathematics

Rahim Moosa – professor of pure mathematics and Math Faculty Research Chair

Blake Madill – professor of pure mathematics and associate chair for Undergraduate Studies

Combinatorics and Optimization

Bertrand Guenin – professor of combinatorics and optimization

Chaitanya Swamy – chair and professor of combinatorics and optimization

Statistics and Actuarial Science

Jun Cai – professor of actuarial science

Ali Ghodsi – professor of statistics and computer science

Mario Ghossoub – associate professor of actuarial science and Sun Life Fellow in International Actuarial Science

Erik Hintz – assistant professor, teaching stream

Aukosh Jagannath – associate professor of statistics and actuarial science and applied mathematics and Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Foundations of Data Science

Computer Science

Toshiya Hachisuka – associate professor of computer science

Xi He – assistant professor of computer science and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute

Florian Kerschbaum – professor of computer science and NSERC chair in Data Security

Ondřej Lhoták – professor of computer science and director of undergraduate studies

Shane McIntosh – associate professor and associate director of graduate studies

Victoria Sakhnini associate professor, teaching stream and director of software engineering

Jian Zhao – associate professor of computer science