Melissa McCorriston has received a聽聽from the聽. These $17,500 scholarships recognize promising scholars and researchers in Ontario and support their further studies in a top provincial artificial intelligence鈥搑elated master鈥檚 program.
Three Faculty of Mathematics researchers have been named fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and members of the Royal Society of Canada鈥檚 College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
They are among 93 new fellows elected by their peers for outstanding scholarly, scientific, and artistic achievement and 46 new members of the College across Canada .
The Faculty of Mathematics' new RSC fellows and members are:
Colin Phipps (PhD 鈥14) always loved math and computer science, but he always wanted to apply those skills to a high impact field. He focused his graduate research on mathematical oncology under the supervision of Mohammad Kohandel in the Department of Applied Mathematics.
Four graduate students were awarded a departmental research presentation award by the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, but that's not all they have in common. They all came to 蓝莓视频 because they knew of the excellence of the Statistics programs, research, and professors. Their backgrounds vary, as do their research areas, but they have all had a great experience.
Professor will hold the Faculty of Mathematics Dean's Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Fall 2019.
, Graham Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, and聽Kerstin Dautenhahn, Canada 150 Chair in Intelligent Robotics in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, have received a聽catalyst grant from the University of 蓝莓视频鈥檚 Network for Aging Research聽to d
One incoming student in the Faculty of Mathematics is beginning their semesters with a bit of extra money in his pockets.
First-year student Jason Amri won a , the largest STEM scholarship in Canada and valued at $80,000 or $100,000 for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs.
The Canadian team returned home from Baku, Azerbaijan with three medals, and Zixiang (Peter) Zhou ranked third in the world out of 327 competitors.
鈥淧lacing 3rd in the world is awesome,鈥 said Associate Dean, Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach Troy Vasiga, and leader of the team. 鈥淧eter participated in the Japanese Olympiad, Central European Olympiad, and Russian and Chinese contests to prepare. It obviously paid off.鈥
, a PhD student at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, his supervisor Professor 听补苍诲听, a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, have received the聽聽at SCA 2019, the ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation.
Three researchers in the Faculty of Mathematics received funding valued over $350,000 through the . On Monday, August 12, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, announced the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funding for infrastructure.