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Sabrina Mokhtari

Incoming master’s student Sabrina Mokhtari has received a 2022–23 Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence from the Vector Institute.

These merit-based scholarships provide $17,500 for one year of full-time study and are awarded to exceptional students who have been admitted into an AI-related master’s program in an Ontario university. 

Matthias Schonlau

A professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science has been named a winner of the Humboldt Research Award, better known as the Humboldt Prize, a lifetime achievement award for internationally renowned scientists.

Dr. Matthias Schonlau is only the second Canadian statistician to have won the prestigious award, after Christian Genest of McGill University.

Achim KempfA professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics, along with one of his graduate students and a colleague from MIT, have made a breakthrough on research related to the Unruh effect.

Achim Kempf, a professor of applied mathematics and member of the Institute for Quantum Computing at À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, and Barbara Å oda, a PhD student in physics, recently published a paper in the top-tiered journal Physical Review Letters.

Two students from the Faculty of Mathematics have been named winners of this year’s À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Undergraduate Student Association (WUSA) Leadership Award. The award recognizes students who have shown exemplary dedication to fostering community and supporting others through their involvement in the university and in extracurricular activities.

Ryan Goldade

Ryan Goldade, a recent PhD graduate fromt the Cheriton School of Computer Science, has received the 2021 Alain Fournier Dissertation Award for his thesis titled “Efficient Liquid Animation: New discretizations for spatially adaptive liquid viscosity and reduced-model two-phase bubbles and inviscid liquids.â€

Roland Sing

When Hurricane Dorian battered the Bahamas in the Fall of 2019, À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ-based satellite imagery startup SkyWatch was quick to assist the reeling nation.

The company gave relief agencies emergency access to its vast satellite image datasets. This enabled these organizations to survey the damage in real-time and coordinate their response accordingly.