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NewsProfessor 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.
Events Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2310 and online.Zibo Selena Zhang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao
Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2314 and online.Futian Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisors: Professors Jian Zhao, Keiko Katsuragawa
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304.Niloy Saha, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba
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