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Computer Science Canada | Informatique Canada (CS-Can|Info-Can) announces 2024 Award Winners

Celebrating outstanding achievements and lasting contributions of Canadian computer scientists

The CS-CAN|INFO-CAN awards acknowledge exemplary contributions to computer science research, education, community and professional service, and the significant accomplishments of computer scientists.

The process to review and determine the award recipients is rigorous. Nominations are brought forward to Awards Committees, a panel of computer scientists from different disciplines across the country who, after careful consideration of each nomination, select the recipients.

Congratulations to the following CS-Can|Info-Can Award recipients:

Lifetime Achievement Award 2024

These awards recognize current or former faculty members in Canadian Computer Science Departments, Schools, Faculties who have made outstanding and sustained contributions to computing over their careers. The awards can be for achievement in research, teaching, service, or any combination of these.

Faith Ellen

University of Toronto

Ali Ghorbani

University of New Brunswick

Douglas Stinson

University of Waterloo

Excellence in Teaching Award Winners 2024

Recognizes faculty who have demonstrated exceptional teaching ability, at the undergraduate or graduate level, via classroom lectures, laboratory instruction, thesis supervision, design and development of courses, and use of innovative teaching methods.

Diane Horton

University of Toronto

Steve Wolfman

University of British Colombia

Canadian Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award 2024

Computer science doctoral students completing degrees at Canadian institutions and recognize excellence in research and writing in a doctoral dissertation.

Nicola Cotumaccio

Dalhousie University

Outstanding Early Career Computer Science Researcher Award 2024

Recognizes top early-career computer science academic researchers who are within 10 years of completing their Ph.D. for excellence in research.

Peter Chen

Concordia University

David Duvenaud

University of Toronto

Siva Reddy

McGill University

Distinguished Service Award 2023

Recognizes outstanding service to CS-Can|Info-Can and the Canadian computer science community at large (selected by the CS-Can|Info-Can Board of Directors).

Bettina Kemme

McGill University

“Canada’s success on the global stage depends entirely on our accelerated adoption of technology across all sectors,” said Dr. Marc Frappier, President CS-CAN|INFO-CAN “As a nation we have a history of award-winning thought leaders, innovators and founders of some of the most globally disruptive technologies. On behalf of CS-CAN|INFO-CAN, its Board of Directors and its members, I offer my sincere congratulations to all this year’s winners and finalists. We salute the leadership, ingenuity and passion of these individuals who help change and improve the lives, communities and businesses in Canada and often globally for the better.”

The CS-CAN|INFO-CAN award winners will be celebrated during the CS-CAN|INFO-CAN Co-Located Conference on November 11, 2024 at the York University Second Student Centre Conference Facility in Toronto.

About CS-CAN|INFO-CAN

CS-CAN-INFO-CAN counts among its members more than 60 organizations active in computing research: academic departments of computer science and computer engineering; academia; and affiliated professional societies. CS-CAN-INFO-CAN works with these organizations to represent the computing research community and to effect change that benefits both computing research and society at large.

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