Professor Jimmy Lin has been named a 2026 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the nation’s highest honour for scholars, artists and scientists. He is among 105 individuals across Canada, and seven at the University of Waterloo, elected as RSC Fellows this year in recognition of their exceptional scholarly, scientific and artistic achievements.
“Congratulations to Jimmy on this much-deserved honour,” said Raouf Boutaba, University Professor and Director of the Cheriton School of Computer Science. “Jimmy is a world-renowned computer scientist whose pioneering work in question answering has had a significant impact on the field. By combining his expertise in natural language processing and information retrieval, he has made sustained and influential contributions that have advanced intelligent information systems.”
Jimmy Lin is a Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, where he has held a prestigious David R. Cheriton Chair in Software Systems since 2015. His research develops tools that help people make sense of large amounts of data. He works at the intersection of information retrieval, natural language processing, and data management. A prolific researcher, he has produced a large body of work in top-tier venues with major contributions that have advanced the state of the art in information retrieval and natural language processing.
Professor Lin is also a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and a member of the SIGIR Academy.
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