Professor Yaoliang Yu has received the 2026 Faculty of Mathematics Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award. Established in 2017 to commemorate the 50thanniversary of the Faculty of Mathematics, the $2,500 award recognizes early- and mid-career faculty members for outstanding research contributions. Professor Yu won the award in the mid-career category.
“Congratulations to Yaoliang on this much-deserved award,” said Raouf Boutaba, University Professor and Director of the Cheriton School of Computer Science. “He has made significant contributions to the design and analysis of secure, private and interpretable AI systems. In particular, his recent work on trustworthiness of AI is a major advancement that reflects a rare combination of creativity, technical ability and visionary thinking in research.”
Yaoliang Yu is an Associate Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and a faculty member at the Vector institute. His research focuses on developing efficient, scalable and robust algorithms for modern machine learning models and applications, with formal theoretical guarantees and analyses. He is also interested in applying machine learning techniques to vision and natural language applications.
Professor Yu held a Cheriton Faculty Fellowship from 2020 to 2023. In 2024, he received an Ontario Early Researcher Award to support his work on deep generative machine learning models. As of June 2026, his research publications have been cited more than 5,900 times with an h-index of 37 according to Google Scholar.
Read the full article on the Cheriton School of Computer Science's website.