The Cheriton School of Computer Science is named for David R. Cheriton, who earned his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in 1978. In 2005, Professor Cheriton made a transformational gift to the school that supports named chairs, faculty fellowships, and graduate scholarships.
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Sepehr Assadi named 2023 Faculty of Mathematics Research Chair
Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Sepehr Assadi has been named one of three Faculty of Mathematics Research Chairs. Research chairs are conferred to recognize scholarly achievement and pre-eminence in a particular field of knowledge. In addition to the prestigious recognition, research chairs receive $50,000 in research funding and a teaching reduction of one course per year over the three years of the appointment.
Gautam Kamath receives Faculty of Math Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award
Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Gautam Kamath has received a 2023 Faculty of Mathematics Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award. The $2,500 prize, established in 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Faculty of Mathematics, is conferred to faculty members who have made outstanding research contributions.
Ende Jin, Yizhou Zhang and colleague Nada Amin receive a Distinguished Paper Award at 2023 Programming Language Design and Implementation Conference
Recent master’s graduate Ende Jin, his advisor Professor Yizhou Zhang, and their Harvard colleague Professor Nada Amin have received a Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI 2023, the 44th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation.