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By Amy Aldous
Faculty of Mathematics

Mashael AlSabah, Kevin Bauer, and Tariq Elahi along with supervisor Ian Goldberg were awarded the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award at the 13th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2013) last week for their paper The Path Less Travelled: Overcoming Tor's Bottlenecks with Traffic Splitting (PDF).

Two faculty members from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science have been elected to leadership positions in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Co-authored with ​Aleksandrs Belovs (University of Latvia), PhD student, Ansis Rosmansis has been awarded the Ronald V. Book prize for best student paper at the 2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity for his paper, "On the power of non-adaptive learning graphs"

The Ronald V. Book prize is given annually to the most outstanding paper written solely by one or more students. 

PhD student, Tiffany Inglis (Craig. S. Kaplan) was awarded second place in the graduate category at the 2013 Association for Computing Machinery Student Research Competition Grand Finals.

With files from Waterloo News

Omid Ardakanian was awarded best paper, at Association for Computing Machinery's e-Energy conference this May for the paper "Distributed Control of Electric Vehicle Charging" (O. Ardakanian, C. Rosenberg, and S. Keshav).