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Shahin Kamali, a PhD student in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been awarded the Derick Wood  Graduate Scholarship.
Dr. Derick Wood was a Professor in the School from 1982 to 1992. He is widely known for his outstanding research contributions in a number of areas of theoretical Computer Science, including algorithms, data structures, and formal languages.

Tian Qi (DinahShi of Mississauga was awarded one of three BlackBerry scholarships and will be joining the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science pursing a degree in software engineering programs this term. Shi joins Anastasia Santasheva of Maple, ON, a new Waterloo Engineering systems design engineering student, and Xiao Yan (Cheyenne) Guo of Toronto who joins the Faculty of Mathematics.
 

WATERLOO, Ont. (Thursday, August 15, 2013) - The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has named the University of Waterloo among the top 50 universities in the world for academic achievement in engineering/technology and computer science for the second year running.

Waterloo ranked at 43 in the world for Engineering and amongst the top 200 universities overall globally.

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.