Professor Claudia Maria Bauzer Medeiros (PhD ’85) has received a 2026 ACM Presidential Award recognizing her long-standing and significant contributions to the Brazilian and Latin American computing communities as well as to the Association for Computing Machinery.
Ryusuke Sugimoto has received the 2026 Eurographics PhD Award, the 2025 Alain Fournier PhD Dissertation Award, and the SCA Doctoral Dissertation Award, three major honours celebrating excellence in doctoral research.
These distinctions recognize his dissertation, Toward General-Purpose Monte Carlo PDE Solvers for Graphics Applications.
Mars Xiang and Max Jiang are joint recipients of the 2026 Germain-Erdős Undergraduate Award in Mathematical Research. Now in its third year, the award recognizes undergraduate students who have made outstanding contributions to fundamental mathematical research.
Established through a donation from David Ash (BMath ’87), the award is named in honour of two pioneering mathematicians, Sophie Germain and Paul Erdős.
Professor Marina Meila has been appointed the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Reliable Structure Discovery. Tier 1 Chairs are awarded to outstanding researchers recognized by their peers as world leaders in their fields. Each chair is valued at $200,000 annually for seven years and may be renewed for an additional seven-year term.
In addition to her appointment as a CRC, Professor Meila has received $100,000 in research infrastructure support through the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund.
Raouf Boutaba, University Professor and Director of the Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been appointed the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Network Intelligence. Tier 1 Chairs are awarded to outstanding researchers recognized by their peers as world leaders in their fields. Each chair provides $200,000 annually for seven years, for a total of $1.4 million in funding, and may be renewed for an additional seven-year term.
A playable “floor” ocarina. A commentary on modern-day surveillance and technology. A growing tree with people’s memories as leaves.
What do they all have in common? These are some of the artworks featured in the annual CS 383 exhibit.
A team of software engineering researchers has won the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at FORGE 2026, the 3rd ACM International Conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering, held as part of ICSE 2026, the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering.
The award recognizes recent master’s graduate Evelien Riddell, whose thesis forms the foundation of the paper, along with MMath student James Riddell, PhD student Gengyi Sun, research engineer Michał Antkiewicz and Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki.
Professor Yizhou Zhang has been awarded the 2026 AITO Dahl–Nygaard Junior Prize. The award recognizes a junior researcher who has demonstrated exceptional promise in programming languages research through impactful early-career contributions.
Santhoshini Velusamy joined the Cheriton School of Computer Science as an Assistant Professor in December 2025.
What follows is a lightly edited transcript of a conversation with Professor Velusamy, where she discusses her research, advice for aspiring computer scientists, and what excites her about joining the Cheriton School of Computer Science.
PhD candidate Vasisht Duddu has been selected as one of 39 outstanding early-career researchers from institutions across the globe to be named a 2026 MLCommons Rising Star, an honour recognizing his contributions to machine learning and systems research.