Our faculty members have received many international, national, provincial and institutional awards and recognitions for their research, teaching and service excellence. Where available, names are linked to articles and announcements that provide further detail about the individual’s prestigious achievement.
International awards and recognitions
ACM Presidential Award — M. Tamer Özsu
Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery — Jo Atlee, Charles Clarke, Don Cowan, Khuzaima Daudjee, Mark Giesbrecht, Ian Goldberg, Ihab Ilyas, Craig S. Kaplan, Florian Kerschbaum, Anna Lubiw, Kenneth Salem, Jeffrey Shallit, Daniel Vogel
Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University — M. Tamer Özsu
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science — M. Tamer Özsu
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence — Peter van Beek, Kate Larson
Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics — Jimmy Lin
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery —N. Asokan, Shai Ben-David, Ian Goldberg, Srinivasan Keshav, Ihab Ilyas, Ming Li, Jimmy Lin, J. Ian Munro, M. Tamer Özsu, Frank Tompa
Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers — N. Asokan, Raouf Boutaba, J. Alan George, Ihab Ilyas, Florian Kerschbaum, Srinivasan Keshav, Ming Li, M. Tamer Özsu
Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics — J. Alan George
Gödel Prize — Gautam Kamath with colleagues Ilias Diakonikolas, Daniel Kane, Jerry Li, Ankur Moitra, Alistair Stewart
Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters — Jeffrey Shallit
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award — M. Tamer Özsu
Presburger Award — Sepehr Assadi, Gautam Kamath
Grand Cross of Scientific Merit, Brazilian National Order of Scientific Merit — Don Cowan
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship — Janusz (John) Brzozowski
Medal of Merit, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland — Janusz (John) Brzozowski
Member of the Turkish Academy of Science — M. Tamer Özsu
National awards and recognitions
Canada Centennial Medal — J. Wesley Graham
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Intelligence — Renée J. Miller
Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Network Intelligence — Raouf Boutaba
Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Privacy Enhancing Technologies — Ian Goldberg
Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Reliable Structure Discovery — Marina Meila
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Minimizing Human Error in Operating Modern Networks — Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo
Canada Research Chairs (Tier 1), previous
- Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics — Ming Li
- Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design — J. Ian Munro
Canada Research Chairs (Tier 2), previous— Srinivasan Keshav, Justin Wan
CANARIE IWAY Award for New Technology — Stephen Watt
C.C. Gotlieb Computer Award (IEEE Canada) — Ihab Ilyas
CIFAR AI Chairs — Shai Ben-David, Wenhu Chen, Xi He, Gautam Kamath, Marina Meila, Pascal Poupart, Freda Shi, Yaoliang Yu, Victor Zhong
CIFAR Fellow — John Watrous
E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship — Ming Li
Fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences — Craig Kaplan
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada — N. Asokan, Shai Ben-David, Raouf Boutaba, Richard Cleve, Ihab Ilyas, J. Alan George, Srinivasan Keshav, Ming Li, Renée J. Miller, J. Ian Munro, M. Tamer Özsu, Douglas Stinson
Governor General’s 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal — J. Alan George
Killam Prize — Ming Li
Killam Research Fellow — Ming Li
Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association — Robin Cohen
Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science, CS-Can | Info-Can — Jo Atlee, Janusz (John) Brzozowski, Robin Cohen, Don Cowan, W. Morven Gentleman, Alan George, J. Wesley Graham, Ric Holt, Ming Li, J. Ian Munro, M. Tamer Özsu, Doug Stinson, Frank Tompa
NSERC Industrial Research Chairs, previous
- Thomson Reuters-NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Data Cleaning — Ihab Ilyas
- NSERC-RBC Industrial Research Chair in Data Security — Florian Kerschbaum
NSERC Synergy R&D Partnership Award — Keith Geddes, Mark Giesbrecht, George Labahn, Arne Storjohann, Stephen Watt, Frank Tompa, Johnny Wong
Order of Canada — J. Wesley Graham
Early Career Research Award, CS-Can | Info-Can — Ian Goldberg, Florian Kerschbaum, Kate Larson, Lap Chi Lau, Ondřej Lhoták, Bin Ma, Mei Nagappan, Éric Schost, Daniel Vogel, Jian Zhao
Rogers Research Chair in Network Automation — Raouf Boutaba
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal — Frank Tompa
Provincial awards and recognitions — Ontario
Early Researcher Awardees — Ashraf Aboulnaga, Eric Blais, Dan Brown, Ian Goldberg, Ihab Iyas, Gautam Kamath, Kate Larson, Ondřej Lhoták, Bin Ma, Shane McIntosh, Pascal Poupart, Arne Storjohann, David Toman, Olga Veksler, Daniel Vogel, Yaoliang Yu, Jian Zhao
Premier Research Awardees, an earlier version of the ERA — Raouf Boutaba, Timothy Chan, Brendan Frey
Institutional awards and recognitions — University of Waterloo
Distinguished Teacher Award — Robin Cohen
University Professors — N. Asokan, Raouf Boutaba, Ming Li, J. Ian Munro, M. Tamer Özsu, Doug Stinson
University Research Chairs, current — Shai Ben-David, Lap Chi Lau, Bin Ma
University Research Chairs, previous — Raouf Boutaba, Timothy Chan, Ian Goldberg, Lila Kari, Kate Larson, Bin Ma, M. Tamer Özsu, Doug Stinson