The University of Waterloo has recognized recent PhD graduate Dr. Nils Lukas with the 2024 Alumni Gold Medal for his exceptional academic performance in a doctoral program. This prestigious award, conferred by Alumni Relations, features a custom-crafted, 24-carat gold-plated medal embossed with the university’s seal. Since 1970, the Alumni Gold Medal has been conferred to top graduating students from Waterloo’s six faculties at convocation.
“It is exciting to receive the 2024 Alumni Gold Medal and I am honoured to have been selected,” said Dr. Lukas, now an Assistant Professor at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi. “I owe immense gratitude to my advisor, Florian Kerschbaum, for his exceptional mentorship. I look forward to continuing my research on secure and private machine learning at MBZUAI.”
Dr. Lukas’s research focuses on some of the most pressing security and privacy challenges in machine learning, including issues related to untrustworthy data, providers, and users, explained Professor Kerschbaum.
Read the full article from Computer Science to learn more.