Professor Ihab Ilyas of the Cheriton School of Computer Science has been named a 2024 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest national recognition for researchers in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. He is among 104 distinguished individuals across Canada recognized this year for their exceptional scholarly, artistic, and scientific achievements.
“Congratulations to Ihab on becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,” said Raouf Boutaba, University Professor and Director of the Cheriton School of Computer Science. “Over his career, he has made significant contributions in ranking, in machine learning for large-scale data linkage, and in generative AI systems for automatic data cleaning, as well as co-founding two successful start-up companies.”
Professor Ilyas is the tenth faculty member at the Cheriton School of Computer Science to be named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Previous recipients of Royal Society of Canada Fellowships are N. Asokan, Raouf Boutaba, Richard Cleve, J. Alan George, Srinivasan Keshav, Ming Li, J. Ian Munro, M. Tamer Özsu, and Douglas Stinson.
Read more about Prof. Ilyas's research on the Computer Science website.