Adapted from the University of Waterloo Daily Bulletin
At 2:30 this afternoon, 180 students from Environment and 575 students from Mathematics will receive their degrees. Students in the Software Engineering program will graduate with the Faculty of Mathematics.
Robert
Tarjan
will
receive
an
honorary
Doctor
of
Mathematics
and
address
Convocation. Tarjan
is
the
James
S.
McDonnell
Distinguished
University
Professor
of
Computer
Science
at
Princeton
University,
and
also
a
Senior
Fellow
at
Hewlett-Packard.
His
research
is
in
the
field
of
algorithms
and
data
structures,
that
is
how
to
represent
and
process
data
in
the
most
efficient
manner
possible.
He
is
the
recipient
of
many
major
awards,
most
notably
the
Turing
Award
which
is
the
most
prestigious
in
Computer
Science.
He
earned
a
BS
degree
in
Mathematics
from
the
California
Institute
of
Technology,
and
MS
and
PhD
degrees
in
Computer
Science
from
Stanford
University.
He
has
held
academic
positions
at
Cornell
University,
the
University
of
California
at
Berkeley,
Stanford
University,
New
York
University,
MIT,
and
Princeton
University.
Josephine Tay will receive the K. D. Fryer Medal, awarded to the graduate who best exemplifies high academic standing and good student citizenship.
Han Zhao will receive the Alumni Gold Medal, for Outstanding Performance in a Master's Program.
Shuntaro Yamagishi will receive the Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student.
Omid Ardakanian will receive the Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies award at the Doctoral level.