The award, created by Dr. Ming Li and his family in honor of his late wife Jessie Wenhui Zou, recognizes and supports outstanding research at the undergraduate level.
Established in 2005 by the University of Waterloo, this prestigious recognition honours faculty members who demonstrate excellence broadly.
The Brumbaugh Award recognizes the paper judged to have made the largest single contribution to the development of industrial applications of quality control.
In addition to two students who opted to remain anonymous, the awardees include Sarvesh Ingale, Ramprakash Raja, and Shukun Zhang.
She is one of three students receiving this honour at Spring Convocation.
PhD candidate Niloy Saha, Research Professor Noura Limam, Postdoctoral Researcher Yang Xiao, and University Professor Raouf Boutaba have received the Best Paper Award at NOMS 2026, the 39th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, held May 18–22 in Rome, Italy.
Professor Wu is internationally recognized for his pioneering contributions to survey methodology.
Three computer science graduate students have received the 2026 Faculty of Mathematics Doctoral Prize.
Kalantarzadeh graduates this June with a MMath specializing in Combinatorics and Optimization.
The grant, which totals $337,315 over two years, supports a collaborative project titled “Efficient Quantum Algorithms for Long-Term Qualitative Analysis of Dynamical Systems.”