Research chairs and honours

Canada Research Chairs and Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada

Introduced by the federal government in 2000 to retain and attract exceptional research faculty.

Ian Munro (David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science)
- Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design - 2001
Michele Mosca (St. Jerome's University & Department of Combinatorics & Optimization)
- Canada Research Chair in Quantum Computation - 2002
Ming Li (David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science)
- Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics - 2002
Cam Stewart (Department of Pure Mathematics)
- Canada research Chair in Number Theory - 2003
Jim Geelen (Department of Combinatorics & Optimization)
- Canada Research Chair in Combinatorial Optimization - 2003
Achim Kempf (Department of Applied Mathematics)
- Canada Research Chair in the Physics of Information - 2004
Srinivasan Keshav (David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science)
- Canada Research Chair in Tetherless Computing - 2004
Richard Cook (Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science)
- Canada Research Chair in Statistical Methods for Health Research - 2005
Debbie Leung (Department of Combinatorics & Optimization)
- Canada Research Chair in Quantum Communication - 2005
Justin Wan (David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science)
- Canada Research Chair in Scientific Computing - 2006
David Landriault (Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science)
- Canadian Research Chair in Risk Theory - 2011
Luke Postle (Department of Combinatorics & Optimization)
- Canada Research Chair in Graph Theory - 2016

The following researchers have been recognized as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. Election to the academies of the Royal Society is "the highest honour a scholar can achieve in the Arts, Humanities and Sciences". Inductees have been "elected by their peers in recognition of outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievement".