An honorary degree (honoris causa) is the highest honour conferred by the University. Through the conferring of honorary degrees, the University of Waterloo seeks to recognize outstanding achievement, whether academic or through service to society.
Since 1968, the Faculty of Mathematics has conferred 94 Honorary Doctor of Mathematics Degrees.
2023
David Hand
Trevor Hastie
Arlie Petters
2022
Claudia Klüppelberg
2019
Shafi Goldwasser
Barbara Liskov
David Sankoff
2018
Ingrid Daubachies
David McKay
Anand Pillay
Robert Tibshirani
2017
Terry Lyons
Efim Zelmanov
2016
David Donoho
Barry Mazur
2015
Noga ALon
Nancy Reid
Robert Endre Tarjan
2014
Ronald Rivest
Dan Virgil Voiculescu
2013
Robert Bixby
Hans-Ulrich Gerber
Leslie Valiant
2012
John Dennis
Zvi Galil
John Hennessey
2011
Bruno Buchberger
Ian McPhee
Shing-Tung Yau
2010
Ronald Douglas
Stuart Feldman
Ronald Graham
Barbara Lee Keyfitz
2009
Arkadi Nemirovski
Adi Shamir
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
2008
Alan Kay
J.N.K. Rao
Paul Seymour
Chien-Fu Jeff Wu
2007
Paul Embrechts
Richard M. Karp
R. Duncan Luce
Richard Stanley
Andies van Dam
2006
Kurt Mehlhorn
James Murray
Dominic Welsh
2005
Egon Balas
Josef Kates
Dianne O'Leary
Wolfgang Schmidt
2004
George Andrews
John Chambers
Ross Prentice
2003
David Brillinger
Maria Klawe
Margaret Wright
2002
Alexander Schrijver
Alasdair David Wilkie
2001
Cleve Moler
2000
George Box
1999
Stephen Cook
1998
William Kahan
1997
Calyampudi Rao
1996
Ralph G. Stanton
Anne Penfold Street
John Tukey
1995
Hans Bühlmann
1994
Crispin Nash-Williams
1993
Sir Michael Atiyah
1992
Alfred Aho
Donald Fraser
Cathleen Morawetz
1991
Sir David Roxbee Cox
Laszlo Lovasz
1990
Paul Halmos
1989
David Finney
1988
Robert P. Langlands
1987
Gene H. Golub
William (Bill) Tutte
1986
Bernhard H. Neumann
Richard Rado
1985
Janos Ladik
1983
George Alfred Barnard
Murray Klamkin
1982
Hanno Rund
1980
Jaroslav Koutecky
1979
Reynold Keats
1978
James Wilkinson
1977
Andre Leon Lichnerowicz
1975
Richard Bellman
1974
Alan Perlis
1972
Ralph Lent Jeffery
1971
George Polya
1970
L.J Mordell
1969
Harold Coxeter
1968
Richard Brauer
Calvin Gotlieb
Irving Kaplansky
Alexander Markovich Ostrowski