The Canada Research Chair program was introduced by the federal government in 2000 to retain and attract exceptional research faculty.
The following Faculty of Mathematics members have been awarded Canada Research Chairs.
| Award | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Canada Research Chair in Statistical Methods for Health Research – awarded 2005 | Richard Cook (Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science) |
| Canada Research Chair in Combinatorial Optimization – awarded 2003 | Jim Geelen (Department of Combinatorics & Optimization) |
| Canada Research Chair in the Physics of Information – awarded 2004 | Achim Kempf (Department of Applied Mathematics) |
| Canada Research Chair in Tetherless Computing – awarded 2004 | Srinivasan Keshav (David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science) |
| Canadian Research Chair in Risk Theory – awarded 2011 | David Landriault (Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science) |
| Canada Research Chair in Quantum Communication – awarded 2005 | Debbie Leung (Department of Combinatorics & Optimization) |
| Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics – awarded 2002 | Ming Li (David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science) |
| Canada Research Chair in Quantum Computation – awarded 2002 | Michele Mosca (Department of Combinatorics & Optimization) |
| Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design – awarded 2001 | Ian Munro (David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science) |
| Canada Research Chair in Graph Theory – awarded 2016 | Luke Postle (Department of Combinatorics & Optimization) |
| Canada Research Chair in Number Theory – awarded 2003 | Cam Stewart (Department of Pure Mathematics) |
| Canada Research Chair in Quantitative Risk Management) – awarded 2004 | Ken Seng Tan (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science) |
| Canada Research Chair in Scientific Computing – awarded 2006 | Justin Wan (David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science) |
| Canada Research Chair in Combinatorics and Optimization - awarded 2003 | Nick Wormald (Department of Combinatorics & Optimization) |