Honours and Awards

Honours & Awards

  • CS-Can/Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award (2019)
  • University Professor, University of Waterloo (2018)
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2017)
  • Fellow, Royal Society of Canada (2016)
  • Elected Member, The Science Academy, Turkey (2013)
  • Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (2006)
  • Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2010)
  • University Research Chair, University of Waterloo (2004-2011)
  • ACM Distinguished Lecturer (2007-present)
  • IBM CAS Canada Research Faculty Fellow (2010-present)
  • Cheriton Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo (2013-2016; 2018-2021)
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada Discovery Accelerator Award (2013)
  • University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award (2004, 2009, 2014)
  • Ohio State University College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award (2008)
  • ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award (2006)
  • Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo (2000-2003)
  • McCalla Professor, University of Alberta (1993-1994)
  • Sigma Xi – Scientific Research Society Member (1994-present)
  • NATO Ph.D. scholarship through TÜ̈BITAK–The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (1979–1983)

Paper Awards

  • Test-of-Time Award, ACM SIGMOD (2015) for paper
    • L. Chen, M. T. Özsu, and V. Oria. "Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories," In Proc. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2005, pages 491-502.
  • Best Paper Award, 44th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (2018) for paper
    • S. Sahu, A. Mhedhbi, S. Salihoglu, J. Lin and M. T. Özsu. "The Ubiquity of Large Graphs and Surprising Challenges of Graph Processing", Proc. VLDB Endowment, 11(4): 420-431, 2018. 
  • Best Paper Award, 23rd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2018) for paper
    • P. Peng, L. Zou, M. T. Ö zsu, and D. Zhao. "Multi-Query optimization in Federated RDF Systems," In Proc. 23rd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, 2018, pages 745–765. 
  • Best Paper Award Honorable Mention, 29th International Conference on Data Engineering (2013) for paper
    • C. Balkesen, J. Teubner, G. Alonso, and M. T. Özsu. "Main-Memory Hash Joins on Multi-Core CPUs: Tuning to the Underlying Hardware," In Proc. 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2013, pages 362–373.