Awards 2014
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CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Canadian Computer Science Researcher Prizes
The Canadian Association of Computer Science/Association informatique Canadienne is pleased to announce the winners of the Outstanding Young Canadian Computer Science Researcher Prize for 2014.
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Canadian Association of Computer Science Association informatique canadienne Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize – 2014 Ahmed E. Hassan
NSERC/BlackBerry Industrial Research Chair Canada Research Chair in Software Analytics School of Computing Queen’s University |
| Dr. Ahmed E. Hassan is one of the world’s top young software engineering researchers and arguably the world leader in at least two areas. Mining Software Repositories (MSR) is a research area that he was instrumental in founding over a decade ago. Ultra large scale software (ULSS) systems is an area in which his lab is widely recognized as the best in the world. Dr. Hassan is exceptionally productive; his work has repeatedly appeared in all of the top venues in software engineering. As one of the highest cited software engineering researchers in Canada for the past five years, the quality of his published research is remarkable: he is the recipient of numerous best paper awards and distinguished by many invitations to submit journal articles at fully refereed international conferences. His work is highly influential and he has been keynote speaker in the top conferences in software engineering. Graduates of his laboratory are themselves outstanding and uniformly rank among the top young international researchers in software engineering. Dr. Hassan’s excellence in research and impact in software engineering has been recognized nationally and provincially as with an NSERC Industrial Research Chair, a Canada Research Chair and an Ontario Early Researcher Award. | |
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Canadian Association of Computer Science Association informatique canadienne Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize – 2014 Xue (Steve) Liu
William Dawson Scholar School of Computer Science McGill University |
| Professor Xue Liu joined the School of Computer Science of McGill University in 2007 after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Prof. Liu, now a Dawson Chair holder, is a rising star in the area of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), which aims to design the new generation of time-critical and safety-critical systems where computing, communication, and the physical words are tightly coupled. His research focuses on the foundations and several important application domains of CPS, including Green IT and Smart Energies, Sensor and Actuator Networks, and Automotive CPS. Prof. Liu’s productivity is truly outstanding, with more than 200 journal and conference publications, most of them in the most selective and impactful venues in his area. His work is funded both by federal and provincial agencies, but also by several private companies. Objective measures of scientific impact place him at the very top of his generation in computer science in Canada. Despite his young age, Prof. Liu is involved in a number of activities that are rarely performed by junior researchers, including journal editorship positions, conference program chair, reviewer on several international panels, etc. He is also leading a large team of enthusiastic graduate and postdoctoral students, who, upon graduation, contribute to maintaining Canada’s edge in information technologies. | |
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Canadian Association of Computer Science Association informatique canadienne Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize – 2014 Derek Nowrouzezahrai
Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle Université de Montréal |
| Dr. Derek Nowrouzezahrai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal, where he serves as the co-Director of the Computer Graphics Research Laboratory. After receiving his Ph.D. (2010) and M.Sc. (2006) from the University of Toronto, Derek was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Disney Research Zurich where he additionally lectured at ETH Zurich. Derek’s research interests span many sub-areas in digital media and computational physics, including realistic image synthesis, appearance modeling, fluid simulation, user-centric digital content creation tools, and digital fabrication. Derek has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles, including over 15 in the ACM Transactions on Graphics Journal, the leading venue for academic work in computer graphics. Derek has recently served as Technical Papers co-Chair for the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering and SIBGRAPI, as well as having served on every top-tier International Technical Program Committee in computer graphics. | |