2006 Dec 04
Waterloo tied Carnegie Mellon University for top showing among North American universities in the 2007 Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Awards. Four UW students were among those recognized, including runner-up, a finalist and two honourable mentions. The CRA Awards recognize undergraduate students at North American universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.
Waterloo’s own Matei Zaharia was named male runner-up. Zaharia is an Honours Computer Science student, whose advisor is Professor Srinivasan Keshav. Finalist Abninder Litt, whose advisors are Professors Naomi Nishimura and Paul Thagard, is a BMath Computer Science student completing a Cognitive Science option. Honourable mentions went to Jui-Yi Kao, completing his Double Honours in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics with advisor Jeffrey Shallit, and Tyler Tian Lu, completing a BMath with Joint Honours in Combinatorics & Optimization and Computer Science with advisors Alex Lopez-Ortiz and Jeremy Barbay.
With Professor Peter Van Beek coordinating, each student was nominated by two faculty members and recommended by the chair of their home department. The selection committee considered the quality of students’ research work, their academic records, and service to the community. Incidentally, two past awardees, Andris Ambainis and Ian Goldberg, are now on staff.
Coming in behind UW and Carnegie Mellon were the University of Washington, Stanford University, and Harvard, each with three students recognized.
Congratulations to all!
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
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