2010 Apr 14
Ming Li, a professor at the School of Computer Science, has been awarded the 2010 Killam Prize in Engineering. The award was announced and handed out in Toronto recently.
Each year, The Canada Council for the Arts hands out five prizes, one in each of health sciences, engineering, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Ming Li won in Engineering.
Portions of the citation for his award read:
"Dr. Ming Li is one of a handful of internationally acclaimed computer scientists whose research has had major impacts outside his own discipline. His work is now finding new applications in computer science, bioinformatics, philosophy, physics, and statistics.
Dr. Li's innovative work in the fields of computer science and bioinformatics has already moved well beyond theoretical investigation into exciting new ways to examine the sequence, structure and function of living cells."
More information about the awards and award winners is available on Canada Council site.
Ming adds this Prize to his long list of accomplishments, including Fellowships of the Royal Society of Canada, of ACM, and of IEEE.
Congratulations to Ming.
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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