David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Recent PhD graduate Ryusuke Sugimoto has received the 2026 Eurographics PhD Award and the 2025 Alain Fournier PhD Dissertation Award, two major honours celebrating excellence in doctoral research.

Both distinctions are in recognition of his dissertation, Toward General-Purpose Monte Carlo PDE Solvers for Graphics Applications.

Mars Xiang and Max Jiang are joint recipients of the 2026 Germain-Erdős Undergraduate Award in Mathematical Research. Now in its third year, the award recognizes undergraduate students who have made outstanding contributions to fundamental mathematical research.

Established through a donation from David Ash (BMath ’87), the award is named in honour of two pioneering mathematicians, Sophie Germain and Paul Erdős.

Professor Marina Meila has been appointed the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Reliable Structure Discovery. Tier 1 Chairs are awarded to outstanding researchers recognized by their peers as world leaders in their fields. Each chair is valued at $200,000 annually for seven years and may be renewed for an additional seven-year term.

In addition to her appointment as a CRC, Professor Meila has received $100,000 in research infrastructure support through the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund.