Congratulations to Michael Groechenig, who won the 2024 New Horizon in Mathematics Prize for contributions to the theory of rigid local systems and applications of p-adic integration to mirror symmetry and the fundamental lemma. More information can be found here: https://www.utoronto.ca/celebrates/michael-groechenig-awarded-2024-new-horizons-prize-mathematics
Congratulations to the undergraduate students who were awarded a Summer 2023 research award! The students below were awarded one of three summer research awards to work on an exciting project under the supervision of an MCS Faculty member.
Congratulations to Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, a recipient of the 2023 UTM Research and Scholarly Activity Fund (RSAF), for the project “Optimal Teleoperation Control of Continuum Robots.”
Congratulations to Lisa Zhang, a recipient of the 2023 UTM Pedagogical Research Fund (PRF) under the project "Misconceptions and Barriers to Success in Machine Learning."
Congratulations to Andrew Petersen, Michael Liut and Bogdan Simion, who are recipients of the 2023 Pedagogical Research Fund (PRF) using qualitative methods to study for "I Am Not Enough": Imposter Phenomenon Experiences of Computing Students."
CS Teaching Stream instructors Lisa Zhang, Bogdan Simion, Andi Bergen and Andrew Petersen win the Best Paper -- Experience Reports and Tools (ERT) Track, titled Embedding and Scaling Writing Instruction Across First- and Second-Year Computer Science Courses at SIGCSE 2023: The 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, which is the biggest computer science education conference. Congratulations!
Michael Pawliuk and Jaimal Thind nominated Liying He, an MCS TA and a former student. Congratulations to Liying!
The Teaching Assistants’ Training Program’s (TATP) Teaching Excellence Award was created in 2003 to recognize the outstanding contributions of teaching assistants at the University of Toronto. The award seeks to value the work of TAs who regularly inspire and challenge undergraduate students.
To see the list of winners, visit here.
Congratulations to Daniel Zingaro, who received the 2022 Excellence in Teaching Award!
This award recognizes faculty who have demonstrated exceptional teaching ability, at the undergraduate or graduate level, via classroom lectures, laboratory instruction, thesis supervision, design and development of courses, and innovative teaching methods.
To see the list of winners, visit here
Congratulations to Duncan Dauvergne (MAT) and Sushant Sachdeva (CS) who have been awarded prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships. The two-year, US$75,000 awards recognize early-career researchers for outstanding contributions to their fields that mark them as next-generation leaders.
To view the full article, click here: Two UTM professors awarded 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship | University of Toronto Mississauga (utoronto.ca)
Read more about 'Cobot', the new collaborative robot arm recently introduced at UTM's Undergraduate Robotics Teaching Laboratory:
https://magazine.utoronto.ca/campus/meet-the-cobot-utm-undergraduate-robotics-teaching-lab/