Professor Florian Shkurti awarded the 2021 Connaught New Researcher Award
August 27, 2021
Robotics Professor Shkurti is among the 53 U of T faculty to receive the 2021 Connaught New Researcher Award for his project "Robotics and Machine Learning in the Wild: New Directions in Automated Environmental Monitoring."
Elisheva Gamse and Sadia Sharmin selected as the recipients of the Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Junior Member, 2018-19
October 22, 2019
We are delighted to announce that Elisheva Gamse, the Postdoctoral Fellow, and Sadia Sharmin, Sessional Instructor, have been selected as the winners of the Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Junior Member of the UTM MCS Research Community for 2018-19.
Daniel Zingaro receives UTM Teaching Excellence Award for Junior Faculty
October 17, 2019
Congratulations to Daniel Zingaro, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, for receiving the UTM Teaching Excellence Award for outstanding teaching by a junior faculty member. Please read more here: https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/teaching-excellence-award-faculty
Sadia Sharmin, Professors Daniel Zingaro, and Lisa Zhang receive Program Chair's Award at CompEd 2019
May 24, 2019
This award is given to the best conference paper where the first author is a student. This work investigates the effect of using open-ended, exploratory assignments in an introductory computer science course. The paper is available here: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3309532.
Daniel Zingaro receives Research and Teaching awards
April 3, 2019
Daniel Zingaro and his colleagues are recognized with a SIGCSE Top Ten Symposium Papers of All Time award. "The ACM SIGCSE Top Ten Symposium Papers of All Time Award recognizes the outstanding papers published in the first 49 Proceedings of the Annual ACM Technical Symposium." The paper is a multi-national, multi-institutional study of the benefits of Peer Instruction (PI) pedagogy in computer science. The paper is available here: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2844642 and more information about the award is here: https://www.acm.org/media-center/2019/march/sigcse-top-10-papers.
Daniel Zingaro and his colleagues were awarded the Third-Best Research Paper at SIGCSE 2019 for "Exploring the Value of Different Data Sources for Predicting Student Performance in Multiple CS Courses." The paper is available here: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3287407.
Finally, Daniel Zingaro is a recipient of the 2018-19 University of Toronto Early Career Teaching Award. "The University of Toronto Early Career Teaching Award recognizes faculty members who are effective teachers and demonstrate an exceptional commitment to student learning, pedagogical engagement, and teaching innovation." Read more here and here.