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."
Professor Daniel Zingaro awarded the 2021 OISE Leaders and Legends Awards
May 28, 2021
Professor Zingaro is among the six faculty awarded OISE's 2021 Leaders and Legends Award as recognition for excellence in leadership in teaching, research and advocacy – while striving for excellence in academic programs, student experience, research and scholarship. Please read more here.
Professor Yevgeny Liokumovich awarded the 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics
February 16, 2021
Professor Liokumovich is awarded a prestigious Sloan Fellowship among the 128 brightest young researchers in the US and Canada. This award is given to early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.
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
Andrew Petersen receives a prestigious OCUFA Teaching Award
October 1, 2019
Andrew Petersen, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, has been named one of Ontario’s most outstanding university teachers by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). He will receive a 2018-2019 OCUFA Teaching Award at an Oct. 19 ceremony in Toronto. This award recognizes dedicated and passionate teachers and mentors who make exceptional contributions to the quality of higher education in Ontario:
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 the 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 are awarded the Third-Best Research Paper at SIGCSE 2019 for their paper "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.
Remus Radu and Timothy Yusun selected as the recipients of the Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Junior Member, 2017-18
We are delighted to announce that Remus Radu, the Postdoctoral Fellow, and Timothy Yusun, Sessional Lecturer, have been selected as the winners of the Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Junior Member of the UTM MCS Research Community for 2017-18.
Arul Shankar selected as the recipient of the 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship
We are pleased to announce that Arul Shankar has been named one of the 2018 recipients of the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship, awarded annually to 126 early-career researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.
Luai Al Labadi selected as the winner of the Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2016-17
June 20, 2017
We are delighted to announce that Luai Al Labadi has been selected as the winner of the Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Junior Member of the UTM MCS Research Community for 2016-17.
Tobias Hurth selected as the winner of the Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2015-16
July 15, 2016
We are delighted to announce that Tobias Hurth has been selected as the winner of the Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Junior Member of the UTM MCS Research Community for 2015-16.
Daniel Zingaro won SIGCSE Best Paper Award
February 18, 2016
Daniel Zingaro and seven colleagues across multiple institutions and countries have won the SIGCSE 2016 best paper award. The paper is a multi-national, multi-institutional study of the benefits of the Peer Instruction (PI) pedagogy in computer science. The paper is available here: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2844642