Assistant Professor Mohammad Mahmoud and MCS student Hassan El-Sheikha recently attended the Western Canada Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE) in Calgary, where Hassan El-Sheikha presented Varphi, a new programming language designed to describe, simulate, and debug Turing machines. This innovative tool is especially valuable for courses like CSC363, offering a more intuitive way to engage with foundational computing concepts. 

Congratulations to Prof. Lisa Zhang!

Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award, 2024-25  

This award recognizes faculty members who demonstrate an exceptional commitment to student learning, pedagogical engagement and teaching innovation. This year, the committee granted six awards of $3,000.  

Congratulations to Emmy Murphy, who received the 2025 Krieger-Nelson Prize!

Here is the official announcement: https://cms.math.ca/news-item/dr-emmy-murphy-to-receive-the-2025-krieger-nelson-prize/

Congratulations to Andrijana (Andie) Burazin, who is this year’s recipient of the Margaret Sinclair Memorial Award. 

“It is very humbling to receive this award, because when you look at past recipients, I can’t even shine a light to it. Margaret Sinclair was a powerhouse of mathematics education; her work was very impressive and she made many contributions to the MathEd Forum,” she says.

Congratulations to Andrew Petersen, who has been named a 2024 ACM Distinguished member, recognizing their significant computing achievements beyond the norm.

The ACM Distinguished Member designation is highly selective, with recipients chosen for their exceptional technical accomplishments and dedicated community service within the profession.

The MCS department is pleased to share that Assistant Professor Gururaj Saileshwar has been recognized with a Top Picks Award in Hardware and Embedded Security for the paper “MIRAGE: Mitigating Conflict-Based Cache Attacks with a Practical Fully-Associative Design” with co-author Professor Moinuddin Qureshi of Georgia Tech.

On Thursday, November 14, the MCS department held our annual Awards Ceremony, to celebrate the recipient's exceptional academic achievements. Below is the list of winners and a link to pictures:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/202081751@N07/albums/72177720323071590/with/54257133255/ 

Florian’s AI2050 project aims to revolutionize materials discovery by developing autonomous, “self-driving” labs that integrate advanced AI and robotics.

https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/florian-shkurti/ 

Are you interested in learning about the new Applied Mathematics Major?  Are you wondering how this program could fit with your current studies or support a range of future careers?  If so, you are invited to a Town Hall about the new Applied Mathematics Major Program.

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."