Ishtiaque Ahmed has received a 2023 Google Award for Inclusion Research for his work on making computing services useful and meaningful for rural communities in the Global South! You can read more about the award and his work here.

Fanny Chevalier has been made a knight in the prestigious Order of Academic Palms (l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques), France’s national order recognizing exemplary services to education and culture. Coincidentally, her last name translates to “knight” in French, so this was destined to happen. You can read more about the award and her contributions here.

The Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator team, led by University of Toronto Assistant Professor Joseph Jay Williams, has won the $500,000 (USD) grand prize in the XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge, a global competition to modernize, accelerate, and improve the identification of effective learning tools and processes. The team also includes graduate students Ilya Musabirov, Mohi Reza, Pan Chen, and Harsh Kumar, as well as collaborators from Carnegie Mellon University and North Carolina State University. Learn more about the team, the competition, and their project in this article.

The faculty of Arts & Science has named Alec Jacobson as a recipient of this year’s Outstanding Teaching Award! You can read more about the award and his contributions in this article.

This year’s 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship award recipients include dgp’s Prof. Alec Jacobson!  In UofT’s Computer Science dept. both Prof. Jacobson and Prof. Duvenaud were chosen for this award.  Computer Science’s website has a write-up of the award here.

Congratulations to Prof. Grossman on receiving tenure and his promotion to Associate Professor!

Congratulations to Prof. Wigdor, who has been promoted to full Professor! In addition to his work at dgp, Prof. Wigdor is also the Director of the Facebook Reality Labs Research in Toronto.

Congrats to Prof. Levin for winning the CHCCS/SCDHM Graphics Interface Early Career Researcher Award for 2021! This award is given to outstanding early career faculty members in the fields related to the Graphics Interface conference. Prof. Levin is being recognized for his research in graphics.

The dgp often collaborates with undergrad students to tackle interesting research projects.  One of this past year’s NSERC USRA and UTEA AWARDS recipients is Jiayi Eris Zhang, who worked on research into Complementary Dynamics that was submitted to Siggraph Asia 2020.  You can find more information about the program at Computer Science’s Undergraduate Summer Research Program.