Awards@CS

Prof Martin Robillard wins SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award 2024
Jan. 18, 2024
Profs. Siddiqi and Blanchette awarded FRQS dual chairs in AI&Health
Oct. 7, 2023
Best paper award at CSCW for Prof. Jin Guo and her students!
Oct. 5, 2023
Prof. Louis Collins elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Sept. 19, 2023
Prof. Joëlle Pineau elected to the Royal Society of Canada
Sept. 5, 2023
Best paper award for Prof. Xue Liu!
June 30, 2023
Prof. Claude Crépeau wins the EW Dijkstra Prize for 2023
June 1, 2023
Congratulations to M.Sc. student Xavier Morin Duchesne for winning the 2023 Itek Award
March 24, 2023
Prof. Doina Precup elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Sept. 8, 2022
Professor Prakash Panangaden wins LICS Test-of-Time Award for 2022
July 5, 2022
Professor Prakash Panangaden wins Outstanding Teaching Award for 2022
July 5, 2022
Congratulations to Sandeep Manjanna on winning the 2022 CIPPRS John Barron Doctoral Dissertation Award!
June 13, 2022
Professor Lin is among eight McGill Professors to be awarded CFI JELF funding
March 9, 2022
Dudek, Liu, and students win best paper award at Globecom 2021
Dec. 20, 2021
Reddy and Ponti win 2021 EMNLP best paper award!
Dec. 16, 2021
Precup and Bellemare win NeurIPS outstanding paper awards!
Dec. 1, 2021
Prof. Oana Balmau receives SIGOPS distinction
Oct. 29, 2021
Assistant Professor David Rolnick Named a 2021 MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35
July 5, 2021
Prof. Claude Crepeau wins STOC 30 year Test of Time Award
June 23, 2021
Prof. Jérôme Waldispühl Recognized for Public Outreach Work
April 29, 2021
Prof. Prakash Panangaden Elected as 2020 ACM Fellow
Jan. 13, 2021
Prof. Xue (Steve) Liu Selected as an ACM Distinguished Member
Dec. 18, 2020
Three SOCS professors are awarded large grants to use AI to understand cancer
Nov. 5, 2020
Assistant Professor Oana Balmau wins CORE John Makepeace Bennett Award
Oct. 27, 2020
Prof. Siva Reddy won the VentureBeat AI Innovation Award 2020
Aug. 3, 2020
Prof. Pineau Reappointed as William Dawson Scholar
July 16, 2020
Winter 2020 TA Award Winners Announced
June 22, 2020
Prof. Liu Becomes IEEE Fellow
Jan. 15, 2020
Announcement of New Canada CIFAR AI Chairs
Dec. 9, 2019
Prof. Xue Liu Wins Best Paper Award at the IEEE MASS 2019 Conference
Dec. 4, 2019
Maxime Descoteaux won the prix du Québec 2019 for the top researcher under 40
Oct. 22, 2019
Prof. Precup receives 2019 Classic AIJ Paper Award for seminal work in reinforcement learning
Aug. 1, 2019
Governor General's Innovation Award for Prof. Joelle Pineau
May 13, 2019
Prof. Laurie Hendren announced as winner of the 2019 AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize
April 28, 2019
First Place Prize at Dobson Cup Startup Competition
April 12, 2019
Two New Canada-CIFAR AI Chairs for Profs. Hamilton and Gordon
April 9, 2019
Yoshua Bengio receives Turing award
March 27, 2019
PhD students Andre Cianflone and Scott Fujimoto win inaugural Borealis AI Graduate Fellowships
Feb. 25, 2019
Six SOCS Professors Receive Canada CIFAR Chair in AI
Dec. 6, 2018
Congratulations to Isaac Gibbs for being awarded 2nd Prize in the Computational & Mathematical Sciences category
Oct. 8, 2018
Professor Pientka wins Test of Time Award
Sept. 19, 2018
Professor Ruths wins the 2018 Principal's Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researcher
June 1, 2018
Maria Klawe awarded honory doctor of science
June 1, 2018
Professor Kry wins Graduate Supervision and Teaching Award
June 1, 2018
Joëlle Pineau awarded NSERC’s Steacie Memorial Fellowship
May 1, 2018
Clare Lyle awarded Rhodes Scholarship
Nov. 23, 2017
Professor Vetta receives Fellowship from the Trottier Institute of Science and Public Policy.
Nov. 22, 2017
Professor Liu receives Mitacs award for Outstanding Leadership
Nov. 22, 2017
Prof. Dudek receives Gold Medal Award from IEEE Montreal
Nov. 10, 2017
Andrei Lupu wins 1st prize in the Mathematical & Computational Sciences category at the Undergraduate Research Conference (URC)
Oct. 27, 2017
Congratulations to Prof. Doina Precup who has been appointed to a Canada Research Chair
May 11, 2016