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Professor Emeritus Hector Levesque is a recipient of the 2020 ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award.

PhD student Sana Tonekaboni has been recognized for her innovative research and commitment to pushing the envelope in machine learning and AI.

Professor Toni Pitassi is the recipient of the 2021 EATCS Award from the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.

A multi-talented educator, mentor, and innovator, Jacqueline Smith has made significant contributions to undergraduate education at the º£½ÇÊÓƵ of Computer Science since 2015.

Cultural anthropologist Rachel Levine is the recipient of a 2021 Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Award.

CS undergraduates emerged victorious in a global competition that challenged teams to apply machine learning solutions to the impacts of climate change.

Professor Emerita Renée Miller, a world-renowned pioneer in the field of database systems, has received a 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from CS-Can/Info-Can.

Assistant Professor Nisarg Shah has been recognized as one of ‘AI’s 10 To Watch’ by IEEE Intelligent Systems.

Assistant Professor Ashton Anderson, PhD student Reid McIlroy-Young, and collaborators have developed a chess AI that can predict human play at different skill levels much more accurately than existing AIs.

Michael Brudno, David Duvenaud, Rahul G. Krishnan, and Richard Zemel have been named CIFAR AI Chairs.

USRA and UTEA awards fund students for 16 weeks of research with a CS professor.

Professor Graeme Hirst is the recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Service Award from the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

In the ProjectX competition, student teams from universities around the world develop machine learning solutions to pressing global issues.

How can deep neural networks be trained more effectively at scale? Assistant Professor Gennady Pekhimenko has received Amazon and Facebook research awards to answer this question.

U of T’s Master of Science in Applied Computing (MScAC) has been highlighted as one of the world’s top master’s programs for AI and data science.

The º£½ÇÊÓƵ of Computer Science extends a warm welcome to the new faculty members joining us throughout 2020 and 2021.

Assistant Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi has been named a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar.

Assistant Professor Maryam Mehri Dehnavi has been awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Learn more about faculty members taking leadership roles in the Chair’s Office.

Raquel Urtasun and Sanja Fidler have received new professorial promotions, effective July 1, 2020.