Honors and Awards

2006

Prof. Mathieu Blanchette is the 2006 recipient of the Overton Prize from the International Society for Computational Biology, to be awarded at the Society's annual meeting, ISMB 2006, in August in Brazil.

2005

Prof. Martin Robillard won an international research award, the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for the paper "Automatic Generation of Suggestions for Program Investigation" presented at the European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2005). These awards go to the best papers of a few highly-selective conferences. For more information, click here.
Prof. Luc Devroye has been awarded one of Canada's most distinguished annual awards for career achievements, the Killam Prize!
Prof. Kaleem Siddiqi has been awarded a William Dawson Chair.
Congratulations to Dr. Vida Dujmovic, Ph.D. with Honours in CS, 2004. She has been awarded one of two NSERC Doctora l prizes for the best thesis in Computer and Engineering Sciences. Vida's thesis was supervised by Prof. Sue Whitesides.

2004

Prof. Luc Devroye was awarded a Senior Humboldt Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This aw ard is presented for "outstanding and internationally recognized scholars of all disciplines and nationalities".
Prof. Mathieu Blanchette has been awarded an FQRNT programme strategique award. This is a 5 year salary award given by the Quebec Govt. in recognition of excellence in research.
Emeritus Professor Chris Paige has received the B. Bolzano Honorary Medal for Merit in the Mathematical Sciences (August 23, 2004). This medal is awarded by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and 40 such medals have been awarded since the establishment of this honour in 1965. Some previous recipients from the USA have been Gene Golub (1994), Juris Hartmanis (1995), and Dana Scott (2001). Professor Paige is the first Canadian to receive this award.
Prof. Mike Langer was awarded the Best Paper Award at the 1st Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (May, 2004).

2002

Prof. Luc Devroye has been awarded a James McGill Chair.
Prof. Greg Dudek has been awarded a William Dawson Chair.
Prof. Jörg Kienzle has been awarded the Prix ABB en technologie d'information et d'automatisation. This award is given every other year for an innovative Ph.D. thesis in computer science, microengineering or telecommunications at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology.
Prof. David Bryant has been awarded an FCAR programme strategique award. This is a 5 year salary award given by the Quebec Govt. in recognition of excellence in research.

2001

Prof. Denis Thérien has been awarded a James McGill Chair.
Prof. Bruce Reed has been awarded a Senior Canada Research Chair.
Prof. Michael Hallett was awarded an FCAR programme strategique award. This is a 5 year salary award given by the Quebec Govt. in recognition of excellence in research.

2000

Prof. Denis Thérien was awarded a Senior Humboldt Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This award is presented for "outstanding and internationally recognized scholars of all disciplines and nationalities".
Prof. Godfried Toussaint has won the 2000-2001 David Thomson Award for excellence in Graduate Supervision and Teaching at McGill University.
Prof. Kaleem Siddiqi was awarded an FCAR programme strategique award. This is a 5 year salary award given by the Quebec Govt. in recognition of excellence in research.

1998

Prof. Prakash Panangaden has won the 1998-99 Leo Yaffe Award, awarded each year to one member of the Faculty of Science. The award recognizes his commitment to teaching, his dedication to improving the CS curriculum, and his devotion to his students.
The Mobile Robotics Lab of McGill University won the AAAI '98 Robot Competition: Object Recognition Category.
Sebastien Loiselle, Patrick Lam and Alexandru Ghitza finished 17th out of 54 in the 1998 ACM Computer Programming Competition World Finals.