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2008-2009

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Faculty of Mathematics

Faculty Members

Computer Science

Professor, Director, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
M.T. Özsu, BSc, MSc (Middle East Technical, Ankara), MS, PhD (Ohio State, Columbus), ACM Fellow, University Research Chair

Associate Professor, Associate Director, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science 
J.P. Black, BSc (Calgary), Dipl d'Ing (Grenoble), PhD (Waterloo) 

Professor, Director, Graduate Studies
Y. Li,1,7 BS (Sichuan University), MMath, PhD (Waterloo)

Professor, Director, Undergraduate Studies
F. Wm. Tompa, ScB, ScM (Brown), PhD (Toronto), Cheriton Fellow

Associate Professor, Associate Director, Undergraduate Studies
J.F. Buss, BSc (California Institute of Technology), PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Professor, Associate Dean, Graduate Studies and Research
G. Labahn,1 BSc, MSc, PhD (Alberta), Marsland Faculty Fellow

Associate Professor, Director, First-Year Studies
D.G. Brown, SB (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), MS, PhD (Cornell)

Professor, Director, Infrastructure
P. van Beek, BSc (British Columbia), MMath, PhD (Waterloo)

Professor, IQC Endowed Chair in Quantum Computing
R.E. Cleve,6 BMath, MMath (Waterloo), PhD (Toronto)

Research Professor, Director, Institute for Computer Research
V. DiCiccio, BASc, MASc (Waterloo)

Lecturer, Associate Director (Computing), Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing
T.M.J. Vasiga, BMath, MMath (Waterloo), BEd (British Columbia)

Professor, Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics
M. Li, MS (Wayne State), MS, PhD (Cornell), Killam Fellow, FRSC, ACM Fellow

Professor, Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design
J.I. Munro, BA (New Brunswick), MSc (British Columbia), PhD (Toronto), FRSC, University Professor

Professor, Canada Research Chair in Tetherless Computing
S. Keshav, BTech (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), PhD (California, Berkeley)

Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Scientific Computing
J.W.L. Wan,1 BS (Chinese U of Hong Kong), PhD (California, Los Angeles)

Associate Professor, J.W. Graham Research Chair in Health Information Systems
I. McKillop,19 DipBusAdm (Wilfrid Laurier University), BIS, MASc, PhD (Waterloo)

Professor, Scotia Bank Senior Industrial Research Chair
D.M. Berry, BS (Rensselaer), PhD (Brown)

Distinguished Professors Emeriti
J.A. Brzozowski, BASc, MASc (Toronto), MA, PhD (Princeton)*
D.D. Cowan, BASc (Toronto), MSc, PhD (Waterloo)*

Professors
S. Bedi,15 BTech (IIT, Kanpur), MASc (British Columbia), PhD (Victoria), PEng
S. Ben-David,7 BSc, MSc, (psych), BSc, MSc, PhD (math) (Hebrew University)
R. Boutaba, BMath, Dipl Eng (Annaba), Magister (Annaba & Glasgow), Masters, PhD (Pierre & Marie Curie), Faculty Fellow
T.M. Chan, BA (Rice), PhD (British Columbia), University Research Chair
R. Cohen, BA (McGill), MSc, PhD (Toronto)
T.F. Coleman,8 BMath, MMath, PhD (Waterloo)
G.V. Cormack, BSc, MSc, PhD (Manitoba), Marsland Faculty Fellow
H.D. Covvey,13 BA (Wisconsin-Madison), MSc (Toronto)
P.A. Forsyth,1,5,7 BSc (Western Ontario), MSc (Australian National), PhD (Western Ontario)
K.O. Geddes,1 BA (Saskatchewan), MSc, PhD (Toronto)
R.C. Holt, BEP, MS, PhD (Cornell)
R. Laflamme,20 BSc, MSc (Laval), PhD (Cambridge)
A. Lubiw, BSc (Toronto), MMath (Waterloo), PhD (Toronto)
A.J. Menezes,8 BMath, MMath, PhD (Waterloo)
R.W. Oldford,11 BMath (Waterloo), MSc, PhD (Toronto)
P.L. Ragde, BMath (Waterloo), PhD (California, Berkeley)
J.O. Shallit, AB Math (Princeton), PhD (California, Berkeley)
D.R. Stinson,6 BMath (Waterloo), MSc (Ohio), PhD (Waterloo), University Research Chair
D.J. Taylor, BSc (Saskatchewan), MMath, PhD (Waterloo)
P. Thagard,9 BA (Saskatchewan), BA, MA (Cambridge), MS (Michigan, Ann Arbor), MA, PhD (Toronto), FRSC
H. Wolkowicz,8 BSc, MSc, PhD (McGill)
J.W. Wong, BS, MS, PhD (California, Los Angeles), David R. Cheriton Faculty Fellowship

Associate Professors
M.D. Aagaard,10 BS (Harvey Mudd College), MSc, PhD (Cornell)
J. Atlee,2 BS (William and Mary), MS, PhD (Maryland)
G.V.G. Baranoski, BSc, BSc, MSc (Rio Grande de Sul), MSc (Indiana), PhD (Calgary)
J.C. Beatty, BA (Princeton), PhD (California, Berkeley)
T.C. Biedl, Diplom (Tech U Berlin), PhD (State U New Jersey, Rutgers)
T.B. Brecht, BSc (Saskatchewan), MMath (Waterloo), PhD (Toronto)
P.A. Buhr, BSc, MSc, PhD (Manitoba)
F.J. Burkowski, BSc, MMath, PhD (Waterloo)
E.P.F. Chan, BSc, MSc, PhD (Toronto)
C.L.A. Clarke, BSc (Memorial), MMath, PhD (Waterloo)
W.B. Cowan,3,4 BSc (Waterloo), PhD (McGill)
K. Czarnecki,10 MS (Technical University of Ilmenau), MS (California State University, Sacramento), PhD (Technical University of Ilmenau)
N.A. Day, BSc (Western Ontario), MSc, PhD (British Columbia)
C. DiMarco, BSc, MSc, PhD (Toronto)
C. Eliasmith,9,16 BASc, MA (Waterloo), PhD (Washington University, St. Louis)
M.W. Giesbrecht, BSc (British Columbia), MSc, PhD (Toronto)
M. Godfrey, BSc, MSc, PhD (Toronto)
C.S. Kaplan, BMath (Waterloo), MS, PhD (Washington)
M. Karsten, Diplom (Mannheim), Dr.-Ing. (Darmstadt)
A. Lopez-Ortiz, BMath (Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), MMath, PhD (Waterloo)
B. Ma, BSc, PhD (Peking), University Research Chair
R. Mann, BEng, MEng (McMaster), PhD (Toronto)
S. Mann, BA, BA (California, Berkeley), MS, PhD (Washington)
F. Mavaddat, BSc (Tehran), Diploma-Grad Studies (Netherlands), PhD, DIC (Imperial College)
M.D. McCool, BASc (Waterloo), MSc, PhD (Toronto), (on leave)
M. Mosca,8 BMath (Waterloo), MSc, DPhil (Oxford)
N. Nishimura, BS (Yale), MSc, PhD (Toronto)
K.M. Salem, BS (Carnegie-Mellon), MSE, MA, PhD (Princeton)
A. Storjohann, BMath, M.Math (Waterloo). PhD (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich)
D. Toman, BS, MGr (Masaryk, Brno), PhD (Kansas State)
R.K. Vetzal,12 BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)
J. Watrous, BS (SUNY, Stony Brook), MS, PhD (Wisconsin-Madison)
G.E. Weddell, BSc, MSc (British Columbia), PhD (Toronto)

Assistant Professors
A. Aboulnaga, BS, MS (Alexandria), MS, PhD (Wisconsin)
A.M. Childs,8 BS (California Institute of Technology), PhD (MIT)
H. De Sterck,17 MEE, MPhysics, PhD (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
I. Goldberg, BMath (Waterloo), MSc, PhD (California, Berkeley)
U. Hengartner, Dipl Informatik-Ing. (ETH, Zurich), MS, PhD (Carnegie Mellon)
P-H. Ho,10 BSc (National Taiwan University), MSc, PhD (Queen's University)
I. Ilyas, BS, MS (Alexandria), PhD (Purdue)
J. Könnemann,8 MS (Saarbrücken), PhD (Carnegie Mellon)
P. Lam,10 BSc, MSc (McGill), PhD (MIT)E. Lank, BSc (Prince Edward Island), PhD (Queen's)
K. Larson, BS (Memorial), MS (Washington University), PhD (Carnegie-Mellon)
O. Lhotak, BMath (Waterloo), MSc, PhD (McGill)
S. MacDonald, BMath (Waterloo), MSc, PhD (Alberta)
J.J. Orchard,1 BMath (Waterloo), MSc (British Columbia), PhD (Simon Fraser)
P. Poupart,7 BSc (McGill), MSc (British Columbia), PhD (Toronto)
M. Terry, BS (Cornell), MS (Florida Institute of Technology), PhD (Georgia Institute of Technology)
R.J. Trefler, BA (Toronto), MSc, PhD (Texas, Austin)
O. Vechtomova,14 BSc (Volgograd State), MSc, PhD (City University, London)
P.A.S. Ward,10 BScE (New Brunswick), MASc, PhD (Waterloo)

Lecturers
N. Al Masri, BSc (United Arab Emirates University), MSc, PhD (Lyon University)
B.W. Becker, BA (Goshen College), MMath (Waterloo)
L.M. Case, BSc (Memorial), MMath, PhD (Waterloo)
K. Daudjee, BSc (Trent), MSc (York), PhD (Waterloo)
A. Morton,10 BSc, MSc (Guelph), PhD (Waterloo)
A.B. Pidduck, BASc, MASc, PhD (Waterloo), PEng
S. Safayeni, BSc (Washington), MASc (Victoria)

Adjunct Professors
N.J. Cercone, BS (Steubenville), MS (Ohio State), PhD (Alberta)
J.A. George,1 BSc, MSc (Alberta), PhD (Stanford), FRSC, FIEEE, FIMA, FICA, CMath, Professor Emeritus
C. Lucena, BSc (Pontifical Catholic, Rio), MMath (Waterloo), PhD (California, Los Angeles)
R.E. Mercer, BSc, MSc (Alberta), PhD (British Columbia)
D. Schuurmans, BSc-Math, BSc-CS, MSc (Alberta), PhD (Toronto)
R.B. Simpson,1  BSc, MASc (Toronto), PhD (Maryland), Professor Emeritus
P.M.B. Vitanyi, PhD (Free University, Amsterdam)
S. Watt, BSc (New Brunswick), MMath, PhD (Waterloo)

Adjunct Associate Professors
P. S.C. Alencar, BA, MSc (Brasilia), PhD (Rio de Janeiro)
E.V. Zima, MS, PhD (Moscow State)

Adjunct Assistant Professors
P. Tarle, BMath (Waterloo)
J. Xu, BSc (University of Science and Technology, Hefei), MSc (Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing), PhD (Waterloo)
Z. Zsoldos, BSc, MSc (Eötvös Lorand), PhD (Leeds)

Instructional Support Coordinators/Instructors
K. Anderson, BMath (Waterloo)
L. Chinaei, BMath (Isfahan), MMath (Waterloo)
B.M. Zister Daly, BA (Waterloo)
G. Lu, BS (Jilin), MS (New Hampshire)
F. Qiu, BSc (Beijing Normal University), PhD (Glasgow Caledonian University)

Faculty members of Computer Science holding cross and/or joint appointments to:
1 Applied Mathematics
2 Electrical and Computer Engineering
3 Psychology
4 Fine Arts
5 Earth Sciences
6 Combinatorics and Optimization
7 Statistics and Actuarial Science

Faculty members holding cross appointments to Computer Science from:
8 Combinatorics and Optimization
9 Philosophy
10 Electrical and Computer Engineering
11 Statistics and Actuarial Science
12 School of Accountancy
13 Biology
14 Management Sciences
15 Mechanical Engineering
16 Systems Design Engineering
17 Applied Mathematics

Faculty members holding joint appointments with:
18 Applied Health Sciences, Environment and Resource Studies
19 Applied Health Sciences, Gerontology
20 Physics

* Also has Adjunct appointment


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