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.
Prof. Jacobson awarded Sloan Fellowship
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.
Prof. Grossman receives tenure
Congratulations to Prof. Grossman on receiving tenure and his promotion to Associate Professor!
Prof. Wigdor promoted to Full 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.
Prof. Levin receives CHCCS/SCDHM Early Career Researcher Award
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.
Prof. Grossman awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
The Sloan Research fellowship was awarded to two Computer Science researchers for 2021, Prof. Grosse and dgp’s Prof. Grossman. Congratulations Prof. Grossman! More details about the award can be found here.
Undergrad Research at dgp
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.
Prof. Grossman awarded Steacie Fellowship
Congratulations to Prof. Grossman on being recognized for his early career achievements with an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship! Some of the research highlighted in award included AI drone navigation and wearable sensors to capture intricate hand grip and touch movements in VR.
Recipients of this year’s NSERC Prizes will be celebrated today at a ceremony beginning at 1:30 p.m. EST and streamed live on Facebook and YouTube.
Paper acceptance to CSCW 2020!
Congratulations to Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Toha Toriq, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. Their paper titled, “Persuasion, Habit, and Sustainability: Designing for and Lessons from Islamic Religious Culture in Bangladesh,” has been accepted to CSCW 2020!
Yasaman Rohanifar Awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Congratulations to Yasaman for being awarded a 2020-2021 Ontario Graduate Scholarship. The OGS is awarded to students for academic achievement, so the congrats again on a job well done Yasaman!