A paper by Dr. Peter Rigby received the Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Conference 2019 Most Influential Paper Award. This is an award given to a paper 10 years after publication. (“The Promises and Perils of Mining Git” by Christian Bird, Peter Rigby, Earl Barr, David Hamilton, Daniel German, and Prem Devanbu).
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Accolades – Fall 2019
![Dr. Peter Rigby](/cunews/encs/computer-science/2019/11/25/accolades-fall-2019/_jcr_content/parsys/textimage/image.img.jpg/1574715147404.jpg)
![Dr. Marta Kersten-Oertel](/cunews/encs/computer-science/2019/11/25/accolades-fall-2019/_jcr_content/parsys/textimage_1224019125/image.img.jpg/1574695546770.jpg)
Dr. Marta Kersten-Oertel’s student Sara Amini won an Outstanding Paper Award at the Augmented Environments and Computer Assisted Interventions (AE-CAI) Workshop at MICCAI (Amini, S.* Kersten-Oertel M., 2019. An Augmented Reality Mastectomy Surgical Planning Prototype using the HoloLens. Healthcare Technology Letters (epub ahead of print)).
Dr. Kersten-Oertel was named a Concordia University Research Chair (New Scholar) as of Nov. 1.
![Dr. Desai](/cunews/encs/computer-science/2019/11/25/accolades-fall-2019/_jcr_content/parsys/textimage_692265719/image.img.jpg/1574695609637.jpg)
Dr. Desai was invited to appear on the CBC Eng. TV show Our Montreal to talk about Privacy in the Age of Information (and Algorithms); this program which was broadcast a couple of weeks ago.
![Ching Y. Suen](/cunews/encs/computer-science/2019/11/25/accolades-fall-2019/_jcr_content/parsys/textimage_2087347766/image.img.jpg/1574695666229.jpg)
Dr. Suen and his student Rabiah Al-qudah won a Best Paper award at the 3rd International Conference on Vision, Image, and Signal Processing (Impact of Font on Computer Recognition of License Plates on Automobiles” Rabiah Al-qudah and Ching Y. Suen)
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Dr. Tsantalis received the IEEE Computer Society TCSE Most Influential Paper Award for the paper "Identification of Extract Method Refactoring Opportunities"
![Dr. Jaumard](/cunews/encs/computer-science/2019/11/25/accolades-fall-2019/_jcr_content/parsys/textimage_1461378106/image.img.jpg/1574695826300.jpg)
Dr. Jaumard has been named Principal Scientist at CRIM.
![Yann Gael Gueheneuc](/cunews/encs/computer-science/2019/11/25/accolades-fall-2019/_jcr_content/parsys/textimage_288410754/image.img.jpg/1574695933541.jpg)
Drs. Rodrigo Morales and Gueheneuc have been awarded a 16, 000 CAD the from Ministere de Relations Internationales et Francophonie (MRIF) Coopération bilatérale Québec-Mexique in the project title: Collaboration de recherche interdisciplinaire entre le Québec et Mexique pour soutenir la création, l'exploitation et les tests des logiciel robustes pour l'Internet des objets (IoT)
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Dr. Aiman Hanna, along with his Security team, have published book for Binary Code Fingerprinting for Cybersecurity. The Book can be accessed on Amazon here.