Computer Science Canada | Informatique Canada has announced the list of recipients of its awards for 2024.
Members of the TCS community will be pleased to see that Faith Ellen (University of Toronto) is one of the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award 2024. Congratulations Faith!
On a personal note, I am also delighted to see that Nicola Cotumaccio was selected for the Canadian Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award 2024 . Nicola's PhD thesis, entitled Data compression meets automata theory, was supervised by Travis Gagie (Dalhousie University), Nicola Prezza (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) and Catia Trubiani (Gran Sasso Science Institute), as part of a joint Gran Sasso Science Institute-Dalhousie University degree, and was supported by a scholarship from Dante Labs.
Nicola was also a co-recipient of the Best PhD thesis award of the Italian Chapter of the EATCS.
To my mind, the best way to get a glimpse of the work Nicola presented in his award-winning doctoral dissertation is to read the short summary he published in the Bulletin of the EATCS. However, I strongly encourage anyone interested in TCS to have a look at the full dissertation or at the articles on which it is based, including one that was published in the JACM.
Since February 2024, Nicola has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. I look forward to seeing the developments in his academic career.
