Among the four new Canadian Research Chairs awarded to the University of Alberta, is one from our Computing Science Department, Zachary Friggstad. He has been awarded a Tier 2 Chairship for his work in Combinatorial Optimization, which will pay out $500,000 over five years.
"Friggstad has been making a name for himself removing some of the fright from some of the most daunting logistical nightmares since his earliest days as a grad student at the U of A"
"Friggstad has been making a name for himself removing some of the fright from some of the most daunting logistical nightmares since his earliest days as a grad student at the U of A"