Laks V.S. Lakshmanan
Professor, Department of Computer Science, The University of British Columbia
Professor, Department of Computer Science, The University of British Columbia
Recent Awards and Recognition:
2026, 2025, 2024: AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Database. (AI2000 Top 100 Influential Scholars in Databases between 2000 and year Y = 2024, 2025, 2026.)
Outstanding Paper Award, 7th ACL Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2023), July 2023, Toronto, Canada.
Broadcast Interview: Fake news, misinformation, and disinformation: how to use technology to detect and combat them?, Interview by host Shaye Ganam on the State of Information Age., QR Calgary/660 CHED Radio, 2023/06/08.
Distinguished PC Member Award, ACM SIGMOD Conference, 2022.
ACM SIGMOD 2020 Research Highlights Award.
See ACM SIGMOD Record, March 2021 for more details as well as for a "popular" version of the article.
2019: AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Data Mining. (AI2000 Top 100 Influential Scholars in Data Mining between 2000 and 2019.)
IEEE Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) 2018,
Best Research Paper Award.
Named ACM Distinguished Scientist, November 2016.
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) twice in a row --