Congratulations to Michael Kokkolaras, full professor at McGill University, who received the award in recognition of his longstanding and meritorious contributions to the Design Automation Community with his research in Multidisciplinary Design Optimization and Derivative-Free Optimization for Simulation-Based Design, his leadership in Design Automation, and his commitment to mentoring and championing the future generation of Engineering Design students.

Congratulations to Michael Kokkolaras, full professor at McGill University, who was awarded, during the 2022 IDETC-CIE in St. Louis, the 2021 Editor’s Choice Paper Award in Journal of Mechanical Design in the category of design methods.

We are pleased to announce that professors Charles Audet, Pierre Baptiste, Leandro Coehlo, Franklin Djeumou Fomeni, Issmail El Hallaoui, Michael Kokkolaras, Antoine Legrain, Antoine Lesage-Landry and Djamal Rebaine, will be awarded a $6,000 grant for the co-supervision of their student submitted to the Co-supervised Graduate Research Grants Competition.

Congratulations to the winners!