Laurie Hendren

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Nationality Canadian Fields Computer Science Name Laurie Hendren		Doctoral advisor Alex Nicolau Institutions McGill University Institution McGill University

Born December 13, 1958 (age 65) Peterborough, Ontario, Canada ( 1958-12-13 ) Known for programming languages compiler research pointer analysis Notable awards Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching (2005–2006) ACM Fellow (2009) Canada Research Chair (2011) Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2012) Alma mater Queen's University, Cornell University

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Laurie Hendren (born 1958) is a Canadian Computer Scientist noted for her research in programming languages and compilers.

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Biography

Hendren received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Queen's University, Kingston in 1982 and 1984 respectively. She received a Ph.D in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1990.

She then joined the School of Computer Science at the McGill University as an assistant professor in 1990. While there she was promoted to associate professor in 1995 and full professor in 2001. She also served as Associate Dean (Academic) for the Faculty of Science at McGill University from 2005 to 2014. She was recently made the 5 of diamonds in the Notable Women of Computing card deck.

Awards and notable achievements

Hendren was awarded the Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Science at McGill University for the academic year 2006–2007. She was made an ACM Fellow in 2009, awarded a Canada Research Chair in 2011, and elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2012.

Hendren was the programming languages area editor the Association for Computing Machinery Books Series and has been the Program Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery SIGPLAN Programming Language Design and Implementation Conference.