The University of Guelph has appointed of Dr. Stacey Scott dean of the College of Computational, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences (CCMPS).
A pc scientist with over 18 years of expertise as a school member and educational chief, Scott will being a five-year time period on April 1, 2026.
”I’m honoured and excited to construct on the work I’ve began as interim dean and to proceed shaping a school technique grounded in our strengths and oriented in direction of sensible options and significant innovation,” Scott says.
“The creation of CCMPS gives us an opportunity to define who we want to be and the impact we want to have, and to act with intention to achieve those goals. Together, we can build an engaged, connected community and a destination of choice for those excited to advance science and technology fields.”
Scott beforehand served as interim dean of CCMPS when the school shaped in 2025 and is a professor within the School of Computer Science.
She has held a number of educational management roles since arriving at U of G from the University of Waterloo in 2016, together with chair of strategic planning, assistant director, affiliate director of Graduate Studies and interim director of the Master of Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence program within the School of Computer Science.
Scott performed a big function within the creation of CCMPS, chairing the Ad Hoc Committee on College Restructuring, main college-wide consultations with CCMPS models and bringing the proposal to Senate.
With a deal with human-computer interplay and collaboration applied sciences, Scott’s analysis has purposes in defence, emergency response, knowledge analytics, precision agriculture and social connection. Her work has been revealed in additional than 120 peer-reviewed articles. Scott has skilled over 100 undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral fellows, incomes her the Lasting Impact Award from the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing in 2020.
Scott earned her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Calgary and accomplished postdoctoral coaching on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before her graduate research, she labored as a software program engineer growing consumer interfaces for the Canadian Armed Forces’ communications programs.
CCMPS is residence to over 2,200 undergraduate college students and practically 300 graduate college students and helps greater than 8,000 learners from throughout the University annually. With over 140 devoted college and employees, CCMPS gives world-leading analysis and schooling in chemistry, laptop science, arithmetic and statistics and physics. The College builds on a robust tradition of collaborations and partnerships to deal with some of the world’s most complicated issues.