Alexandra Fedorova is among 126 outstanding Canadian and American researchers to receive a prestigious $50,000 Sloan Fellowship in 2012, in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions.

Dr. Fedorova leads the Systems Research Group at SFU, co-founded the SyNAr (Systems, Networking and Architecture) lab, and is a project leader in the GRAND NCE. Her research focuses on finding new algorithms that can more efficiently allocate a computer system’s hardware resources.