Awards

Year

Title

Award Type

Role

2013

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC Killam Research Fellowship February 2013	Cristina Conati	UBC VP Research & International
UBC Killam Research Prize February 2013	Dinesh Pai	UBC VP Research & International

2012

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM Fellow December 2012	Gregor Kiczales	ACM
Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design October 2012	Nick Harvey	NSERC CRC
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada September 2012	Anne Condon	Royal Society of Canada
Best AI Masters Thesis Award July 2012	Martin Lesmana	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award July 2012	Albert Xin Jiang	International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
BC TIA's 'Emerging Company of the Year' Award June 2012	Gail Murphy
SATzilla Challenge June 2012	Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Jonathan Shen, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu	SAT Challenge
ACM-EC Best Student Paper Award May 2012	Kevin Leyton-Brown	ACM EC
CAIAC Doctoral Dissertation Awards May 2012	Albert Xin Jiang	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Peter Wall Institute Early Career Scholar May 2012	Kevin Leyton-Brown	UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advance Studies
Faculty of Science Graduate Prize April 2012	Ron Maharik	UBC Faculty of Science
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement April 2012	Alla Sheffer, Dinesh Pai, Joanna McGrenere	NSERC
Alain Fournier Ph.D Thesis Award March 2012	Gordon Wetzstein
Best Paper at 2012 Haptics Symposium March 2012	Karon MacLean, Louise Oram, Vincent Levesque	IEEE Haptics Symposium
CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize March 2012	Joanna McGrenere	CACS/AIC
Dahl-Nygaard Senior Prize March 2012	Gregor Kiczales	Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets
Sloan Research Fellowship February 2012	Andrew Warfield	Sloan Research Fellowship
Charles McDowell Award for Excellence in Research January 2012	Wolfgang Heidrich	UBC Office of the VP Research & International

2011

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2011 Audi Production Award December 2011	Alla Sheffer	Audi
University of Washington Diamond Award December 2011	Anne Condon	College of Engineering, University of Washington
ICCV Test-of-Time Award November 2011	David Lowe	International Conference on Computer Vision
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (FSE) September 2011	David Notkin, Michael D. Ernst, Reid Holmes, Yuriy Brun	Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)
SIGSOFT Retrospective Impact Paper Award September 2011	Gail Murphy	ACM SIGSOFT
Best Paper Award at VLDB 2011 August 2011	Andrew Warfield, Brendan Cully, Shriram Rajagopalan	VLDB 2011
ICICS Graduate Scholarship July 2011	Joshua Litven
Mushfiqur Rouf Awarded ICICS Graduate Scholarship July 2011	Mushfiqur (Nasa) Rouf	ICICS
Best Student Paper Award, CPM 2011 June 2011	Chris Thachuk
University of Washington CSE Alumni Achievement Award June 2011	Anne Condon	University of Washington
Best Paper Award, CHI 2011 April 2011	Karon MacLean, Louise Oram, Vincent Levesque	CHI
ICCP Best Paper Award March 2011	Wolfgang Heidrich	ICCP 2011
Small Business BC Award March 2011	Gail Murphy	Small Business BC
ACM/IEEE Human Robot Interaction Conference Best Paper Award February 2011	Karon MacLean, Steve Yohanan	HRI
ACM Fellow January 2011	Margo Seltzer	ACM
NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant January 2011	Karon MacLean	NSERC
UBC CS Dept. Research Poster Competition January 2011	Joel Ferstay, Juliette Link, Louise Oram, Maria Ivanova	UBC CS Dept.

2010

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM Fellow December 2010	Anne Condon	ACM
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award December 2010	Thomas Fritz	ACM SIGSOFT
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award December 2010	Gail Murphy	ACM SIGSOFT
Alain Fournier Award December 2010	Tiberiu Popa	Alain Fournier Memorial Fund
BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge December 2010	Mahdi Tayarani Najaran	BCNET
Best Poster Award, Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop December 2010	Oana Sandu	NW-NLP 2010
Bio-IT Best Practices Award December 2010	Raymond Ng	Bio IT World
CAIAC Inaugural Best Dissertation Award December 2010	Frank Hutter	CAIAC
CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award December 2010	Alan Mackworth	CAIAC
CAIMS/SCMAI Research Prize December 2010	Uri Ascher	CAIMS
CRA Nico Habermann Award December 2010	Anne Condon	CRA
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards December 2010	Cedric Lin, Jamila Salari	CRA
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award December 2010	Nicholas Fitzgerald	CRA
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies December 2010	Holger H. Hoos	Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC
Early Career Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies December 2010	Joanna McGrenere	Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC
Human Frontier Science Program Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship Award December 2010	Peter Carbonetto	Human Frontier Science Program
IBM Faculty Award December 2010	Andrew Warfield	IBM CAS Canada Research
ICSE ACM Student Research Competition December 2010	Thomas Fritz, Zvonimir Rakamaric	ACM
IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize 2010 December 2010	Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown	JAIR
IJCAII-JAIR Best Paper Award December 2010	Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu	JAIR
Microsoft SEIF (Software Engineering Innovation Foundation) Award December 2010	Gail Murphy	Microsoft Research
MITACS Young Researcher Award December 2010	Nando de Freitas	MITACS
Most Imaginative Research Award December 2010	Nicholas Fitzgerald	Universitas21
Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) Oral Presentation Award December 2010	Nicholas FitzGerald	MURC
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement December 2010	Holger H. Hoos, Michiel van de Panne, Wolfgang Heidrich	NSERC
SIAM Fellow December 2010	Uri Ascher	SIAM
ACM Distinguished Scientist November 2010	Gail Murphy	ACM
Faculty Research and Engagement Award November 2010	Laks V.S. Lakshmanan	Yahoo!
AAAI 2010 Distinguished Service Award October 2010	Alan Mackworth	AAAI
CASCON Best Exhibit Award October 2010	Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng	IBC CASCON

2009

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM Distinguished Scientist January 2009	Kellogg Booth	ACM
AI & Statistics 2009 Best Paper Award January 2009	Ewout van den Berg, Gail Murphy, Mark Schmidt, Michael Friedlander	AI & Statistics
Association for Constraint Programming (ACP) Research Excellence Award January 2009	Alan Mackworth	ACP
BCNET Faculty Recognition Award January 2009	Donald Acton	BCNET
CHI 2009 Best Paper Award January 2009	Jessica Dawson, Joanna McGrenere, Karyn Moffatt, Leah Findlater	CHI
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada January 2009	Alan Mackworth, David Kirkpatrick	Royal Society of Canada
Governor General's Gold Medal January 2009	Mirela Andronescu	Governor General of Canada
IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize 2009 January 2009	David Poole, Holger H. Hoos	Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
International SAT Competition 2009 January 2009	Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu	International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing …
Killam Research Prize, Senior Science Category January 2009	Alla Sheffer, David Lowe , Ronald Rensink	UBC VP Research
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements January 2009	Laks V.S. Lakshmanan	NSERC
NSERC Strategic Grant January 2009	Cristina Conati, Giuseppe Carenini	NSERC
Semantic Robot Vision Challenge January 2009	Alan Mackworth, David Lowe , Jim Little	ISVC
UBC Faculty of Science Graduate Prize January 2009	Mirela Andronescu	UBC Faculty of Science
URO Mentorship Award January 2009	Kevin Leyton-Brown	UBC

2008

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CHCCS Achievement Award May 2008	Kellogg Booth	Canadian Human Computer Communications Society
Alain Fournier Thesis Award January 2008	Abhijeet Ghosh	Vancouver Foundation Alain Fournier Memorial Fund
Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship (Sponsored by Google) January 2008	Pooja Viswanathan, Viann Chan	Google
BCNet Broadband Innovation Challenge January 2008	Brendan Cully	BCNet
Canadian AI Graduate Student Symposium Best Paper Award January 2008	Mark Crowley	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Charles McDowell Award January 2008	Karon MacLean	UBC VP Research
Dolby Computer Science Research Chair January 2008	Wolfgang Heidrich	Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Service January 2008	Bob Woodham	UBC Faculty of Science
Human Frontier Science January 2008	Dinesh Pai	Human Frontier Science Program
IBM Faculty Award January 2008	Alan Hu	IBM
IEEE Haptics Symposium Best Paper Award January 2008	Karon MacLean, Mario Enriquez	IEEE Haptics Symposium
Killam Research Fellowship January 2008	Nando de Freitas	Office of the Vice President, Research, UBC
Michael Smith Foundation January 2008	Sohrab Shah	Michael Smith Foundation
Michael Smith Foundation Award January 2008	Chris Thachuk	Michael Smith Foundation
Microsoft Research Fellowship January 2008	Zvonimir Rakamaric	Microsoft
Most Cited Paper in Engineering 2004-2008 January 2008	David Lowe	TopCited
Precarn 20th Anniversary Commercialization Success Award January 2008	Jim Little, Point Grey Research	Precarn
University of Washington College of Engineering Diamond Award January 2008	Gail Murphy	University of Washington

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