Awards

Research

Year Award Recipient(s) Organization
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Holger H. Hoos, Michiel van de Panne, Wolfgang Heidrich NSERC
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award Gail Murphy ACM SIGSOFT
Microsoft SEIF (Software Engineering Innovation Foundation) Award Gail Murphy Microsoft Research
CRA Nico Habermann Award Anne Condon CRA
Bio-IT Best Practices Award Raymond Ng Bio IT World
CAIMS/SCMAI Research Prize Uri Ascher CAIMS
CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award Alan Mackworth CAIAC
IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize 2010 Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown JAIR
AAAI 2010 Distinguished Service Award Alan Mackworth AAAI
CASCON Best Exhibit Award Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng IBC CASCON
ACM Distinguished Scientist Gail Murphy ACM
Faculty Research and Engagement Award Laks V.S. Lakshmanan Yahoo!
ACM Fellow Anne Condon ACM

Research

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

Research

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

Research

Year Award Recipient(s) Organization
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards Tracy Lau CRA
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards Ana Pop CRA
Ranked 3rd in ACM Student Research Competition Erica Huang ACM
UBC Graduate TA Teaching Award Michael Huggett UBC VP Academic Office
BCNet Broadband Innovation Challenge Michael Woods BCNet
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Suling Yang Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
SIGGRAPH Student Research Competition Abhijeet Ghosh, Eric Brochu SIGGRAPH
ACM SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award Joanna McGrenere, Karyn Moffatt SIGACCESS
TACAS Best Student Paper Award Zvonimir Rakamaric TACAS
SMT Competition Domagoj Babic SMT
IUI Best Paper Award Andrea Bunt, Cristina Conati, Joanna McGrenere IUI Conference Homepage
UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship Karon MacLean Office of the Vice President Research
Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence Alan Mackworth Peter Wall Scholars in Residence
International Conference Intelligent User Interfaces Andrea Bunt, Cristina Conati, Joanna McGrenere ACM IUI Conference
International SAT Competition 2007 Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu SAT Competition
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Best Student Paper Award Alan Mackworth, Suling Yang Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Semantic Robot Vision Challenge David Lowe , Jim Little, Matthew Baumann, Per-Erik Forssen, kevin726 AAAI Mobile Robot Competition
Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award Rachel Pottinger Anita Borg Institute
ICCV 2007: Marr Prize Abhijeet Ghosh, Matthew O'Toole, Shruthi Achutha, Steve Wolfman ICCV 2007
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies: Major Thematic Grant Dinesh Pai Peter Wall Institute

Research

Year Award Recipient(s) Organization
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng CRA
First Place - ACM Student Research Competition (Undergraduate) Yuan-Ting Erica Huang Grace Hopper 2006
APRU Business Plan Prize Competition (UBC) 2006 Mik Kersten APRU
BC.NET Coolest Applications Contest Winners 2006 Anthony Yu, PhD, Camilo Rostoker, Msc, Xin Liu, PhD BC.NET
Faculty of Science Graduate Thesis Prize (Inaugural) Jihong Ren UBC Department of Computer Science
2006 Research Trainee Award Sohrab Shah Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
APRU "Extra Chapter Challenge" Mik Kersten Association of Pacific Rim Universities - APRU
Cisco University Research Award Alan Wagner Cisco Academic Research & Technology Initiatives
Faculty of Science Achievement Award (for Service) Kellogg Booth UBC Faculty of Science
Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence Anne Condon Peter Wall Scholars in Residence
IBM Faculty Award Alla Sheffer IBM
2006 NSERC Steacie Fellowship Gail Murphy NSERC - Science and Engineering Achievers Honoured
CHI Best Paper Award Joseph Luk, Jérôme Pasquero, McGill, Karon MacLean, Shannon Little, Vincent Hayward, McGill CHI2006
CRA-W Anita Borg Early Career Award Gail Murphy ICSE 2006
ACM International Conference on Software Engineering Gail Murphy, John Anvik, Lyndon Hiew ICSE 2006
Canadian AI-2006 Best Paper Award Dave Tompkins, Holger H. Hoos Canadian AI-2006
Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision Alex Shyr, Jim Little, Matt Griffin, Pantelis Elinas, Robert Sim,Ph.D Post-Doc Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision
Eurographics 2006 Christophe Schlick, Tamy Boubekeur, (INRIA), Wolfgang Heidrich, Xavier Granier Eurographics 2006 - Conference Webpage
NSERC Industrial Research Doctoral Fellowship Barry Po, PhD NSERC and Cogneto
NSERC - Strategic Grant (3 years) Alex Merritt, undergraduate, Asst. Prof.,Melanie Tory (U.Vic), Asst. Prof. Sheryl Staub-French (civil engineering and Project lead), Barry Po, PhD, Kellogg Booth, Rachel Pottinger NSERC
Canada Research Chair - Tier 1 Dinesh Pai Canada Research Chair
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Claire Tomlin, Ian Mitchell, Meeko Oishi, Patrick Saint-Pierre IEEE CDC

Research

Year Award Recipient(s) Organization
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards Kenneth MacKay, Maryam Mahdaviani CRA
Best Graduate Student Paper Award Alena Shmygelska ismb2005
Best Graduate Student Poster Award - MITACS 2005 Stephane Durocher MITACS
Best Paper Award Anthony Tang, Karen Lowe, Karon MacLean, Peter McLachlan, Rao Chalapati ICMI 2005
Best Graduate Student Poster Award ACM Student Research - Siggraph 2005 Dan Julius, Tiberiu Popa ACM
IBM CAS Student of the Year Kuan-Chieh Tseng IBM CAS
Student Scholarship - FAST Abhishek Gupta UBC Department of Computer Science
Microsoft Research University Relations Program Eric Wohlstadter (162) Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research University Relations Program Kris De Volder Microsoft Research
AITO Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize 2005 Gail Murphy AITO