Awards

2010

Research

Award Recipient(s) Organization
ACM Fellow
Anne Condon ACM
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Thomas Fritz ACM SIGSOFT
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Gail Murphy ACM SIGSOFT
Alain Fournier Award
Tiberiu Popa Alain Fournier Memorial Fund
BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge
Mahdi Tayarani Najaran BCNET
Best Poster Award, Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop
Oana Sandu NW-NLP 2010
Bio-IT Best Practices Award
Raymond Ng Bio IT World
CAIAC Inaugural Best Dissertation Award
Frank Hutter CAIAC
CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award
Alan Mackworth CAIAC
CAIMS/SCMAI Research Prize
Uri Ascher CAIMS
CRA Nico Habermann Award
Anne Condon CRA
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards
Cedric Lin, Jamila Salari CRA
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
Nicholas Fitzgerald CRA
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
Holger H. Hoos Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC
Early Career Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
Joanna McGrenere Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC
Human Frontier Science Program Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship Award
Peter Carbonetto Human Frontier Science Program
IBM Faculty Award
Andrew Warfield IBM CAS Canada Research
ICSE ACM Student Research Competition
Thomas Fritz, Zvonimir Rakamaric ACM
IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize 2010
Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown JAIR
IJCAII-JAIR Best Paper Award
Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu JAIR
Microsoft SEIF (Software Engineering Innovation Foundation) Award
Gail Murphy Microsoft Research
MITACS Young Researcher Award
Nando de Freitas MITACS
Most Imaginative Research Award
Nicholas Fitzgerald Universitas21
Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) Oral Presentation Award
Nicholas FitzGerald MURC
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement
Holger H. Hoos, Michiel van de Panne, Wolfgang Heidrich NSERC
SIAM Fellow
Uri Ascher SIAM
ACM Distinguished Scientist
Gail Murphy ACM
Faculty Research and Engagement Award
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan Yahoo!
AAAI 2010 Distinguished Service Award
Alan Mackworth AAAI
CASCON Best Exhibit Award
Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng IBC CASCON
2009

Research

Award Recipient(s) Organization
ACM Distinguished Scientist
Kellogg Booth ACM
AI & Statistics 2009 Best Paper Award
Ewout van den Berg, Gail Murphy, Mark Schmidt, Michael Friedlander AI & Statistics
Association for Constraint Programming (ACP) Research Excellence Award
Alan Mackworth ACP
BCNET Faculty Recognition Award
Donald Acton BCNET
CHI 2009 Best Paper Award
Jessica Dawson, Joanna McGrenere, Karyn Moffatt, Leah Findlater CHI
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
Alan Mackworth, David Kirkpatrick Royal Society of Canada
Governor General's Gold Medal
Mirela Andronescu Governor General of Canada
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 …
Killam Research Prize, Senior Science Category
Alla Sheffer, David Lowe , Ronald Rensink UBC VP Research
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan NSERC
NSERC Strategic Grant
Cristina Conati, Giuseppe Carenini NSERC
Semantic Robot Vision Challenge
Alan Mackworth, David Lowe , Jim Little ISVC
UBC Faculty of Science Graduate Prize
Mirela Andronescu UBC Faculty of Science
URO Mentorship Award
Kevin Leyton-Brown UBC
2008

Research

Award Recipient(s) Organization
CHCCS Achievement Award
Kellogg Booth Canadian Human Computer Communications Society
Alain Fournier Thesis Award
Abhijeet Ghosh Vancouver Foundation Alain Fournier Memorial Fund
Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship (Sponsored by Google)
Pooja Viswanathan, Viann Chan Google
BCNet Broadband Innovation Challenge
Brendan Cully BCNet
Canadian AI Graduate Student Symposium Best Paper Award
Mark Crowley Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Charles McDowell Award
Karon MacLean UBC VP Research
Dolby Computer Science Research Chair
Wolfgang Heidrich Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Service
Bob Woodham UBC Faculty of Science
Human Frontier Science
Dinesh Pai Human Frontier Science Program
IBM Faculty Award
Alan Hu IBM
IEEE Haptics Symposium Best Paper Award
Karon MacLean, Mario Enriquez IEEE Haptics Symposium
Killam Research Fellowship
Nando de Freitas Office of the Vice President, Research, UBC
Michael Smith Foundation
Sohrab Shah Michael Smith Foundation
Michael Smith Foundation Award
Chris Thachuk Michael Smith Foundation
Microsoft Research Fellowship
Zvonimir Rakamaric Microsoft
Most Cited Paper in Engineering 2004-2008
David Lowe TopCited
Precarn 20th Anniversary Commercialization Success Award
Jim Little, Point Grey Research Precarn
University of Washington College of Engineering Diamond Award
Gail Murphy University of Washington
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Brendan Cully, Dutch Meyer, Geoffrey Lefebvre NSDI 2008
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Andrew Warfield, Mike Feeley, Norm Hutchinson NSDI 2008
2007

Research

Award Recipient(s) Organization
ACM SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award
Joanna McGrenere, Karyn Moffatt SIGACCESS
BCNet Broadband Innovation Challenge
Michael Woods BCNet
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Suling Yang Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Best Student Paper Award
Alan Mackworth, Suling Yang Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards
Tracy Lau CRA
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards
Ana Pop CRA
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
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
IUI Best Paper Award
Andrea Bunt, Cristina Conati, Joanna McGrenere IUI Conference Homepage
Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Alan Mackworth Peter Wall Scholars in Residence
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies: Major Thematic Grant
Dinesh Pai Peter Wall Institute
Ranked 3rd in ACM Student Research Competition
Erica Huang ACM
Semantic Robot Vision Challenge
David Lowe , Jim Little, Matthew Baumann, Per-Erik Forssen, kevin726 AAAI Mobile Robot Competition
SIGGRAPH Student Research Competition
Abhijeet Ghosh, Eric Brochu SIGGRAPH
SMT Competition
Domagoj Babic SMT
TACAS Best Student Paper Award
Zvonimir Rakamaric TACAS
UBC Graduate TA Teaching Award
Michael Huggett UBC VP Academic Office
UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship
Karon MacLean Office of the Vice President Research