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Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2013

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC Computer Department Student Service Award May 2013	Hagit Schechter, Vasanth Rajendran	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award May 2013	Maria Piao, Michelle Chuang, Peter Cheung, Richard Lei, Richard Lo, Tina Wang	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Fostering a Collegial Environment) May 2013	Dan Miner	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Going Above and Beyond) May 2013	Tim Li	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Supporting Research) May 2013	Laura Selander	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Supporting Students and/or Educational Program) May 2013	Giuliana Villegas	UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Team Award) May 2013	Hermie Lam, Holly Kwan, Kletnathee Imhiran, Lara Hall, Laura Selander	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Service May 2013	Anthony Winstanley	UBC Faculty of Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Governor General's Silver Medal May 2013	Ruiyuan Chen	Governor General of Canada
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2013	Leemor Yuravlivker	UBC Department of Computer Science
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2013	Leemor Yuravlivker	UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2013	Angel Cheung	UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Summer Internship May 2013	Paul Liu, Stephanie Van Dyk	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BA) May 2013	Tina Yang	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BCS) May 2013	Connor Mayer	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BUCS) May 2013	Yu Fei Long	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (COGS) May 2013	Jessie Chen	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Majors) May 2013	Alyanna Uy	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Honours) May 2013	Ruiyuan Chen	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Majors) May 2013	Robert Sumi	UBC Department of Computer Science
e-Portfolio Competition Judges' Choice Award 1st Prize (tied) April 2013	Billy Lin	UBC Department of Computer Science
e-Portfolio Competition People's Choice Award 1st Prize April 2013	Tom Jin	UBC Department of Computer Science
e-Portfolio Competition People's Choice Award 2nd Prize April 2013	Vlad Zaharia	UBC Department of Computer Science
e-Portfolio Competition Judges' Choice Award 1st Prize (tied) March 2013	Tom Jin	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Digital U Competition March 2013	Bio Cho	UBC

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Alain Fournier Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation April 2013	Tyson Brochu	Alain Fournier Memorial Fund
Microsoft SEIF Award April 2013	Joanna McGrenere	Microsoft Research
Alfred Sloan Research Fellowship February 2013	Nick Harvey	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
CACS Outstanding Young Computer Science Research Prize February 2013	Michael Friedlander	Canadian Association of Computer Science
Charles McDowell Award February 2013	Nando de Freitas	UBC VP Research & International
UBC Killam Research Fellowship February 2013	Cristina Conati	UBC VP Research & International
UBC Killam Research Prize February 2013	Dinesh Pai	UBC VP Research & International

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award April 2013	Julius Davis	UBC VP Academic

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

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring November 2012	Joanna McGrenere	UBC Faculty of Graduate Studies
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal August 2012	Arvind Gupta
CS Faculty Mentoring Award May 2012	Kellogg Booth	UBC Department of Computer Science
Chelsey Maher Receives Faculty of Science Achievement Award April 2012	Chelsey Maher	UBC Faculty of Science
Faculty of Science Achievement Award April 2012	Kimberly Voll	UBC Faculty of Science
Faculty of Science Achievement Award April 2012	Sarah Rastkar	UBC Faculty of Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
TELUS Excellence in IT Award September 2012	Alan Long	TELUS
TELUS Excellence in IT Award September 2012	Leemor Yuravlivker	TELUS
TELUS Excellence in IT Award September 2012	Peter Cheung	TELUS
Microsoft Scholarship June 2012	Maria Piao	Microsoft
William Bredefeld Wins Travel Award for ACM Turing Centenary June 2012	William Bredefeld	ACM SIGACT
Markus Meister Memorial Prize May 2012	Minyang Han	UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2012	Joyce Cheung	UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Summer Internship May 2012	Jing Yun Alice Zhu	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BA) May 2012	Zachary Siddall	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BCS) May 2012	Rui Zhao	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BUCS) May 2012	Wen Di Zhuang	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (COGS) May 2012	Sean Povill	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Honours) May 2012	Minyang Han	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Majors) May 2012	Daniel Busto	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Honours) May 2012	Martin Lau	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Majors) May 2012	Jason Chou	UBC Department of Computer Science
Travel Award for ACM Turing Centenary April 2012	William Bredefeld	ACM SIGACT
UBC CS E-Portfolio Competition: Honourable Mention March 2012	Robert Shum	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC CS e-Portfolio Competition: Honourable Mention March 2012	Crystal Koo	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC CS e-Portfolio Competition: Judges' Choice March 2012	Scott Newson	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC CS e-Portfolio Competition: People's Choice March 2012	Shirley Ho	UBC Department of Computer Science

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2011 CS Department Teaching Award May 2012	David Kirkpatrick, Ed Knorr, Joanna McGrenere, Kimberly Voll, Norm Hutchinson, Ronald Rensink	UBC Department of Computer Science
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2012	Cheryl Lau	UBC Department of Computer Science
Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award April 2012	Bruno da Silva

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

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CS Faculty Mentoring Award October 2011	Alan Mackworth	UBC Department of Computer Science
President's Service Award for Excellence May 2011	Michele Ng	President's Service Award
President's Service Award for Excellence May 2011	Michele Ng	UBC

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Graduate TA Award May 2011	Alexandru Totolici, Brent Boerlage, Julius Davies, Marcos Ginestra, Mark Spear, Michael Chiang, Nathan Taylor, Nuray Dindar, Shathel Haddad	UBC Department of Computer Science
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2011	Pooja Viswanathan	UBC Department of Computer Science
Undergraduate TA Award May 2011	Dereck Toker, Douglas Lam, Henry Li, Jay Zhang, Jonathan Stiansen, Max Erler, Paige Zhang, Rachel Busby, Vanessa Kroeker	UBC Department of Computer Science