Awards

2011

Research

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

Service

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

Teaching

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Graduate TA Award
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
Pooja Viswanathan UBC Department of Computer Science
Undergraduate TA Award
Dereck Toker, Douglas Lam, Henry Li, Jay Zhang, Jonathan Stiansen, Max Erler, Paige Zhang, Rachel Busby, Vanessa Kroeker UBC Department of Computer Science
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

Teaching

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Graduate TA Award
Anseok Joo, Bruno da Silva, Dan Li, Jimmy Wong, Jonatan Schroeder, Kuljeet Singh, Ron Maharik, Shantanu Gramsci UBC Department of Computer Science
Killam Teaching Prize
Kimberly Voll UBC VP Academic Office
UBC Graduate TA Teaching Award
Mark Crowley UBC VP Academic
Undergraduate TA Award
Alan Tan, David Leung, Gwendolyn Echlin, Maria Piao, Nicholas Fitzgerald, Piam Kiarostami, Sarah Dadizadeh UBC Department of Computer Science
2010 CS Department Teaching Award
Chen Greif, Ed Knorr, Gregor Kiczales, Patrice Belleville, Rachel Pottinger, Steve Wolfman UBC Department of Computer Science
Graduate TA Award
Andrej Karpathy, Ben Jones, Diane Tam, Hajir Roozbehani, Jiarui Ding, Mark Spear, Oliver Schneider, Tao Su, Will Chao UBC Department of Computer Science
Undergraduate TA Award
Alex Boyd, Benjamin Israel, Cristina Teodoropol, Elizabeth Patitsas, Jordan Chin, Lawrence Cahoon, Minyang Han, Myles Shepherd, Sonia Purewal UBC Department of Computer Science

Service

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Faculty of Science Achievement Award
Norm Hutchinson UBC Faculty of Science
Student Services Award for Volunteering
Caitlin Tuba, Gabriel Silk, Kevin Kuo, Kevin Moore, Sonia Purewal, Spiridoula Lagaditis UBC Department of Computer Science
ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award
Kellogg Booth ACM SIGGRAPH

Undergrad Achievement

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Academic Awards of Excellence
Cedric Lin (Combined Honours), Farbod Roosta-Khorasani (Combined Major), Frances Raftis (BCS), Jenica Siy (Major), Juliette Link (BA in CS), Karl Dray (Cogs), Neil Thomas (Honours), Sunny Wong (B.Comm in CS) UBC Department of Computer Science
ACM ICPC Regional Programming Contest
Aram Ebtekar, Ayden Wong ACM ICPC
ACM ICPC Regional Programming Contest
Simon Aloysius Suyadi ACM ICPC
ACM ICPC World Final
Cedric Lin ACM
ACM ICPC World Final
Kuan-Chieh Tseng, Simon Aloysius Suyadi ACM
BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge
Dan Ballard, Jonathan Tao BCNET
Faculty of Science Achievement Award
Rock Leung UBC Faculty of Science
Governor-General Silver Medal in Science
Cedric Lin Governor General of Canada
Markus Meister Memorial Prize
Neil Thomas UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize
Julianne Leung UBC Department of Computer Science
MURC Oral Presentation Award
Nicholas Fitzgerald UBC MURC
Orbital/Simba Technologies Award
Joyce Cheung Orbital/Simba Technologies
Rick Sample Memorial Internship
Jessica Dawson UBC Department of Computer Science
Simba Technologies Award
Joyce Cheung Simba Technologies
2009

Teaching

Award Recipient(s) Organization
2009 CS Department Teaching Award
George Tsiknis, Kurt Eiselt, Michael Friedlander , Mike Feeley, Paul Carter, Ronald Rensink UBC Department of Computer Science

Service

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Service
Norm Hutchinson

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