Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2009

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
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

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Graduate TA Award January 2009	Alexander Izsak , Bradley Swerdfeger , Elan Dubrofsky , Jiemin Zhang , Kevin Swersky, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan, Peter Selby , Thomas Hazelton , Tomas Hofmann	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Graduate TA Teaching Award January 2009	David Tompkins	UBC VP Academic
Undergraduate TA Award January 2009	Bhavjinder Khaira , Billy Ta, Christopher Vicente, Elizabeth Patitsas , Gregory Rabin , Henry Chow , Karl Dray , Matthew Lockyer , Tracy Mew	UBC Department of Computer Science

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Student Services Award for Volunteering January 2009	Albert Chen , Andrew Tjia , Valerie Eades	UBC Department of Computer Science
Student Services Award for Volunteering January 2009	David Tompkins, Petcharat Viriyakattiyaporn	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Service January 2009	Amy Kwok	UBC Faculty of Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Academic Awards of Excellence January 2009	Daniel Chu (BCS), Jilian Dicker (Combined Majors), Robert Tseng (Combined Honours) , Samantha Leung (Honours) , Samuel Bayless (COGS) , Timothy Au-Yeung (Majors)	UBC Department of Computer Science
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	Jason Chang, Martin Lau	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	David Kurokawa, Kenneth Lui, Sandy Robertson	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	Cedric Lin	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	Robert Tseng , Simon Aloysius Suyadi	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	Byron Knoll	ACM
Co-op Student of the Year January 2009	Neil Thomas	UBC Faculty of Science
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award January 2009	Christopher Head, Edward Lui, Samantha Leung	CRA
Google Intern Scholarship January 2009	Neil Thomas	Google
Governor General's Silver Medal in Science January 2009	Timothy Au-yeung	Governor General of Canada
Imagine Cup January 2009	Byron Knoll	Imagine Cup
Intelligent Systems Challenge January 2009	Adam Williams	Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association
ITS 2009 SMART Table Application Design Contest January 2009	Brad Swerdfeger, Jennifer Fernquist	Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2009 Conference
Make Web Not War PHP Competition January 2009	Carson Lam	Microsoft
Markus Meister Memorial Prize January 2009	Robert Tseng	UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize January 2009	Yi Long Chen	UBC Department of Computer Science
MIT Battlecode Competition January 2009	Andew Tjia, Byron Knoll, Martin Lau	MIT Battlecode Programming Competition
MIT Battlecode Competition January 2009	Dan Ballard, Shaun Evans	MIT Battlecode Programming Competition
MIT Battlecode Competition January 2009	Patrick Nguyen	MIT Battlecode Programming Competition
Orbital/Simba Technologies Award January 2009	Amy Kwok	Orbital/Simba Technologies
Rick Sample Memorial Internship January 2009	Edward Lui, Samantha Leung	UBC Department of Computer Science
Semantic Robot Vision Challenge January 2009	Ankur Gupta, Catherine Gamroth, David Meger, Kenji Okuma, Marius Muja, Matthew Baumann, Pooja Viswanathan, Pooyan Fazli, Scott Helmer, Tomas Hoffman, Tristram Southey	ISVC
USENIX Security Grand Challenge January 2009	Sunjeet Singh	USENIX Security Conference

2008

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2008 CS Department Teaching Award December 2008	Donald Acton, Holger H. Hoos, Nando de Freitas, Patrice Belleville, Paul Carter, Robert Bridson	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Graduate TA Award January 2008	Bradley Atcheson, Dave Tompkins, Henry Ng, Hosna Jabbari, Jeffrey Hendy, Matt Baumann, Roman Holenstein , Tristram Southey	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Undergraduate TA Award January 2008	Ciaran Llachlan Leavitt , Henry Chow, Lewis Zhou, Ryan Giuliany, Shawn Callegari, Stewart Yu, Su Yuan, Vania Chan, Yvonne Chen	UBC Department of Computer Science
Graduate TA Teaching Award January 2008	Dutch Meyer	UBC VP Academic
Killam Teaching Prize January 2008	Ed Knorr	UBC VP Academic Office

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
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation January 2008	Brendan Cully, Dutch Meyer, Geoffrey Lefebvre	NSDI 2008
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation January 2008	Andrew Warfield, Mike Feeley, Norm Hutchinson	NSDI 2008

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CS Student Service Award for Volunteering January 2008	Arash Malek , Eugene Chan	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Student Service Award for Volunteering January 2008	Pooja Viswanathan	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Student Service Award for Volunteering January 2008	Baharak Rastegari	UBC Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Service January 2008	Michele Ng	UBC Faculty of Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2008	Jason Chang, Kenneth Lui, Reilly Wood	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2008	Byron Knoll, Martin Lau	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2008	Christopher Head, Robert Tseng, Simon Aloysius Suyadi	ACM
ACM World Finals January 2008	Anton Likhtarov	ACM
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award January 2008	Christina Pop, Jackie Cheung, Kevin Lai	CRA
CS Academic Awards of Excellence January 2008	Jackie Cheung, Kevin Lai, Lan Wei, Matthew Dunham, Michael Chuang, Zhiwei Qin	UBC Department of Computer Science
Governor General's Silver Medal in Science January 2008	Jackie Cheung	Governor General of Canada
Markus Meister Memorial Prize January 2008	Jackie Cheung	UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize January 2008	James Lo	UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Summer Internship January 2008	Alexander Bradley, Christopher Head, Robert English, Russell MacKenzie	UBC Department of Computer Science

2007

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2007 CS Department Teaching Award December 2007	Alla Sheffer, Anne Condon, Eric Wohlstadter, Kimberly Voll, Kurt Eiselt, Meghan Allen	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Dept. Teaching Award April 2007	George Tsiknis, Gregor Kiczales, Joseph Luk, Mike Feeley, Steve Wolfman	UBC Department of Computer Science

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