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The University of British Columbia

Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2009

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
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, Rook 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
CS Graduate TA Award January 2007	Abhishek Gupta, Allan Rempel , Andrew Adam , Cheryl Lau , Garth Showmaker , Kaitlin Ducky Sherwood , Le Leif Chang , Matthew Hoffman , Michael Huggett	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Undergraduate TA Award January 2007	Billy Ta , Ciaran Llachlan Leavitt , Iulian Radu, Stewart Yu	UBC Department of Computer Science
Killam Teaching Prize January 2007	Steve Wolfman	UBC VP Academic Office

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
SMT Competition January 2007	Domagoj Babic	SMT
TACAS Best Student Paper Award January 2007	Zvonimir Rakamaric	TACAS
UBC Graduate TA Teaching Award January 2007	Michael Huggett	UBC VP Academic Office
UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship January 2007	Karon MacLean	Office of the Vice President Research

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CSSS Award of Excellence for service to students January 2007	Amanpreet Sonia Purewal, Derrek Wood , James Lo	UBC Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Science Achievement Award January 2007	Viann Chan	UBC Faculty of Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division January 2007	Andrew Thomson, Cedric Lin, Sandy Robertson	ACM
ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division January 2007	Chris Head, Robert Tseng, Simon Suyadi	ACM
ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division January 2007	Anton Likhtarov	ACM
ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division January 2007	Kaitlin Sherwood, Patrick Nguyen	ACM
BCNet Broadband Innovation Challenge January 2007	Afton Lewis, Kyle Porter, Patrick Colp	BCNet
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (COGS) January 2007	Alexander Merritt	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (Combined Major) January 2007	Kevin Grant	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (Honours program) January 2007	Igor Ostrovsky	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (Major degree) January 2007	Eng-Liang Ch'ng	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - BCS(ICS) January 2007	William Christopher Weston	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - Combined Honours January 2007	Tracy Lau	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize January 2007	Eng-Liang Ch'ng	UBC Department of Computer Science
Mobile 2020 Contest January 2007	Michael DiBernardo	Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University
Orbital Technologies Award January 2007	Samatha Leung	Orbital Technologies
Ranked 14th in ACM ICPC World Finals January 2007	Anton Likhtarov, Igor Ostrovsky, Matthew Chan, Yuri Kholondyrev	ACM
Rick Sample Memorial Internship January 2007	Andrew Cherry, Jackie Cheung , Kevin Lai, Nathan Hapke	UBC Department of Computer Science
Science Co-op Student of the Year Award January 2007	Matthew O'Toole	UBC Department of Computer Science

2006

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
First Place - ACM Student Research Competition (Undergraduate) October 2006	Yuan-Ting Erica Huang	Grace Hopper 2006
Eurographics 2006 September 2006	Christophe Schlick, Tamy Boubekeur, (INRIA), Wolfgang Heidrich, Xavier Granier	Eurographics 2006 - Conference Webpage
Faculty of Science Achievement Award (for Service) April 2006	Kellogg Booth	UBC Faculty of Science
2006 NSERC Steacie Fellowship January 2006	Gail Murphy	NSERC - Science and Engineering Achievers Honoured
2006 Research Trainee Award January 2006	Sohrab Shah	Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
ACM International Conference on Software Engineering January 2006	Gail Murphy, John Anvik, Lyndon Hiew	ICSE 2006
APRU "Extra Chapter Challenge" January 2006	Mik Kersten	Association of Pacific Rim Universities - APRU
APRU Business Plan Prize Competition (UBC) 2006 January 2006	Mik Kersten	APRU
BC.NET Coolest Applications Contest Winners 2006 January 2006	Anthony Yu, PhD, Camilo Rostoker, Msc, Xin Liu, PhD	BC.NET
Canada Research Chair - Tier 1 January 2006	Dinesh Pai	Canada Research Chair
Canadian AI-2006 Best Paper Award January 2006	Dave Tompkins, Holger H. Hoos	Canadian AI-2006
Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision January 2006	Alex Shyr, Jim Little, Matt Griffin, Pantelis Elinas, Robert Sim,Ph.D Post-Doc	Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision
CHI Best Paper Award January 2006	Joseph Luk, Jérôme Pasquero, McGill, Karon MacLean, Shannon Little, Vincent Hayward, McGill	CHI2006