Awards

Year

Title

Award Type

Role

2008

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
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
Cisco University Research Award January 2006	Alan Wagner	Cisco Academic Research & Technology Initiatives
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards January 2006	Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng	CRA
CRA-W Anita Borg Early Career Award January 2006	Gail Murphy	ICSE 2006
Faculty of Science Graduate Thesis Prize (Inaugural) January 2006	Jihong Ren	UBC Department of Computer Science
IBM Faculty Award January 2006	Alla Sheffer	IBM
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control January 2006	Claire Tomlin, Ian Mitchell, Meeko Oishi, Patrick Saint-Pierre	IEEE CDC
NSERC Industrial Research Doctoral Fellowship January 2006	Barry Po, PhD	NSERC and Cogneto
Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence January 2006	Anne Condon	Peter Wall Scholars in Residence

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2006 CS Department Teaching Award January 2006	Chen Greif, Ed Knorr, Gail Murphy, Kurt Eiselt, Steve Wolfman	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Graduate TA Award January 2006	Billy Cheung, David Tompkins, Kan Cai, Kevin Loken , Meghan Allen, Mike Dibernardo, Nels Anderson	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Undergraduate TA Award (CPSC 100) for Winter T2 (2004) January 2006	Phoebe Gau	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Undergraduate TA Award (CPSC 100) for Winter T2 (2004) January 2006	Victor Chen	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Undergraduate TA Award (CPSC 111) for Summer 2005 January 2006	Charles Krzysic	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Undergraduate TA Award (CPSC 111) for Winter T1 2005 January 2006	Ciaran Llachlan Leavitt	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Undergraduate TA Award (CPSC 111) for Winter T1 2005 January 2006	Simon Hastings	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Undergraduate TA Award (CPSC 111) for Winter T2 (2004) January 2006	Daniel Kuo	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Undergraduate TA Award (CPSC 211) for Winter T1 2005 January 2006	Jody Leblanc	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Graduate TA Teaching Award January 2006	Meghan Allen	UBC VP Academic

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Canadian New Media Lifetime Achievement Award: John Demco January 2006	John Demco	Canadian New Media Awards
CSSS Award of Excellence for service to students January 2006	Nakisa Shafiee	UBC Department of Computer Science
CSSS Award of Excellence for service to students January 2006	Rachel Chao	UBC Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Science Achievement Award (for Service) January 2006	Moyra Ditchfield	UBC Faculty of Science
Faculty of Science Student Leadership Award January 2006	Chad Trytten	UBC Faculty of Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM Intercollegiate World Programming Finals (San Antonio Texas) January 2006	Bartholomew Furrow (coach), Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng, Matthew Chan, Yury Kholondyrev	ACM-ICPC
ACM SIGMOD/PODS Scholarship January 2006	ZhiWei (Tony) Qin	UBC Department of Computer Science
ACM SIGMOD/PODS Scholarship January 2006	Morgan Gregory	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (ARC) January 2006	Jody Anne Leblanc	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (COGS) January 2006	Brad Marusiak	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (Combined Major) January 2006	Jennifer Clark	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (Honours program) January 2006	Anthony Wen Lung Lee	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (Honours) January 2006	Anthony Wen Lung Lee	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (Major degree) January 2006	Michael Tyrone Wong	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - BCS(ICS) January 2006	Jeffrey Shih-Chieh Chu	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - Combined Honours January 2006	Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng	UBC Department of Computer Science
First in ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division January 2006	Igor Ostrovsky, Yuri Kholondyrev, nton Likhtarov	ACM
Governor General Silver Medal January 2006	Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng	Governor General Academic Medals
IBM Master the Mainframe Contest January 2006	Zephyr Zhangbo Liu	IBM

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