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The University of British Columbia

Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2006

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
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
Markus Meister Memorial Prize January 2006	Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng	UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize January 2006	Renee Cheung	UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Memorial Internship January 2006	Anthony Wen Lung Lee	UBC Department of Computer Science
Second Place in ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division January 2006	Christopher Head, Elena Kholondyreva, Henry Wong, Robert Tseng	ACM
Seventh Place in ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division January 2006	Ryan Yee, Simon Aloysius Suyadi, Ying Yin	ACM

2005

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Best Graduate Student Poster Award ACM Student Research - Siggraph 2005 June 2005	Dan Julius, Tiberiu Popa	ACM
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (ICSE) May 2005	Gail Murphy, Reid Holmes	International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
AITO Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize 2005 January 2005	Gail Murphy	AITO
Best Graduate Student Paper Award January 2005	Alena Shmygelska	ismb2005
Best Graduate Student Poster Award - MITACS 2005 January 2005	Stephane Durocher	MITACS
Best Paper Award January 2005	Anthony Tang, Karen Lowe, Karon MacLean, Peter McLachlan, Rao Chalapati	ICMI 2005
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Machine Learning and Computational Statistics January 2005	Kevin Murphy	CRC
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Stochastic Computation January 2005	Arnaud Doucet (138)	CRC
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards January 2005	Kenneth MacKay, Maryam Mahdaviani	CRA
Distinguished Paper Award January 2005	Gail Murphy, Reid Holmes	27th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Faculty of Science Service Award January 2005	David Lowe	UBC Faculty of Science
Faculty of Science Service Award January 2005	David Kirkpatrick	UBC Faculty of Science
IBM CAS - Canadian Pioneers in Computing January 2005	Jim Varah (183), Paul Gilmore (184), Richard Rosenberg (182)	IBM CAS
IBM CAS Student of the Year January 2005	Kuan-Chieh Tseng	IBM CAS
IBM Faculty Award January 2005	Joanna McGrenere	IBM
IBM Faculty Award of Innovation January 2005	Kris De Volder	IBM
IBM Faculty Award of Innovation January 2005	Gregor Kiczales	IBM
IBM Faculty Award of Innovation January 2005	Gail Murphy	IBM
ICMI 2005 January 2005	Chalapati, David Lowe , MacLean, Tang, A.	7th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI '05), (Trento, Ital…
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Faculty Research Fellowship January 2005	Gail Murphy	Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Faculty Research Fellowship January 2005	Joel Friedman	Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Faculty Research Fellowship January 2005	Ronald Rensink	Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund
Microsoft Research University Relations Program January 2005	Eric Wohlstadter (162)	Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research University Relations Program January 2005	Kris De Volder	Microsoft Research
Student Scholarship - FAST January 2005	Abhishek Gupta	UBC Department of Computer Science

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2005 CS Department Teaching Award January 2005	Alan Hu, Ed Knorr, Holger H. Hoos, Ian Cavers, Kurt Eiselt (142), Steve Wolfman	UBC Department of Computer Science
2005 Graduate Student T.A. Awards January 2005	Abhishek Gupta, Chris Dutchyn, Kevin Loken, Leah Findlater, Remi Gagne, Shannon Little	UBC Department of Computer Science
Killam Teaching Prize January 2005	Paul Carter	UBC VP Academic Office
UBC Graduate TA Award January 2005	Micheline Manske	UBC VP Academic

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CSSS Awards January 2005	Maryam Mahdaviani , Mathew Mak	UBC Computer Science Student Society
Faculty of Science Achievement Award January 2005	Micheline Manske	UBC Faculty of Science
Outstanding Young Alumnus Award January 2005	Cullen Jennings	UBC Alumni Association
Research Excellence and Service January 2005	Jim Little	CIPPRS

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Academic Awards of Excellence January 2005	Adam Pauls, Anupama Vasudevan, Boaz Av-Ron, Corinne Roesler, Herbert David Young, Kenneth McKay	UBC Department of Computer Science
ACM Intercollegiate Programming Competition - Pacific Northwest Division - First Place January 2005	Bartholomew Furrow (coach), Dustin Wei Lung Tseng, Matthew Chan, Yury Kholondyrev	ACM-ICPC
ACM Intercollegiate Programming Competition - Pacific Northwest Division - First Place January 2005	Dustin Tseng, Matthew Chan, Yury Kholondyrev	ACM-ICPC
Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision 2005 January 2005	Fahong Li	2nd Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision
Computer Science Scholarship January 2005	Alexander Bradley, Edward Wing Dek Lui, Eng-Liang Ch'ng , Hirbod Moshfeghi, Raymond Sear Lim, Rick Chern, Tracy Lau, Virginia Yue	UBC Department of Computer Science
Computer Science Scholarship January 2005	Jackie Chi Kit	UBC Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Science Achievement Award January 2005	Jonathan Luk	UBC Faculty of Science
Governor General Silver Medal January 2005	Kevin Jamieson	Governor General Academic Medals
Greer Family Scholarship January 2005	Kevin Kar Wai Lai, Wei-Lung Dustin Tseng	CS Alumni sponsored - Greer Family
Markus Meister Award January 2005	Andrew Gray	UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial January 2005	Jonathan Luk	UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Memorial January 2005	Maryam Mahdaviani	UBC Department of Computer Science

2004

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Anita Borg Early Career Award January 2004	Joanna McGrenere	Computing Research Association & Anita Borg Early Career Award
ATI Technologies Fellowship January 2004	Abhijeet Gosh	ATI Technologies
Best Paper Award January 2004	Yuhan Cai	ACM
Best Paper Award ACM SIGMOD January 2004	Raymond Ng	ACM
Best Paper Prize in Cognitive Vision January 2004	A. Taleg, David Lowe , Jim Little, Kenji Okuma, Nando de Freitas	ECCV2004
Best Young Researcher Award January 2004	Michael Friedlander	First Mathematical Programming Society International Conference on Continuous O…
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Fellowship January 2004	David Lowe	CIFAR
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards January 2004	Grace Zheng, Kimberley Tee, Richard Liang	CRA
Encana Principal Award January 2004	Murray Goldberg	Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation
Faculty of Science Achievement Award January 2004	Andrew Eisenberg	UBC Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Science Research Award January 2004	Ronald Rensink	UBC
Governor General Academic Medal January 2004	Mirela Andronescu	Governor General of Canada
IBM CAS Fellowship January 2004	Mik Kersten	IBM