Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2008

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
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

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Research Fellowship January 2008	Nando de Freitas	Office of the Vice President, Research, UBC
Dolby Computer Science Research Chair January 2008	Wolfgang Heidrich	Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
IBM Faculty Award January 2008	Alan Hu	IBM
Precarn 20th Anniversary Commercialization Success Award January 2008	Jim Little, Point Grey Research	Precarn
Most Cited Paper in Engineering 2004-2008 January 2008	David Lowe	TopCited
Human Frontier Science January 2008	Dinesh Pai	Human Frontier Science Program
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation January 2008	Andrew Warfield, Mike Feeley, Norm Hutchinson	NSDI 2008
Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Service January 2008	Bob Woodham	UBC Faculty of Science
IEEE Haptics Symposium Best Paper Award January 2008	Karon MacLean, Mario Enriquez	IEEE Haptics Symposium
Charles McDowell Award January 2008	Karon MacLean	UBC VP Research
University of Washington College of Engineering Diamond Award January 2008	Gail Murphy	University of Washington
Michael Smith Foundation Award January 2008	Chris Thachuk	Michael Smith Foundation
Canadian AI Graduate Student Symposium Best Paper Award January 2008	Mark Crowley	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft Research Fellowship January 2008	Zvonimir Rakamaric	Microsoft
Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship (Sponsored by Google) January 2008	Pooja Viswanathan, Viann Chan	Google
Alain Fournier Thesis Award January 2008	Abhijeet Ghosh	Vancouver Foundation Alain Fournier Memorial Fund
BCNet Broadband Innovation Challenge January 2008	Brendan Cully	BCNet
Michael Smith Foundation January 2008	Sohrab Shah	Michael Smith Foundation
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation January 2008	Brendan Cully, Dutch Meyer, Geoffrey Lefebvre	NSDI 2008
CHCCS Achievement Award May 2008	Kellogg Booth	Canadian Human Computer Communications Society

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

2009

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Service January 2009	Amy Kwok	UBC Faculty of Science
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
Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Service May 2009	Norm Hutchinson

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC Graduate TA Teaching Award January 2009	David Tompkins	UBC VP Academic
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
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
2009 CS Department Teaching Award December 2009	George Tsiknis, Kurt Eiselt, Michael Friedlander , Mike Feeley, Paul Carter, Ronald Rensink	UBC Department of Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award January 2009	Christopher Head, Edward Lui, Samantha Leung	CRA
Orbital/Simba Technologies Award January 2009	Amy Kwok	Orbital/Simba Technologies
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize January 2009	Yi Long Chen	UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Memorial Internship January 2009	Edward Lui, Samantha Leung	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize January 2009	Robert Tseng	UBC Department of Computer Science
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
MIT Battlecode Competition January 2009	Andew Tjia, Byron Knoll, Martin Lau	MIT Battlecode Programming Competition
Intelligent Systems Challenge January 2009	Adam Williams	Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association
MIT Battlecode Competition January 2009	Dan Ballard, Shaun Evans	MIT Battlecode Programming Competition
Make Web Not War PHP Competition January 2009	Carson Lam	Microsoft
Google Intern Scholarship January 2009	Neil Thomas	Google
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
Governor General's Silver Medal in Science January 2009	Timothy Au-yeung	Governor General of Canada
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
ITS 2009 SMART Table Application Design Contest January 2009	Brad Swerdfeger, Jennifer Fernquist	Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2009 Conference
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	Byron Knoll	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	Robert Tseng , Simon Aloysius Suyadi	ACM
Imagine Cup January 2009	Byron Knoll	Imagine Cup
USENIX Security Grand Challenge January 2009	Sunjeet Singh	USENIX Security Conference
MIT Battlecode Competition January 2009	Patrick Nguyen	MIT Battlecode Programming Competition
Co-op Student of the Year January 2009	Neil Thomas	UBC Faculty of Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Association for Constraint Programming (ACP) Research Excellence Award January 2009	Alan Mackworth	ACP
Semantic Robot Vision Challenge January 2009	Alan Mackworth, David Lowe , Jim Little	ISVC
BCNET Faculty Recognition Award January 2009	Donald Acton	BCNET
ACM Distinguished Scientist January 2009	Kellogg Booth	ACM
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada January 2009	Alan Mackworth, David Kirkpatrick	Royal Society of Canada
Killam Research Prize, Senior Science Category January 2009	Alla Sheffer, David Lowe , Ronald Rensink	UBC VP Research
NSERC Strategic Grant January 2009	Cristina Conati, Giuseppe Carenini	NSERC
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements January 2009	Laks V.S. Lakshmanan	NSERC
URO Mentorship Award January 2009	Kevin Leyton-Brown	UBC
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 …
IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize 2009 January 2009	David Poole, Holger H. Hoos	Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
AI & Statistics 2009 Best Paper Award January 2009	Ewout van den Berg, Gail Murphy, Mark Schmidt, Michael Friedlander	AI & Statistics
Governor General's Gold Medal January 2009	Mirela Andronescu	Governor General of Canada
UBC Faculty of Science Graduate Prize January 2009	Mirela Andronescu	UBC Faculty of Science
CHI 2009 Best Paper Award January 2009	Jessica Dawson, Joanna McGrenere, Karyn Moffatt, Leah Findlater	CHI

2010

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2010 CS Department Teaching Award May 2010	Chen Greif, Ed Knorr, Gregor Kiczales, Patrice Belleville, Rachel Pottinger, Steve Wolfman	UBC Department of Computer Science
Undergraduate TA Award May 2010	Alex Boyd, Benjamin Israel, Cristina Teodoropol, Elizabeth Patitsas, Jordan Chin, Lawrence Cahoon, Minyang Han, Myles Shepherd, Sonia Purewal	UBC Department of Computer Science
Graduate TA Award May 2010	Andrej Karpathy, Ben Jones, Diane Tam, Hajir Roozbehani, Jiarui Ding, Mark Spear, Oliver Schneider, Tao Su, Will Chao	UBC Department of Computer Science

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award July 2010	Kellogg Booth	ACM SIGGRAPH

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CASCON Best Exhibit Award October 2010	Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng	IBC CASCON
AAAI 2010 Distinguished Service Award October 2010	Alan Mackworth	AAAI
Faculty Research and Engagement Award November 2010	Laks V.S. Lakshmanan	Yahoo!
ACM Distinguished Scientist November 2010	Gail Murphy	ACM
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award December 2010	Thomas Fritz	ACM SIGSOFT
ICSE ACM Student Research Competition December 2010	Thomas Fritz, Zvonimir Rakamaric	ACM
BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge December 2010	Mahdi Tayarani Najaran	BCNET
Alain Fournier Award December 2010	Tiberiu Popa	Alain Fournier Memorial Fund
IJCAII-JAIR Best Paper Award December 2010	Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu	JAIR
CAIAC Inaugural Best Dissertation Award December 2010	Frank Hutter	CAIAC
IBM Faculty Award December 2010	Andrew Warfield	IBM CAS Canada Research
MITACS Young Researcher Award December 2010	Nando de Freitas	MITACS
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies December 2010	Holger H. Hoos	Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC
SIAM Fellow December 2010	Uri Ascher	SIAM
Early Career Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies December 2010	Joanna McGrenere	Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement December 2010	Holger H. Hoos, Michiel van de Panne, Wolfgang Heidrich	NSERC
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award December 2010	Gail Murphy	ACM SIGSOFT
Microsoft SEIF (Software Engineering Innovation Foundation) Award December 2010	Gail Murphy	Microsoft Research
CRA Nico Habermann Award December 2010	Anne Condon	CRA
Bio-IT Best Practices Award December 2010	Raymond Ng	Bio IT World
CAIMS/SCMAI Research Prize December 2010	Uri Ascher	CAIMS

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Rick Sample Memorial Internship December 2010	Jessica Dawson	UBC Department of Computer Science
Academic Awards of Excellence December 2010	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
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize December 2010	Julianne Leung	UBC Department of Computer Science
Orbital/Simba Technologies Award December 2010	Joyce Cheung	Orbital/Simba Technologies