Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2010

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
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
CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award December 2010	Alan Mackworth	CAIAC
IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize 2010 December 2010	Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown	JAIR
ACM Fellow December 2010	Anne Condon	ACM

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM ICPC Regional Programming Contest December 2010	Simon Aloysius Suyadi	ACM ICPC
Faculty of Science Achievement Award December 2010	Rock Leung	UBC Faculty of Science
ACM ICPC World Final December 2010	Kuan-Chieh Tseng, Simon Aloysius Suyadi	ACM
ACM ICPC Regional Programming Contest December 2010	Aram Ebtekar, Ayden Wong	ACM ICPC
Simba Technologies Award December 2010	Joyce Cheung	Simba Technologies
Governor-General Silver Medal in Science December 2010	Cedric Lin	Governor General of Canada
Markus Meister Memorial Prize December 2010	Neil Thomas	UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Memorial Internship December 2010	Jessica Dawson	UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize December 2010	Julianne Leung	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
Orbital/Simba Technologies Award December 2010	Joyce Cheung	Orbital/Simba Technologies
BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge December 2010	Dan Ballard, Jonathan Tao	BCNET
MURC Oral Presentation Award December 2010	Nicholas Fitzgerald	UBC MURC
ACM ICPC World Final December 2010	Cedric Lin	ACM

2011

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC CS Dept. Research Poster Competition January 2011	Joel Ferstay, Juliette Link, Louise Oram, Maria Ivanova	UBC CS Dept.
NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant January 2011	Karon MacLean	NSERC
ACM Fellow January 2011	Margo Seltzer	ACM
ACM/IEEE Human Robot Interaction Conference Best Paper Award February 2011	Karon MacLean, Steve Yohanan	HRI
Small Business BC Award March 2011	Gail Murphy	Small Business BC
ICCP Best Paper Award March 2011	Wolfgang Heidrich	ICCP 2011
Best Paper Award, CHI 2011 April 2011	Karon MacLean, Louise Oram, Vincent Levesque	CHI
Best Student Paper Award, CPM 2011 June 2011	Chris Thachuk
University of Washington CSE Alumni Achievement Award June 2011	Anne Condon	University of Washington
Mushfiqur Rouf Awarded ICICS Graduate Scholarship July 2011	Mushfiqur (Nasa) Rouf	ICICS
ICICS Graduate Scholarship July 2011	Joshua Litven
Best Paper Award at VLDB 2011 August 2011	Andrew Warfield, Brendan Cully, Shriram Rajagopalan	VLDB 2011
SIGSOFT Retrospective Impact Paper Award September 2011	Gail Murphy	ACM SIGSOFT
ICCV Test-of-Time Award November 2011	David Lowe	International Conference on Computer Vision
University of Washington Diamond Award December 2011	Anne Condon	College of Engineering, University of Washington
2011 Audi Production Award December 2011	Alla Sheffer	Audi

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Undergraduate TA Award May 2011	Dereck Toker, Douglas Lam, Henry Li, Jay Zhang, Jonathan Stiansen, Max Erler, Paige Zhang, Rachel Busby, Vanessa Kroeker	UBC Department of Computer Science
Graduate TA Award May 2011	Alexandru Totolici, Brent Boerlage, Julius Davies, Marcos Ginestra, Mark Spear, Michael Chiang, Nathan Taylor, Nuray Dindar, Shathel Haddad	UBC Department of Computer Science
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2011	Pooja Viswanathan	UBC Department of Computer Science

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
President's Service Award for Excellence May 2011	Michele Ng	UBC
President's Service Award for Excellence May 2011	Michele Ng	President's Service Award
CS Faculty Mentoring Award October 2011	Alan Mackworth	UBC Department of Computer Science

2012

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Charles McDowell Award for Excellence in Research January 2012	Wolfgang Heidrich	UBC Office of the VP Research & International
Sloan Research Fellowship February 2012	Andrew Warfield	Sloan Research Fellowship
Alain Fournier Ph.D Thesis Award March 2012	Gordon Wetzstein
CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize March 2012	Joanna McGrenere	CACS/AIC
Best Paper at 2012 Haptics Symposium March 2012	Karon MacLean, Louise Oram, Vincent Levesque	IEEE Haptics Symposium
Dahl-Nygaard Senior Prize March 2012	Gregor Kiczales	Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets
Faculty of Science Graduate Prize April 2012	Ron Maharik	UBC Faculty of Science
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement April 2012	Alla Sheffer, Dinesh Pai, Joanna McGrenere	NSERC
CAIAC Doctoral Dissertation Awards May 2012	Albert Xin Jiang	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
ACM-EC Best Student Paper Award May 2012	Kevin Leyton-Brown	ACM EC
Peter Wall Institute Early Career Scholar May 2012	Kevin Leyton-Brown	UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advance Studies
SATzilla Challenge June 2012	Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Jonathan Shen, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu	SAT Challenge
BC TIA's 'Emerging Company of the Year' Award June 2012	Gail Murphy
Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award July 2012	Albert Xin Jiang	International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Best AI Masters Thesis Award July 2012	Martin Lesmana	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada September 2012	Anne Condon	Royal Society of Canada
Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design October 2012	Nick Harvey	NSERC CRC
ACM Fellow December 2012	Gregor Kiczales	ACM

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC CS e-Portfolio Competition: Honourable Mention March 2012	Crystal Koo	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC CS e-Portfolio Competition: Judges' Choice March 2012	Scott Newson	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC CS e-Portfolio Competition: People's Choice March 2012	Shirley Ho	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC CS E-Portfolio Competition: Honourable Mention March 2012	Robert Shum	UBC Department of Computer Science
Travel Award for ACM Turing Centenary April 2012	William Bredefeld	ACM SIGACT
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Majors) May 2012	Jason Chou	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Honours) May 2012	Martin Lau	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Majors) May 2012	Daniel Busto	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BCS) May 2012	Rui Zhao	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (COGS) May 2012	Sean Povill	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BUCS) May 2012	Wen Di Zhuang	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BA) May 2012	Zachary Siddall	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Honours) May 2012	Minyang Han	UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Summer Internship May 2012	Jing Yun Alice Zhu	UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2012	Joyce Cheung	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize May 2012	Minyang Han	UBC Department of Computer Science
William Bredefeld Wins Travel Award for ACM Turing Centenary June 2012	William Bredefeld	ACM SIGACT
Microsoft Scholarship June 2012	Maria Piao	Microsoft
TELUS Excellence in IT Award September 2012	Leemor Yuravlivker	TELUS
TELUS Excellence in IT Award September 2012	Alan Long	TELUS
TELUS Excellence in IT Award September 2012	Peter Cheung	TELUS

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Chelsey Maher Receives Faculty of Science Achievement Award April 2012	Chelsey Maher	UBC Faculty of Science
Faculty of Science Achievement Award April 2012	Kimberly Voll	UBC Faculty of Science
Faculty of Science Achievement Award April 2012	Sarah Rastkar	UBC Faculty of Science
CS Faculty Mentoring Award May 2012	Kellogg Booth	UBC Department of Computer Science
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal August 2012	Arvind Gupta
Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring November 2012	Joanna McGrenere	UBC Faculty of Graduate Studies

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award April 2012	Bruno da Silva
2011 CS Department Teaching Award May 2012	David Kirkpatrick, Ed Knorr, Joanna McGrenere, Kimberly Voll, Norm Hutchinson, Ronald Rensink	UBC Department of Computer Science
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2012	Cheryl Lau	UBC Department of Computer Science

2013

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC Killam Research Prize February 2013	Dinesh Pai	UBC VP Research & International
Alfred Sloan Research Fellowship February 2013	Nick Harvey	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
UBC Killam Research Fellowship February 2013	Cristina Conati	UBC VP Research & International
Charles McDowell Award February 2013	Nando de Freitas	UBC VP Research & International
CACS Outstanding Young Computer Science Research Prize February 2013	Michael Friedlander	Canadian Association of Computer Science