Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2009

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
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

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

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
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
Governor General's Silver Medal in Science January 2009	Timothy Au-yeung	Governor General of Canada
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	Cedric Lin	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	David Kurokawa, Kenneth Lui, Sandy Robertson	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	Jason Chang, Martin Lau	ACM
Google Intern Scholarship January 2009	Neil Thomas	Google
Make Web Not War PHP Competition January 2009	Carson Lam	Microsoft
MIT Battlecode Competition January 2009	Dan Ballard, Shaun Evans	MIT Battlecode Programming Competition
Intelligent Systems Challenge January 2009	Adam Williams	Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association
MIT Battlecode Competition January 2009	Andew Tjia, Byron Knoll, Martin Lau	MIT Battlecode Programming Competition
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
Markus Meister Memorial Prize January 2009	Robert Tseng	UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Memorial Internship January 2009	Edward Lui, Samantha Leung	UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize January 2009	Yi Long Chen	UBC Department of Computer Science
Orbital/Simba Technologies Award January 2009	Amy Kwok	Orbital/Simba Technologies
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award January 2009	Christopher Head, Edward Lui, Samantha Leung	CRA

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Student Services Award for Volunteering January 2009	David Tompkins, Petcharat Viriyakattiyaporn	UBC Department of Computer Science
Student Services Award for Volunteering January 2009	Albert Chen , Andrew Tjia , Valerie Eades	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Service January 2009	Amy Kwok	UBC Faculty of Science

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, Robert Bridson	UBC Department of Computer Science
Killam Teaching Prize January 2008	Ed Knorr	UBC VP Academic Office
Graduate TA Teaching Award January 2008	Dutch Meyer	UBC VP Academic
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

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CHCCS Achievement Award May 2008	Kellogg Booth	Canadian Human Computer Communications Society
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

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM World Finals January 2008	Anton Likhtarov	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2008	Christopher Head, Robert Tseng, Simon Aloysius Suyadi	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2008	Byron Knoll, Martin Lau	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2008	Jason Chang, Kenneth Lui, Reilly Wood	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

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CS Student Service Award for Volunteering January 2008	Baharak Rastegari	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	Arash Malek , Eugene Chan	UBC Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Service January 2008	Michele Ng	UBC Faculty of 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
Killam Teaching Prize January 2007	Steve Wolfman	UBC VP Academic Office
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

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies: Major Thematic Grant January 2007	Dinesh Pai	Peter Wall Institute
ICCV 2007: Marr Prize January 2007	Abhijeet Ghosh, Matthew O'Toole, Shruthi Achutha, Steve Wolfman	ICCV 2007
Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award January 2007	Rachel Pottinger	Anita Borg Institute
Semantic Robot Vision Challenge January 2007	David Lowe , Jim Little, Matthew Baumann, Per-Erik Forssen, kevin726	AAAI Mobile Robot Competition
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Best Student Paper Award January 2007	Alan Mackworth, Suling Yang	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
International SAT Competition 2007 January 2007	Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu	SAT Competition
International Conference Intelligent User Interfaces January 2007	Andrea Bunt, Cristina Conati, Joanna McGrenere	ACM IUI Conference
Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence January 2007	Alan Mackworth	Peter Wall Scholars in Residence
UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship January 2007	Karon MacLean	Office of the Vice President Research
IUI Best Paper Award January 2007	Andrea Bunt, Cristina Conati, Joanna McGrenere	IUI Conference Homepage
SMT Competition January 2007	Domagoj Babic	SMT
TACAS Best Student Paper Award January 2007	Zvonimir Rakamaric	TACAS
ACM SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award January 2007	Joanna McGrenere, Karyn Moffatt	SIGACCESS