Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2006

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
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
NSERC Industrial Research Doctoral Fellowship January 2006	Barry Po, PhD	NSERC and Cogneto
Canada Research Chair - Tier 1 January 2006	Dinesh Pai	Canada Research Chair
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control January 2006	Claire Tomlin, Ian Mitchell, Meeko Oishi, Patrick Saint-Pierre	IEEE CDC
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards January 2006	Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng	CRA
Faculty of Science Achievement Award (for Service) April 2006	Kellogg Booth	UBC Faculty of Science
Eurographics 2006 September 2006	Christophe Schlick, Tamy Boubekeur, (INRIA), Wolfgang Heidrich, Xavier Granier	Eurographics 2006 - Conference Webpage
First Place - ACM Student Research Competition (Undergraduate) October 2006	Yuan-Ting Erica Huang	Grace Hopper 2006

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC Graduate TA Teaching Award January 2006	Meghan Allen	UBC VP Academic
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 111) for Winter T2 (2004) January 2006	Daniel Kuo	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 100) for Winter T2 (2004) January 2006	Phoebe Gau	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	Simon Hastings	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Undergraduate TA Award (CPSC 211) for Winter T1 2005 January 2006	Jody Leblanc	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
2006 CS Department Teaching Award January 2006	Chen Greif, Ed Knorr, Gail Murphy, Kurt Eiselt, Steve Wolfman	UBC Department of Computer Science

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Faculty of Science Achievement Award (for Service) January 2006	Moyra Ditchfield	UBC Faculty of Science
Canadian New Media Lifetime Achievement Award: John Demco January 2006	John Demco	Canadian New Media Awards
Faculty of Science Student Leadership Award January 2006	Chad Trytten	UBC Faculty of Science
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

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IBM Master the Mainframe Contest January 2006	Zephyr Zhangbo Liu	IBM
First in ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division January 2006	Igor Ostrovsky, Yuri Kholondyrev, nton Likhtarov	ACM
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
ACM Intercollegiate World Programming Finals (San Antonio Texas) January 2006	Bartholomew Furrow (coach), Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng, Matthew Chan, Yury Kholondyrev	ACM-ICPC
Governor General Silver Medal January 2006	Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng	Governor General Academic Medals
CS Academic Award of Excellence - Combined Honours January 2006	Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize January 2006	Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng	UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Memorial Internship January 2006	Anthony Wen Lung Lee	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (Honours program) January 2006	Anthony Wen Lung Lee	UBC Department of Computer Science
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 - (COGS) January 2006	Brad Marusiak	UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize January 2006	Renee Cheung	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 - (Combined Major) January 2006	Jennifer Clark	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 - BCS(ICS) January 2006	Jeffrey Shih-Chieh Chu	UBC Department of Computer Science

2007

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division January 2007	Anton Likhtarov	ACM
Mobile 2020 Contest January 2007	Michael DiBernardo	Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University
ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division January 2007	Chris Head, Robert Tseng, Simon Suyadi	ACM
ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division January 2007	Andrew Thomson, Cedric Lin, Sandy Robertson	ACM
Orbital Technologies Award January 2007	Samatha Leung	Orbital Technologies
BCNet Broadband Innovation Challenge January 2007	Afton Lewis, Kyle Porter, Patrick Colp	BCNet
Ranked 14th in ACM ICPC World Finals January 2007	Anton Likhtarov, Igor Ostrovsky, Matthew Chan, Yuri Kholondyrev	ACM
ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division January 2007	Kaitlin Sherwood, Patrick Nguyen	ACM
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
Rick Sample Memorial Internship January 2007	Andrew Cherry, Jackie Cheung , Kevin Lai, Nathan Hapke	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
Science Co-op Student of the Year Award January 2007	Matthew O'Toole	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (COGS) January 2007	Alexander Merritt	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 Major) January 2007	Kevin Grant	UBC Department of Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards January 2007	Tracy Lau	CRA
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards January 2007	Ana Pop	CRA
Ranked 3rd in ACM Student Research Competition January 2007	Erica Huang	ACM
UBC Graduate TA Teaching Award January 2007	Michael Huggett	UBC VP Academic Office
BCNet Broadband Innovation Challenge January 2007	Michael Woods	BCNet
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence January 2007	Suling Yang	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
SIGGRAPH Student Research Competition January 2007	Abhijeet Ghosh, Eric Brochu	SIGGRAPH
ACM SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award January 2007	Joanna McGrenere, Karyn Moffatt	SIGACCESS
TACAS Best Student Paper Award January 2007	Zvonimir Rakamaric	TACAS
SMT Competition January 2007	Domagoj Babic	SMT
IUI Best Paper Award January 2007	Andrea Bunt, Cristina Conati, Joanna McGrenere	IUI Conference Homepage
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

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
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
CS Dept. Teaching Award April 2007	George Tsiknis, Gregor Kiczales, Joseph Luk, Mike Feeley, Steve Wolfman	UBC Department of Computer Science
2007 CS Department Teaching Award December 2007	Alla Sheffer, Anne Condon, Eric Wohlstadter, Kimberly Voll, Kurt Eiselt, Meghan Allen	UBC Department of Computer Science

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

2008

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Precarn 20th Anniversary Commercialization Success Award January 2008	Jim Little, Point Grey Research	Precarn
University of Washington College of Engineering Diamond Award January 2008	Gail Murphy	University of Washington
IBM Faculty Award January 2008	Alan Hu	IBM
Dolby Computer Science Research Chair January 2008	Wolfgang Heidrich	Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
Killam Research Fellowship January 2008	Nando de Freitas	Office of the Vice President, Research, UBC
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation January 2008	Andrew Warfield, Mike Feeley, Norm Hutchinson	NSDI 2008
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
Charles McDowell Award January 2008	Karon MacLean	UBC VP Research
IEEE Haptics Symposium Best Paper Award January 2008	Karon MacLean, Mario Enriquez	IEEE Haptics Symposium
Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Service January 2008	Bob Woodham	UBC Faculty of Science
BCNet Broadband Innovation Challenge January 2008	Brendan Cully	BCNet