Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2012

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Travel Award for ACM Turing Centenary April 2012	William Bredefeld	ACM SIGACT
UBC CS E-Portfolio Competition: Honourable Mention March 2012	Robert Shum	UBC Department of Computer Science
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

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Alain Fournier Ph.D Thesis Award March 2012	Gordon Wetzstein
Best Paper at 2012 Haptics Symposium March 2012	Karon MacLean, Louise Oram, Vincent Levesque	IEEE Haptics Symposium
CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize March 2012	Joanna McGrenere	CACS/AIC
Dahl-Nygaard Senior Prize March 2012	Gregor Kiczales	Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets
Sloan Research Fellowship February 2012	Andrew Warfield	Sloan Research Fellowship
Charles McDowell Award for Excellence in Research January 2012	Wolfgang Heidrich	UBC Office of the VP Research & International

2011

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

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

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
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
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

2010

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM Fellow December 2010	Anne Condon	ACM
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award December 2010	Thomas Fritz	ACM SIGSOFT
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award December 2010	Gail Murphy	ACM SIGSOFT
Alain Fournier Award December 2010	Tiberiu Popa	Alain Fournier Memorial Fund
BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge December 2010	Mahdi Tayarani Najaran	BCNET
Best Poster Award, Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop December 2010	Oana Sandu	NW-NLP 2010
Bio-IT Best Practices Award December 2010	Raymond Ng	Bio IT World
CAIAC Inaugural Best Dissertation Award December 2010	Frank Hutter	CAIAC
CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award December 2010	Alan Mackworth	CAIAC
CAIMS/SCMAI Research Prize December 2010	Uri Ascher	CAIMS
CRA Nico Habermann Award December 2010	Anne Condon	CRA
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards December 2010	Cedric Lin, Jamila Salari	CRA
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award December 2010	Nicholas Fitzgerald	CRA
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies December 2010	Holger H. Hoos	Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC
Early Career Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies December 2010	Joanna McGrenere	Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC
Human Frontier Science Program Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship Award December 2010	Peter Carbonetto	Human Frontier Science Program
IBM Faculty Award December 2010	Andrew Warfield	IBM CAS Canada Research
ICSE ACM Student Research Competition December 2010	Thomas Fritz, Zvonimir Rakamaric	ACM
IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize 2010 December 2010	Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown	JAIR
IJCAII-JAIR Best Paper Award December 2010	Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu	JAIR
Microsoft SEIF (Software Engineering Innovation Foundation) Award December 2010	Gail Murphy	Microsoft Research
MITACS Young Researcher Award December 2010	Nando de Freitas	MITACS
Most Imaginative Research Award December 2010	Nicholas Fitzgerald	Universitas21
Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) Oral Presentation Award December 2010	Nicholas FitzGerald	MURC
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement December 2010	Holger H. Hoos, Michiel van de Panne, Wolfgang Heidrich	NSERC
SIAM Fellow December 2010	Uri Ascher	SIAM
ACM Distinguished Scientist November 2010	Gail Murphy	ACM
Faculty Research and Engagement Award November 2010	Laks V.S. Lakshmanan	Yahoo!
AAAI 2010 Distinguished Service Award October 2010	Alan Mackworth	AAAI
CASCON Best Exhibit Award October 2010	Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng	IBC CASCON

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Graduate TA Award December 2010	Anseok Joo, Bruno da Silva, Dan Li, Jimmy Wong, Jonatan Schroeder, Kuljeet Singh, Ron Maharik, Shantanu Gramsci	UBC Department of Computer Science
Killam Teaching Prize December 2010	Kimberly Voll	UBC VP Academic Office
UBC Graduate TA Teaching Award December 2010	Mark Crowley	UBC VP Academic
Undergraduate TA Award December 2010	Alan Tan, David Leung, Gwendolyn Echlin, Maria Piao, Nicholas Fitzgerald, Piam Kiarostami, Sarah Dadizadeh	UBC Department of Computer Science
2010 CS Department Teaching Award May 2010	Chen Greif, Ed Knorr, Gregor Kiczales, Patrice Belleville, Rachel Pottinger, Steve Wolfman	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
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

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Faculty of Science Achievement Award December 2010	Norm Hutchinson	UBC Faculty of Science
Student Services Award for Volunteering December 2010	Caitlin Tuba, Gabriel Silk, Kevin Kuo, Kevin Moore, Sonia Purewal, Spiridoula Lagaditis	UBC Department of Computer Science
ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award October 2010	Kellogg Booth	ACM SIGGRAPH

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

2009

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

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

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