Awards

2007

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence January 2007	Suling Yang	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Best Student Paper Award January 2007	Alan Mackworth, Suling Yang	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards January 2007	Tracy Lau	CRA
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards January 2007	Ana Pop	CRA
Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award January 2007	Rachel Pottinger	Anita Borg Institute
ICCV 2007: Marr Prize January 2007	Abhijeet Ghosh, Matthew O'Toole, Shruthi Achutha, Steve Wolfman	ICCV 2007
International Conference Intelligent User Interfaces January 2007	Andrea Bunt, Cristina Conati, Joanna McGrenere	ACM IUI Conference
International SAT Competition 2007 January 2007	Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu	SAT Competition
IUI Best Paper Award January 2007	Andrea Bunt, Cristina Conati, Joanna McGrenere	IUI Conference Homepage
Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence January 2007	Alan Mackworth	Peter Wall Scholars in Residence
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies: Major Thematic Grant January 2007	Dinesh Pai	Peter Wall Institute
Ranked 3rd in ACM Student Research Competition January 2007	Erica Huang	ACM
Semantic Robot Vision Challenge January 2007	David Lowe , Jim Little, Matthew Baumann, Per-Erik Forssen, kevin726	AAAI Mobile Robot Competition
SIGGRAPH Student Research Competition January 2007	Abhijeet Ghosh, Eric Brochu	SIGGRAPH
SMT Competition January 2007	Domagoj Babic	SMT
TACAS Best Student Paper Award January 2007	Zvonimir Rakamaric	TACAS
UBC Graduate TA Teaching Award January 2007	Michael Huggett	UBC VP Academic Office
UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship January 2007	Karon MacLean	Office of the Vice President Research

2006

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
First Place - ACM Student Research Competition (Undergraduate) October 2006	Yuan-Ting Erica Huang	Grace Hopper 2006
Eurographics 2006 September 2006	Christophe Schlick, Tamy Boubekeur, (INRIA), Wolfgang Heidrich, Xavier Granier	Eurographics 2006 - Conference Webpage
Faculty of Science Achievement Award (for Service) April 2006	Kellogg Booth	UBC Faculty of Science
2006 NSERC Steacie Fellowship January 2006	Gail Murphy	NSERC - Science and Engineering Achievers Honoured
2006 Research Trainee Award January 2006	Sohrab Shah	Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
ACM International Conference on Software Engineering January 2006	Gail Murphy, John Anvik, Lyndon Hiew	ICSE 2006
APRU "Extra Chapter Challenge" January 2006	Mik Kersten	Association of Pacific Rim Universities - APRU
APRU Business Plan Prize Competition (UBC) 2006 January 2006	Mik Kersten	APRU
BC.NET Coolest Applications Contest Winners 2006 January 2006	Anthony Yu, PhD, Camilo Rostoker, Msc, Xin Liu, PhD	BC.NET
Canada Research Chair - Tier 1 January 2006	Dinesh Pai	Canada Research Chair
Canadian AI-2006 Best Paper Award January 2006	Dave Tompkins, Holger H. Hoos	Canadian AI-2006
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
CHI Best Paper Award January 2006	Joseph Luk, Jérôme Pasquero, McGill, Karon MacLean, Shannon Little, Vincent Hayward, McGill	CHI2006
Cisco University Research Award January 2006	Alan Wagner	Cisco Academic Research & Technology Initiatives
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards January 2006	Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng	CRA
CRA-W Anita Borg Early Career Award January 2006	Gail Murphy	ICSE 2006
Faculty of Science Graduate Thesis Prize (Inaugural) January 2006	Jihong Ren	UBC Department of Computer Science
IBM Faculty Award January 2006	Alla Sheffer	IBM
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control January 2006	Claire Tomlin, Ian Mitchell, Meeko Oishi, Patrick Saint-Pierre	IEEE CDC
NSERC Industrial Research Doctoral Fellowship January 2006	Barry Po, PhD	NSERC and Cogneto
Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence January 2006	Anne Condon	Peter Wall Scholars in Residence

2005

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Best Graduate Student Poster Award ACM Student Research - Siggraph 2005 June 2005	Dan Julius, Tiberiu Popa	ACM
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (ICSE) May 2005	Gail Murphy, Reid Holmes	International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
AITO Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize 2005 January 2005	Gail Murphy	AITO
Best Graduate Student Paper Award January 2005	Alena Shmygelska	ismb2005
Best Graduate Student Poster Award - MITACS 2005 January 2005	Stephane Durocher	MITACS
Best Paper Award January 2005	Anthony Tang, Karen Lowe, Karon MacLean, Peter McLachlan, Rao Chalapati	ICMI 2005
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Machine Learning and Computational Statistics January 2005	Kevin Murphy	CRC
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Stochastic Computation January 2005	Arnaud Doucet (138)	CRC
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards January 2005	Kenneth MacKay, Maryam Mahdaviani	CRA
Distinguished Paper Award January 2005	Gail Murphy, Reid Holmes	27th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Faculty of Science Service Award January 2005	David Lowe	UBC Faculty of Science
Faculty of Science Service Award January 2005	David Kirkpatrick	UBC Faculty of Science
IBM CAS - Canadian Pioneers in Computing January 2005	Jim Varah (183), Paul Gilmore (184), Richard Rosenberg (182)	IBM CAS
IBM CAS Student of the Year January 2005	Kuan-Chieh Tseng	IBM CAS
IBM Faculty Award January 2005	Joanna McGrenere	IBM
IBM Faculty Award of Innovation January 2005	Kris De Volder	IBM
IBM Faculty Award of Innovation January 2005	Gregor Kiczales	IBM
IBM Faculty Award of Innovation January 2005	Gail Murphy	IBM
ICMI 2005 January 2005	Chalapati, David Lowe , MacLean, Tang, A.	7th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI '05), (Trento, Ital…
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Faculty Research Fellowship January 2005	Gail Murphy	Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Faculty Research Fellowship January 2005	Joel Friedman	Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Faculty Research Fellowship January 2005	Ronald Rensink	Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund
Microsoft Research University Relations Program January 2005	Eric Wohlstadter (162)	Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research University Relations Program January 2005	Kris De Volder	Microsoft Research
Student Scholarship - FAST January 2005	Abhishek Gupta	UBC Department of Computer Science

2004

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Anita Borg Early Career Award January 2004	Joanna McGrenere	Computing Research Association & Anita Borg Early Career Award
ATI Technologies Fellowship January 2004	Abhijeet Gosh	ATI Technologies
Best Paper Award January 2004	Yuhan Cai	ACM
Best Paper Award ACM SIGMOD January 2004	Raymond Ng	ACM
Best Paper Prize in Cognitive Vision January 2004	A. Taleg, David Lowe , Jim Little, Kenji Okuma, Nando de Freitas	ECCV2004
Best Young Researcher Award January 2004	Michael Friedlander	First Mathematical Programming Society International Conference on Continuous O…
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Fellowship January 2004	David Lowe	CIFAR
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards January 2004	Grace Zheng, Kimberley Tee, Richard Liang	CRA
Encana Principal Award January 2004	Murray Goldberg	Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation
Faculty of Science Achievement Award January 2004	Andrew Eisenberg	UBC Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Science Research Award January 2004	Ronald Rensink	UBC
Governor General Academic Medal January 2004	Mirela Andronescu	Governor General of Canada
IBM CAS Fellowship January 2004	Mik Kersten	IBM
IBM Faculty Award January 2004	Joanna McGrenere	IBM
Li Tze Fong Memorial Fellowship January 2004	Brad Bingham	UBC Department of Computer Science
NSERC - PGS January 2004	Tyson Brochu	NSERC
NSERC/GM CHAIR Women in Science/Engineering January 2004	Anne Condon	NSERC/General Motors Chair

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