Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2010

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
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 July 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
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
UBC Graduate TA Teaching Award January 2009	David Tompkins	UBC VP Academic
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

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

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
NSERC Strategic Grant January 2009	Cristina Conati, Giuseppe Carenini	NSERC
Semantic Robot Vision Challenge January 2009	Alan Mackworth, David Lowe , Jim Little	ISVC
UBC Faculty of Science Graduate Prize January 2009	Mirela Andronescu	UBC Faculty of Science
URO Mentorship Award January 2009	Kevin Leyton-Brown	UBC

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
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
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	Jason Chang, Martin Lau	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	David Kurokawa, Kenneth Lui, Sandy Robertson	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	Cedric Lin	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	Robert Tseng , Simon Aloysius Suyadi	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	Byron Knoll	ACM
Co-op Student of the Year January 2009	Neil Thomas	UBC Faculty of Science
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award January 2009	Christopher Head, Edward Lui, Samantha Leung	CRA
Google Intern Scholarship January 2009	Neil Thomas	Google
Governor General's Silver Medal in Science January 2009	Timothy Au-yeung	Governor General of Canada
Imagine Cup January 2009	Byron Knoll	Imagine Cup
Intelligent Systems Challenge January 2009	Adam Williams	Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association
ITS 2009 SMART Table Application Design Contest January 2009	Brad Swerdfeger, Jennifer Fernquist	Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2009 Conference
Make Web Not War PHP Competition January 2009	Carson Lam	Microsoft
Markus Meister Memorial Prize January 2009	Robert Tseng	UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize January 2009	Yi Long Chen	UBC Department of Computer Science
MIT Battlecode Competition January 2009	Andew Tjia, Byron Knoll, Martin Lau	MIT Battlecode Programming Competition
MIT Battlecode Competition January 2009	Dan Ballard, Shaun Evans	MIT Battlecode Programming Competition
MIT Battlecode Competition January 2009	Patrick Nguyen	MIT Battlecode Programming Competition
Orbital/Simba Technologies Award January 2009	Amy Kwok	Orbital/Simba Technologies
Rick Sample Memorial Internship January 2009	Edward Lui, Samantha Leung	UBC Department of Computer Science
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
USENIX Security Grand Challenge January 2009	Sunjeet Singh	USENIX Security Conference

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, Rook Bridson	UBC Department of Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CHCCS Achievement Award May 2008	Kellogg Booth	Canadian Human Computer Communications Society
Alain Fournier Thesis Award January 2008	Abhijeet Ghosh	Vancouver Foundation Alain Fournier Memorial Fund
Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship (Sponsored by Google) January 2008	Pooja Viswanathan, Viann Chan	Google
BCNet Broadband Innovation Challenge January 2008	Brendan Cully	BCNet
Canadian AI Graduate Student Symposium Best Paper Award January 2008	Mark Crowley	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Charles McDowell Award January 2008	Karon MacLean	UBC VP Research
Dolby Computer Science Research Chair January 2008	Wolfgang Heidrich	Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Service January 2008	Bob Woodham	UBC Faculty of Science