Awards and Accolades
The computing science researchers at the University of Alberta are often recipients of awards and accolades on a national and international level. Our students, faculty, and staff are all working together to make us one of the top research-intensive computing science departments in Canada and maintain our reputation as a consistently top-ten-ranking program.
The list of recipients below comprises nearly two decades worth of awards for excellence for professors, researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Since 2002, when our logging efforts began, the brilliant minds who form the Department of Computing Science have received over 300 awards including:
- national and international fellowships,
- university professorships,
- awards of distinction for research publications,
- research chairs,
- teaching awards,
- national and international scholarships,
- service awards,
- doctorate awards,
- and many other internal and external accolades.
The list below can be sorted by category based on award type, recipient, scope, and year. Feel free to peruse, and congratulations to all of our recipients!
Group
Scope
Type
Year
Group | Type | Award | Awarded to | Year Awarded |
---|---|---|---|---|
Faculty | Award | ACM A.M. Turing Award | Rich Sutton | 2025 |
Faculty | Award | Outstanding Mentorship in Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities | Bailey Kacsmar | 2025 |
Faculty | Award | CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award | Osmar Zaiane | 2025 |
Faculty | Best Paper | Forecasting 2022 Best Paper Award | Russ Greiner, Roberto Vega | 2024 |
Faculty | Award | CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award | Carrie Demmans Epp | 2024 |
Graduate | Fellowship | CRA-E Graduate Fellow | Emma McDonald | 2024 |
Faculty | Award | CS-Can|Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award | Osmar Zaiane | 2024 |
Graduate | Award | CS-Can|Info-Can Canadian Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award | Nadia Ady | 2024 |
Faculty | Award | ACM SIGEnergy Rising Star Award | Omid Ardakanian | 2024 |
Faculty | Award | ACM eEnergy Test of Time Award | Omid Ardakanian | 2024 |
Alumni | Award | University of Alberta Alumni Horizon Award | Frincy Clement | 2024 |
Alumni | Award | University of Alberta Alumni Honour Award | Israat Haque | 2024 |
Faculty | Best Paper | EMNLP-24 Best Paper Award | Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Davood Rafiei | 2024 |
Faculty | Award | NSERC Brockhouse Prize | Russ Greiner | 2024 |
Faculty | Fellowship | Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Csaba Szepesvári | 2023 |
Faculty | Award | CS-Can|Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award | Russ Greiner | 2023 |
Faculty | Award | PAKDD 10-year Test of Time Award | Joerg Sander | 2023 |
Faculty | Best Paper | CAIAC Best Paper Award | Osmar Zaiane, Chenyang Huang, Paritosh Goyal, Amine Trabelsi | 2023 |
Faculty | Award | IBM CASCON Most Influential Paper Award | Eleni Stroulia, Abram Hindle | 2023 |
Faculty | Best Paper | IBM CASCON Best Paper Award | Nelson Amaral | 2023 |
Graduate | Award | CAIAC Best MSc Thesis Award | Puyuan Liu | 2023 |
Faculty | Best Paper | IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award | Levi Lelis | 2023 |
Faculty | Award | University of Alberta Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring | Russ Greiner | 2023 |
Faculty | Best Paper | IJCNLP-AACL Outstanding Paper Award | Bradley Hauer, Greg Kondrak | 2023 |
Faculty | Award | University of Alberta Precision Health Innovator Award | Russ Greiner | 2022 |
Undergraduate | Competition | Rocky Mountain Regional Programming Contest Winner | Weiying Chen, Ian DeHaan, Johnson Wu, Zachary Friggstad (coach) | 2022 |
Faculty | Award | CS-Can|Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award | Rob Holte | 2022 |
Faculty | Award | SPEC Presidential Award | Nelson Amaral | 2022 |
Faculty | Award | Faculty of Science Research Award | Martha White | 2022 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Huawei Doctoral Scholarship | Mir Tafseer Nayeem | 2022 |
Graduate | Award | CAIAC Best PhD Thesis Award | Jincheng Mei | 2022 |
Graduate | Award | CAIAC Best MSc Thesis Award | Shivam Garg | 2022 |
Faculty | Best Paper | ACM BuildSys Best Paper Award | Omid Ardakanian, Xiaoqi Tan | 2022 |
Faculty | Award | ASTech Outstanding Achievement in AI/ML Advancement: Energy and Environmental Innovation | Omid Ardakanian | 2022 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Early Achievement Award | Kristen You | 2021/2022 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Early Achievement Award | Mrunal Jadhav | 2021/2022 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Outstanding Thesis Award | Ryan D'Orazio | 2021/2022 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Outstanding Thesis Award | Haozhou Pang | 2021/2022 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Outstanding Thesis Award | Camila Ferreira Costa | 2021/2022 |
Faculty | Fellowship | Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Mike Bowling | 2021 |
Faculty | Award | CS-Can|Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award | Jonathan Schaeffer | 2021 |
Faculty | Award | University of Alberta Remote Teaching Award | Nelson Amaral | 2021 |
Faculty | Fellowship | Fellow of the Royal Society of London | Rich Sutton | 2021 |
Faculty | Award | Outstanding Mentorship in Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities | Sarah Nadi | 2021 |
Faculty | Award | CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award | Russ Greiner | 2021 |
Faculty | Award | IJCAI Research Excellence Award | Rich Sutton | 2021 |
Faculty | Award | Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize | Karim Ali | 2021 |
Faculty | Award | IEEE Senior Member | Osmar Zaiane | 2021 |
Undergraduate | Award | Honourable Mention for the Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award | Chengzhang Dong | 2021 |
Faculty | Best Paper | IEEE ToG Outstanding Paper Award | Michael Buro | 2021 |
Faculty | Best Paper | Mining Software Challenge Track Best Paper Award | Abram Hindle | 2021 |
Faculty | Best Paper | AAMAS Best Paper Award | Matt Taylor | 2021 |
Faculty | Award | One of Top 10% Highest-scoring NeurIPS reviewers | Russ Greiner | 2021 |
Faculty | Award | ICLR-21 Outstanding Reviewer | Lili Mou | 2021 |
Faculty | Award | University of Alberta Outstanding Mentorship in Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities | Nelson Amaral | 2020 |
Faculty | Fellowship | Fellow of the TELUS World of Science | Abram Hindle | 2020 |
Faculty | Award | Killam Accelerator Research Award | Martha White | 2020 |
Faculty | Award | IEEE Intelligent Systems AI's 10 to Watch | Martha White | 2020 |
Faculty | Award | Edify Edmonton Top 40 Under 40 | Alona Fyshe | 2020 |
Faculty | Best Paper | AIED Best Paper Honorable Mention | Carrie Demmans Epp | 2020 |
Faculty | Best Paper | IEEE Outstanding Paper (Theory) | Martin Jagersand | 2020 |
Faculty | Best Paper | IEEE CoG Best Paper (Runner-Up) Award | Jonathan Schaeffer | 2020 |
Faculty | Best Paper | AIJ Prominent Paper Award | Nathan Sturtevant | 2020 |
Faculty | Best Paper | AIIDE Best Paper Nominee | Nathan Sturtevant | 2020 |
Faculty | Award | ACL Outstanding Reviewer | Greg Kondrak | 2020 |
Faculty | Award | EMNLP-20 Oustanding Reviewer | Lili Mou | 2020 |
Faculty | Award | AIIDE Best Reviewer | Nathan Sturtevant | 2020 |
Graduate | Award | CAIAC Best MSc Thesis Award | Humza Haider | 2020 |
Graduate | Scholarship | GRA Rice Graduate Scholarship in Communications | Nawshad Farruque | 2019/2020 |
Graduate | Fellowship | J.P. Morgan PhD Fellowship | Sina Ghiassian | 2019 |
Graduate | Award | Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research Student Teaching Award | Abdulsalam Ba Sabaa, Shaiful Chowdhury, Kalvin Eng, Bradley Hauer, Braedy Kuzma, Andrew Patterson, Tobias Renwick, Saeed Sarabchi, Rameel Sethi | 2019 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Jeffrey R. Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize | Shrimanti Ghosh | 2019 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Verna Tate Graduate Scholarship in Science | Mennatullah Siam | 2019 |
Graduate | Award | Computing Science Early Achievement MSc | Andrew Jacobsen (Winner), Alexander Wong (Runner Up) | 2019 |
Graduate | Award | Computing Science Early Achievement PhD | Moein Owhadi Kareshk (Winner), Xinyao Sun (Runner Up) | 2019 |
Graduate | Award | Computing Science Outstanding MSc Thesis | Artem Chikin (Winner), Ehsan Imani (Runner Up) | 2019 |
Graduate | Award | Computing Science Outstanding PhD Thesis | Gaojian Fan (Winner), Seyed Moein Shakeri (Runner Up) | 2019 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Verna Tate Graduate Scholarship in Science | Camila Ferreira Costa | 2018/2019 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Jeffrey R Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize | Ngoc Khanh Thy Tran | 2018/2019 |
Graduate | Scholarship | GRA Rice Graduate Scholarship in Communications | Mashrura Tasnim | 2018/2019 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Jeffrey R Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize | Mirmahdi Rahgoshay | 2017/2018 |
Faculty | Fellowship | Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Dale Schuurmans | 2017 |
Faculty | Chairship | UC3M-Santander Chair of Excellence | Rob Holte | 2017 |
Faculty | Professorship | McCalla Professorship | Martin Jagersand | 2017 |
Faculty | Fellowship | Faculty of Science Research Fellowship | Michael Bowling | 2017 |
Graduate | Award | Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research Graduate Student Teaching Awards | Sara Farazi, Leah Hackman, Marcus Karpoff, Camilo Perez, Ian Watts | 2017 |
Faculty | Award | MSR Early Career Achievement Award | Abram Hindle | 2017 |
Faculty | Best Paper | ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award | Karim Ali, Lisa Nguyen Quang Do, Benjamin Livshits, Eric Bodden, Justin Smith, Emerson Murphy-Hill | 2017 |
Faculty | Best Paper | SSTD Best Paper Award | Mario Nascimento, Camila F. Costa | 2017 |
Faculty | Award | University of Alberta Excellence in Leadership Award | Mario Nascimento | 2017 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Early Achievement Award | Camilla F. Costa | 2017 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Early Achievement Award Runner-Up | Yao Xu | 2017 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Early Achievement Award | Artem Chikin | 2017 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Early Achievement Award Runner-Up | Mehran Mahmoudi | 2017 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Outstanding Thesis Award | Bernardo Avila Pires | 2017 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Outstanding Thesis Award Runner-Up | Garrett Nicolai | 2017 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Outstanding Thesis Award | Gautham Vasan | 2017 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Outstanding Thesis Award Runner-Up | Xiaowei Hu | 2017 |
Graduate | Award | CAIAC Best MSc Thesis Award | Yifan Wu | 2017 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Jeffrey R Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize | Sepehr Valipour | 2016/2017 |
Faculty | Best Paper | AAAI Outstanding Paper Award | Rob Holte, Ariel Felner, Guni Sharon, Nathan Sturtevant | 2016 |
Graduate | Award | Faculty of Science Dissertation Award | Fan Xie | 2016 |
Faculty | Best Paper | AAMAS Best Paper Nomination | Yitao Liang, Marlos C. Machado, Erik Talvitie, and Michael Bowling | 2016 |
Faculty | Award | IEEE CS TCSE Distinguished Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Leadership Award | Eleni Stroulia | 2016 |
Graduate | Best Paper | UAI Best Student Paper Award | Tor Lattimore, Jan Leike, Laurent Orseau, Marcus Hutter | 2016 |
Faculty | Award | CS-Can|Info-Can Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize | Abram Hindle | 2016 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Early Achievement Award | Shaiful Chowdhury | 2016 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Early Achievement Award Runner-Up | Camila Ferreira Costa | 2016 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Early Achievement Award Runner-Up | Subhayan Mukherjee | 2016 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Early Achievement Award | Eddie Santos | 2016 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Outstanding Thesis Award | Michael Johanson | 2016 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Outstanding Thesis Award Runner-Up | Felicity Allen | 2016 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Outstanding Thesis Award | Bradley Hauer | 2016 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Outstanding Thesis Award | Yifan Wu | 2016 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Outstanding Thesis Award Runner-Up | Christopher Martin | 2016 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Jeffrey R Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize | Xiaowei Hu | 2015/2016 |
Graduate | Scholarship | GRA Rice Graduate Scholarship in Communications | Kory Mathewson | 2015/2016 |
Graduate | Award | Faculty of Science Doctoral Dissertation Award | Rouzbeh Maani | 2015 |
Graduate | Award | Faculty of Science Doctoral Dissertation Award | Martha White | 2015 |
Graduate | Award | L'Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science - NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship Supplement Award | Michelle Annett | 2015 |
Graduate | Award | Faculty of Science Dissertation Award | Siamak Ravanbakhsh | 2015 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Early Achievement Award | Yiming Qian | 2015 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Early Achievement Award Runner-Up | Shaiful Chowdury | 2015 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Early Achievement Award Runner-Up | Junfeng Wen | 2015 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Early Achievement Award | Kory Mathewson | 2015 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Outstanding Thesis Award | Martha White | 2015 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Outstanding Thesis Award Runner-Up | Rouzbeh Maani | 2015 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Outstanding Thesis Award Runner-Up | Siamak Ravanbakhsh | 2015 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Outstanding Thesis Award | Roshan Shariff | 2015 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Outstanding Thesis Award Runner-Up | Amritpal Saini | 2015 |
Graduate | Award | CAIAC Best PhD Thesis Award | Yaoliang Yu | 2015 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Jeffrey R Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize | Yifan Wu | 2014/2015 |
Faculty | Best Paper | NETYS 2014 Best Paper Award | Ehab Elmallah, Mohamed Gouda | 2014 |
Faculty | Fellowship | Metabolomics Society Honorary Fellowship | David Wishart | 2014 |
Faculty | Best Paper | UAI Best Paper Runner-up | Tor Lattimore, Koby Crammer, Csaba Szepesvari, | 2014 |
Faculty | Award | Faculty of Science Research Award | Michael Bowling | 2014 |
Faculty | Award | ISSS Excellence in Teaching | Nelson Amaral | 2014 |
Faculty | Award | Faculty of Science Innovation in Teaching Award | Jim Hoover, Michael Bowling | 2014 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize | Michelle Annett | 2014 |
Graduate | Best Paper | UAI Best Paper Runner-up | Tor Lattimore, Koby Crammer, Csaba Szepesvari | 2014 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Outstanding Thesis Award Winner | Yaoliang Yu | 2014 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Outstanding Thesis Award Runner-up | Richard Gibson | 2014 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Outstanding Thesis Award Runner-up | Michelle Annett | 2014 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Early Achievement Prize | Gaojian Fan | 2014 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Early Achievement Award Co-winner | Mohammed Elmorsy | 2014 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Early Achievement Award Co-winner | Gaojian Fan | 2014 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Outstanding MSc Thesis Award Winner | Timothy Yao | 2014 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Outstanding MSc Thesis Award Runner-up | Matthew Gaudet | 2014 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Early Achievement Prize | Karan Aggarwal | 2014 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Early Achievement Award Winner | Bradley Hauer | 2014 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Early Achievement Award Runner-up | Karan Aggarwal | 2014 |
Faculty | Best Paper | International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems Best Paper Award | Yi Bi, Jia-Huai You, Zhiyong Feng | 2014 |
Graduate | Award | CAIAC Best PhD Thesis Award | Hootan Nakhost | 2014 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Jeffrey R Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize | Zhaoxing Bu | 2013/2014 |
Faculty | Chairship | Cisco Research Chair in Healthcare Solutions | Pierre Boulanger | 2013 |
Graduate | Award | CAIAC Best PhD Thesis Award | Gábor Bartók | 2013 |
Graduate | Award | Bill Buxton Best Canadian HCI Dissertation Award | Xing-Dong Yang | 2013 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Outstanding Thesis Award Winner | Hootan Nakhost | 2013 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Early Achievement Prize | Joshua Campbell | 2013 |
Graduate | Award | PhD Early Achievement Award | Aikaterini Vlachaki | 2013 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Early Achievement Prize | Blerina Bazelli | 2013 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Early Achievement Award | Zhaoxing Bu | 2013 |
Graduate | Award | MSc Outstanding Thesis Award Winner | Ryan Kiros | 2013 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Jeffrey R Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize | Jiemin Wang | 2012/2013 |
Faculty | Award | PACT Best Paper Award | A. Wang, M. Gaudet, P. Wu, M. Ohmacht, J. N. Amaral, C. Barton, R. Silvera, M. M. Michael | 2012 |
Faculty | Award | CAS Research Faculty Fellow of the Year | Nelson Amaral | 2012 |
Graduate | Award | PACT Best Paper Award | A. Wang, M. Gaudet, P. Wu, M. Ohmacht, J. N. Amaral, C. Barton, R. Silvera, M. M. Michael | 2012 |
Graduate | Award | Gold Medal in ACM Student Research | Matthew Gaudet | 2012 |
Graduate | Award | Graduate Student Teaching Awards | Joshua Davidson, John Peters, Anahita Alipour, Ronghong Li, Weitian Tong, Iuliia Vlasenko | 2012 |
Graduate | Award | M.Sc. Early Achievement Award | Dan Han | 2012 |
Graduate | Award | Ph.D. Early Achievement Award | Weitian Tong | 2012 |
Graduate | Award | M.Sc. Early Achievement Prize | Matthew Gaudet | 2012 |
Graduate | Award | Ph.D. Early Achievement Prize | Fan Xie | 2012 |
Graduate | Award | M.Sc. Outstanding Thesis Award | Timo Ewalds, David Lovi | 2012 |
Graduate | Award | Ph.D Outstanding Thesis Award | Neil Birkbeck, Amir-massoud Farahmand | 2012 |
Undergraduate | Award | SIGMOD Best Undergraduate Poster Award | Tyler Sliwkanich, Douglas Schneider, Aaron Yong, Mitchell Home | 2012 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Jeffrey R Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize | Richard Mortimer | 2011/2012 |
Faculty | Best Paper | CNSR 2011 Best Paper Award | Van Ho, Ioanis Nikolaidis | 2011 |
Faculty | Award | Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching | Eleni Stroulia, Ioanis Nikolaidis | 2011 |
Faculty | Award | ISSS Inspirational Instructor | Csaba Szepesvari | 2011 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Queen Elizabeth II Scholorship | Davoud Moulavi | 2011 |
Graduate | Best Paper | CNSR 2011 Best Paper Award | Van Ho, Ioanis Nikolaidis | 2011 |
Graduate | Award | NSERC Best Poster Award | Filipe Mesquita | 2011 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship | Filipe Mesquita | 2011 |
Graduate | Award | UTS Graduate Student Teaching Award | Adam Wolfe Gordon, Katherine Chen, Susan Gentner, Stephanie Husby, Andrew Cenkner, Metanat HooshSadat | 2011 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Amdahl Academic Achievement Scholarship in Computing Science | Daniel Chui, Dustin Morrill, Timothy Phillips | 2011 |
Undergraduate | Award | Donald B. Scott Memorial Prize | You Li | 2011 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Canadian Information Processing Society Scholarship | Stephanie Gil | 2011 |
Undergraduate | Award | Terence Holowach Memorial Prize | Elvis Lin | 2011 |
Undergraduate | Award | Barry J. Mailloux Prize in Computing Science | Jonathan Clark | 2011 |
Undergraduate | Award | Gold Medal in Computing Science | Roshan Shariff | 2011 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Kao Family Eisenco Scholarship | Steven Maschmeyer | 2011 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Mark Van Mechelen Scholarship in Computing Science | Zachary Jullion | 2011 |
Undergraduate | Award | Dr. Brian Pinchbeck Memorial Industrial Internship Prize | Mitchell Lindgren | 2011 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Jeffrey R Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize | Parisa Naeimi | 2010/2011 |
Faculty | Best Paper | IEEE Best Paper Award | Denilson Barbosa | 2010 |
Faculty | Award | ACM SIGKDD Service Award | Osmar Zaiane | 2010 |
Faculty | Grant | NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award | Martin Mueller | 2010 |
Faculty | Best Paper | CCAI Best Paper Award | Russ Greiner, Oliver Schulte, Gustavo Frigo, Hassan Khosravi | 2010 |
Faculty | Award | Teaching Award | Joe Culberson, Janelle Harms | 2010 |
Faculty | Award | Research Award | Michael Bowling | 2010 |
Staff | Award | Staff Service Award | Britta Nielsen | 2010 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Anita Borg Scholarship | Michelle Annett | 2010 |
Graduate | Best Paper | E.M. Gold Award for best student paper at ALT2010 | Gábor Bartók | 2010 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship | Qiong Wu | 2010 |
Graduate | Fellowship | Dissertation Fellowship | Jessica Enright, Michael Smit | 2010 |
Graduate | Award | Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize | Shane Bergsma | 2010 |
Graduate | Award | UTS Graduate Student Teaching Award | David Leis Chodos, Hsiu-Chin Lin, Yifeng Liu, Jeremy Nickurak, Sterling Orsten | 2010 |
Graduate | Award | Outreach Award | Kaylee Bohaychuk, Rui Shen | 2010 |
Graduate | Award | M.Sc. Early Achievement Award | Natalia Negara | 2010 |
Graduate | Award | M.Sc. Outstanding Thesis Award | Aditya Bhargava, M. Reza Khani (1st Runner Up), Fraser Anderson (2nd Runner Up) | 2010 |
Graduate | Award | Ph.D. Early Achievement Award | Amirhossein Firouzmanesh | 2010 |
Graduate | Award | Ph.D. Outstanding Thesis Award | Zachary Friggstad, Sittichai Jiampojamarn (Runner Up) | 2010 |
Graduate | Award | Jeffrey R. Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize | R. Todd Mortimer | 2010 |
Undergraduate | Award | Outreach Award | Kaylee Bohaychuk, Rui Shen | 2010 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Amdahl Academic Achievement Scholarship in Computing Science | Siobhan Buck, Ai Lin, Colby Warkentin | 2010 |
Undergraduate | Award | Donald B. Scott Memorial Prize | Michael Webb | 2010 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Canadian Information Processing Society Scholarship | Bradley Hauer | 2010 |
Undergraduate | Award | Terence Holowach Memorial Prize | Steven Maschmeyer | 2010 |
Undergraduate | Award | Barry J. Mailloux Prize in Computing Science | Dustin Morrill | 2010 |
Undergraduate | Award | Gold Medal in Computing Science | Andrew Cave, Timothy Yau | 2010 |
Undergraduate | Award | Stan Heaps Memorial Scholarship | You Li | 2010 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Kao Family Eisenco Scholarship | Daniel Matichuk | 2010 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Dirk Snoeck Henkemans Memorial Scholarship | Kaylee Bohaychuk | 2010 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Intuit Canada Undergraduate Scholarship in Computing Science | Jonathan Clark, Omar Qadri, Scott Vig, Tsung Ling Yong | 2010 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Kathryn O'Donoghue Ward Memorial Scholarship | Stephanie Gil | 2010 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Mark Van Mechelen Scholarship in Computing Science | Gregory Burlet | 2010 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Haemonetics Software Solutions Computing Science Scholarship | Daniel Matichuk | 2010 |
Undergraduate | Award | Dr. Brian Pinchbeck Memorial Industrial Internship Prize | Matthew Gaudet | 2010 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Jeffrey R Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize | Ryan Vogt | 2009/2010 |
Faculty | Chairship | iCORE Industry Chair in Services Systems Management | Eleni Stroulia | 2009 |
Faculty | Award | IEEE Outstanding Service Award | Osmar Zaiane | 2009 |
Faculty | Award | Excellence in Technology Transfer | Pierre Boulanger | 2009 |
Faculty | Award | Killam Annual Professorship | Osmar Zaiane | 2009 |
Faculty | Award | Teaching Unit Award (CMPUT 250) | Michael Bowling, Jim Hoover, Jonathan Schaeffer, Nathan Sturtevant | 2009 |
Faculty | Award | Research Award | Greg Kondrak | 2009 |
Faculty | Award | Teaching Award | Denilson Barbosa | 2009 |
Faculty | Award | Faculty Service Award | Nafeesa Mohamed | 2009 |
Staff | Award | Faculty of Science Service Award | Roderick Johnson | 2009 |
Staff | Award | DocsDB Recognition Award | Shauna Grabinsky, Carolyn Morris | 2009 |
Staff | Award | Staff Service Award | Linda Jiao, Leslie Acker | 2009 |
Staff | Award | Distinguished Service Award | Harvey Duff | 2009 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral Award | Fraser Anderson | 2009 |
Graduate | Award | Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis | Guohua Liu, David Silver | 2009 |
Graduate | Award | Outstanding M.Sc. Thesis | Parisa Mosayebi | 2009 |
Graduate | Award | M.Sc. Early Achievement Award | Aditya Bhargava | 2009 |
Graduate | Award | Ph.D. Early Achievement Award | Mike Smit | 2009 |
Graduate | Award | M.Sc. Academic Achievement Award | Shahin Jabbari Arfaee, Ashique Mahmood | 2009 |
Graduate | Award | Ph.D. Academic Achievement Award | Babak Behsaz | 2009 |
Graduate | Award | Jeffrey R. Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize | Ryan Vogt | 2009 |
Graduate | Award | Outreach Award | Fraser Anderson, Maryam Hasan, Parisa Naeimi | 2009 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Amdahl Academic Achievement Scholarship in Computing Science | Andrew Cave, David Dietrich, Garett Hunter | 2009 |
Undergraduate | Award | Donald B. Scott Memorial Prize | Jordan Schmidek | 2009 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Canadian Information Processing Society Scholarship | Michael Webb | 2009 |
Undergraduate | Award | Terence Holowach Memorial Prize | Adam Preuss | 2009 |
Undergraduate | Award | Barry J. Mailloux Prize in Computing Science | Joel Kravets | 2009 |
Undergraduate | Award | Gold Medal in Computing Science | Justin Fagnan | 2009 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Stan Heaps Memorial Scholarship | Roshan Shariff | 2009 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Kao Family Eisenco Scholarship | Alexander Dorokhine | 2009 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Dirk Snoeck Henkemans Memorial Scholarship | Yu Bing Xu | 2009 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Intuit Canada Undergraduate Scholarship in Computing Science | Patrick Lo, Zachary Jullion, Steven Maschmeyer, Kaylee Bohaychuk, Oscar Ramirez | 2009 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Kathryn O'Donoghue Ward Memorial Scholarship | Siobhan Buck | 2009 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Mark Van Mechelen Scholarship in Computing Science | Robert Dmytruk | 2009 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Haemonetics Software Solutions Computing Science Scholarship | Jordan Schmidek | 2009 |
Undergraduate | Award | Dr. Brian Pinchbeck Memorial Industrial Internship Prize | Lukasz Pieczykolan | 2009 |
Faculty | Award | McCalla Professorship | Osmar Zaiane | 2008 |
Faculty | Competition | ACM Rocky Mountain Programming Contest, 23rd Place | Travis Dick, Nicholas Merritt, Roshan Shariff, Martin Mueller (coach) | 2008 |
Faculty | Award | AVAC/iCORE/ASTech Outstanding Achievement in Information and Communications Technology and Innovation | Jim Hoover | 2008 |
Faculty | Award | Syncrude/ASTech Innovation in Oil Sands Research | Hong Zhang | 2008 |
Faculty | Award | Distinguished University Professor | Jonathan Schaeffer | 2008 |
Faculty | Award | Faculty Service Award | Dale Schuurmans | 2008 |
Faculty | Award | Research Award | Pierre Boulanger | 2008 |
Faculty | Award | Teaching Award | Joe Culberson | 2008 |
Staff | Award | Staff Service Award | Iris Everitt | 2008 |
Graduate | Competition | ACM Rocky Mountain Programming Contest, 23rd Place | Travis Dick, Nicholas Merritt, Roshan Shariff, Martin Mueller (coach) | 2008 |
Graduate | Award | Jeffrey R. Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize | Richard Valenzano | 2008 |
Graduate | Award | M.Sc. Academic Achievement Award | David Schnizlein | 2008 |
Graduate | Award | Outreach Award | Michelle Annett | 2008 |
Graduate | Award | Outstanding M.Sc. Thesis | Anna Koop | 2008 |
Graduate | Award | Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis | Zhenchang Xing | 2008 |
Graduate | Award | Outstanding Research M.Sc. Achievement Award | Kevin Waugh | 2008 |
Graduate | Award | Outstanding Research Ph.D. Achievement Award | Maria Cutumisu, Philip Henderson | 2008 |
Graduate | Award | Ph.D. Academic Achievement Award | Zhijie Wang | 2008 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Amdahl Academic Achievement Scholarship in Computing Science | Justin Fagnan, John Peters, Timothy Yau | 2008 |
Undergraduate | Award | Barry J. Mailloux Prize in Computing Science | Slobodan Pejic | 2008 |
Undergraduate | Award | Donald B. Scott Memorial Prize | Justin Fagnan | 2008 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Dirk Snoeck Henkemans Memorial Scholarship | Alexander Dorokhine | 2008 |
Undergraduate | Award | Dr. Brian Pinchbeck Memorial Industrial Internship Prize | Nashaat Ghanem | 2008 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | HAEMONETICS Software Solutions Scholarship | John Peters | 2008 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Intuit Canada Undergraduate Scholarship | Joel Boulet, Gregory Burlet, Daniel Matichuk, Roshan Shariff, Michael Webb | 2008 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Kao Family Eisenco Scholarship | Timothy Yau | 2008 |
Undergraduate | Award | Terence Holowach Memorial Prize | Daniel Matichuk | 2008 |
Undergraduate | Award | Gold Medal in Computing Science | John Lees-Miller | 2008 |
Faculty | Chairship | NSERC/Castle Rock Research Industrial Research Chair in Perceptually Adaptive Multimedia | Anup Basu | 2007 |
Faculty | Award | Distinguished Speaker of the ACM | Nelson Amaral | 2007 |
Faculty | Fellowship | Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Russ Greiner | 2007 |
Faculty | Award | IEEE Senior Member | Ehab Elmallah | 2007 |
Faculty | Award | SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Award | Nelson Amaral, Paul Berube | 2007 |
Faculty | Competition | ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, 14th Place | Zac Friggstad, Steven Soneff, Kevin Waugh, Piotr Rudnicki (coach) | 2007 |
Faculty | Fellowship | Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada | Jonathan Schaeffer | 2007 |
Faculty | Award | Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award | Mohammad Salavatipour | 2007 |
Faculty | Award | GSA Excellence in Graduate Supervision | Nelson Amaral | 2007 |
Faculty | Fellowship | Killam Fellowship | Russ Greiner | 2007 |
Faculty | Award | Rutherford Award for Excellence in Teaching | Paul Lu | 2007 |
Faculty | Award | University of Alberta Alumni Recognition Award | Paul Sorenson | 2007 |
Faculty | Award | Faculty Service Award | Eleni Stroulia | 2007 |
Faculty | Award | Research Excellence Award | Russ Greiner | 2007 |
Faculty | Award | Teaching Award | Mike MacGregor | 2007 |
Staff | Award | Distinguished Service Award | Steven Sutphen | 2007 |
Staff | Award | Staff Service Award | Sharon Gannon, John Bartoszewski | 2007 |
Graduate | Award | SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Award | Nelson Amaral, Paul Berube | 2007 |
Graduate | Competition | ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, 14th Place | Zac Friggstad, Steven Soneff, Kevin Waugh, Piotr Rudnicki (coach) | 2007 |
Graduate | Award | Honourary Killam Award | Brian Tanner | 2007 |
Graduate | Award | GSA Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching | Ken Bauer | 2007 |
Graduate | Award | UTS Graduate Student Teaching Award | Ken Bauer | 2007 |
Graduate | Award | Jeffrey R. Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize | Volodymyr Mnih | 2007 |
Graduate | Award | M.Sc. Academic Achievement Award | Varun Grover | 2007 |
Graduate | Award | Outreach Award | Maria Cutumisu | 2007 |
Graduate | Award | Outstanding M.Sc. Thesis | Zachary Friggstad | 2007 |
Graduate | Award | Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis | Colin Cherry | 2007 |
Graduate | Award | Outstanding Research Ph.D. Achievement Award | Zhipeng Cai | 2007 |
Graduate | Award | Ph.D. Academic Achievement Award | Abdullah-Al Mahmood | 2007 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Amdahl Academic Achievement Scholarship in Computing Science | Scott Dohei, Sterling Orsten, Wanying Luo | 2007 |
Undergraduate | Award | Barry J. Mailloux Prize in Computing Science | John Peters | 2007 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Canadian Information Processing Society Scholarship | Justin Fagnan | 2007 |
Undergraduate | Award | Donald B. Scott Memorial Prize | Adam Metcalf | 2007 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Stan Heaps Memorial Scholarship | Timothy Yau | 2007 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Dirk Snoeck Henkemans Memorial Scholarship | Landon Cheek | 2007 |
Undergraduate | Award | Dr. Brian Pinchbeck Memorial Industrial Internship Prize | John Lees-Miller | 2007 |
Undergraduate | Award | Gold Medal in Computing Science | Kevin Swersky | 2007 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Intuit Canada Undergraduate Scholarship | Brandon Neilson, Yuanjie Huang, Alexander Dorokhine, Andrew Cave | 2007 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Kao Family Eisenco Scholarship | Sterling Orsten | 2007 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Kathryn O'Donoghue Ward Memorial Scholarship | Candace Phelps | 2007 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Mark Van Mechelen Scholarship | Derek Moore | 2007 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Sony Computing Science Scholarship | Charles Pham | 2007 |
Undergraduate | Award | Terence Holowach Memorial Prize | Andrew Cave | 2007 |
Faculty | Chairship | iCORE Chair in High Performance Artificial Intelligence Systems | Jonathan Schaeffer | 2006 |
Faculty | Chairship | iCORE Industrial Chair in Multimedia | Anup Basu | 2006 |
Faculty | Best Paper | ICSME Best Paper Award | Eleni Stroulia, Zhenchang Xing | 2006 |
Faculty | Competition | ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, 11th Place | Andrew Neitsch, Sumudu Fernando, Zac Friggstad, Piotr Rudnicki (coach) | 2006 |
Faculty | Best Paper | Michael A.J. Sweeney Best Paper | Hai Mao, Herb Yang | 2006 |
Faculty | Award | IBM Project Team of the Year | Jose Nelson Amaral, Kit Barton, Paul Berube, Stephen Curial | 2006 |
Faculty | Award | CIPPRS Research Excellence and Service Award | Hong Zhang | 2006 |
Faculty | Award | Outstanding Leadership in Alberta Technology Award | Russ Greiner, Rob Holte, Randy Goebel, Jonathan Schaeffer, Rich Sutton, Csaba Szepesvari, Dale Schuurmans, Michael Bowling | 2006 |
Faculty | Award | Faculty of Science Award for Excellence in Teaching | Paul Lu | 2006 |
Faculty | Award | Faculty of Science Innovation in Teaching | Mike MacGregor | 2006 |
Faculty | Award | GSA Excellence in Graduate Supervision | Duane Szafron | 2006 |
Faculty | Award | Distinguished Service Award | Paul Sorenson | 2006 |
Faculty | Award | Research Excellence Award | Dale Schuurmans | 2006 |
Staff | Award | Faculty of Science Service Award | Sunrose Ko | 2006 |
Staff | Award | Nat Rutter Outstanding Technician Award | Rob Lake | 2006 |
Staff | Award | Staff Service Award | Edith Drummond, Rod Johnson | 2006 |
Graduate | Best Paper | International Conference on Software Maintenance Best Paper Award | Eleni Stroulia, Zhenchang Xing | 2006 |
Graduate | Competition | ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, 11th Place | Andrew Neitsch, Sumudu Fernando, Zac Friggstad, Piotr Rudnicki (coach) | 2006 |
Graduate | Best Paper | Michael A.J. Sweeney Best Paper | Hai Mao, Herb Yang | 2006 |
Graduate | Award | IBM Center for Advanced Studies Project Team of the Year | Jose Nelson Amaral, Kit Barton, Paul Berube, Stephen Curial | 2006 |
Graduate | Award | CS Award for High Marks | Brad Joyce | 2006 |
Graduate | Award | Jeffrey R. Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize | Marcel Ball | 2006 |
Graduate | Award | M.Sc. Academic Achievement Award | Chris Rayner | 2006 |
Graduate | Award | Outreach Award | Jessica Enright | 2006 |
Graduate | Award | Outstanding M.Sc. Thesis | Doug Demyen | 2006 |
Graduate | Award | Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis | Jack van Ryswyck | 2006 |
Graduate | Award | Outstanding Research M.Sc. Achievement Award | Zachary Friggstad | 2006 |
Graduate | Award | Outstanding Research Ph.D. Achievement Award | Zen Chang Xing | 2006 |
Graduate | Award | Ph.D. Academic Achievement Award | Amir, Farahmand, Sittichai Jiampojamaran, Tao Wang | 2006 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Amdahl Academic Achievement Scholarship in Computing Science | John Lees-Miller, Jordan Nielson | 2006 |
Undergraduate | Award | Barry J. Mailloux Prize in Computing Science | Wanying Luo | 2006 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Canadian Information Processing Society Scholarship | Timothy Yau | 2006 |
Undergraduate | Award | Donald B. Scott Memorial Prize | Daniel Harker | 2006 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Stan Heaps Memorial Scholarship | Sterling Orsten | 2006 |
Undergraduate | Award | Dr. Brian Pinchbeck Memorial Industrial Internship Prize | Kurt McMillan | 2006 |
Undergraduate | Award | Gold Medal in Computing Science | Maaike Jansen | 2006 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Intuit Canada Undergraduate Scholarship | John Peters, Yining Wang, Timothy Yau, Justin Fagnan | 2006 |
Undergraduate | Award | Kao Family Eisenco Scholarship | John Lees-Miller | 2006 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Kathryn O'Donoghue Ward Memorial Scholarship | Kaitlin O'Donnell | 2006 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Sony Computing Science Scholarship | Kevin Swersky | 2006 |
Undergraduate | Award | Terence Holowach Memorial Prize | John Peters | 2006 |
Faculty | Chairship | iCORE Industrial Research Chair in Collaborative Virtual Environments | Pierre Boulanger | 2005 |
Faculty | Award | McCalla Research Professorship | Russ Greiner | 2005 |
Faculty | Best Paper | IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award | Dale Schuurmans, Russ Greiner, Yuhong Guo | 2005 |
Faculty | Best Paper | IJCAI Disntinguished Paper Prize | Jonathan Schaeffer, Yngvi Bjornsson, Neil Burch, Akihiro Kishimoto, Martin Mueller, Robert Lake, Paul Lu, Steve Sutphen | 2005 |
Faculty | Competition | ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, 29th Place | Andrew Neitsch, Sumudu Fernando, Jason Klaus, Piotr Rudnicki (coach) | 2005 |
Faculty | Award | Province of Alberta Centennial Award | Jonathan Schaeffer | 2005 |
Graduate | Best Paper | IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award | Dale Schuurmans, Russ Greiner, Yuhong Guo | 2005 |
Graduate | Best Paper | IJCAI Disntinguished Paper Prize | Jonathan Schaeffer, Yngvi Bjornsson, Neil Burch, Akihiro Kishimoto, Martin Mueller, Robert Lake, Paul Lu, Steve Sutphen | 2005 |
Graduate | Award | Advances in Artificial Intelligence Best Paper Award | Shane Bergsma | 2005 |
Graduate | Competition | High Productivity Computing (HPC) Challenge First Prize (Class 2) | Christopher Barton, Calin Cascaval, Gheorge Almasi | 2005 |
Graduate | Competition | ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, 29th Place | Andrew Neitsch, Sumudu Fernando, Jason Klaus, Piotr Rudnicki (coach) | 2005 |
Graduate | Fellowship | Province of Alberta Graduate Fellowship | Baochun Bai, Jinhui Shen, Jianjun Zhou | 2005 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Province of Alberta Graduate Scholarship | Maryia Kazakevich, Paul Nalos, Nolan Bard, Benjamin Chu | 2005 |
Graduate | Award | Ralph Steinhauer Award of Distinction | Dan Lizotte, David Morgan, Gregory Lee | 2005 |
Graduate | Award | Graduate Research Award | Zhipeng Cai, Cheng Lei | 2005 |
Graduate | Award | Graduate Teaching Assistant Award | Mike Johanson, Simon Leonard, Adam Rachmielowski | 2005 |
Graduate | Scholarship | Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship | Ilya Levner, Dan Lizotte, Chris Parker, Brian Tanner | 2005 |
Graduate | Award | Jeffrey R. Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize | Michael Smith | 2005 |
Graduate | Award | Outreach Award | Chris Parker | 2005 |
Graduate | Award | Outstanding M.Sc. Thesis | Peter McCracken | 2005 |
Graduate | Award | Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis | Yong Gao | 2005 |
Graduate | Award | Outstanding Research Ph.D. Achievement Award | Christopher Barton | 2005 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Amdahl Academic Achievement Scholarship in Computing Science | Steven Kalf, Kevin Waugh, Atak Kara | 2005 |
Undergraduate | Award | Barry J. Mailloux Prize in Computing Science | David Lovi | 2005 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Canadian Information Processing Society Scholarship | John Lees-Miller | 2005 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Stan Heaps Memorial Scholarship | Joshua Friesen | 2005 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Dirk Snoeck Henkemans Memorial Scholarship | David Tom | 2005 |
Undergraduate | Award | Dr. Brian Pinchbeck Memorial Industrial Internship Prize | Matt Petras | 2005 |
Undergraduate | Award | Gold Medal in Computing Science | Ryan Vogt | 2005 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Kao Family Eisenco Scholarship | Adam Jocksch | 2005 |
Undergraduate | Scholarship | Sony Computing Science Scholarship | Maaike Jansen | 2005 |
Undergraduate | Award | Terence Holowach Memorial Prize | Jordan Nielson | 2005 |
Faculty | Best Paper | ROBIO 2004 Best Student Paper Award | Christopher Parker, Hong Zhang | 2004 |
Faculty | Award | IBM Corporation Faculty Award | Nelson Amaral | 2004 |
Graduate | Fellowship | IBM Corporate University Relations Fellowship | Christopher Barton | 2004 |
Graduate | Best Paper | ROBIO 2004 Best Student Paper Award | Christopher Parker, Hong Zhang | 2004 |
Faculty | Chairship | Canada Research Chair (Tier II, Machine Learning) | Dale Schuurmans | 2003 |
Faculty | Chairship | NSERC/iCore/Syncrude/Matrikon Industrial Research Chair on Intelligent Sensing Systems | Hong Zhang | 2003 |
Faculty | Chairship | iCORE Chair in Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence | Rich Sutton | 2003 |
Faculty | Chairship | Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence | Jonathan Schaeffer | 2002 |