DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, University of Toronto NSERC Doctoral Prize 2010 2010-2011 AWARDS Andres Lagar Cavilla
RESEARCH AWARDS AND HONOURS NetApp Faculty Fellowship 2010 Bianca Schroeder Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship 2011 Mark Braverman NSERC - Automotive Partnership Canada Grant 2010 Marsha Chechik Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence 2011 Steve Easterbrook Fellow: Sheila McIlraith Peter P. Chen Award 2010 Bill Buxton Best Canadian HCI Dissertation Award John Mylopoulos Daniel Vogel RSA Conference Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics 2011 Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (CAIAC) 2010 Dissertation Prize Charles Rackoff Martin de Lasa Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS) Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Academy Member 2011 Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2010 Ravin Balakrishnan Alex Levinshtein Steacie Prize 2010 Canadian Pacific Rail Medal by the Engineering Institute of Canada 2011 Aaron Hertzmann Mark Fox University of Toronto (U of T) Inventor of the Year 2011 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing 2010 Ron Baecker with co-inventors Alexander Levy, Aaskash Sahney, and Vassos Hadzilacos and Sam Toueg, together with Tushar Chandra of Kevin Tonon Google Nick Koudas with co-inventor Nilesh Bansal
Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering 2010 University of Toronto University Professor 2011 Geoffrey Hinton Allan Borodin
IEEE 2010 Senior Member: Gerald Penn BEST PAPER AWARDS
International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) 2011 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2011 Fellow: Charles Rackoff Best Paper: Koji Yatani, Michael Novati, Andrew Trusty, Khai Truong
International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling 5th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (Eurosys) 2010 (ICAPS) Best Dissertation Award 2011 Best Student Paper and Presentation: Alex Depoutovitch and Michael Honorable Mention: Jorge Baier Stumm
Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions to Computer Vision ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2011 European Conference in Computer Vision 2010 Honorable Mention Papers: Leah Findlater, Jacob Wobbrock (University David Fleet, Michael Black and Hedvig Sidenbladh of Washington), Daniel Wigdor
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Elsevier Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) 2010/2011 Top Cited Article 2005-2010 Marsha Chechik Manos Papagelis, Dimitris Plexousakis Green Group Award of Computational Finance and Business Intelligence, NetFPGA Design Competition, Stanford 2010 International Conference on Computational Science 2010 First Prize Winner: Best Paper: Duy Minh Dang, Christina Christara, Ken Jackson and Asif Hamed Tabatabaei Lakhany Yashar Ganjali
International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information NetFPGA Design Competition, Stanford 2010 Systems (FOIS) 2010 Second Prize Winner: Best Paper: Atalay Ozgovde and Michael Gruninger Martin Labrecque Gregory Steffan 4th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference Geoffrey Salmon Best Student Paper: Michael Mior and Eyal de Lara Monia Ghobadi Yashar Ganjali The 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2010 Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award Shirin Sohrabi GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Acres Founding Technologies Award 2010 TEACHING AWARDS AND HONOURS Max Kaznady
Computer Science Student Union Teaching Award (CSSU) 2010-2011 Alfred B. Lehman Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science Danny Heap Steve Chaplick Francois Pitt Karen Reid American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) - GlaxoSmithKline Outstanding Clinical Scholar 2011 ComputerWorld’s IT Educator of the Year Award 2010 Gerald Quon Greg Wilson Best Graduate Student Award from the department of Computer Science at University of Toronto (U of T) Joan E. Foley Quality of Student Experience the University of Saskatchewan 2010 Award 2011 Carrie Demmans Epp Karen Reid Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University/U of T Permanent Endowment U of T President's Teaching Award 2011 Yuval Filmus Paul Gries EF Burton Award Julian Brooke COMPETITION RESULTS Google Fellowship 2010 Linked Data Triplification Challenge 2010 Ilya Sutskever Open Track Honorary Mention: Oktie Hassanzadeh C.C Gotlieb (Kelly) Graduate Fellowship in the Reynold S. Xin Department of Computer Science Christian Fritz Soudeh Ghorbani Khaledi Yang Yang Yu Wu Renée J. Miller IBM PhD Fellowship 2010-2011 Oktie Hassanzadeh
Robert E. Lansdale/Okino Computer Graphics Graduate Fellowship in dgp Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (OGSST) Peter O'Donovan Julian Brooke Matthew Patrick O'Toole Clement Chung Jennifer Marie Horkoff MALOA (From MAthematical LOgic to Applications) Early Stage Researcher Fellowship Platform Computing Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science Yuval Filmus Emmanouil Papagelis Kaveh Ghasemloo Dai Tri Man Le Raymond Reiter Award Julian Brooke Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) Ulrich Germann Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship Navdeep Jaitly Hojjat Ghaderi Eric Hsu Sumner Fellowship Christopher Paul Cook Nargol Rezvani Dehaghani Yuli Ye NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship Aws Hamza Qasem Albarghouthi Alexandra Goultiaeva Yahoo Key Scientific Challenges Award 2010 Laurent Charlin Farah Juma Oktie Hassanzadeh Jackie Chi Kit Cheung Tyler Lu Recep Colak James Martens Wolfond Scholarship Fellowship Award Eric Corlett Tomasz Nykiel Nikola Banovic Ioan Stefanovici Duy Minh Dang Peter O'Donovan Carrie Demmans Epp Sahil Suneja Tyler de Witt Mark Sun Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Sean Sutherland Marco Fiume Svitlana Tumanova Christian Lessig Jian Zhao Monia Ghobadi Yue Li Sajad Shirali-Shahreza Christian Muise
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (PGSD) UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS Tyler de Witt Mohammad Sadoghi Hamedani Maryam Fazel-Zarandi Amirali Salehi-Abari Canada Chinese Computer Association (CRA) Scholarship 2010 Inmar Ella Givoni Jonathan Taylor Mehrdad Shahi Avery Miller Maksims Volkovs Matthew Patrick O'Toole Vladimir Yanovsky Computing Research Association, Honorable Mention Shirin Sohrabi Ainsley Lawson
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Craig Clement Memorial Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellowship Eran Henig Duy Minh Dang Daniel Berlin Scholarship Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) Farah Juma Elliott Baron Tom Sie Ho Lee David Barton Joel Oren DCS Award for Outstanding Achievement in CSC 148/150H David Dearman Kevin Regan Zhaohan Guo Peter Feiner Frank Vanderzwet Jeffrey Yiu Tsun Lee Timothy Fowler Adam Zarek Dai Tri Man Le Embanet Ken Feeney Award Siyu Liu Ken Sevcik Bursary Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, Division of Mathematical and Physical Sergey Borbunov (UTM) Sciences of the Academy of Science John Tsotsos NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award Botond Ballo Liam Kaufman-Simpkins IBM Smarter Planet Faculty Award Polina Binder Winnie Wing Yuen Lam Kelly Lyons with colleague Rhonda McEwen Magali Boizot-Roche, Charlotte Lin Anton Braverman Colin Morris NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant with SAP Evan Browning Lev Naiman Kelly Lyons Michael Dzamba Thariq Shihipar Louie Dinh Vivien Suen Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Computational Vision Zoya Gavrilov Michelle Tran John Tsotsos Jan Gorzny Konstantine Tsotsos Ioana Ivan STAFF AWARDS Samuel Beatty Scholarship Botond Ballo 2010 University of Toronto Excellence through Innovation Award Ainsley Lawson CSLab: Jia Xian Yao Nicolas Merkel Neil Reilly Tom Hull Scholarship Chris Siebenmann Botond Ballo Simon Weber-Brown Qiyu Zhu
Trenwith Award Behrdad Ghadir Bashardoost Magali Boizot-Roche Yadi Zhao (UTSC)
U of T Excellence Award in Natural Science and Engineering Oloruntobi Ogunbiyi
ADJUNCT FACULTY AWARDS
Bestowed Title, Distinguished Professor of Industrial Design by the Technical University of Eindhoven 2010 Bill Buxton
Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the Academy of Science John Tsotsos NOTE: This listing includes awards publicly announced between May 1, 2010 and May 31, 2011. Honorary Doctorate by the Technical University of Eindhoven Bill Buxton
International Conference on Field- Programmable Technology 2010 Best Paper: Steven Birk, Gregory Steffan, Jason Anderson