DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, University of Toronto Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) 2012-2013 AWARDS Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) Craig Boutilier This annual listing includes awards received between May 1, 2012 and Renée Miller April 30, 2013 by: Department of Computer Science faculty across the Google Focused Research Award 2012 St. George, Mississauga, and Scarborough campuses; departmental graduate Geoffrey Hinton students; undergraduate students in the computer science program on the Ruslan Salakhutdinov (cross-appointed to Statistics) St. George campus; and alumni engaged in startup activities. Richard Zemel
RESEARCH & SERVICE AWARDS AND HONOURS Genome Canada and the Ontario Genomics Institute 2012 Gary Bader (Cross-appointed to Molecular Genetics) Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering (NSERC) 2013 Michael Brudno Stephen Cook Connaught New Researcher Awards, University of Toronto 2012 Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2012 Azadeh Farzan Craig Boutilier Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Cross-appointed to Statistics) Bianca Schroeder Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship 2013 Bianca Schroeder Inventor of the Year Award, University of Toronto's Office of Research and Ruslan Salakhutdinov (cross-appointed to Statistics) Innovation 2013 Vinod Vaikuntanathan Daniel Wigdor Ricardo Jota (Postdoctoral Fellow) Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award 2012 C.C. (Kelly) Gotlieb Bell University Laboratories Chair in Information Systems 2012 Renée Miller Order of Ontario 2012 Stephen Cook Bell University Laboratories Chair in Software Engineering 2012 Marsha Chechik Award for Research Excellence, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2013 Outstanding Senior Program Committee Member, 11th International Hector Levesque Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2012 Craig Boutilier Lifetime Research Achievement Award, Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS) 2012 President of the Association for Symbolic Logic 2013 Sven Dickinson Alasdair Urquhart
Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (CAIAC) Long Service Award, University of Toronto 2012 2012 Ronald Baecker (40 years) Hector Levesque Wayne Enright (40 years) Eugene Fiume (25 years) The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal 2012 Stephen Cook TEACHING AWARDS AND HONOURS Michelle Craig C.C. (Kelly) Gotlieb Computer Science Student Union Teaching Award 2012-2013 J.N. Patterson (Patt) Hume Steve Engels Danny Heap Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize (CACS/AIC) 2012 Sam Toueg Eyal de Lara
STAFF AWARDS SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Best Paper, Honorable Mention 2012 Excellence Through Innovation Award, University of Toronto 2012 Stephanie Santosa (MSc Student), Fanny Chevalier (Postdoctoral Fellow), John Hancock Ravin Balakrishnan, Karan Singh Joseph Raghubar SIGMETRICS and Performance, Best Paper Award 2012 Long Service Award, University of Toronto 2012 Nosayba El-Sayed (PhD Student), Ioan Stefanovici (PhD Student), George Angela Glinos (25 years) Amvrosiadis (PhD Student), Andy Hwang (PhD Student), Bianca Schroeder Marina Haloulos (25 years) 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), ACM Distinguished BEST PAPER AWARDS Paper Award 2012 Michalis Famelis (PhD Student), Rick Salay (Postdoctoral Fellow) and Marsha 16th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT), Test of Time Award Chechik 2013: “Data Exchange: Semantics and Query Answering” (ICDT ‘03) Ronald Fagin (IBM Almaden Research Center), Phokion Kolaitis (IBM Almaden 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), Research Center), Renée Miller, Lucian Popa (IBM Almaden Research Center) Best Paper 2013 Yael Dubinsky (IBM), Julia Rubin (PhD Student), Thorsten Berger (IT University of 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Honorable Mention, Outstanding Copenhagen), Slawomir Duszynski (Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Paper Award 2013 Engineering), Martin Becker (Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engi- Reshef Meir (Hebrew University), Tyler Lu (PhD Student), Moshe Tennenholtz neering), Krzysztof Czarnecki (University of Waterloo) (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology), and Craig Boutilier 45th Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), SIAM Journal of 17th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Computing, Best Paper Special Issue 2013 Education, Best Working Group Paper, 2012 Sergey Gorbunov (PhD Student), Vinod Vaikuntanathan and Hoeteck Wee (George Michael Goldweber (Xavier University), John Barr (Ithaca College), Tony Clear Washington University) (Auckland University of Technology), Renzo Davoli (Università di Bologna), Samuel Mann (Otago Polytechnic), Elizabeth Patitsas (PhD Student), Scott Portnoff 45th Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), SIAM Journal of (Downtown Magnets High School). Computing, Best Paper Special Issue 2013 Shafi Goldwasser (MIT), Yael Kalai (Microsoft Research), Raluca Ada Popa (MIT), International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), Vinod Vaikuntanathan and Nickolai Zeldovich (MIT) Co-recipient of Best Student Paper for Track A 2012 Anastasios Zouzias (PhD Student) International Conference on Very Large Databases, Best Paper (VLDB ) 2012 Albert Angel (PhD Student), Nick Koudas, Nikos Sarkas (Tower Research Capital), Eurographics Sketch Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM), Best Paper 2012 Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs -Research) Nilgun Donmez (PhD Student), Karan Singh COMPETITION RESULTS 3rd Annual Conference on Graphics, Animation and New Media (GRAND), Best Research Note Award 2012 2nd International Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP), 4 Gold Medals Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu (Postdoctoral Fellow), Richard Compton (U of T Linguistics), and 1 Bronze Medal 2013 and Gerald Penn Aws Albarghouthi (PhD Student), Arie Gurfinkel (Software Engineering Institute), Yi Li (PhD Student), Sagar Chaki (Software Engineering Institute) and Marsha Chechik 38th Graphics Interface Conference (GIC), Best Paper 2012 Cyrus Rahgoshay (CMLabs Simulations Inc.), Amir Rabbani (McGill University), Google Places API Developer Challenge, First Place 2012 Karan Singh, Paul G. Kry (McGill University) Christian Muise (PhD Student) Graphics Interface Conference (GIC), Best Paper 2013 Michael Glueck (PhD Student), Tovi Grossman (Autodesk Research), and ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, Winners 2012 Daniel Wigdor Alex Krizhevsky (PhD Student), Ilya Sutskever (PhD Student), Geoffrey Hinton
Merck Molecular Activity Challenge, 1st Prize 2012 George Dahl (PhD Student), Ruslan Salakhutdinov (DCS/Stats), Navdeep Jaitly (PhDStudent), Chris Jordan-Squire (University of Washington), Geoffrey Hinton Ontario Provincial 3 Minute Thesis Competition, Silver 2013 MITACS Globalink Graduate Fellowship 2012 Abraham Heifets (PhD Student) Jaiganesh Balasundaram
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest East Central North America Re- NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship 2012–2013 gional, Second Place 2012 Jacob Plachta (U of T Music), Andre Hahn (U of T ECE), Sandro Feuz (MSc Stu- Aws Hamza Qasem Albarghouthi Yue Li dent); Coaches: Wesley May (MSc Student), Carolyn McLeod (PhD Student) Aditya Bhargava David Liu Julian Brooke Christopher Joseph Maddison University of Chicago Invitational Programming Contest, First Place 2013 Jonathan Calver Tomasz Nykiel Jacob Plachta (U of T Music), Andre Hahn (U of T ECE), Brian Bi (U of T Chemis- Jackie Chi Kit Cheung Peter O'Donovan try); Coaches: Wesley May (MSc Student), Carolyn McLeod (PhD Student) Recep Colak Suprio Ray
Eric Corlett Utkarsh Roy
GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS Michael Dzamba Amirali Salehi-Abari
Marco Fiume Mark Sun Postdoctoral Fellowships Program NSERC 2012 Daniel Fryer Kevin Swersky Marcus Brubaker Frank Chun Yat Li Yichuan Tang
Google Fellowship in Machine Learning 2012 James Martens NSERC Industrial Research & Development Fellowship 2012 Mohammad Shakourifar Google Fellowship in Computational Economics 2012 Tyler Lu OCE SmartStart 2012 Tyler Lu Facebook Graduate Fellowship 2013-2014 Jackie C.K. Cheung Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) 2012-2013 Christopher Franco De Paoli David Kordalewski Acres Productive Technologies, Joseph Yonan Memorial Fellowship 2012-2013 Erin Delisle Ahmed Mashiyat Ka-Chun Wong Carrie Demmans Epp Abdel-rahman Mohamed
Alfred B. Lehman Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science 2012-2013 Joanna Drummond Mohammad Norouzi Lila Fontes Justin Foong Nirvana Nursimulu Dai Tri Man Le Wesley George Rohan Palaniappan Peter Goodman Elizabeth Patitsas C.C. Gotlieb (Kelly) Graduate Fellowship 2012 Sergey Gorbunov Nitish Srivastava Sajad Shirali-Shahreza Marina Gueroussova Sahil Suneja
Kirill Ignatiev Fonds de recherche Nature et technologies (FQRNT) Industrial Innovations Scholarship 2012-2013 Kaiwen Zhang Outstanding Achievement Award, 2012 Awarded by the Iranian Canadian Inter- cultural Center and Federal Government of Canada Robertson Fellowship 2012 Mohammad Shakourifar Christian Muise Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award 2013 2012-2013 Utkarsh Roy Volodymyr Mnih Matthew Patrick O'Toole Microsoft Research Graduate Women's Scholarship 2012 Andrew Perrault Joanna Drummond
Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship 2012 George Dahl Robert E. Lansdale/Okino Computer Graphics Graduate Fellowship in Ken Sevcik Bursary 2012 Computer Science 2012-2013 Aden Fang Zhou Dong Michael Tao Jiecao Wang Janis Libeks NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award 2012 Raymond Reiter Graduate Award 2012-2013 Tomasz Blazejewski Ngok Hei Timothy Lau Laurent Charlin Mariana D’Angelo Harun Mustafa
Christian Muise Daniel Eidan Mehrdad Shahi
Zoya Gavrilov Tyrone Strangway
Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowship 2012 Silviu Jingoi Jia Xian Yao James Martens Tristan Laidlow Shunan Zhao
Wolfond Fellowship 2012-2013 Tom Hull Scholarship 2012 Abbas Attarwala Zachary Kincaid Hussam Laith Kaka Milad Eftekhar Janis Libeks Mary Elaine Ramos Malit Dustin Freeman Eunbyung Park He Xu Peter Hamilton Sajad Shirali-Shahreza Trenwith Computer Science Award 2012 Rorik Henrikson Tianzheng Wang Chen Chen Silviu Marian Jingoi Jian Zhao Adam G Robinson-Yu UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS Heng Xu
Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award 2013 Undergraduate Toronto Research Experience in Computer Science 2012 Alice (Meiyi) Li Michael Andreae Alexander Mann Tobi (Oloruntobi) Ogunbiyi U of T Excellence Award in Natural Sciences & Engineering 2012 Rinat Abdrashitov Canada Chinese Computer Association Scholarship 2012 Kent Phuong STARTUPS established this past year
Craig Clement Memorial Scholarship 2012 DNNresearch Inc. Ke Li Faculty Geoffrey Hinton Ilya Sutskever (PhD Alumnus) Daniel Berlin Scholarship 2012 Alex Krizhevsky (PhD Alumnus) Brent Mombourquette Granata Decision Systems Inc. 2012 DCS Award for Achievement in CSC148H 2012 Faculty Craig Boutilier Tyler Lu (PhD Student) Minh Le Hoang Andrew Pelegris
Caroline Liu Jacob John Plachta HyperHLabs 2012 Jonathan Love Ishraq Anam Siddiqui Eran Henig (BSc Alumnus) Yorie Nakayama Gideon Hayden (McGill University)
DCS Award for Achievement in CSC150H 2012 Tactual Labs 2012 Faculty Daniel Wigdor Liam Anthony Cooke Spencer Benjamin Sleep Ricardo Jota (Postdoctoral Fellow) Matthew Craddock Oren Isaac Watson Steven Sanders (Sanders Capital) Wei Mian Chi-Hua Yang Clifton Forlines (Draper Laboratory) Eitan Postavsky Darren Leigh (formerly of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories) Whirlscape Inc. 2013 Faculty Khai Truong William Walmsley (MSc-Eng) Xavier Snelgrove (MSc Alumnus)
Digital Retail Apps 2012 Timothy Capes (MSc Alumnus)
Chime 2013 Fahd Ananta (BSc Student) Guru Mahendran (BEng - Aerospace) Thariq Shihipar (Beng - ECE)