News Awards

Monday, December 3, 2012

The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science is home to a multitude of talented individuals who excel in their research areas. Here is an update of awards that have been received by researchers from the school over the past year.

Congratulations to all!

Rayman Preet Singh, 'On Hourly Peak Load Prediction' paper with labmate Peter Gao and Daniel Lizotte - Winner of Best Paper Award at IEEE SmartGridComm, November 2012.
Multiclass Learnability and the ERM principle Amit Daniely, Sivan Sabato, Shai Ben-David and Shai Shalev-Shwartz - Winner of Best Student Paper Award in COLT 2011
Umar Farooq Minhas (University of Waterloo), Shriram Rajagopalan (University of British Columbia), Brendan Cully (University of British Columbia), Ashraf Aboulnaga (University of Waterloo), Ken Salem (University of Waterloo), Andrew Warfield (University of British Columbia) - Winner of Best Paper Award at VLDB in 2011
"Patch-based geometric textures synthesis"
Zainab AlMeraj, (Co-authors: supervisor Craig Kaplan and Paul Asente from Adobe Inc.), "Patch-based geometric textures synthesis" - Best Poster Award at EXPRESSIVE 2012 held in Annecy, France.