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.