Best theses and dissertations

Each year, CAIAC awards a Best Dissertation Award and a Best Master's thesis award.

Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award

2021: Tyrone Strangway, University of Toronto
Thesis information
Supervised by Nisarg Shah
2020: Jhonatan de Souza Oliveira, University of Regina
Thesis information
Supervised by Cory Butz
2017: John Doucette, University of Waterloo
Thesis information
Supervised by Robin Cohen
2016: Tyler Lu, University of Toronto
Thesis information
Supervised by Craig Boutilier
2015: Yaoliang Yu, University of Alberta
Thesis information
Supervised by Dale Schuurmans and Csaba Szepesvári
2014: Hootan Nakhost, University of Alberta
Thesis information
Supervised by Martin Mueller
2013: Gabor Bartok, University of Alberta
Thesis information
Supervised by Csaba Szepesvári
2012: Albert Xin Jiang, University of British Columbia
Thesis Information
Supervised by Kevin Leyton-Brown
2011: Martin de Lasa, University of Toronto
Thesis Information
Supervised by Aaron Hertzmann
2010: Frank Hutter, University of British Columbia
Thesis Information
Supervised by Holger Hoos (principal supervisor), Kevin Leyton-Brown, and Kevin Murphy.

2021: Liheng Ma, McGill University
Thesis information
Supervised by Reihaneh Rabbany and Adriana Romero
2020: Humza Haider, University of Alberta
Thesis information
Supervised by Russell Greiner
2019: Richard Moulton, University of Ottawa
Thesis information
Supervised by Nathalie Japkowicz and Herna Viktor
2017: Yifan Wu, University of Alberta
Thesis information
Supervised by Csaba Szepesvári and András György

2016: Kurt Routley, Simon Fraser University
Thesis information
Supervised by Oliver Schulte
2015: William Leif Hamilton, McGill University
Thesis information
Supervised by Joelle Pineau
2014: Eric Thibodeau-Laufer, University of Montreal
Thesis information
Supervised by Yoshua Bengio
2013: Hang Shao, University of Ottawa
Thesis information
Supervised by Nathalie Japkowicz