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
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Supervised by Nisarg Shah - 2020: Jhonatan de Souza Oliveira, University of Regina
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Supervised by Cory Butz - 2017: John Doucette, University of Waterloo
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Supervised by Robin Cohen - 2016: Tyler Lu, University of Toronto
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Supervised by Craig Boutilier - 2015: Yaoliang Yu, University of Alberta
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Supervised by Dale Schuurmans and Csaba Szepesvári - 2014: Hootan Nakhost, University of Alberta
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Supervised by Martin Mueller - 2013: Gabor Bartok, University of Alberta
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Supervised by Csaba Szepesvári - 2012: Albert Xin Jiang, University of British Columbia
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Supervised by Kevin Leyton-Brown - 2011: Martin de Lasa, University of Toronto
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Supervised by Aaron Hertzmann - 2010: Frank Hutter, University of British Columbia
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Supervised by Holger Hoos (principal supervisor), Kevin Leyton-Brown, and Kevin Murphy.
Master's Thesis Award
- 2021: Liheng Ma, McGill University
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Supervised by Reihaneh Rabbany and Adriana Romero - 2020: Humza Haider, University of Alberta
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Supervised by Russell Greiner - 2019: Richard Moulton, University of Ottawa
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Supervised by Nathalie Japkowicz and Herna Viktor - 2017: Yifan Wu, University of Alberta
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Supervised by Csaba Szepesvári and András György
- 2016: Kurt Routley, Simon Fraser University
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Supervised by Oliver Schulte - 2015: William Leif Hamilton, McGill University
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Supervised by Joelle Pineau - 2014: Eric Thibodeau-Laufer, University of Montreal
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Supervised by Yoshua Bengio - 2013: Hang Shao, University of Ottawa
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Supervised by Nathalie Japkowicz
- 2012: Martin Lesmana, University of British Columbia
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Supervised by Dinesh Pai