Holger H. Hoos ⟩ Awards & recognition

I have been very fortunate to be working with many talented students and colleagues over the years, and I've benefitted enormously from mentors and role models; any awards and recognition given to me should also be seen as reflecting on their contributions.

Fellowships: Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020 Fellow of the European Artificial Intelligence Association (EurAI), 2020 Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2015 Awards & recognition for scholarship: Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in AI, 2022; Germany's most highly-endowed research award, which honours its recipients for their outstanding research record and aims to facilitate long-term and groundbreaking research contributions. The award comes with 5 million Euros of research funding. AIJ Prominent Paper Award 2021, for the article "Algorithm runtime prediction: Methods & evaluation", co-authored with my UBC colleague Kevin Leyton-Brown and our PhD students, Frank Hutter and Lin Xu. SpringerNature Research Highlight in Computer Science 2020, for "A survey on semi-supervised learning", co-authored with my Master student, Jesper van Engelen, published in the Machine Learning journal; one of six papers from all of computer science so distinguished. GECCO 2020 Best Paper Award, for "Golden parameter search: exploiting structure to quickly configure parameters in parallel", co-authored with my PhD student Yasha Pushak PPSN 2018 Best Paper Award, for "Algorithm Configuration Landscapes: More Benign Than Expected?", co-authored with my PhD student Yasha Pushak IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize 2010, for the article "SATzilla: Portfolio-based Algorithm Selection for SAT", co-authored with my UBC colleague Kevin Leyton-Brown and our PhD students, Lin Xu and Frank Hutter IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize 2009, for the article "CP-nets: A tool for representing and reasoning with conditional ceteris paribus preference statements", co-authored with my colleagues Ronen Brafman Craig Boutilier, Carmel Domshlak and David Poole. Best Paper Award, 19th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (AI 2006), for "On the quality and quantity of random decisions in stochastic local search for SAT", co-authored with my PhD student Dave Tompkins Best Paper Award, 3rd International Workshop on Ant Algorithms (ANTS 2002), for "An Ant Colony Optimisation Algorithm for the 2D HP Protein Folding Problem", co-authored with my PhD students Alena Shmygelska and Rosalia Aguirre-Hernandez Best PhD Dissertation Award of the German Informatics Society (GI Dissertationspreis 1999), for my PhD thesis "Stochastic Local Search - Methods, Models, Applications"; my PhD advisor was Wolfgang Bibel, and the external examiner for the thesis was Bart Selman Other awards & recognition (selection): German AI Innovation Prize 2021 (Deutscher KI-Innovations-Preis) for CLAIRE, founded and lead by Holger Hoos, Morgen Irgens and Philipp Slusallek, with broad support from the European AI community. The prize, valued at 100 000 Euros, was jointly awarded to CLAIRE and ELLIS; it is the largest of its kind in Europe and recognises outstanding contributions to development and research in artificial intelligence. 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes in the ICON Challenge on Algorithm Selection 2015, for the automatic algorithm selection systems zilla (joint work with Chris Cameron, Alex Frechette, Frank Hutter and Kevin Leyton-Brown) and autofolio (joint work with Marius Lindauer, Frank Hutter and Torsten Schaub) Chaire internationale, awarded by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), 2015 1st prizes in 2 of the 3 main tracks, 2nd in the 3rd main track, and 1st in the sequential portfolio track of the 2012 SAT Challenge, for the SAT solver SATzilla-12 (joint work with Lin Xu, Frank Hutter, Jonathan Shen and Kevin Leyton-Brown) 1st prizes in 2 of the 18 categories of the 2011 SAT Solvers Competition 2011, for the SAT solver sparrow2011 (joint work with my postdoctoral fellow Dave Tompkins and collaborators Andreas Fröhlich and Adrian Balint) Distinguished UBC Scholar in Residence, awarded by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, 2010 Three 1st prizes and two 2nd in 5 of the 9 categories of the 2009 SAT Solvers Competition, for the SAT solver SATzilla-09 (joint work with Kevin Leyton-Brown and our students Frank Hutter and Lin Xu). Incredible instructor award (highest teaching award given by the UBC Department of Computer Science), for the 2008 edition of my senior undergraduate course on algorithms for bioinformatics (co-designed with Anne Condon) Three 1st prizes, one 2nd and one 3rd price in 5 of the 9 categories of the 2007 SAT Solvers Competition, for the SAT solver SATzilla (joint work with Kevin Leyton-Brown and our students Frank Hutter and Lin Xu). 1st prize in the QF BV category of the 2007 Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) Competition, for an automatically tuned version of the solver SPEAR (based on joint work with Domagoj Babic, Alan Hu and my student Frank Hutter). 1st prize in the random category of the 2004 SAT Solvers Competition, for the SAT solver Adaptive Novelty+ (designed by me and implemented jointly with my student Dave Tompkins) Early Career UBC Scholarship, awarded by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, 2001-2002 Postgraduate scholarship, awarded by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes), 1998 Foreign studies scholarship, awarded by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes), 1996-1997 Student scholarship, awarded by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes), 1991-1996 ⟩ Home © 2004-21 Holger H. 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