Prizes, awards, scholarships, fellowships and grants received by Florian Verhein.

PhD and Dr. rer. nat.

Faculty of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, The University of Sydney, Australia.

• Travel grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD).

• SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2009 (SDM'09) student travel award, sponsored by Google and IBM.
• Travel grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

• Scholarship to attend the EII PhD School in Databases and Information Systems, co-located with the International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'09). Award sponsored by the ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII).

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  Kevin Schofield (General Manager for Microsoft Research) presented a 2006 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship to Florian Verhein.

  Postgraduate Research Support Scholarship to help attend the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2008 (SDM'08).
• 2008 GIA Travel Scholarship
• Offered a National ICT Australia (NICTA) top-up scholarship and NICTA enhancement.
• Postgraduate Research Support Scholarship to help attend the International Conference on Data Mining 2007 (ICDM'07)
• Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) Fellowship Award for 2006 and an internship in the MSR Beijing Lab. The Fellowship aims to recognize and award outstanding PhD students who have the potential to become future research leaders. One student is nominated per university in the Asia-Pacific region, and winners are selected by a panel from MSRA. Only two fellowships were awarded to students in Australia.
• Cochlear Prize for Next Generation Applications (IT) in Research Project Work
• International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2006 Student Travel Scholarship
• Postgraduate Research Support Scholarship to help attend the International Conference on Data Mining 2006 (ICDM'06)
• Scholarship to attend the EII PhD Winter School in Data Mining & Bioinformatics, sponsored by the ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII).
• University Postgraduate Award (UPA) Scholarship.
• Australian Research Council Top-Up Scholarship.

Graduate Certificate in Innovation and Enterprise

Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Sydney, Australia.

• Commercialisation Training Scheme Scholarship to complete a Graduate Certificate in Innovation and Enterprise.

B.E. (Software Engineering) Hons. I & University Medal

Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia.

4th Year

• University Medal.

  

  Florian Verhein spoke on behalf of the graduating year at the Foundation for Information and Electrical Engineering Graduation Dinner.

• Telstra Research Laboratories Undergraduate Education Fellowship 2004 .
• Electrical Engineering Foundation Prize for Communication Skills (Fourth year)* for "From among the fourth year students who won prizes at the Research Conversazione, best presentation to an industry panel of the student's research project and the project's potential applications in industry." [photo]
• Microsoft Research Asia Prize for Fourth Year Project Work (Software Engineering) [photo].
• Microsoft Research Asia Prize for Final Year Achievement in Software Engineering for 2004* having achieved the "highest WAM in core software engineering subjects" in the final year of the degree. [photo]
• Invited to speak on behalf of the graduating year at the graduation dinner. [photo].
• Highest thesis mark (98/100) in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering**.
• First in Data Mining and Machine Learning (COMP4044), with a mark of 100%.
• First in Advanced Data Models (ISYS4051).

* EIEF Prize winners list, EIEF prize descriptions.
** According to the published mark distribution. The mean was 68.5, the standard deviation was 16.5 and the second highest mark was 92.

3rd Year

• Sofia Technica Prize for Critical Thought* for "Best critical assessment of the worth of a technological innovation and analysis of the social and ethical issues arising from that innovation". Topic: Pervasive Computing. [photo].
• 2003 Continuing Undergraduate Scholarship "on the basis of academic merit" .
• Offered a Summer Vacation Scholarship for 2003/2004 in the Smart Internet Technologies CRC (SITCRC) in the School of Information Technologies.
• Ian James McPherson Prize* "based on your 2003 examination results". [photo].

* EIEF Prize winners list, EIEF prize descriptions.

2nd Year

• Sofia Technica Prize for Critical Thought* for "Best critical assessment of the worth of a technological innovation and analysis of the social and ethical issues arising from that innovation". Topic: Gene Technology.[photo]
• Vern Kenna Award for Second Year Excellence Number Two* for the "second highest second year WAM (Weighted Average Mark)" in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering. [photo]
• On the Deans list for academic merit.
• On the School of Information Technologies High Honour Roll for "a HD average in second year information technology studies".

* EIEF prize winners list, EIEF prize descriptions.

1st Year

• The University of Sydney Undergraduate Scholarship 2001 category 2*
• Grahame Prize medal, 2001 "for the candidate with the greatest proficiency at the 2000 HSC at entrance to the University of Sydney".
• Offered the Cadbury-Julius Summer Miller Scholarships for Academic Excellence No.1 for being "near the top of the rankings in your entire class" in first year advanced Physics.
• K K Saxby Prize for Mathematics 1.
• Vern Kenna Award for First Year Excellence Number One** for the "highest first year Weighted Average Mark" in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering. [photo].
• Electrical Engineering Foundation Prize for Communication Skills (First Year)** for: "From among the top students of the year academically, best presentation to an industry panel of an assessment of the worth of a technological innovation". [photo].
• Foundation for Information Technology Prize for being the "second most proficient student in junior Computer Science 2001".
• On the Deans list for academic merit.
• On the School of Information Technologies High Honour Roll for "a HD average in first year information technologies".

* "In 2001, the University centrally funded 96 University of Sydney scholarships for first-year students, including 10 Category 1 scholarships worth $8,000 each per year, 24 Category 2 scholarships worth $5,000 each per year [and] 53 Category 3 scholarships, worth $2,000 each for just one year.".
** EIEF prize winners list, EIEF prize descriptions.

High School

Baulkham Hills (Selective) High School, NSW, Australia.

Year 12

• Equal DUX (top student) of Year 12 (UAI of 99.95 - in the top 0.05% of students in the state of NSW).
• First in Chemistry.
• First in Maths 3U (now called Extension 1).
• Second in Physics.

Year 11

• Equal first in 3U Mathematics.
• First in Physics.
• High distinction and invited to attend the tutorial in the 1999 Rio Tinto Australian Physics Olympiad National Qualifying Examination. ("Florian is amongst the best 70 in the nation").
• High distinction in the 1999 Rio Tinto Australian Chemistry Olympiad National Qualifying Examination.
• High distinction in the 1999 Australian National Chemistry Quiz.
• High distinction and money prize in the Year 12** Division of the 1999 AMP / The Australian Economics Competition.

** HSC for Economics completed one year early.

Earlier

Mostly Omitted except for the following: DUX in years 7 and 8, and received a commendation for his entry in the 1998 Sydney Morning Herald Young Writer of the Year Competition.