Awards
2012
UT decoration of honour was awarded to Senior Researcher Heiki-Jaan Kaalep.
EMT-Elion scholarship was awarded to the students of the Institute of Computer Science: Tauno Metsalu and Tiina Turban.
UT decoration of honour was awarded to Academic Affairs Specialist Ülle Holm.
2011
Institute of Computer Science:
- Lecturer of the year - Eno Tõnisson
- Researcher of the year - Satish Srirama
- Positive person of the year - Laura Kalda
- Accomplisher of the year - Margus Niitsoo
Best young scientist award from the president of Estonia professor Peeter Laud.
Ministry of Science and Education (ETIS , Archimedes)
- Main prize Leopold Parts (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Cambridge University, previously student of computer science at Tartu Unviversity, member of BIIT research group),
- II prize Meelis Kull (supervisor Jaak Vilo), Statistical enrichment analysis in algorithms for studying gene regulation.
- III prize Margus Niitsoo (supervisor Ahto Buldas), Black-box Oracle Separation Techniques with Applications in Time-stamping.
University of Tartu and Society of Mathematics of Estonia: Eno Tõnisson - for mathematics education.
2010
Ministry of Science and Education:
- Main prize - Jüri Reimandi (supervisor Jaak Vilo) Functional analysis of gene lists, networks and regulatory systems (doctoral theses)
- I prize - Kaur Alasoo (supervisors: Hedi Peterson and Phaedra Agius), Combining Support Vector Machines to Predict Novel Angiogenesis Genes (in bachelor theses)
Estonian Academy of Sciences - Kaur Alasoo, supervisors: Hedi Peterson and Phaedra Agius), Combining Support Vector Machines to Predict Novel Angiogenesis Genes (in bachelor theses)
IWSEC 2010 Best Paper Award - Margus Niitsoo, "Optimal Adversary Behavior for the Serial Model of Financial Attack Trees"
