June 2018: Alumnae Hasti Seifi Receives 2017 EuroHaptics Society PhD Thesis Award. UBC Computer Science alumnae Dr. Hasti Seifi is the winner of the
2017 EuroHaptics Society PhD Thesis Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in the field of haptics.
more... May 2018: Graduate students Francesco Vitale, Izabelle Janzen and Professor Joanna McGrenere receive 2018 CHI Best Paper Award.
more... March 2018: Ph.D student Boris Dalstein is the recipient of the 2017 Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation Award. This is awarded for an exceptional computer graphics Ph.D. dissertation defended in a Canadian University in 2017.
more... March 2018: Alla Sheffer has received a 2018 CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award from the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, for numerous highly impactful contributions to the field of computer graphics research. Full details can be found
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more... February 2018: Alumnae Hasti Seifi is awarded an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF).
more... January 2018: Professor Tamara Munzner won a best paper honorable mention award at the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization with current collaborators and UBC alumni Heidi Lam and Melanie Tory of Tableau Research.
more... November 2017: Professor Dinesh Pai and his colleagues, Drs. Miriam Spering and Mary-Lou Jackson, are the recipients of the Wall Solutions Grant.
more... September 2017: Congratulations to Professor Joanna McGrenere, who is inducted into the
Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
more... August 2017: M.Sc. student Xue Bin Peng, together with his supervisor, Professor Michiel van de Panne, won the Best Student Paper Award at the ACM SIGGRAPH / EG Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), for their paper "Learning Locomotion Skills Using DeepRL: Does the Choice of Action Space Matter?".
more... July 2017: PhD student Felix Heide is the recipient of the 2017 ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.
more... April 2017: Jessica Dawson is the recipient of a 2016-2017 UBC Faculty of Science Killam Teaching Prize, UBC’s most prestigious teaching award.
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