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2026

Research
Award Recipient(s) Organization
CMU Chase Award
Kelsey Allen Carnegie Mellon University
Test of Time Award
Hamed Karimi, Julie Nutini, Mark Schmidt ECML PKDD 2026
Early Career Researcher Award
Peter Yichen Chen 2026 Symposium on Computer Animation
Outstanding Systems Paper
Chao Liu, Peter Yichen Chen Robotics: Science and Systems
Best Master’s Thesis Award
Alan Milligan Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association / Association pour l'Intelligence …
ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
Kevin Leyton-Brown ACM-AAAI
Best Paper Award
Michael Yin, Robert Xiao CHI 2026
Best Paper Honourable Mention
Andero Uusberg, Angel Bao, Bereket Guta, Karon MacLean, Mara Solen, Noor Naila Imtinan Himam, Preeti Vyas, Rúbia Reis Guerra CHI 2026
ACM Fellow
Cristina Conati Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
British Columbia Graduate Scholarship
Parsa Rajabi Province of British Columbia
Canada Graduate Scholarships Master’s (CGS M) Program
Jamie Kai Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Service
Award Recipient(s) Organization
Distinguished Reviewer
Alex Summers PLDI 2026
Community Building Awards for Graduate Students
Anika Sayara, Devyani McLaren, Jasper Geer, Mara Solen, Matt Oddo, Mayant Mukul, Rocco Ruan, Satvik Vemuganti, Sean Bocirnea, Yifei Li UBC Computer Science
Maria Klawe Service Award
Rubia Guerra, Vivian White UBC Computer Science
Distinguished Reviewer
Ivan Beschastnikh ICSE 2026
Patrick Henry Winston Outstanding Educator Award
Alan Mackworth, David Poole AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Teaching
Award Recipient(s) Organization
CS-Can/INFO-CAN Excellence in Teaching Award
Meghan Allen CS-CAN|INFO-CAN
Graduate Teaching Assistants Awards
Bicheng Xu, Chester Gould, Gautam Luhana, Jeffrey Niu, Joseph Wonsil, Rudra Sanajee Saha, Tommy Nguyen UBC Computer Science
Incredible Instructor Award
Abner Turkieltaub Melo, Arpan Gujarati, Paulette Koronkevich, Rachel Pottinger, Susanne Bradley, Vsevolod (Seva) Lynov UBC Computer Science
Killam Teaching Prize 2025/2026
Varada Kolhatkar UBC
UBC Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Jeffrey Niu UBC

Undergrad Achievement
Award Recipient(s) Organization
Accenture Leadership Award
Sina Mahdavi UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Torrin Pataki UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Horton Lai UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Nathan Senyard UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Akira Kudo UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Michael Yang UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Emilie Ma UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Jaehwan Seok UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Jason Yang UBC Computer Science
Bill Aiello Memorial Award in Computer Science
Irmak Bayir, Selin Uz UBC Computer Science
Bit Quill Technologies Award for Women in Computer Science
Cheryl Chan UBC Computer Science
Community Building Awards for Undergraduates
Belal Mohammed-Nur, Chloe Van, Claire Zhang, Iris Cheung, Kaitlin Khu , Karan Chick, Kimberly Tran, Le Minh Anh Nguyen, Ryan Lowe, Zelalem Araya UBC Computer Science
Gary Kusin Award for Women in Video Gaming
Lena Wang UBC Computer Science
Greer Family Scholarship
Carol Wu, Jonah Townsend UBC Computer Science
Inquiring Minds in Computer Science Award
Ananyaa Chopra UBC Computer Science
Laura Huber Memorial Award for Women in Video Gaming
Jen Taruno UBC Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize
Jaehwan Seok UBC Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize
Emilie Ma UBC Computer Science
Project to Product Award in Computer Science
Ben Beckford, Thomas Ah Sing
Rajan Family Award in Computer Science
Cindy Cui UBC Computer Science
Rick Sample Memorial Award in Computer Science
Ali Salamation, Angela Chiang, Emilie Ma, Rain Yang UBC Computer Science
Undergraduate Teaching Assistants Awards
Angela Xu, Brian Xu, Daywell Qiu, Kevin Zhou, Kiana Rashidi, Luke Paris, Matthew Jacobs, Monica Yang, Nanjou Olsen, Nora Calif, Ofek Zilbershtein, Randy Zhu, Youssef Saleh UBC Computer Science
2025

Research
Award Recipient(s) Organization
ACM Distinguished Member
Reid Holmes Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Best Paper Award
Daniel Holden, Michiel van de Panne, Ruiyu Gou SIGGRAPH ASIA 2025
CSAW 2025 Applied Research Competition finalist
Jonas Tai , Karthik Nishanth Sengottuvelavan , Nguyen Phong Hoang, Peter Whiting CSAW
Faculty Innovation Award
Kwang Moo Yi Sony Research Award Program
Google Academic Research Award
Hila Gonen Google Research
2024 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award Honourable Mention
Frederik Kunstner AAAI/ACM SIGAI
British Columbia Graduate Scholarship
Jamie Kai, Shukang Wang Province of British Columbia
Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral (CGS D) Program
Alan Milligan Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Canada Graduate Scholarships Master’s (CGS M) Program
Alexandre St-Aubin, Simon Ghyselincks Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
CS Merit
Aida Aminian, Amirsalar Safaeighaderi, Chester Gould, Jamie Kai, Park Minju, Vivian White, Ziyu Sun UBC Computer Science
Fellow of Royal Society of Canada
Tamara Munzner Royal Society of Canada
Fellow of Royal Society of Canada
Joanna McGrenere Royal Society of Canada
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship
Daniel Rebain, Hae Ji Jung, Heng Zhang, Md Tawkat Islam Khondaker, Shakiba Kheradmand, Suzuran Takikawa University of British Columbia
ISACA Vancouver OneInTech Scholarship
Soo Yee Lim Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)
Killam Doctoral Scholarships
Yi Nian Niu University of British Columbia
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS D)
Yi Nian Niu Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Best Paper Award
Peter Yichen Chen SIGGRAPH 2025
Best Paper Honourable Mention
Peter Yichen Chen SIGGRAPH 2025
Best Student Paper Award
Arpan Gujarati, Vincent Bode, William Shen IEEE RTCSA 2025
USENIX Security Symposium Honourable Mention
Jonas Tai, Karthik Nishanth Sengottuvelavan, Nguyen Phong Hoang, Peter Whiting The 34th USENIX Security Symposium
AI4MATH Best Paper Award
Christos Thrampoulidis, Danica Sutherland, Wenlong Deng, Xiaoxiao Li, Yi Ren ICML 2025: 2nd AI for Math Workshop
Outstanding Paper Award
Raymond Ng, Seyed Hossein Alavi, Shruthi Chockkalingam, Vered Shwartz ACL2025: Social Influence in Conversations Workshop
Best Doctoral Dissertation Award
Frederik Kunstner Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association
Canada Graduate Scholarships Master’s (CGS M) Program
Amman Yusuf Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Service
Award Recipient(s) Organization
Fostering a Collegial Environment
Nobu Kawaguchi UBC Computer Science
Going above and beyond
Jessica Wrinskelle UBC Computer Science
Going above and beyond
Tim Li UBC Computer Science
Going above and Beyond - Team
Alice Zhou, Ana Kopic Drole, Celine Francis, Giuliana Villegas, Josh Bruan, Leonard Zheng UBC Computer Science
Supporting Research
Vivian Leung UBC Computer Science
Supporting students and/or Educational Programs
Josh Bruan UBC Computer Science
Notable Reviewer
Nguyen Phong Hoang The 34th USENIX Security Symposium
Student Community Building Awards
Devyani McLaren, Matt Oddo, Mayant Mukul, Rocco Ruan, Sean Bocirnea, Shivam Chandhok, Teerpaun Tanprasert UBC Computer Science
CS Faculty Mentoring Award
Chen Greif UBC Computer Science

Teaching
Award Recipient(s) Organization
Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards
Finn Hackett, Jianhao Cao, Joseph Poremba, Karthik Nishant, Kyle Chin, Pretti Vyas, Raymond Liu, Rosalyn Carr, Yuwei Yin UBC Computer Science
Incredible Instructor Awards
Anne Condon, Bruce Shepherd, Cinda Heeren, Patrice Belleville, Thomas Pasquier, Vered Shwartz UBC Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award Recipient(s) Organization
Award for Academic Excellence
Kent Chen UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Matthew Smith UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Carolyn Huang UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Elizabeth Earle UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Arvin Sahami UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Karen Shen UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Boqiao Zhang UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
William Zhou UBC Computer Science
Bill Aiello Memorial Award in Computer Science
Anna Friesen, Le Minh Anh Nguyen UBC Computer Science
Bit Quill Technologies Award for Women in Computer Science
Yeojun Han UBC Computer Science
Gary Kusin Award for Women in Video Gaming
Hanna Gulka UBC Computer Science
Greer Family Scholarship
Patrick Zhou, Zoe Shong UBC Computer Science
Inquiring Minds in Computer Science Award
Rajrupa Sanyal UBC Computer Science
Laura Huber Memorial Award for Women in Video Gaming
Ruby Yang UBC Computer Science
Maria Klawe Service Award
Cheryl Chen, Cindy Cui UBC Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize
Boqiao Zhang UBC Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize
Timothy Zhou UBC Computer Science
Project to Product Award in Computer Science
Cecilia Soroco UBC Computer Science
Rajan Family Award in Computer Science
Sandra Radic UBC Computer Science
Rick Sample Memorial Award in Computer Science
Arun Balamurali, Karen Shen, Kuter Bora, Leo Foord-Kelcey UBC Computer Science
Student Community Building Awards for Undergraduate Students
Alisa Dulalia, Bilal Suboor, Charlene Chiu, Emilie Ma, Hedie Mahmoudian, Iris Xu, Sarah Wong, Tara Ubovic, Zingyu Zhou UBC Computer Science
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Awards
Abigail McPhee, Anna Luo, Gary Li, Kaiser Chen, Leo Foord-Kelcey, Lucas Qin, Matthew Kang, Mina Chong, Priyanka Sangha, Ricky Lau, Robert Wang, Susan Chung, Thomson Mai UBC Computer Science