Awards

2021

Research
Award Recipient(s) Organization
Best Paper Award
 Arpan Gujarati IEEE QRS 2021
Fellow of Royal Society of Canada
 Raymond Ng Royal Society of Canada
Impact Recognition Award
 Ashish Chopra, Dongwook Yoon, Ivan Beschastnikh, Morgan Mo, Samuel Dodson Computer-supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)
Prominent Paper Award
 Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown AIJ Prominent Paper Award
AITO Test of Time Award
 Gregor Kiczales AITO
Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) Blair Spearman Doctoral Prize
 Chris Liaw Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS)
Rick Sample Memorial Award in Computer Science
 David Ewart, Rebecca Lin, Roark Zhang UBC Computer Science
2021 Best Dissertation Award
Arpan Gujarati ACM SIGBED
2021 CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award
 Tamara Munzner Graphics Interface (CHCCS/SCDHM)
ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
 Laks V.S. Lakshmanan SIGMOD
Amazon Research Award
 Kevin Leyton-Brown Amazon Research
Best Paper Award for AISTATS 2021
 Frederik Kunstner, Mark Schmidt AISTATS
Distinguished Paper Award
Braxton Hall, Felix Grund, Nick C. Bradley, Reid Holmes, Shaiful Chowdhury International Conference on Software Engineering
Distinguished Scholar Award
 Kevin Leyton-Brown UBC
Elected Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 Margo Seltzer AAAS
Killam Research Fellowship
Mark Schmidt UBC
Outstanding Paper of 2020
 Jeff Clune International Society of Artificial Life
SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan ACM SIGMOD
Killam Accelerator Research Fellowships
 Leonid Sigal UBC
ACM Fellow
Kevin Leyton-Brown Association of Computing Machinery
CS-Can/Info-Can 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award
Kellogg Booth CS-Can/Info-Can
ISAL Award for Outstanding Publication of 2020
Jeff Clune

Service
Award Recipient(s) Organization
2021 FoS Excellence in Service Award
 Constance Wun, Joël Pittet UBC Faculty of Science
Maria Klawe Service Award 2021
 Ayman Azhar, Kiki Hsieh UBC Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize  
 Daphne Liu UBC Computer Science
Student Service Awards for Graduate Students
 Paul Bucci, Paulette Koronkevish, Swati Goswami UBC Computer Science
Student Service Awards for Volunteers
 Chenyuan (Coco) Wu, Christy Lo, Cindy Ou Yang, Cody Gagnon, Ervin Ng, Natalie Chen, Sepand Dyanatker UBC Computer Science

Teaching
Award Recipient(s) Organization
Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards
 Ali Mohammed Mehr, Amir Tootooni, Basima Spindari, Lily Bryant, Nam Hee Kim, Nicholas Hu, Paul Bucci, Preeti Vyas, Rubinder Nagi, Shivam Thukral, Tianxin Tao UBC Computer Science
Outstanding Teaching Awards for Faculty
 Anne Condon, Ed Knorr, Helge Rhodin, Leonid Sigal, Paul Carter, Robert Xiao, Steve Wolfman UBC Computer Science
Undergraduate TA Awards
Benjamin Chang, Brooke Dai, Burcu Gorgulicten, Carmen Xu, Chantelle Twynstra, Charles Lake, Kean Wah Wong, Mara Solen, Phillip Mark, Rebecca Xie, William Walcher UBC Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award Recipient(s) Organization
Academic Award of Excellence 2021
 David Louie, Devyani McLaren, Elbert Chuang, Hayden McTavish, Quintin Muncaster, Seif Ghazi, Sherry Zhang UBC Computer Science
Bill Aiello Memorial Award in Computer Science
 Brianna Dungate, Mara Solen UBC Computer Science
Greer Family Scholarship 2021
 David Louie, Victor Wang UBC Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize
 David Louie         UBC Computer Science
Visier Service Awards in Computer Science
Hyesun An, Joice Tang UBC Computer Science
Governor General's Academic Medal
Fangzhao Zhang Governor General of Canada