Awards

Research

Year Award Recipient(s) Organization
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)
SIGMOD Research Highlight Award Laks V.S. Lakshmanan ACM SIGMOD
Distinguished Scholar Award Kevin Leyton-Brown UBC
Amazon Research Award Kevin Leyton-Brown Amazon Research
Elected Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences Margo Seltzer AAAS
Distinguished Paper Award Braxton Hall, Felix Grund, Nick C. Bradley, Reid Holmes, Shaiful Chowdhury International Conference on Software Engineering
Best Paper Award for AISTATS 2021 Frederik Kunstner, Mark Schmidt AISTATS
Killam Research Fellowship Mark Schmidt UBC
Killam Accelerator Research Fellowships Leonid Sigal UBC
CS-Can/Info-Can 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award Kellogg Booth CS-Can/Info-Can
ACM Fellow Kevin Leyton-Brown Association of Computing Machinery

Research

Year Award Recipient(s) Organization
ACM Distinguished Member Cristina Conati ACM
IEEE Fellow Alla Sheffer IEEE
CHI 2020 Honorable Mention Award Karon MacLean, Robert Xiao, Soheil Kianzad, Yuxiang Huang CHI 2020
CHI 2020 Best Paper Award Karon MacLean, Sabrina Hauser CHI 2020
Best Student Paper Award Cristina Conati, Shane D. Sims ACM ICMI 2020
Best Paper Award, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation Hung Yu Ling, Michiel van de Panne, Nam Hee Kim, Zhaoming Xie ACM SIGGRAPH
Royal Society of Canada Fellow Alla Sheffer Royal Society of Canada
SIGGRAPH Academy Member Alla Sheffer ACM SIGGRAPH
GECCO 2020 Best Paper Award Holger H. Hoos, Yasha Pushak GECCO 2020
SIGMOD Systems Award Margo Seltzer BerkeleyDB - 2020 SIGMOD Systems Award
CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award Dinesh Pai Graphics Interface
UBC Killam Research Prize Alla Sheffer UBC Research & Innovation

Research

Year Award Recipient(s) Organization
CHI 2019 Honorable Mention Award Dongwook Yoon, Matin Yarmand CHI 2019
VIS Academy Member Tamara Munzner IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy
IEEE Vis Test of Time Award Tamara Munzner IEEE VIS
IEEE Vis Test of Time Award Hamish Carr, Jack Snoeyink, Michiel van de Panne IEEE VIS
AGE-WELL Honorary Fellow Award Alan Mackworth AGE-WELL
SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award Robert Xiao SIGCHI
CS-Can/Info-Can Canadian Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award Julie Nutini CS-CAN/INFO-CAN
USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award Margo Seltzer USENIX
ICML Best Paper Honourable Mention Frank Wood International Conference on Machine Learning
IJCAI 2019 Workshop Best Paper Award Cristina Conati, Shane Sims, Vanessa Putnam IJCAI
AAAI Senior Member Cristina Conati Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
UBC Killam Research Prize Tamara Munzner UBC Research & Innovation
Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Margo Seltzer National Academy of Engineering
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Honourable Mention Chris Yoon CRA

Research

Year Award Recipient(s) Organization
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Uri Ascher Royal Society of Canada
ACM MIG Best Paper Award Michiel van de Panne, Xinyi Zhang ACM MIG
NeurIPS 2018 Best Paper Award Christopher Liaw, Nick Harvey NeurIPS
ACM Distinguished Member Kevin Leyton-Brown ACM
PNSS Best Paper Award Holger H. Hoos, Yasha Pushak Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
IEEE Data Science and Advanced Analytics Conference Best Research Paper Award Laks V.S. Lakshmanan IEEE DSAA
CS-Can/Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award David Kirkpatrick CS-Can/Info-Can
Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization Mark Schmidt SIAM
INFORMS Franz Edelman Achievement Award Alexandre Frechette, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Neil Newman INFORMS
ACM CHI Best Paper Award Francesco Vitale, Izabelle Janzen, Joanna McGrenere ACM CHI
Alain Fournier PhD Dissertation Award Boris Dalstein Graphics Interface
CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award Alla Sheffer Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society
CS-Can/Info-Can Outstanding Young Computer Science Research Prize Reid Holmes CS-Can/Info-Can
AAAI Fellow Kevin Leyton-Brown AAAI
IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award Gail Murphy IEEE

Research

Year Award Recipient(s) Organization
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Ahmad Shikib Mehri , Kevin Chow, Raunak Kumar CRA
ACM Fellow Gail Murphy ACM
DNA Computing And Molecular Programming Conference Best Student Paper Award Anne Condon, Mark Schmidt, Nasim Zolaktaf DNA Computing And Molecular Programming Conference
UAI Best Student Paper Award David Buchman, David Poole UAI
Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists Joanna McGrenere Royal Society of Canada
ACM SIGGRAPH SCA Best Student Paper Award Michiel van de Panne, Xue Bin Peng ACM SIGGRAPH
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Yasha Pushak Government of Canada
ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Felix Heide ACM SIGGRAPH
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award Gail Murphy International Conference on Program Comprehension
CS-Can/Info-Can Outstanding Young Computer Science Research Prize Nick Harvey CS-Can/Info-Can
Sloan Research Fellow Mark Schmidt Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Research

Year Award Recipient(s) Organization
2016 ACM Distinguished Scientist Laks V.S. Lakshmanan ACM
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Khurram Ali Jafery , Xi Bei She Computer Research Association (CRA)
IVA Best Paper Award Cristina Conati, Sebastien Lalle International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Web3D Best Paper Award Anurag Ranjan, Debang a Raj Neog, Dinesh Pai, Joao Cardoso International Conference on 3D Web Technology
Web3D Best Paper Award For Real-Time Eye Simulation Dinesh Pai International Conference on 3D Web Technology
Canadian Human-Computer Communication Society Achievement Award Michiel van de Panne Conference on Graphics, Visualization and HCI
Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award Kellogg Booth Conference on Graphics, Visualization and HCI
ICSE-10 Most Influential Paper 10 Years Later Award Gail Murphy, John Anvik, Lyndon Hiew ICS
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Finalists Alison Clark, Caroline Lemieux CRA
National Collegiate Research Conference Poster Competition Eviatar Bach National Collegiate Research Conference
UBC Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference Poster Competition 2nd Prize Tom Jin UBC MURC
Charles McDowell Award Kevin Leyton-Brown UBC
UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship Joanna McGrenere UBC

Research

Year Award Recipient(s) Organization
Oscar Technical Achievement Award Robert Bridson Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
SCA Best Poster Award Dinesh Pai Symposium on Computer Animation
SCA Best Paper Award Kai Ding, KangKang Yin, Libin Liu, Michiel van de Panne Symposium on Computer Animation
SCA Best Paper Award Benjamin Humberston, Dinesh Pai Symposium on Computer Animation
ESEM Best Paper Award Ivan Beschastnikh
IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award Tamara Munzner IEEE VIS Conference
SIGGRAPH Laval Virtual Award Wolfgang Heidrich SIGGRAPH 2015
Royal Society of Canada Fellow Gail Murphy Royal Society of Canada
NAMRC Outstanding Paper Alla Sheffer International Manufacturing Research Conference
First Place, World Haptics 2015 Student Innovation Challenge Brenna Li, Gordon Minaker, Oliver Schneider, Paul Bucci IEEE World Haptics Conference 2015
ACM ICSE Student Research Competition Caroline Lemieux ACM ICSE
ACM TiiS Best Paper Award Ben Steichen, Cristina Conati, Giuseppe Carenini ACM TiiS
AOSA Most Influential Paper Award Gail Murphy AOSA

Research

Year Award Recipient(s) Organization
ICVGIP Best Paper Award Dinesh Pai ICVGIP
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellow Holger H. Hoos AAAI
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Caroline Lemieux CRA
Humboldt Research Award Wolfgang Heidrich Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Award Honourable Mention Ron Estrin CRA
Grace Hopper Celebration Technical Leadership ABIE Award Anne Condon Anita Borg Institute
International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Best Paper Award Cristina Conati, Dereck Toker, Giuseppe Carenini, Michael Wu International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Best Paper Award Cristina Conati, Giuseppe Carenini International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship Yanyan Zhuang NSERC