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2026

Research
Award Recipient(s) Organization
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
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
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
EuroSys Award for PhD Thesis
Hugo Lefeuvre EuroSys 2025
Outstanding Paper ICLR 2025
Danica Sutherland, Yi Ren ICLR 2025
Dorothy Killam Fellow 2025
Mark Schmidt Killam Trust
ACM SIGCHI Academy Class of 2025
Joanna McGrenere ACM SIGCHI 2025
Pulse Research Fellowship
Karthik Nishanth Sengottuvelavan Internet Society
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship
Frederic Kesha Shpilevskiy, Philip Schowitz, Rocco Tian Lang Ruan, Shivam Chandhok University of British Columbia
2024

Research
Award Recipient(s) Organization
SOSP Distinguished Artifact Award
Reto Achermann 30th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
SOSP Distinguished Artifact Honourable Mention
Mathias Lécuyer 30th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
Best Paper Award
Margo Seltzer, Sadaf Sadeghian, Xiaoxiao Li MICCAI Workshop on Machine Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging
BPOC Graduate Excellence Award
Gale Chen, Qiyu Wang, Ritik Vatsal, Xiaomeng Xu, Yang‐Che Tseng, Yunxiang Li University of British Columbia
British Columbia Graduate Scholarship
Katherine Breen, Rocco Tian Lang Ruan, Sean Theodore Bocirnea Province of British Columbia
Canada Graduate Scholarships Master’s (CGS M) Program
Floria Ziting Gu, Lin-Shuan Tu, Sean Theodore Bocirnea Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Fellow of Royal Society of Canada
Margo Seltzer Royal Society of Canada
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship
Hanze Meng, Qiyu Wang, Yi Nian Niu University of British Columbia
Google Academic Research Award
Dongwook Yoon Google Research
SIGDIAL Best Paper Award
Chuyuan Li , Giuseppe Carenini, Yuwei Yin Special Interest Group in Discourse and Dialogue
High Impact Award
Dongwook Yoon, Ido Roll, Joice Tang, Kyoungwon Seo, Sidney Fels ETHE 2024 (International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education)
Best Paper Award
Jeff Clune ICML 2024 (International Conference on Machine Learning)
Genome BC Award
Raymond Ng Genome BC
2023 CHCCS/SCDHM Graphics Interface Early Career Researcher Award
Dongwook Yoon Graphics Interface Conference
ACM SIGGRAPH Academy
Dinesh Pai SIGGRAPH Academy
Best Paper Award
Dongwook Yoon, Luanne Sinnamon, Sahar Mavali, Sidney Fels CHI 2024
Best Paper Award
Dongwook Yoon, Luanne Sinnamon, Sidney Fels, Thitaree (Mint) Tanprasert CHI 2024
British Columbia Graduate Scholarship
Floria Ziting Gu Province of British Columbia
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship
Aditya Aravind Chinchure University of British Columbia
FSE Most Influential Paper Award
Darioush Jalali, Gordon Fraser, Laura Inozemtseva, Michael D. Ernst, Reid Holmes, René Just Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)
Killam Doctoral Scholarships
Jordan Kari Lovrod University of British Columbia
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS D)
Jordan Kari Lovrod Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
CHI25 Best Paper Honourable Mention
Joanna McGrenere, Kevin Chow, Lucas L Puente, Michael Massimi, Thomas Fritz ACM SIGCHI
ICSE Most Influential Paper Award
Laura Inozemtseva, Reid Holmes International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
SIAM Fellow (2024)
Michael Friedlander Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
UBC Killam Research Prize in Sciences
Joanna McGrenere UBC Office of Awards & Prizes
AAAI Fellow
Cristina Conati AAAI Elected Fellows
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship
Matias Ignacio Bofarull Oddo, Shengran Hu, Zhe Liu UBC Computer Science
2023

Research
Award Recipient(s) Organization
NSERC CRSNG Arthur B. MacDonald Fellowship award
Mark Schmidt NSERC Arthur B. McDonald Fellowships
Academic Data Leader List
Raymond Ng CDO Magazine
IEEE InfoVIS Test of Time Award
Matthew Brehmer, Tamara Munzner IEEE VIS 2023
IEEE VIS Service Award
Tamara Munzner IEEE VIS
SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award
Gail Murphy SIGSOFT
Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral (CGS D) Program
Betty Wan Sze Shea, Elizabeth Reid Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Canada Graduate Scholarships Master’s (CGS M) Program
Michael Liu, Yi Nian Niu Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship
Sahithya Ravi, Wan-Cyuan Fan University of British Columbia
Killam Doctoral Scholarships
Sahithya Ravi University of British Columbia
NSERC CREATE in Quantum Computing
Jonas Jaeger Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Royal Society of Canada Fellow
Kevin Leyton-Brown Royal Society of Canada
ACM SIG-KDD Research Track Test of Time Award
Kevin Leyton-Brown ACM SIG-KDD
Eurographics Fellow
Alla Sheffer Eurographics (European Association for Computer Graphics)
NORA Award: outstanding publication of the decade
Jeff Clune NORA
Outstanding Paper Award
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Md Tawkat Islam Khondaker, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed Workshop on Online Abuse and Harm (WOAH 2023), ACL 2023
SIGEVO Impact Award
Jeff Clune SIGEVO
ACM FAccT Best Paper Award
Danica Sutherland ACM FAccT
Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral (CGS D) Program
Ji Tong Yin, Mira Leung Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Distinguished Dissertation Award (2022)
Yasha Pushak CS-Can/INFO-CAN
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship
Betty Wan Sze Shea, Harshinee Sriram University of British Columbia
Lifetime Achievement Award
Alan Mackworth CS-Can/INFO-CAN
ACM Athena Lecturer Award
Margo Seltzer ACM
Amazon Science Research Award
Thomas Pasquier Amazon
CAIMS Research Prize
Chen Greif CAIMS Research Prize
SIGCHI 2023 Honourable Mention
Charles Berret, Stephen Kasica, Tamara Munzner SIGCHI 2023
ASPLOS Distinguished Artifact Award
Finn Hackett, Ivan Beschastnikh, Matthew Do, Renato Costa, Shayan Hosseini ASPLOS 2023
Killam Research Prize in Science
Cristina Conati Faculty of Science
Outstanding Research Award SIGSOFT 2023
Gail Murphy SIGSOFT 2023
Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral (CGS D) Program
Geoffrey Woollard Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship
Devyani Sarojini McLaren, Geoffrey Woollard Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Journal of Computer Languages Best Paper Runner Up (COLA)
David Shepherd, Felipe Fronchetti, Igor Scaliante Wiese, Linxi Li, Mauricio Soto, Nico Ritschel, Raoul Jetley, Reid Holmes Journal of Computer Languages (COLA)
2022

Research
Award Recipient(s) Organization
ACM Distinguished Member
Joanna McGrenere ACM
ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award
Alex Summers ACM SIGPLAN (SPLASH) 2022
Best Paper Award
Arpan Gujarati IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2022)
IEEE Fellow
Karon MacLean IEEE
IEEE Fellow
Tamara Munzner IEEE
SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award
Gail Murphy SIGSOFT
Best Paper Award
Bingyao (Jerry) Wang, Margo Seltzer EMSOFT
IEEE VIS Test of Time Award
Tamara Munzner IEEE VIS
2022 Educational Data Mining Test of Time award
Cristina Conati Educational Data Mining Conference