Awards

Research

Year Award Recipient(s) Organization
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
University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering Alumni Achievement Award Gail Murphy University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering
Motion Metrics/ICICS Graduate Scholarship Dereck Toker ICICS
ICICS Graduate Scholarship Seyed Mehran Kazemi ICICS
CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award Kevin Leyton-Brown CACS/AIC
Steacie Memorial Fellowship Kevin Leyton-Brown NSERC
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Ron Estrin CRA
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards Carol Huang CRA

Research

Year Award Recipient(s) Organization
ACM SIGGRAPH/EG Best Paper Honorable Mention Michiel van de Panne, Shailen Agrawal ACM SIGGRAPH/EG
Motion in Games Conference Best Paper Award Michiel van de Panne, Shailen Agrawal, Shuo Shen Motion in Games Conference
AIJ Classic Paper Award Alan Mackworth AIJ
IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award David Matheson, Masrour Zoghi, Nando de Freitas, Ziyu Wang IJCAI
Eurographics Fellow Wolfgang Heidrich Eurographics Association
UMAP Best Paper Award Cristina Conati, Samad Kardan UMAP
Alain Fournier Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation Tyson Brochu Alain Fournier Memorial Fund
CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award David Poole CAIAC
ICSE Most Influential Paper Award Gail Murphy ICSE
Microsoft SEIF Award Joanna McGrenere Microsoft Research
CACS Outstanding Young Computer Science Research Prize Michael Friedlander Canadian Association of Computer Science
Alfred Sloan Research Fellowship Nick Harvey Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Charles McDowell Award Nando de Freitas UBC VP Research & International
UBC Killam Research Prize Dinesh Pai UBC VP Research & International
UBC Killam Research Fellowship Cristina Conati UBC VP Research & International

Research

Year Award Recipient(s) Organization
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada Anne Condon Royal Society of Canada
SATzilla Challenge Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Jonathan Shen, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu SAT Challenge
Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design Nick Harvey NSERC CRC
ACM Fellow Gregor Kiczales ACM
CAIAC Doctoral Dissertation Awards Albert Xin Jiang Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award Albert Xin Jiang International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Best AI Masters Thesis Award Martin Lesmana Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
BC TIA's 'Emerging Company of the Year' Award Gail Murphy
ACM-EC Best Student Paper Award Kevin Leyton-Brown ACM EC
Peter Wall Institute Early Career Scholar Kevin Leyton-Brown UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advance Studies
Faculty of Science Graduate Prize Ron Maharik UBC Faculty of Science
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Alla Sheffer, Dinesh Pai, Joanna McGrenere NSERC
Alain Fournier Ph.D Thesis Award Gordon Wetzstein
CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize Joanna McGrenere CACS/AIC
Best Paper at 2012 Haptics Symposium Karon MacLean, Louise Oram, Vincent Levesque IEEE Haptics Symposium
Dahl-Nygaard Senior Prize Gregor Kiczales Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets
Sloan Research Fellowship Andrew Warfield Sloan Research Fellowship
Charles McDowell Award for Excellence in Research Wolfgang Heidrich UBC Office of the VP Research & International

Research

Year Award Recipient(s) Organization
ACM Fellow Margo Seltzer ACM
ICCP Best Paper Award Wolfgang Heidrich ICCP 2011
ICICS Graduate Scholarship Joshua Litven
Mushfiqur Rouf Awarded ICICS Graduate Scholarship Mushfiqur (Nasa) Rouf ICICS
University of Washington Diamond Award Anne Condon College of Engineering, University of Washington
2011 Audi Production Award Alla Sheffer Audi
ICCV Test-of-Time Award David Lowe International Conference on Computer Vision
SIGSOFT Retrospective Impact Paper Award Gail Murphy ACM SIGSOFT
Best Paper Award at VLDB 2011 Andrew Warfield, Brendan Cully, Shriram Rajagopalan VLDB 2011
Best Student Paper Award, CPM 2011 Chris Thachuk Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching
Small Business BC Award Gail Murphy Small Business BC
Best Paper Award, CHI 2011 Karon MacLean, Louise Oram, Vincent Levesque CHI
University of Washington CSE Alumni Achievement Award Anne Condon University of Washington
UBC CS Dept. Research Poster Competition Joel Ferstay, Juliette Link, Louise Oram, Maria Ivanova UBC CS Dept.
ACM/IEEE Human Robot Interaction Conference Best Paper Award Karon MacLean, Steve Yohanan HRI
NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant Karon MacLean NSERC

Research

Year Award Recipient(s) Organization
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards Cedric Lin, Jamila Salari CRA
Most Imaginative Research Award Nicholas Fitzgerald Universitas21
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Nicholas Fitzgerald CRA
Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) Oral Presentation Award Nicholas FitzGerald MURC
Human Frontier Science Program Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship Award Peter Carbonetto Human Frontier Science Program
Best Poster Award, Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop Oana Sandu NW-NLP 2010
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award Thomas Fritz ACM SIGSOFT
BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge Mahdi Tayarani Najaran BCNET
ICSE ACM Student Research Competition Thomas Fritz, Zvonimir Rakamaric ACM
Alain Fournier Award Tiberiu Popa Alain Fournier Memorial Fund
IJCAII-JAIR Best Paper Award Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu JAIR
CAIAC Inaugural Best Dissertation Award Frank Hutter CAIAC
IBM Faculty Award Andrew Warfield IBM CAS Canada Research
MITACS Young Researcher Award Nando de Freitas MITACS
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Holger H. Hoos Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC
SIAM Fellow Uri Ascher SIAM
Early Career Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Joanna McGrenere Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC