Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2017

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award July 2017	Felix Heide	ACM SIGGRAPH
ACM SIGGRAPH SCA Best Student Paper Award August 2017	Michiel van de Panne, Xue Bin Peng	ACM SIGGRAPH
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award May 2017	Gail Murphy	International Conference on Program Comprehension

2010

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award July 2010	Kellogg Booth	ACM SIGGRAPH

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award December 2010	Gail Murphy	ACM SIGSOFT
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award December 2010	Thomas Fritz	ACM SIGSOFT
Alain Fournier Award December 2010	Tiberiu Popa	Alain Fournier Memorial Fund
BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge December 2010	Mahdi Tayarani Najaran	BCNET
Best Poster Award, Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop December 2010	Oana Sandu	NW-NLP 2010
Bio-IT Best Practices Award December 2010	Raymond Ng	Bio IT World
CAIAC Inaugural Best Dissertation Award December 2010	Frank Hutter	CAIAC
CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award December 2010	Alan Mackworth	CAIAC
CAIMS/SCMAI Research Prize December 2010	Uri Ascher	CAIMS

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge December 2010	Dan Ballard, Jonathan Tao	BCNET

2013

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM SIGGRAPH/EG Best Paper Honorable Mention December 2013	Michiel van de Panne, Shailen Agrawal	ACM SIGGRAPH/EG
AIJ Classic Paper Award August 2013	Alan Mackworth	AIJ
Alain Fournier Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation April 2013	Tyson Brochu	Alain Fournier Memorial Fund
Alfred Sloan Research Fellowship February 2013	Nick Harvey	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
CACS Outstanding Young Computer Science Research Prize February 2013	Michael Friedlander	Canadian Association of Computer Science
CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award June 2013	David Poole	CAIAC

2021

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award May 2021	Laks V.S. Lakshmanan	SIGMOD
AITO Test of Time Award July 2021	Gregor Kiczales	AITO
Amazon Research Award April 2021	Kevin Leyton-Brown	Amazon Research
Best Paper Award December 2021	Arpan Gujarati	IEEE QRS 2021
Best Paper Award for AISTATS 2021 April 2021	Frederik Kunstner, Mark Schmidt	AISTATS

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Bill Aiello Memorial Award in Computer Science June 2021	Brianna Dungate, Mara Solen	UBC Computer Science

2004

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM SIGMOD Undergraduate Scholarship January 2004	Anoop Shankar	UBC Department of Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Anita Borg Early Career Award January 2004	Joanna McGrenere	Computing Research Association & Anita Borg Early Career Award
ATI Technologies Fellowship January 2004	Abhijeet Gosh	ATI Technologies
Best Paper Award January 2004	Yuhan Cai	ACM
Best Paper Award ACM SIGMOD January 2004	Raymond Ng	ACM
Best Paper Prize in Cognitive Vision January 2004	A. Taleg, David Lowe , Jim Little, Kenji Okuma, Nando de Freitas	ECCV2004
Best Young Researcher Award January 2004	Michael Friedlander	First Mathematical Programming Society International Conference on Continuous O…
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Fellowship January 2004	David Lowe	CIFAR

2006

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM SIGMOD/PODS Scholarship January 2006	Morgan Gregory	UBC Department of Computer Science
ACM SIGMOD/PODS Scholarship January 2006	ZhiWei (Tony) Qin	UBC Department of Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
APRU "Extra Chapter Challenge" January 2006	Mik Kersten	Association of Pacific Rim Universities - APRU
APRU Business Plan Prize Competition (UBC) 2006 January 2006	Mik Kersten	APRU
BC.NET Coolest Applications Contest Winners 2006 January 2006	Anthony Yu, PhD, Camilo Rostoker, Msc, Xin Liu, PhD	BC.NET
Canada Research Chair - Tier 1 January 2006	Dinesh Pai	Canada Research Chair
Canadian AI-2006 Best Paper Award January 2006	Dave Tompkins, Holger H. Hoos	Canadian AI-2006
Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision January 2006	Alex Shyr, Jim Little, Matt Griffin, Pantelis Elinas, Robert Sim,Ph.D Post-Doc	Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Canadian New Media Lifetime Achievement Award: John Demco January 2006	John Demco	Canadian New Media Awards

2022

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM SIGOPS HotStorage 2022 Intel Best Paper Award June 2022	Reto Achermann	HotStorage Workshop 2022
ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award December 2022	Alex Summers	ACM SIGPLAN (SPLASH) 2022
Best Paper Award December 2022	Arpan Gujarati	IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2022)
Best Paper Award October 2022	Bingyao (Jerry) Wang, Margo Seltzer	EMSOFT

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Bill Aiello Memorial Award in Computer Science May 2022	James Shaw	UBC Computer Science
Bit Quill Technologies Award for Women in Computer Science May 2022	Lily Lin	Bit Quill Technologies Award
Broadridge Financial Solutions Award for Women in Computer Science May 2022	Brianna Dungate	Broadridge Financial Solutions

2015

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM TiiS Best Paper Award May 2015	Ben Steichen, Cristina Conati, Giuseppe Carenini	ACM TiiS
AOSA Most Influential Paper Award March 2015	Gail Murphy	AOSA

2008

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM World Finals January 2008	Anton Likhtarov	ACM

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Alain Fournier Thesis Award January 2008	Abhijeet Ghosh	Vancouver Foundation Alain Fournier Memorial Fund
Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship (Sponsored by Google) January 2008	Pooja Viswanathan, Viann Chan	Google
BCNet Broadband Innovation Challenge January 2008	Brendan Cully	BCNet
Canadian AI Graduate Student Symposium Best Paper Award January 2008	Mark Crowley	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence

2012

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM-EC Best Student Paper Award May 2012	Kevin Leyton-Brown	ACM EC
Alain Fournier Ph.D Thesis Award March 2012	Gordon Wetzstein
BC TIA's 'Emerging Company of the Year' Award June 2012	Gail Murphy
Best AI Masters Thesis Award July 2012	Martin Lesmana	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Best Paper at 2012 Haptics Symposium March 2012	Karon MacLean, Louise Oram, Vincent Levesque	IEEE Haptics Symposium
CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize March 2012	Joanna McGrenere	CACS/AIC
CAIAC Doctoral Dissertation Awards May 2012	Albert Xin Jiang	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design October 2012	Nick Harvey	NSERC CRC

2011

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM/IEEE Human Robot Interaction Conference Best Paper Award February 2011	Karon MacLean, Steve Yohanan	HRI
Best Paper Award at VLDB 2011 August 2011	Andrew Warfield, Brendan Cully, Shriram Rajagopalan	VLDB 2011
Best Paper Award, CHI 2011 April 2011	Karon MacLean, Louise Oram, Vincent Levesque	CHI
Best Student Paper Award, CPM 2011 June 2011	Chris Thachuk

2019

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
AGE-WELL Honorary Fellow Award October 2019	Alan Mackworth	AGE-WELL

2009

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
AI & Statistics 2009 Best Paper Award January 2009	Ewout van den Berg, Gail Murphy, Mark Schmidt, Michael Friedlander	AI & Statistics
Association for Constraint Programming (ACP) Research Excellence Award January 2009	Alan Mackworth	ACP
BCNET Faculty Recognition Award January 2009	Donald Acton	BCNET

2005

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
AITO Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize 2005 January 2005	Gail Murphy	AITO
Best Graduate Student Paper Award January 2005	Alena Shmygelska	ismb2005
Best Graduate Student Poster Award - MITACS 2005 January 2005	Stephane Durocher	MITACS
Best Graduate Student Poster Award ACM Student Research - Siggraph 2005 June 2005	Dan Julius, Tiberiu Popa	ACM
Best Paper Award January 2005	Anthony Tang, Karen Lowe, Karon MacLean, Peter McLachlan, Rao Chalapati	ICMI 2005
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Machine Learning and Computational Statistics January 2005	Kevin Murphy	CRC
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Stochastic Computation January 2005	Arnaud Doucet (138)	CRC

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision 2005 January 2005	Fahong Li	2nd Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision

2018

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Alain Fournier PhD Dissertation Award March 2018	Boris Dalstein	Graphics Interface

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Broadridge Financial Solutions Award for Women in Computer Science May 2018	Laura Barton	UBC Department of Computer Science

2014

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Anita Borg Systers Pass-It-On Award December 2014	Rebecca McKnight	Anita Borg Insitute

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellow December 2014	Holger H. Hoos	AAAI
CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award March 2014	Kevin Leyton-Brown	CACS/AIC

2023

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ASPLOS Distinguished Artifact Award March 2023	Finn Hackett, Ivan Beschastnikh, Matthew Do, Renato Costa, Shayan Hosseini	ASPLOS 2023
CAIMS Research Prize April 2023	Chen Greif	CAIMS Research Prize

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Bill Aiello Memorial Award in Computer Science May 2023	Patrick Lee
Bit Quill Technologies Award for Women in Computer Science May 2023	Kristine Gonzales, Yeojun Han	Improving Vancouver (formerly Bit Quill)
Bit Quill Technologies Award in Computer Science 2022 May 2023	James Shaw, Kara Deane	Improving Vancouver (formerly Bit Quill)

2007

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
BCNet Broadband Innovation Challenge January 2007	Michael Woods	BCNet
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence January 2007	Suling Yang	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Best Student Paper Award January 2007	Alan Mackworth, Suling Yang	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
BCNet Broadband Innovation Challenge January 2007	Afton Lewis, Kyle Porter, Patrick Colp	BCNet

2020

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Best Paper Award, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation October 2020	Hung Yu Ling, Michiel van de Panne, Nam Hee Kim, Zhaoming Xie	ACM SIGGRAPH
Best Student Paper Award October 2020	Cristina Conati, Shane D. Sims	ACM ICMI 2020

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Broadridge Financial Solutions Award for Women in Computer Science 2019 June 2020	Hannah Lin	Broadridge Financial Solutions

2016

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award June 2016	Kellogg Booth	Canadian Human-Computer Communication Society
Canadian Human-Computer Communication Society Achievement Award June 2016	Michiel van de Panne	Conference on Graphics, Visualization and HCI