Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2022

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Greer Family Scholarship 2022 May 2022	Floria Gu, Sophie Greenwood	UBC Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IEEE Fellow December 2022	Tamara Munzner	IEEE
IEEE Fellow December 2022	Karon MacLean	IEEE
IEEE Senior Member May 2022	Kwang Moo Yi	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEEE VIS Test of Time Award October 2022	Tamara Munzner	IEEE VIS
Killam Research Prize March 2022	Mark Schmidt, Raymond Ng	UBC

2018

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
GROW Service Award for Women in Computer Science May 2018	Jeanie Suparman	UBC Department of Computer Science
iQmetrix Service Award for Women in Computer Science May 2018	Sally Pang	UBC Department of Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IEEE Data Science and Advanced Analytics Conference Best Research Paper Award October 2018	Laks V.S. Lakshmanan	IEEE DSAA
IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award January 2018	Gail Murphy	IEEE
INFORMS Franz Edelman Achievement Award May 2018	Alexandre Frechette, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Neil Newman	INFORMS
Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization July 2018	Mark Schmidt	SIAM

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2018	Jinny Byun	UBC Department of Computer Science

2008

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Human Frontier Science January 2008	Dinesh Pai	Human Frontier Science Program
IBM Faculty Award January 2008	Alan Hu	IBM
IEEE Haptics Symposium Best Paper Award January 2008	Karon MacLean, Mario Enriquez	IEEE Haptics Symposium
Killam Research Fellowship January 2008	Nando de Freitas	Office of the Vice President, Research, UBC

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Teaching Prize January 2008	Ed Knorr	UBC VP Academic Office

2010

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Human Frontier Science Program Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship Award December 2010	Peter Carbonetto	Human Frontier Science Program
IBM Faculty Award December 2010	Andrew Warfield	IBM CAS Canada Research
ICSE ACM Student Research Competition December 2010	Thomas Fritz, Zvonimir Rakamaric	ACM
IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize 2010 December 2010	Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown	JAIR
IJCAII-JAIR Best Paper Award December 2010	Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu	JAIR

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Teaching Prize December 2010	Kimberly Voll	UBC VP Academic Office

2014

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Humboldt Research Award September 2014	Wolfgang Heidrich	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
ICICS Graduate Scholarship June 2014	Seyed Mehran Kazemi	ICICS
ICVGIP Best Paper Award December 2014	Dinesh Pai	ICVGIP
International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Best Paper Award July 2014	Cristina Conati, Dereck Toker, Giuseppe Carenini, Michael Wu	International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Teaching Prize May 2014	Kevin Leyton-Brown, Paul Carter	UBC Faculty of Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2014	Arianne Dee	UBC Department of Computer Science

2005

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IBM CAS - Canadian Pioneers in Computing January 2005	Jim Varah (183), Paul Gilmore (184), Richard Rosenberg (182)	IBM CAS
IBM CAS Student of the Year January 2005	Kuan-Chieh Tseng	IBM CAS
IBM Faculty Award January 2005	Joanna McGrenere	IBM
IBM Faculty Award of Innovation January 2005	Gail Murphy	IBM
IBM Faculty Award of Innovation January 2005	Gregor Kiczales	IBM
IBM Faculty Award of Innovation January 2005	Kris De Volder	IBM
ICMI 2005 January 2005	Chalapati, David Lowe , MacLean, Tang, A.	7th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI '05), (Trento, Ital…
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Faculty Research Fellowship January 2005	Ronald Rensink	Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Faculty Research Fellowship January 2005	Joel Friedman	Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Faculty Research Fellowship January 2005	Gail Murphy	Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Teaching Prize January 2005	Paul Carter	UBC VP Academic Office

2004

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IBM CAS Fellowship January 2004	Mik Kersten	IBM
IBM Faculty Award January 2004	Joanna McGrenere	IBM
Li Tze Fong Memorial Fellowship January 2004	Brad Bingham	UBC Department of Computer Science

2006

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IBM Faculty Award January 2006	Alla Sheffer	IBM
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control January 2006	Claire Tomlin, Ian Mitchell, Meeko Oishi, Patrick Saint-Pierre	IEEE CDC

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IBM Master the Mainframe Contest January 2006	Zephyr Zhangbo Liu	IBM

2011

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ICCP Best Paper Award March 2011	Wolfgang Heidrich	ICCP 2011
ICCV Test-of-Time Award November 2011	David Lowe	International Conference on Computer Vision
ICICS Graduate Scholarship July 2011	Joshua Litven

2007

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ICCV 2007: Marr Prize January 2007	Abhijeet Ghosh, Matthew O'Toole, Shruthi Achutha, Steve Wolfman	ICCV 2007
International Conference Intelligent User Interfaces January 2007	Andrea Bunt, Cristina Conati, Joanna McGrenere	ACM IUI Conference
International SAT Competition 2007 January 2007	Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu	SAT Competition
IUI Best Paper Award January 2007	Andrea Bunt, Cristina Conati, Joanna McGrenere	IUI Conference Homepage

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Teaching Prize January 2007	Steve Wolfman	UBC VP Academic Office

2019

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ICML Best Paper Honourable Mention June 2019	Frank Wood	International Conference on Machine Learning
IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy October 2019	Tamara Munzner	IEEE VGTC
IEEE Vis Test of Time Award October 2019	Hamish Carr, Jack Snoeyink, Michiel van de Panne	IEEE VIS
IEEE Vis Test of Time Award October 2019	Tamara Munzner	IEEE VIS
IJCAI 2019 Workshop Best Paper Award August 2019	Cristina Conati, Shane Sims, Vanessa Putnam	IJCAI

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
iQmetrix Service Award for Women in Computer Science May 2019	Giulia Mattia, Hannah Lin	UBC Department of Computer Science

2013

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ICSE Most Influential Paper Award May 2013	Gail Murphy	ICSE
IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award July 2013	David Matheson, Masrour Zoghi, Nando de Freitas, Ziyu Wang	IJCAI

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation Outstanding Service Award December 2013	Alan Hu	IEEE
IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation Outstanding Service Award December 2013	Alan Hu	IEEE Council Outstanding Service Award story

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award April 2013	Julius Davis	UBC VP Academic
Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award May 2013	Julius Davies	UBC VP Academic
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2013	Anika Mahmud	UBC Department of Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2013	Leemor Yuravlivker	UBC Department of Computer Science
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2013	Leemor Yuravlivker	UBC Department of Computer Science

2016

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ICSE-10 Most Influential Paper 10 Years Later Award May 2016	Gail Murphy, John Anvik, Lyndon Hiew	ICS
IVA Best Paper Award September 2016	Cristina Conati, Sebastien Lalle	International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award April 2016	Sarah Huber	UBC VP Academic

2020

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IEEE Fellow November 2020	Alla Sheffer	IEEE

2023

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IEEE InfoVIS Test of Time Award October 2023	Matthew Brehmer, Tamara Munzner	IEEE VIS 2023
IEEE VIS Service Award October 2023	Tamara Munzner	IEEE VIS
Killam Research prize in Science March 2023	Cristina Conati	Faculty of Science
Lifetime Achievement Award May 2023	Alan Mackworth	CS-Can/INFO-CAN

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Incredible Instructor Awards May 2023	Chen Greif, Jeff Clune, Karina Mochetti, Meghan Allen, Tamara Munzner, William J. Bowman
Killam Teaching Prize April 2023	Margo Seltzer	UBC

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Laura Huber Memorial Award for Women in Video Gaming May 2023	Floria Gu	Electronic Arts

2015

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award October 2015	Tamara Munzner	IEEE VIS Conference

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Teaching Award May 2015	Gregor Kiczales	UBC Faculty of Science

2009

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize 2009 January 2009	David Poole, Holger H. Hoos	Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
International SAT Competition 2009 January 2009	Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu	International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing …
Killam Research Prize, Senior Science Category January 2009	Alla Sheffer, David Lowe , Ronald Rensink	UBC VP Research

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Imagine Cup January 2009	Byron Knoll	Imagine Cup
Intelligent Systems Challenge January 2009	Adam Williams	Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association
ITS 2009 SMART Table Application Design Contest January 2009	Brad Swerdfeger, Jennifer Fernquist	Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2009 Conference
Make Web Not War PHP Competition January 2009	Carson Lam	Microsoft

2021

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Impact Recognition Award October 2021	Ashish Chopra, Dongwook Yoon, Ivan Beschastnikh, Morgan Mo, Samuel Dodson	Computer-supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)
ISAL Award for Outstanding Publication of 2020 January 2021	Jeff Clune
Killam Accelerator Research Fellowships March 2021	Leonid Sigal	UBC
Killam Research Fellowship April 2021	Mark Schmidt	UBC

2002

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Incredible Instructor Award April 2002	Kellogg Booth	UBC Computer Science

2001

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Incredible Instructor Award December 2001	Kellogg Booth	UBC Computer Science

2012

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring November 2012	Joanna McGrenere	UBC Faculty of Graduate Studies

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award April 2012	Bruno da Silva

2024

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Research Prize in Science March 2024	Joanna McGrenere	UBC Office of Awards & Prizes

2017

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2017	Hasti Seifi, Sampoorna Biswas	UBC Department of Computer Science