Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2023

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
NSERC CRSNG Arthur B. MacDonald Fellowship award November 2023	Mark Schmidt	NSERC Arthur B. McDonald Fellowships
Academic Data Leader List October 2023	Raymond Ng	CDO Magazine
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
Royal Society of Canada Fellow September 2023	Kevin Leyton-Brown	Royal Society of Canada
ACM SIG-KDD Research Track Test of Time Award August 2023	Kevin Leyton-Brown	ACM SIG-KDD
Eurographics Fellow July 2023	Alla Sheffer	Eurographics (European Association for Computer Graphics)
NORA Award: outstanding publication of the decade July 2023	Jeff Clune	NORA
Outstanding Paper Award July 2023	Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Md Tawkat Islam Khondaker, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed	Workshop on Online Abuse and Harm (WOAH 2023), ACL 2023
SIGEVO Impact Award July 2023	Jeff Clune	SIGEVO
Distinguished Dissertation Award (2022) May 2023	Yasha Pushak	CS-Can/INFO-CAN
Lifetime Achievement Award May 2023	Alan Mackworth	CS-Can/INFO-CAN
ACM Athena Lecturer Award April 2023	Margo Seltzer	ACM
CAIMS Research Prize April 2023	Chen Greif	CAIMS Research Prize
SIGCHI 2023 Honourable Mention April 2023	Charles Berret, Stephen Kasica, Tamara Munzner	SIGCHI 2023
ASPLOS Distinguished Artifact Award March 2023	Finn Hackett, Ivan Beschastnikh, Matthew Do, Renato Costa, Shayan Hosseini	ASPLOS 2023
Killam Research prize in Science March 2023	Cristina Conati	Faculty of Science
Outstanding Research Award SIGSOFT 2023 March 2023	Gail Murphy	SIGSOFT 2023

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CS-Can/INFO-CAN Excellence in Teaching Award May 2023	Elisa Baniassad	CSCan/InfoCan
Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards May 2023	Camilo Talero, Dylan Green, Francis Nguyen, Gregory d'Eon, Laura Cang , Paulette Koronkevich, Victor Sanches Portella, Xincheng Huang, Yilin Yang
Incredible Instructor Awards May 2023	Chen Greif, Jeff Clune, Karina Mochetti, Meghan Allen, Tamara Munzner, William J. Bowman
Undergraduate Teaching Assistants Awards May 2023	Al Yu, Benjamin Chang, Charles Lake, Eric Kuo, Jamie Ma, Keira Moore, Michael DeMarco, Patrick Lee, Susan Chung, Trevor Chan , Weihan Chen
Killam Teaching Prize April 2023	Margo Seltzer	UBC

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CS Faculty Mentoring Award May 2023	Alla Sheffer	UBC Computer Science
Fostering a Collegial Environment May 2023	Bruno Mannella	UBC Computer Science
Going Above and Beyond Award May 2023	Bruno Mannella, Dan Miner, Edward Chu, Gable Yeung, Giao Huynh, Hazita Harun, Koon Ming Lau, Michael Sanderson, Patrick Lai, Vilmos Soti, Vivian Leung	UBC Computer Science
Maria Klawe Service Award 2023 May 2023	Alexa Gogoescu, Sarah Wong	UBC Computer Science
Project to Product Award in Computer Science May 2023	Lily Lin, Saurav Bhanna	Planview (formerly Tasktop)
Rajan Family Award in Computer Science May 2023	Chloe Van
Student Community Building Award May 2023	Baraa Orabi, Finn Hackett , Gautam Luhana, Mara Solen , Paulette Koronkevic, Rubia Reis Guerra, Victor Sanches Portella
Student Community Building Awards for undergraduates May 2023	Anna Friesen, Michael de Marco, Shubh Balla, Taryn Wou
Supporting Research May 2023	Laura Selander, Michael Sanderson	UBC Computer Science
Supporting Students and/or Educational Programs May 2023	Michele Ng	UBC Computer Science

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)
Gary Kusin Award for Women in Video Gaming May 2023	Lisa Lin	Electronic Arts
Governor General's Silver Medal Award in Science May 2023	Sophie Greenwood	Governor General's Office
Greer Family Scholarship May 2023	Artun Duman, Dora Qi
Laura Huber Memorial Award for Women in Video Gaming May 2023	Floria Gu	Electronic Arts
Markus Meister Memorial Prize May 2023	Floria Gu
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2023	Lily Lin
Rick Sample Memorial Award in Computer Science May 2023	Alan Milligan, Jessica Huang, Jordan Coil, Sandy Zhang
VanHacks Award in Computer Science May 2023	Emilie Ma

2022

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM Distinguished Member December 2022	Joanna McGrenere	ACM
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)
IEEE Fellow December 2022	Karon MacLean	IEEE
IEEE Fellow December 2022	Tamara Munzner	IEEE
SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award December 2022	Gail Murphy	SIGSOFT
Best Paper Award October 2022	Bingyao (Jerry) Wang, Margo Seltzer	EMSOFT
IEEE VIS Test of Time Award October 2022	Tamara Munzner	IEEE VIS
2022 Educational Data Mining Test of Time award July 2022	Cristina Conati	Educational Data Mining Conference
ACM SIGOPS HotStorage 2022 Intel Best Paper Award June 2022	Reto Achermann	HotStorage Workshop 2022
Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Honourable Mention June 2022	Michael Yin, Robert Xiao	DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) 2022
Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Honourable Mention Award June 2022	Dongwook Yoon, Ning Ma, Oloff C. Biermann	DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) 2022
SIGGRAPH Academy Member June 2022	Michiel van de Panne	SIGGRAPH Academy
SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award June 2022	Michiel van de Panne	SIGGRAPH
Distinguished Paper Award May 2022	Yanze Li	International Conference on Software Engineering
IEEE Senior Member May 2022	Kwang Moo Yi	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
SIAM Fellow April 2022	Chen Greif	SIAM
Killam Research Prize March 2022	Mark Schmidt, Raymond Ng	UBC
ACM Fellow January 2022	Alla Sheffer	ACM
CRC Chair January 2022	Karon MacLean	CRC

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Excellence in Service December 2022	Laura Selander	UBC Faculty of Science
CS Faculty Mentoring Award June 2022	Steve Wolfman	UBC Computer Science
CS Team Award June 2022	Alice Zhou, Celine Francis, Giuliana Villegas, Lexine Atrill	UBC Computer Science
Fostering a Collegial Environment June 2022	Taryn Jung	UBC Computer Science
Going Above and Beyond Award June 2022	Tim Li	UBC Computer Science
Supporting Research June 2022	Ali Nasseri, Lara Hall	UBC Computer Science
Supporting Teaching/Educational Programs June 2022	Anthony Winstanley, Koon Ming Lau, Moyra Ditchfield, Patrick Lai, Sean Godel, Tim Li, Vivian Leung	UBC Computer Science
Maria Klawe Service Award 2022 May 2022	Paulette Koronkevich	UBC Computer Science
Service Awards for Graduate Students May 2022	Nichole Boufford, Paul Bucci, Rubia Reis Guerra	UBC Computer Science

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Faculty Teaching Awards May 2022	Alex Summers, Elisa Baniassad, Felix Grund, Ivan Beschastnikh, Kwang Moo Yi, Varada Kolhatkar	UBC Computer Science
Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards May 2022	Braxton Hall, Devyani McLaren, Dylan Green, Finn Hackett, Jordan Lovrod, Sang-Wha Sien	UBC Computer Science
Undergraduate TA Awards May 2022	Benny Wong, Emilia Hidalgo, Erica Choi, Jason Hsu, Jingqi Zhang, Katherine Liang, Mazen Kotb, Michael de Marco, Ming Cheng Jiang, Nuket Baydogan, Rose Loftus	UBC Computer Science
UBC Killam Teaching Prize 2021 April 2022	Oluwakemi Ola	UBC

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Academic Award of Excellence 2022 May 2022	Sherwyn D'Souza	UBC Computer Science
Academic Award of Excellence 2022 May 2022	Michelle Langlois	UBC Computer Science
Academic Award of Excellence 2022 May 2022	Esteban Margaron	UBC Computer Science
Academic Award of Excellence 2022 May 2022	Alexander Mountain	UBC Computer Science
Academic Award of Excellence 2022 May 2022	Kasra Kamal	UBC Computer Science
Academic Award of Excellence 2022 May 2022	Jingze Dong	UBC Computer Science
Academic Award of Excellence 2022 May 2022	Michael Liu	UBC Computer Science
Accenture Leadership Award May 2022	Alexander Steele	Accenture Inc.
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
Greer Family Scholarship 2022 May 2022	Floria Gu, Sophie Greenwood	UBC Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize May 2022	Michael Liu	UBC Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2022	Sepand Dyanatkar Motaghed	UBC Computer Science
Project to Product Award in Computer Science May 2022	Kara Deane	Tasktop Technologies
Rajan Family Award in Computer Science May 2022	Christy Lo	UBC Computer Science
Rick Sample Memorial Award in Computer Science May 2022	Charley Cai, Joice Tang, Kasra Kamal, Linh Tran, Luis Bolanos, Patrick Lee, Rebecca Lin	UBC Computer Science
Student Service Awards for Undergraduates May 2022	Bryce Wilson, Chloe Curry, Eric Yan, Gokce Dilek, Jamie Polintan, Jerry Hall, Jossie Yan, Leonard Wang, Mike Ju, Shu Ting Hu, Stephanie Chen	UBC Computer Science
VanHacks Award in Computer Science May 2022	Edric Antoine	VanHack

2021

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Best Paper Award December 2021	Arpan Gujarati	IEEE QRS 2021
Fellow of Royal Society of Canada November 2021	Raymond Ng	Royal Society of Canada
Impact Recognition Award October 2021	Ashish Chopra, Dongwook Yoon, Ivan Beschastnikh, Morgan Mo, Samuel Dodson	Computer-supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2021 FoS Excellence in Service Award December 2021	Constance Wun, Joël Pittet	UBC Faculty of Science