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The University of British Columbia

Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

Year

Title

Award Type

Role

2020

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CHI 2020 Honorable Mention Award March 2020	Karon MacLean, Robert Xiao, Soheil Kianzad, Yuxiang Huang	CHI 2020
UBC Killam Research Prize January 2020	Alla Sheffer	UBC Research & Innovation

2019

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
AGE-WELL Honorary Fellow Award October 2019	Alan Mackworth	AGE-WELL
IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy October 2019	Tamara Munzner	IEEE VGTC
IEEE Vis Test of Time Award October 2019	Tamara Munzner	IEEE VIS
IEEE Vis Test of Time Award October 2019	Hamish Carr, Jack Snoeyink, Michiel van de Panne	IEEE VIS
VIS Academy Member October 2019	Tamara Munzner	IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy
SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award September 2019	Robert Xiao	SIGCHI
IJCAI 2019 Workshop Best Paper Award August 2019	Cristina Conati, Shane Sims, Vanessa Putnam	IJCAI
USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award July 2019	Margo Seltzer	USENIX
ICML Best Paper Honourable Mention June 2019	Frank Wood	International Conference on Machine Learning
CHI 2019 Honorable Mention Award May 2019	Dongwook Yoon, Matin Yarmand	CHI 2019
CS-Can/Info-Can Canadian Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award May 2019	Julie Nutini	CS-CAN/INFO-CAN
AAAI Senior Member February 2019	Cristina Conati	Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
UBC Killam Research Prize February 2019	Tamara Munzner	UBC Research & Innovation
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Honourable Mention January 2019	Chris Yoon	CRA
Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE) January 2019	Margo Seltzer	National Academy of Engineering

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC Open Educational Resource Champion October 2019	Reid Holmes	UBC Open Educational Resource Champions
Graduate TA Awards 2019 May 2019	Arthur de Sousa Marques, David Johnson, Hung Yu Ling, Jocelyn Minns, Marjan Albooyeh, Nico Ritschel, Sikander Rhandawa	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department 2018 Faculty Teaching Award May 2019	Ali Madooei, Joanna McGrenere, Jordan Johnson, Michiel van de Panne, Nick Harvey, Oluwakemi Ola	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Lifetime Teaching Award May 2019	George Tsiknis	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Undergraduate TA Awards May 2019	Andrea Gottardo, Bronwyn Damm, Jonathan Budiardjo, Luciano Burla, Qianqian Feng, Ryan Kwon, Stefano Vazzoler, William Alvarez, Zoe Fox	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Killam Graduate TA Award April 2019	Susanne Bradley	UBC VP Academic
UBC Killam Teaching Prize April 2019	Elisa Baniassad	UBC Vice President Academic

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC CS Staff Award (for fostering a collegial environment) October 2019	Ana Kopic Drole, Holly Kwan, Vivian Leung	UBC Computer Science
iQmetrix Service Award for Women in Computer Science May 2019	Giulia Mattia, Hannah Lin	UBC Department of Computer Science
Maria Klawe Service Award May 2019	Arden Allen, Kara Deane	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Graduate Student Service Award May 2019	Giovanni Viviani, Julieta Martinez-Covarrubias, Nico Ritschel	UBC Department of Computer Science
Visier Service Award for Women in Computer Science May 2019	Jinny Byun	UBC Department of Computer Science
Visier Service Award in Computer Science May 2019	Noah Heyl	UBC Department of Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Governor General's Silver Medal May 2019	Jeffrey Dawson	Governor General of Canada
Greer Family Scholarship May 2019	Chenliang Zhou, Jerry Yin	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize May 2019	Yuping Wang	UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2019	Giulia Mattia	UBC Department of Computer Science
Rajan Family Award in Computer Science May 2019	Arden Allen, Kara Deane	UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Summer Internship May 2019	Chi Wei (Colin) Chen, Laura Rodgers	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BA) May 2019	Xin Yu (Sherry) Yuan	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Honours) May 2019	Jeffrey Dawson	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Majors) May 2019	Yuping Wang	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award May 2019	Aiden Synkova, Audrey Lu, Ayman Azhar, Clair Ross, Hailey Mah, Nicholas Hu, Xin Yu (Sherry) Yuan	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Department of Computer Science Academic Award of Excellence (BCS) May 2019	Jennifer Ahn	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Department of Computer Science Academic Award of Excellence (BUCS) May 2019	Clara Chu	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Department of Computer Science Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Majors) May 2019	Nam Hee Kim	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Department of Computer Science Academic Award of Excellence (Honours) May 2019	Jerry Yin	UBC Department of Computer Science

2018

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM MIG Best Paper Award December 2018	Michiel van de Panne, Xinyi Zhang	ACM MIG
NeurIPS 2018 Best Paper Award December 2018	Christopher Liaw, Nick Harvey	NeurIPS
ACM Distinguished Member November 2018	Kevin Leyton-Brown	ACM
IEEE Data Science and Advanced Analytics Conference Best Research Paper Award October 2018	Laks V.S. Lakshmanan	IEEE DSAA
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada September 2018	Uri Ascher	Royal Society of Canada
PNSS Best Paper Award September 2018	Holger H. Hoos, Yasha Pushak	Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization July 2018	Mark Schmidt	SIAM
INFORMS Franz Edelman Achievement Award May 2018	Alexandre Frechette, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Neil Newman	INFORMS
ACM CHI Best Paper Award April 2018	Francesco Vitale, Izabelle Janzen, Joanna McGrenere	ACM CHI
Alain Fournier PhD Dissertation Award March 2018	Boris Dalstein	Graphics Interface
CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award March 2018	Alla Sheffer	Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society
CS-Can/Info-Can Outstanding Young Computer Science Research Prize March 2018	Reid Holmes	CS-Can/Info-Can
CS-Can/Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award February 2018	David Kirkpatrick	CS-Can/Info-Can
AAAI Fellow January 2018	Kevin Leyton-Brown	AAAI
IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award January 2018	Gail Murphy	IEEE

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2018 Faculty of Science Excellence in Service Award November 2018	Trey Schiefelbein	UBC Faculty of Science
UBC Computer Science CS 50 Team Award June 2018	Alan Mackworth, Anne Condon, J. Yue, Jade Wang, Joël Pittet, Michele Ng, Michiel van de Panne, Tamara Munzner	UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Faculty Mentoring Award June 2018	Alla Sheffer	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Going Above and Beyond) June 2018	Tim Li	UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Supporting Research) June 2018	Hermie Lam	UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Supporting Students) June 2018	Trey Schiefelbein	UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Undergraduate Team Award June 2018	Celina Berg, Donald Acton, Ed Knorr, Eka Nagatani, George Tsiknis, Giuliana Villegas, Helena Merrell, Ian Mitchell, Mike Feeley, Norm Hutchinson, Patrice Belleville, Paul Carter, Sarah Lee, Steve Wolfman, Trey Schiefelbein	UBC Computer Science
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
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award May 2018	Bahare Fatemi, Clement Fung	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award May 2018	Allan Leung, Andrea Park, Bahar Heravi Moussavi, Chanbin Lee, Charmaine Lee, Christine Cheng, Gora Kong, Janet Poon, Jeff Xiao, Joy Zhang, Lironne Kurzman, Lotus Zhang, Noah Heyl	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Dean of Science Excellence in Service Award January 2018	Anne Condon	UBC Faculty of Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC Governor General's Gold Medal June 2018	Jason Peng	UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Broadridge Financial Solutions Award for Women in Computer Science May 2018	Laura Barton	UBC Department of Computer Science
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2018	Jinny Byun	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize May 2018	Aaron Mishkin	UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2018	Finn Hackett	UBC Department of Computer Science
Rajan Family Award in Computer Science May 2018	Mandy Chen, Oliver Zhang	UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Summer Internship May 2018	Chris Yoon, Kevin Chow, Raunak Kumar, Rui (Ray) Ning Wu	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BA) May 2018	Min Sang Park	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BCS) May 2018	Sean Vanbergen	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BUCS) May 2018	Wen Chia Hu	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (COGS) May 2018	Shihui Liang	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Honours) May 2018	Oliver Zhang	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Majors) May 2018	Rachel Stiyer	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Honours) May 2018	Aaron Mishkin	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Majors) May 2018	Zixuan Yin	UBC Department of Computer Science

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC Computer Science Department Faculty Teaching Award May 2018	Elisa Baniassad, Jonatan Schroeder, Mark Schmidt, Michael Gelbart, Reid Holmes, William Evans	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Graduate TA Award May 2018	Adrian Lindsay, Clement Fung, Daniel Almeida, Devon Graham, Felipe Andres Banados Schwerter, Giovanni Viviani, Xing Zeng	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Undergraduate TA Award May 2018	Adam Jozefiak, Adrian She, Ben Chugg, Daphne Bliss-Rosval, Emily Fuchs, Harwin Mienata, James Yoo, Keavan Andreassen, Zhi Ting (Jessica) Yang	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Killam Graduate TA Award May 2018	Jordon Johnson	UBC Vice President Academic

2017

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM Fellow December 2017	Gail Murphy	ACM
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award December 2017	Ahmad Shikib Mehri , Kevin Chow, Raunak Kumar	CRA
DNA Computing And Molecular Programming Conference Best Student Paper Award October 2017	Anne Condon, Mark Schmidt, Nasim Zolaktaf	DNA Computing And Molecular Programming Conference
UAI Best Student Paper Award October 2017	David Buchman, David Poole	UAI
ACM SIGGRAPH SCA Best Student Paper Award August 2017	Michiel van de Panne, Xue Bin Peng	ACM SIGGRAPH
Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists August 2017	Joanna McGrenere	Royal Society of Canada
ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award July 2017	Felix Heide	ACM SIGGRAPH
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship June 2017	Yasha Pushak	Government of Canada
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award May 2017	Gail Murphy	International Conference on Program Comprehension

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BUCS) June 2017	Henry Chee	UBC Department of Computer Science