Awards

2015

Undergrad Achievement

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Markus Meister Memorial Prize
Bo Gong UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Majors)
Bo Gong UBC Department of Computer Science
Maria Klawe Endowment Award
Samantha Krieger UBC Department of Computer Science
SIMBA Technologies Award
Susannah Kirby UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize
Alim Virani UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BCS)
Alim Virani UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Summer Internship
Stewart Grant UBC Department of Computer Science

Service

Award Recipient(s) Organization
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award
Kerry Li, Michael Wu, Mira Leung, Sean Lee UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award
Julieta Martinez, Michael Firmin, Michael Phan-Ba UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Going Above and Beyond)
Renee Stephen UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Supporting Students/Educational Programs)
Tsang-Kay Mak UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Fostering a Collegial Environment)
Jessica Wrinskelle UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Supporting Research)
Lara Hall, Michelle Lin, TBD UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Service Award (ACM Programming Team)
David Williams-King, Henry Liu, Nasa Rouf UBC Department of Computer Science

Research

Award Recipient(s) Organization
First Place, World Haptics 2015 Student Innovation Challenge
Brenna Li, Gordon Minaker, Oliver Schneider, Paul Bucci IEEE World Haptics Conference 2015
NAMRC Outstanding Paper
Alla Sheffer International Manufacturing Research Conference
SIGGRAPH Laval Virtual Award
Wolfgang Heidrich SIGGRAPH 2015
SCA Best Paper Award
Benjamin Humberston, 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 Poster Award
Dinesh Pai Symposium on Computer Animation
Royal Society of Canada Fellow
Gail Murphy Royal Society of Canada
IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award
Tamara Munzner IEEE VIS Conference
ESEM Best Paper Award
Ivan Beschastnikh
2016

Research

Award Recipient(s) Organization
UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship
Joanna McGrenere UBC
Charles McDowell Award
Kevin Leyton-Brown UBC
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
ICSE-10 Most Influential Paper 10 Years Later Award
Gail Murphy, John Anvik, Lyndon Hiew ICS
Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award
Kellogg Booth Canadian Human-Computer Communication Society
Canadian Human-Computer Communication Society Achievement Award
Michiel van de Panne Conference on Graphics, Visualization and HCI
Web3D Best Paper Award For Real-Time Eye Simulation
Dinesh Pai International Conference on 3D Web Technology
Web3D Best Paper Award
Anurag Ranjan, Debang a Raj Neog, Dinesh Pai, Joao Cardoso International Conference on 3D Web Technology
IVA Best Paper Award
Cristina Conati, Sebastien Lalle International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
Khurram Ali Jafery , Xi Bei She Computer Research Association (CRA)
2016 ACM Distinguished Scientist
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan ACM

Service

Award Recipient(s) Organization
UBC Faculty of Science Excellence in Service Award
Giuliana Villegas UBC Faculty of Science
UBC Helen McCrae Award
Diane Johnson, Michele Ng UBC Office of the Vice President
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award
Brian Chau, Cindy Ngan, Jeremy Goh UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award
Alireza Shafaei, Antoine Ponsard, Kailun Zhang, Matthew Brehmer, Nayantara Duttachoudhury UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (for fostering a collegial environment)
Lara Hall UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (for supporting students & educational programs)
Olivia Kong UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (for going above and beyond)
Jean Caballero, Vivian Leung UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Team Award)
Agnes Pak, Betty Cho, Constance Wun, Girish Chandra, Victoria Poon UBC Computer Science
UBC Dean Of Science Excellence In Service Awards
Patrice Belleville UBC Faculty of Science
UBC Dean Of Science Excellence In Service Awards
Jessica Wrinskelle UBC Faculty of Science

Teaching

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Sarah Huber UBC VP Academic
UBC Computer Science Department Undergraduate TA Award
Albert Xing, Alfred Xing, Anasazi Valair, Branden Siegle, Bruce Li, Erika Thompson, Henry Li, Kieran Collery, Lynsey Haynes, Maher Kader UBC Department of Computer Science
Maria Klawe Endowment Award
Jessica Wong UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Alireza Shafaei , Alireza Zakeri Hosseinabadi, Issam Hadj Laradji , Jason Hartford, Jessica Wong , Jordon Johnson, Samuel Creed, Shu Yang UBC Department of Computer Science
2016 UBC Computer Science Department Faculty Teaching Award
Elisa Baniassad, Mark Schmidt, Patrice Belleville, Paul Carter, Steve Wolfman, William Evans UBC Department of Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Ericsson Innovation Award
Karan Grover, Tanha Kabir
David Shum Memorial Prize in Computer Science
Junze Wu UBC Department of Computer Science
Accenture Leadership Award
Wesley Berry UBC Department of Computer Science
Computer Science Scholarship
Arman Raina, Calvin Cheng, Caroline Lemieux, De Wen Li, Janet Lam, Katherine Cavers, Matthew Nyhus, Stephanie Dong, Xin Bei She, Yifan Yang UBC Department of Computer Science
Greer Family Scholarship
Adrian She, Victoria Loewen UBC Department of Computer Science
Simba Technologies Award
Laura McGee, Lynsey Haynes UBC Department of Computer Science
Governor General's Silver Medal
Caroline Lemieux UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize
Caroline Lemieux UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (CHN)
Caroline Lemieux UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize
Boyang Tom Jin UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Summer Internship Award
Alison Clark UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BCS)
Nicholas Folk UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BUCS)
Gregory Iannacone UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (COGS)
Victoria Loewen UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (CMJ)
Thomas Pierce UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (MAJ)
William Zhang UBC Department of Computer Science
2017

Service

Award Recipient(s) Organization
UBC Dean of Science Excellence in Service Award
Patrice Belleville UBC Faculty of Science
2017 Dean of Science Excellence in Service
Jessica Wrinskelle UBC Faculty of Science
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award
Caledonia Thomson, Erica Lin, Lisa Wong, Paul Cernek, Wesley Berry UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award
Paul Liu UBC Department of Computer Science
Maria Klawe Endowment Award
Hasti Seifi, Sampoorna Biswas UBC Department of Computer Science

Research

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Sloan Research Fellow
Mark Schmidt Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
CS-Can/Info-Can Outstanding Young Computer Science Research Prize
Nick Harvey CS-Can/Info-Can
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Gail Murphy International Conference on Program Comprehension
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship
Yasha Pushak Government of Canada
ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
Felix Heide ACM SIGGRAPH
ACM SIGGRAPH SCA Best Student Paper Award
Michiel van de Panne, Xue Bin Peng ACM SIGGRAPH
Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
Joanna McGrenere Royal Society of Canada
UAI Best Student Paper Award
David Buchman, David Poole UAI

Teaching

Award Recipient(s) Organization
2016 Killam Teaching Award
Jessica Dawson UBC VP Academic and Provost
UBC Computer Science Department Faculty Teaching Award
Anthony Estey, Celina Berg, Gregor Kiczales, Ivan Beschastnikh, Meghan Allen, Rachel Pottinger UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Undergraduate TA Award
Alec Theriault, Andrew Bates, Grace Liang, Jonathan Budiardjo, Ksenia Pinski, Laura Barton, Nadine Bolotov, Oliver Zhang, Phoenix Song, Raunak Kumar, Ryan Razavi, Tom Jin UBC Department of Computer Science
CPSC 213 TA Team Awards
Candice Pang, Frank Rui, Grace Liang, Harlin Brandvold, Justin Reiher, Ksenia Pinski, Liran Li, Phoenix Song, Qiushan Zhao, Victor Pineda Gonzalez, Zixuan Yin UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Adnan Reza, Andrew Karpierz, Halldor Thorhallsson, Izabelle Janzen, Susanne Bradley, Tian Qi (Ricky) Chen UBC Department of Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement

Award Recipient(s) Organization
UBC Wesbrook Scholar
Alice Fredine UBC
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BA)
Dylan Michael Basdeo UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BCS)
Lauren Coombe UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (COGS)
Michelle Ming Gee Wong UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BUCS)
Henry Chee UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Majors)
Tae Yun Kim UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Honours)
Soo Ning Sarah Yeo UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Honours)
Yi Fan Yang UBC Department of Computer Science
SIMBA Technologies Award
Angela Chen, Laura Barton, Michelle Findlay-Olynyk UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize
Albert Xing, Alfred Xing UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Summer Internship
Patience Shyu UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Majors)
Pang Chieh (Jason) Chiu UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize
Pang Chieh (Jason) Chiu UBC Department of Computer Science
Governor General's Silver Medal Academic Award of Excellence
Pang Chieh (Jason) Chiu Governor General of Canada
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BUCS)
Henry Chee UBC Department of Computer Science