Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2015

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2015	Samantha Krieger	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BA) May 2015	Hung-li Chen	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BCS) May 2015	Alim Virani	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BUCS) May 2015	Christopher Peterson	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (COGS) May 2015	Frederic Ren	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Majors) May 2015	Jaxsun McCarthy Huggan	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Honours) UBC Department of Computer May 2015	Xue Bin (Jason) Peng	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Majors) May 2015	Bo Gong	UBC Department of Computer Science

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2014 UBC Computer Science Department Teaching Award May 2015	Ed Knorr, George Tsiknis, Hassan Khosravi, Mike Feeley, Nick Harvey, Steve Wolfman	UBC Department of Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM ICSE Student Research Competition May 2015	Caroline Lemieux	ACM ICSE

2016

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BCS) May 2016	Nicholas Folk	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BUCS) May 2016	Gregory Iannacone	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (CHN) May 2016	Caroline Lemieux	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (CMJ) May 2016	Thomas Pierce	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (COGS) May 2016	Victoria Loewen	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (MAJ) May 2016	William Zhang	UBC Department of Computer Science
Accenture Leadership Award May 2016	Wesley Berry	UBC Department of Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2016 ACM Distinguished Scientist December 2016	Laks V.S. Lakshmanan	ACM

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2016 UBC Computer Science Department Faculty Teaching Award May 2016	Elisa Baniassad, Mark Schmidt, Patrice Belleville, Paul Carter, Steve Wolfman, William Evans	UBC Department of Computer Science

2020

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship June 2020	Sikander Randhawa	NSERC
2021 CHCCS Service Award May 2020	Kellogg Booth	CHCCS Service Award
ACM Distinguished Member December 2020	Cristina Conati	ACM

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Academic Award of Excellence 2020 June 2020	Braxton Hall, Chenliang Zhou, Daniel Bajj, Pardis Roshanzamir, Paul Wang, Raymond Situ, Sam Dover, Yuru Liu	UBC Department of Computer Science
Accenture Leadership Award 2019 June 2020	Jeanette Johnson	UBC Department of Computer Science

2021

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) Blair Spearman Doctoral Prize June 2021	Chris Liaw	Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS)
2021 Best Dissertation Award May 2021	Arpan Gujarati	ACM SIGBED
2021 CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award May 2021	Tamara Munzner	Graphics Interface (CHCCS/SCDHM)
ACM Fellow January 2021	Kevin Leyton-Brown	Association of Computing Machinery

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

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Academic Award of Excellence 2021 June 2021	David Louie, Devyani McLaren, Elbert Chuang, Hayden McTavish, Quintin Muncaster, Seif Ghazi, Sherry Zhang	UBC Computer Science

2004

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2004 CS Department Teaching Award January 2004	Chen Greif, Donald Acton, Gregor Kiczales, Murray Goldberg, Nando de Freitas, Paul Carter, William Evans	UBC Department of Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM Programming Competition Pacific Northwest Division January 2004	Bartholomew Furrow, Coach Jonathan Backer, Frank Pok Man Chu, Igor Naverniouk	ACM
ACM Programming Competition Pacific Northwest Division January 2004	Keith Dunwoody, Siamak Tazari , Yury Kholondyrev	ACM

2005

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2005 CS Department Teaching Award January 2005	Alan Hu, Ed Knorr, Holger H. Hoos, Ian Cavers, Kurt Eiselt (142), Steve Wolfman	UBC Department of Computer Science
2005 Graduate Student T.A. Awards January 2005	Abhishek Gupta, Chris Dutchyn, Kevin Loken, Leah Findlater, Remi Gagne, Shannon Little	UBC Department of Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Academic Awards of Excellence January 2005	Adam Pauls, Anupama Vasudevan, Boaz Av-Ron, Corinne Roesler, Herbert David Young, Kenneth McKay	UBC Department of Computer Science
ACM Intercollegiate Programming Competition - Pacific Northwest Division - First Place January 2005	Dustin Tseng, Matthew Chan, Yury Kholondyrev	ACM-ICPC
ACM Intercollegiate Programming Competition - Pacific Northwest Division - First Place January 2005	Bartholomew Furrow (coach), Dustin Wei Lung Tseng, Matthew Chan, Yury Kholondyrev	ACM-ICPC

2006

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2006 CS Department Teaching Award January 2006	Chen Greif, Ed Knorr, Gail Murphy, Kurt Eiselt, Steve Wolfman	UBC Department of Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2006 NSERC Steacie Fellowship January 2006	Gail Murphy	NSERC - Science and Engineering Achievers Honoured
2006 Research Trainee Award January 2006	Sohrab Shah	Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
ACM International Conference on Software Engineering January 2006	Gail Murphy, John Anvik, Lyndon Hiew	ICSE 2006

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM Intercollegiate World Programming Finals (San Antonio Texas) January 2006	Bartholomew Furrow (coach), Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng, Matthew Chan, Yury Kholondyrev	ACM-ICPC

2007

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2007 CS Department Teaching Award December 2007	Alla Sheffer, Anne Condon, Eric Wohlstadter, Kimberly Voll, Kurt Eiselt, Meghan Allen	UBC Department of Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division January 2007	Kaitlin Sherwood, Patrick Nguyen	ACM
ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division January 2007	Anton Likhtarov	ACM
ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division January 2007	Chris Head, Robert Tseng, Simon Suyadi	ACM
ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division January 2007	Andrew Thomson, Cedric Lin, Sandy Robertson	ACM

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award January 2007	Joanna McGrenere, Karyn Moffatt	SIGACCESS

2008

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2008 CS Department Teaching Award December 2008	Donald Acton, Holger H. Hoos, Nando de Freitas, Patrice Belleville, Paul Carter, Robert Bridson	UBC Department of Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2008	Christopher Head, Robert Tseng, Simon Aloysius Suyadi	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2008	Byron Knoll, Martin Lau	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2008	Jason Chang, Kenneth Lui, Reilly Wood	ACM

2009

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2009 CS Department Teaching Award December 2009	George Tsiknis, Kurt Eiselt, Michael Friedlander , Mike Feeley, Paul Carter, Ronald Rensink	UBC Department of Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Academic Awards of Excellence January 2009	Daniel Chu (BCS), Jilian Dicker (Combined Majors), Robert Tseng (Combined Honours) , Samantha Leung (Honours) , Samuel Bayless (COGS) , Timothy Au-Yeung (Majors)	UBC Department of Computer Science
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	Byron Knoll	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	Robert Tseng , Simon Aloysius Suyadi	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	Cedric Lin	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	David Kurokawa, Kenneth Lui, Sandy Robertson	ACM
ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition January 2009	Jason Chang, Martin Lau	ACM

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM Distinguished Scientist January 2009	Kellogg Booth	ACM

2010

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2010 CS Department Teaching Award May 2010	Chen Greif, Ed Knorr, Gregor Kiczales, Patrice Belleville, Rachel Pottinger, Steve Wolfman	UBC Department of Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
AAAI 2010 Distinguished Service Award October 2010	Alan Mackworth	AAAI
ACM Distinguished Scientist November 2010	Gail Murphy	ACM
ACM Fellow December 2010	Anne Condon	ACM

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Academic Awards of Excellence December 2010	Cedric Lin (Combined Honours), Farbod Roosta-Khorasani (Combined Major), Frances Raftis (BCS), Jenica Siy (Major), Juliette Link (BA in CS), Karl Dray (Cogs), Neil Thomas (Honours), Sunny Wong (B.Comm in CS)	UBC Department of Computer Science
ACM ICPC Regional Programming Contest December 2010	Simon Aloysius Suyadi	ACM ICPC
ACM ICPC Regional Programming Contest December 2010	Aram Ebtekar, Ayden Wong	ACM ICPC
ACM ICPC World Final December 2010	Kuan-Chieh Tseng, Simon Aloysius Suyadi	ACM
ACM ICPC World Final December 2010	Cedric Lin	ACM

2011

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2011 Audi Production Award December 2011	Alla Sheffer	Audi
ACM Fellow January 2011	Margo Seltzer	ACM

2012

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2011 CS Department Teaching Award May 2012	David Kirkpatrick, Ed Knorr, Joanna McGrenere, Kimberly Voll, Norm Hutchinson, Ronald Rensink	UBC Department of Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM Fellow December 2012	Gregor Kiczales	ACM

2013

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2012 CS Department Teaching Award May 2013	Donald Acton, Gregor Kiczales, Nick Harvey, Patrice Belleville, Paul Carter, Robert Bridson	UBC Department of Computer Science

2014

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2013 Computer Science Department Teaching Award May 2014	David Kirkpatrick, George Tsiknis, Kurt Eiselt, Michael Friedlander , Paul Carter, Rachel Pottinger	UBC Department of Computer Science

2017

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2016 Killam Teaching Award April 2017	Jessica Dawson	UBC VP Academic and Provost

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2017 Dean of Science Excellence in Service March 2017	Jessica Wrinskelle	UBC Faculty of Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM Fellow December 2017	Gail Murphy	ACM

2018

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2018 Faculty of Science Excellence in Service Award November 2018	Trey Schiefelbein	UBC Faculty of Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
AAAI Fellow January 2018	Kevin Leyton-Brown	AAAI
ACM CHI Best Paper Award April 2018	Francesco Vitale, Izabelle Janzen, Joanna McGrenere	ACM CHI
ACM Distinguished Member November 2018	Kevin Leyton-Brown	ACM
ACM MIG Best Paper Award December 2018	Michiel van de Panne, Xinyi Zhang	ACM MIG

2022

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2022 Educational Data Mining Test of Time award July 2022	Cristina Conati	Educational Data Mining Conference
ACM Distinguished Member December 2022	Joanna McGrenere	ACM
ACM Fellow January 2022	Alla Sheffer	ACM

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.

2023

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
AAAI Fellow December 2023	Cristina Conati	AAAI Elected Fellows
Academic Data Leader List October 2023	Raymond Ng	CDO Magazine
ACM Athena Lecturer Award April 2023	Margo Seltzer	ACM
ACM SIG-KDD Research Track Test of Time Award August 2023	Kevin Leyton-Brown	ACM SIG-KDD

2019

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
AAAI Senior Member February 2019	Cristina Conati	Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence