Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2018

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
NeurIPS 2018 Best Paper Award December 2018	Christopher Liaw, Nick Harvey	NeurIPS
Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization July 2018	Mark Schmidt	SIAM

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2018	Finn Hackett	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize May 2018	Aaron Mishkin	UBC Department of Computer Science
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2018	Jinny Byun	UBC Department of Computer Science

2016

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
National Collegiate Research Conference Poster Competition February 2016	Eviatar Bach	National Collegiate Research Conference

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2016	Boyang Tom Jin	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize May 2016	Caroline Lemieux	UBC Department of Computer Science

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2016	Jessica Wong	UBC Department of Computer Science
Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award April 2016	Sarah Huber	UBC VP Academic

2015

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
NAMRC Outstanding Paper June 2015	Alla Sheffer	International Manufacturing Research Conference

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Microsoft Gaming for Education Hackathon May 2015	Eric Kim, Lisa Wong, Yea Han Hwang	Microsoft Canada
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2015	Alim Virani	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize May 2015	Bo Gong	UBC Department of Computer Science

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

2011

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Mushfiqur Rouf Awarded ICICS Graduate Scholarship July 2011	Mushfiqur (Nasa) Rouf	ICICS

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2011	Pooja Viswanathan	UBC Department of Computer Science

2010

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
MURC Oral Presentation Award December 2010	Nicholas Fitzgerald	UBC MURC
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize December 2010	Julianne Leung	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize December 2010	Neil Thomas	UBC Department of Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) Oral Presentation Award December 2010	Nicholas FitzGerald	MURC
Most Imaginative Research Award December 2010	Nicholas Fitzgerald	Universitas21
MITACS Young Researcher Award December 2010	Nando de Freitas	MITACS
Microsoft SEIF (Software Engineering Innovation Foundation) Award December 2010	Gail Murphy	Microsoft Research

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

2014

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Motion Metrics/ICICS Graduate Scholarship June 2014	Dereck Toker	ICICS

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2014	Ennas Abdussalam	UBC Department of Computer Science
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2014	Arianne Dee	UBC Department of Computer Science

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

2013

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Motion in Games Conference Best Paper Award December 2013	Michiel van de Panne, Shailen Agrawal, Shuo Shen	Motion in Games Conference
Microsoft SEIF Award April 2013	Joanna McGrenere	Microsoft Research

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2013	Angel Cheung	UBC Department of Computer Science
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

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

2008

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Most Cited Paper in Engineering 2004-2008 January 2008	David Lowe	TopCited
Microsoft Research Fellowship January 2008	Zvonimir Rakamaric	Microsoft
Michael Smith Foundation Award January 2008	Chris Thachuk	Michael Smith Foundation
Michael Smith Foundation January 2008	Sohrab Shah	Michael Smith Foundation
Killam Research Fellowship January 2008	Nando de Freitas	Office of the Vice President, Research, UBC

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize January 2008	James Lo	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize January 2008	Jackie Cheung	UBC Department of Computer Science

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

2007

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Mobile 2020 Contest January 2007	Michael DiBernardo	Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University
Markus Meister Memorial Prize January 2007	Eng-Liang Ch'ng	UBC Department of Computer Science

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

2009

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
MIT Battlecode Competition January 2009	Patrick Nguyen	MIT Battlecode Programming Competition
MIT Battlecode Competition January 2009	Dan Ballard, Shaun Evans	MIT Battlecode Programming Competition
MIT Battlecode Competition January 2009	Andew Tjia, Byron Knoll, Martin Lau	MIT Battlecode Programming Competition
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize January 2009	Yi Long Chen	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize January 2009	Robert Tseng	UBC Department of Computer Science
Make Web Not War PHP Competition January 2009	Carson Lam	Microsoft

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Research Prize, Senior Science Category January 2009	Alla Sheffer, David Lowe , Ronald Rensink	UBC VP Research

2012

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Microsoft Scholarship June 2012	Maria Piao	Microsoft
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2012	Joyce Cheung	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize May 2012	Minyang Han	UBC Department of Computer Science

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2012	Cheryl Lau	UBC Department of Computer Science
Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award April 2012	Bruno da Silva

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

2005

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Microsoft Research University Relations Program January 2005	Kris De Volder	Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research University Relations Program January 2005	Eric Wohlstadter (162)	Microsoft Research
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

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Martin Frauendorf Memorial January 2005	Jonathan Luk	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Award January 2005	Andrew Gray	UBC Department of Computer Science

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

2019

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE) January 2019	Margo Seltzer	National Academy of Engineering

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2019	Giulia Mattia	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize May 2019	Yuping Wang	UBC Department of Computer Science

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Maria Klawe Service Award May 2019	Arden Allen, Kara Deane	UBC Department of Computer Science

2022

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2022	Sepand Dyanatkar Motaghed	UBC Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize May 2022	Michael Liu	UBC Computer Science

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Maria Klawe Service Award 2022 May 2022	Paulette Koronkevich	UBC Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Research Prize March 2022	Mark Schmidt, Raymond Ng	UBC

2023

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2023	Lily Lin
Markus Meister Memorial Prize May 2023	Floria Gu
Laura Huber Memorial Award for Women in Video Gaming May 2023	Floria Gu	Electronic Arts

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Maria Klawe Service Award 2023 May 2023	Alexa Gogoescu, Sarah Wong	UBC Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Lifetime Achievement Award May 2023	Alan Mackworth	CS-Can/INFO-CAN
Killam Research prize in Science March 2023	Cristina Conati	Faculty of Science

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Teaching Prize April 2023	Margo Seltzer	UBC

2021

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize June 2021	Daphne Liu	UBC Computer Science
Maria Klawe Service Award 2021 June 2021	Ayman Azhar, Kiki Hsieh	UBC Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Markus Meister Memorial Prize June 2021	David Louie	UBC Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Killam Research Fellowship April 2021	Mark Schmidt	UBC
Killam Accelerator Research Fellowships March 2021	Leonid Sigal	UBC

2020

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize 2019 June 2020	Arden Allen	UBC Department of Computer Science

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Maria Klawe Service Award 2019 June 2020	Aiden (Phoenix) Synkova, Daphne Liu, Noa Heyl	UBC Department of Computer Science

2004

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize January 2004	Kimberly Tee	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize January 2004	Kevin Hsin Yin Lin	UBC Department of Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Li Tze Fong Memorial Fellowship January 2004	Brad Bingham	UBC Department of Computer Science

2006

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize January 2006	Renee Cheung	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize January 2006	Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng	UBC Department of Computer Science

2017

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2017	Albert Xing, Alfred Xing	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize May 2017	Pang Chieh (Jason) Chiu	UBC Department of Computer Science

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

2024

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