Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2005

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Faculty Research Fellowship January 2005	Gail Murphy	Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund
ICMI 2005 January 2005	Chalapati, David Lowe , MacLean, Tang, A.	7th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI '05), (Trento, Ital…
IBM Faculty Award of Innovation January 2005	Gail Murphy	IBM
IBM Faculty Award of Innovation January 2005	Gregor Kiczales	IBM
IBM Faculty Award of Innovation January 2005	Kris De Volder	IBM
IBM Faculty Award January 2005	Joanna McGrenere	IBM
IBM CAS Student of the Year January 2005	Kuan-Chieh Tseng	IBM CAS
IBM CAS - Canadian Pioneers in Computing January 2005	Jim Varah (183), Paul Gilmore (184), Richard Rosenberg (182)	IBM CAS

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Greer Family Scholarship January 2005	Kevin Kar Wai Lai, Wei-Lung Dustin Tseng	CS Alumni sponsored - Greer Family

2016

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IVA Best Paper Award September 2016	Cristina Conati, Sebastien Lalle	International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
ICSE-10 Most Influential Paper 10 Years Later Award May 2016	Gail Murphy, John Anvik, Lyndon Hiew	ICS

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Greer Family Scholarship May 2016	Adrian She, Victoria Loewen	UBC Department of Computer Science

2007

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IUI Best Paper Award January 2007	Andrea Bunt, Cristina Conati, Joanna McGrenere	IUI Conference Homepage
International SAT Competition 2007 January 2007	Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu	SAT Competition
International Conference Intelligent User Interfaces January 2007	Andrea Bunt, Cristina Conati, Joanna McGrenere	ACM IUI Conference
ICCV 2007: Marr Prize January 2007	Abhijeet Ghosh, Matthew O'Toole, Shruthi Achutha, Steve Wolfman	ICCV 2007

2009

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ITS 2009 SMART Table Application Design Contest January 2009	Brad Swerdfeger, Jennifer Fernquist	Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2009 Conference
Intelligent Systems Challenge January 2009	Adam Williams	Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association
Imagine Cup January 2009	Byron Knoll	Imagine Cup
Governor General's Silver Medal in Science January 2009	Timothy Au-yeung	Governor General of Canada

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
International SAT Competition 2009 January 2009	Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu	International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing …
IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize 2009 January 2009	David Poole, Holger H. Hoos	Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Graduate TA Award January 2009	Alexander Izsak , Bradley Swerdfeger , Elan Dubrofsky , Jiemin Zhang , Kevin Swersky, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan, Peter Selby , Thomas Hazelton , Tomas Hofmann	UBC Department of Computer Science

2021

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ISAL Award for Outstanding Publication of 2020 January 2021	Jeff Clune
Impact Recognition Award October 2021	Ashish Chopra, Dongwook Yoon, Ivan Beschastnikh, Morgan Mo, Samuel Dodson	Computer-supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Greer Family Scholarship 2021 June 2021	David Louie, Victor Wang	UBC Computer Science

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards June 2021	Ali Mohammed Mehr, Amir Tootooni, Basima Spindari, Lily Bryant, Nam Hee Kim, Nicholas Hu, Paul Bucci, Preeti Vyas, Rubinder Nagi, Shivam Thukral, Tianxin Tao	UBC Computer Science

2018

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
iQmetrix Service Award for Women in Computer Science May 2018	Sally Pang	UBC Department of Computer Science
GROW Service Award for Women in Computer Science May 2018	Jeanie Suparman	UBC Department of Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
INFORMS Franz Edelman Achievement Award May 2018	Alexandre Frechette, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Neil Newman	INFORMS
IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award January 2018	Gail Murphy	IEEE
IEEE Data Science and Advanced Analytics Conference Best Research Paper Award October 2018	Laks V.S. Lakshmanan	IEEE DSAA

2019

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
iQmetrix Service Award for Women in Computer Science May 2019	Giulia Mattia, Hannah Lin	UBC Department of Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IJCAI 2019 Workshop Best Paper Award August 2019	Cristina Conati, Shane Sims, Vanessa Putnam	IJCAI
IEEE Vis Test of Time Award October 2019	Hamish Carr, Jack Snoeyink, Michiel van de Panne	IEEE VIS
IEEE Vis Test of Time Award October 2019	Tamara Munzner	IEEE VIS
IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy October 2019	Tamara Munzner	IEEE VGTC
ICML Best Paper Honourable Mention June 2019	Frank Wood	International Conference on Machine Learning

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Greer Family Scholarship May 2019	Chenliang Zhou, Jerry Yin	UBC Department of Computer Science

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
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

2014

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Best Paper Award July 2014	Cristina Conati, Dereck Toker, Giuseppe Carenini, Michael Wu	International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
ICVGIP Best Paper Award December 2014	Dinesh Pai	ICVGIP
ICICS Graduate Scholarship June 2014	Seyed Mehran Kazemi	ICICS
Humboldt Research Award September 2014	Wolfgang Heidrich	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Grace Hopper Celebration Technical Leadership ABIE Award August 2014	Anne Condon	Anita Borg Institute

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Governor General's Silver Medal Academic Award of Excellence May 2014	Ron Estrin	Governor General of Canada

2023

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Incredible Instructor Awards May 2023	Chen Greif, Jeff Clune, Karina Mochetti, Meghan Allen, Tamara Munzner, William J. Bowman
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

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IEEE VIS Service Award October 2023	Tamara Munzner	IEEE VIS
IEEE InfoVIS Test of Time Award October 2023	Matthew Brehmer, Tamara Munzner	IEEE VIS 2023

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Greer Family Scholarship May 2023	Artun Duman, Dora Qi
Governor General's Silver Medal Award in Science May 2023	Sophie Greenwood	Governor General's Office

2002

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Incredible Instructor Award April 2002	Kellogg Booth	UBC Computer Science

2001

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Incredible Instructor Award December 2001	Kellogg Booth	UBC Computer Science

2010

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IJCAII-JAIR Best Paper Award December 2010	Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu	JAIR
IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize 2010 December 2010	Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown	JAIR
ICSE ACM Student Research Competition December 2010	Thomas Fritz, Zvonimir Rakamaric	ACM
IBM Faculty Award December 2010	Andrew Warfield	IBM CAS Canada Research
Human Frontier Science Program Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship Award December 2010	Peter Carbonetto	Human Frontier Science Program

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Graduate TA Award December 2010	Anseok Joo, Bruno da Silva, Dan Li, Jimmy Wong, Jonatan Schroeder, Kuljeet Singh, Ron Maharik, Shantanu Gramsci	UBC Department of Computer Science
Graduate TA Award May 2010	Andrej Karpathy, Ben Jones, Diane Tam, Hajir Roozbehani, Jiarui Ding, Mark Spear, Oliver Schneider, Tao Su, Will Chao	UBC Department of Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Governor-General Silver Medal in Science December 2010	Cedric Lin	Governor General of Canada

2013

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award July 2013	David Matheson, Masrour Zoghi, Nando de Freitas, Ziyu Wang	IJCAI
ICSE Most Influential Paper Award May 2013	Gail Murphy	ICSE

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation Outstanding Service Award December 2013	Alan Hu	IEEE
IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation Outstanding Service Award December 2013	Alan Hu	IEEE Council Outstanding Service Award story

2015

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award October 2015	Tamara Munzner	IEEE VIS Conference

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Governor General's Silver Medal Academic Award of Excellence May 2015	Xue Bin (Jason) Peng	Governor General of Canada

2022

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IEEE VIS Test of Time Award October 2022	Tamara Munzner	IEEE VIS
IEEE Senior Member May 2022	Kwang Moo Yi	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEEE Fellow December 2022	Tamara Munzner	IEEE
IEEE Fellow December 2022	Karon MacLean	IEEE

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Greer Family Scholarship 2022 May 2022	Floria Gu, Sophie Greenwood	UBC Computer Science

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards May 2022	Braxton Hall, Devyani McLaren, Dylan Green, Finn Hackett, Jordan Lovrod, Sang-Wha Sien	UBC Computer Science

2008

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IEEE Haptics Symposium Best Paper Award January 2008	Karon MacLean, Mario Enriquez	IEEE Haptics Symposium
IBM Faculty Award January 2008	Alan Hu	IBM
Human Frontier Science January 2008	Dinesh Pai	Human Frontier Science Program

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Graduate TA Teaching Award January 2008	Dutch Meyer	UBC VP Academic

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Governor General's Silver Medal in Science January 2008	Jackie Cheung	Governor General of Canada

2020

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IEEE Fellow November 2020	Alla Sheffer	IEEE

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Greer Family Scholarship 2019 June 2020	Chen Hang, Hayden McTavish	UBC Department of Computer Science
Governor General’s Silver Medal June 2020	Chenliang Zhou	University of British Columbia

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Graduate TA Awards 2020 June 2020	Adrian Lindsay, Jinfan Yang, Joey Eremondi, Matt Dietrich, Mohammed Suhail, Prithu Banerjee, Si Yi Meng, Surya Koppisetti, Xinhong (Sam) Liu, Zixuan Yin	UBC Department of Computer Science

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Graduate Student Service Award 2019 July 2020	Swati Goswami	UBC Department of Computer Science

2006

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control January 2006	Claire Tomlin, Ian Mitchell, Meeko Oishi, Patrick Saint-Pierre	IEEE CDC
IBM Faculty Award January 2006	Alla Sheffer	IBM

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IBM Master the Mainframe Contest January 2006	Zephyr Zhangbo Liu	IBM

2011

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ICICS Graduate Scholarship July 2011	Joshua Litven
ICCV Test-of-Time Award November 2011	David Lowe	International Conference on Computer Vision
ICCP Best Paper Award March 2011	Wolfgang Heidrich	ICCP 2011

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Graduate TA Award May 2011	Alexandru Totolici, Brent Boerlage, Julius Davies, Marcos Ginestra, Mark Spear, Michael Chiang, Nathan Taylor, Nuray Dindar, Shathel Haddad	UBC Department of Computer Science

2004

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
IBM Faculty Award January 2004	Joanna McGrenere	IBM
IBM CAS Fellowship January 2004	Mik Kersten	IBM

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Greer Family Scholarship January 2004	Yue (Virginia) Chen	UBC Department of Computer Science
Greer Family Scholarship January 2004	Ka Chi (Gary) Poon	UBC Department of Computer Science

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Graduate Student T.A. Awards January 2004	Tany Ellchuk	UBC Department of Computer Science
Graduate Student T.A. Awards January 2004	Joseph Luk	UBC Department of Computer Science
Graduate Student T.A. Awards January 2004	Micheline Manske	UBC Department of Computer Science
Graduate Student T.A. Awards January 2004	Mark Crowley	UBC Department of Computer Science
Graduate Student T.A. Awards January 2004	Paul Cook	UBC Department of Computer Science