Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2008

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CS Student Service Award for Volunteering January 2008	Pooja Viswanathan	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Student Service Award for Volunteering January 2008	Arash Malek , Eugene Chan	UBC Department of Computer Science

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CS Graduate TA Award January 2008	Bradley Atcheson, Dave Tompkins, Henry Ng, Hosna Jabbari, Jeffrey Hendy, Matt Baumann, Roman Holenstein , Tristram Southey	UBC Department of Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CS Academic Awards of Excellence January 2008	Jackie Cheung, Kevin Lai, Lan Wei, Matthew Dunham, Michael Chuang, Zhiwei Qin	UBC Department of Computer Science
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award January 2008	Christina Pop, Jackie Cheung, Kevin Lai	CRA

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CHCCS Achievement Award May 2008	Kellogg Booth	Canadian Human Computer Communications Society
Charles McDowell Award January 2008	Karon MacLean	UBC VP Research
Canadian AI Graduate Student Symposium Best Paper Award January 2008	Mark Crowley	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence

2006

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CS Graduate TA Award January 2006	Billy Cheung, David Tompkins, Kan Cai, Kevin Loken , Meghan Allen, Mike Dibernardo, Nels Anderson	UBC Department of Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CS Academic Award of Excellence - Combined Honours January 2006	Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - BCS(ICS) January 2006	Jeffrey Shih-Chieh Chu	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (Major degree) January 2006	Michael Tyrone Wong	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (Honours) January 2006	Anthony Wen Lung Lee	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (Honours program) January 2006	Anthony Wen Lung Lee	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (Combined Major) January 2006	Jennifer Clark	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (COGS) January 2006	Brad Marusiak	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (ARC) January 2006	Jody Anne Leblanc	UBC Department of Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CRA-W Anita Borg Early Career Award January 2006	Gail Murphy	ICSE 2006
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards January 2006	Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng	CRA
Cisco University Research Award January 2006	Alan Wagner	Cisco Academic Research & Technology Initiatives
CHI Best Paper Award January 2006	Joseph Luk, Jérôme Pasquero, McGill, Karon MacLean, Shannon Little, Vincent Hayward, McGill	CHI2006
Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision January 2006	Alex Shyr, Jim Little, Matt Griffin, Pantelis Elinas, Robert Sim,Ph.D Post-Doc	Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision
Canadian AI-2006 Best Paper Award January 2006	Dave Tompkins, Holger H. Hoos	Canadian AI-2006
Canada Research Chair - Tier 1 January 2006	Dinesh Pai	Canada Research Chair

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Canadian New Media Lifetime Achievement Award: John Demco January 2006	John Demco	Canadian New Media Awards

2007

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CS Graduate TA Award January 2007	Abhishek Gupta, Allan Rempel , Andrew Adam , Cheryl Lau , Garth Showmaker , Kaitlin Ducky Sherwood , Le Leif Chang , Matthew Hoffman , Michael Huggett	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Dept. Teaching Award April 2007	George Tsiknis, Gregor Kiczales, Joseph Luk, Mike Feeley, Steve Wolfman	UBC Department of Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CS Academic Award of Excellence - Combined Honours January 2007	Tracy Lau	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - BCS(ICS) January 2007	William Christopher Weston	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (Major degree) January 2007	Eng-Liang Ch'ng	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (Honours program) January 2007	Igor Ostrovsky	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (Combined Major) January 2007	Kevin Grant	UBC Department of Computer Science
CS Academic Award of Excellence - (COGS) January 2007	Alexander Merritt	UBC Department of Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards January 2007	Ana Pop	CRA
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards January 2007	Tracy Lau	CRA
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Best Student Paper Award January 2007	Alan Mackworth, Suling Yang	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence January 2007	Suling Yang	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence

2012

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CS Faculty Mentoring Award May 2012	Kellogg Booth	UBC Department of Computer Science
Chelsey Maher Receives Faculty of Science Achievement Award April 2012	Chelsey Maher	UBC Faculty of Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Charles McDowell Award for Excellence in Research January 2012	Wolfgang Heidrich	UBC Office of the VP Research & International
Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design October 2012	Nick Harvey	NSERC CRC
CAIAC Doctoral Dissertation Awards May 2012	Albert Xin Jiang	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize March 2012	Joanna McGrenere	CACS/AIC

2011

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CS Faculty Mentoring Award October 2011	Alan Mackworth	UBC Department of Computer Science

2022

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CS Faculty Mentoring Award June 2022	Steve Wolfman	UBC Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CRC Chair January 2022	Karon MacLean	CRC

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Broadridge Financial Solutions Award for Women in Computer Science May 2022	Brianna Dungate	Broadridge Financial Solutions
Bit Quill Technologies Award for Women in Computer Science May 2022	Lily Lin	Bit Quill Technologies Award
Bill Aiello Memorial Award in Computer Science May 2022	James Shaw	UBC Computer Science

2023

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CS Faculty Mentoring Award May 2023	Alla Sheffer	UBC Computer Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CAIMS Research Prize April 2023	Chen Greif	CAIMS Research Prize

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Bit Quill Technologies Award in Computer Science 2022 May 2023	James Shaw, Kara Deane	Improving Vancouver (formerly Bit Quill)
Bit Quill Technologies Award for Women in Computer Science May 2023	Kristine Gonzales, Yeojun Han	Improving Vancouver (formerly Bit Quill)

2014

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Award Honourable Mention August 2014	Ron Estrin	CRA
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award January 2014	Ron Estrin	CRA
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards June 2014	Carol Huang	CRA
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award December 2014	Caroline Lemieux	CRA
CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award March 2014	Kevin Leyton-Brown	CACS/AIC

2016

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Finalists January 2016	Alison Clark, Caroline Lemieux	CRA
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award December 2016	Khurram Ali Jafery , Xi Bei She	Computer Research Association (CRA)
Charles McDowell Award January 2016	Kevin Leyton-Brown	UBC
Canadian Human-Computer Communication Society Achievement Award June 2016	Michiel van de Panne	Conference on Graphics, Visualization and HCI
Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award June 2016	Kellogg Booth	Canadian Human-Computer Communication Society

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Computer Science Scholarship May 2016	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

2010

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award December 2010	Nicholas Fitzgerald	CRA
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards December 2010	Cedric Lin, Jamila Salari	CRA
CRA Nico Habermann Award December 2010	Anne Condon	CRA
CASCON Best Exhibit Award October 2010	Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng	IBC CASCON
CAIMS/SCMAI Research Prize December 2010	Uri Ascher	CAIMS
CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award December 2010	Alan Mackworth	CAIAC
CAIAC Inaugural Best Dissertation Award December 2010	Frank Hutter	CAIAC
Bio-IT Best Practices Award December 2010	Raymond Ng	Bio IT World

2004

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards January 2004	Grace Zheng, Kimberley Tee, Richard Liang	CRA
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Fellowship January 2004	David Lowe	CIFAR

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Computer Science Scholarship January 2004	Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng	CS Scholarships
Computer Science Scholarship January 2004	Wai-Poon Chok	UBC Department of Computer Science
CIPS Scholarships January 2004	Carol Huang	CIPS

2005

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards January 2005	Kenneth MacKay, Maryam Mahdaviani	CRA
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Stochastic Computation January 2005	Arnaud Doucet (138)	CRC
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Machine Learning and Computational Statistics January 2005	Kevin Murphy	CRC

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Computer Science Scholarship January 2005	Jackie Chi Kit	UBC Department of Computer Science
Computer Science Scholarship January 2005	Alexander Bradley, Edward Wing Dek Lui, Eng-Liang Ch'ng , Hirbod Moshfeghi, Raymond Sear Lim, Rick Chern, Tracy Lau, Virginia Yue	UBC Department of Computer Science
Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision 2005 January 2005	Fahong Li	2nd Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision

2019

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Honourable Mention January 2019	Chris Yoon	CRA
CHI 2019 Honorable Mention Award May 2019	Dongwook Yoon, Matin Yarmand	CHI 2019

2017

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award December 2017	Ahmad Shikib Mehri , Kevin Chow, Raunak Kumar	CRA

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CPSC 213 TA Team Awards May 2017	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

2009

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award January 2009	Christopher Head, Edward Lui, Samantha Leung	CRA
Co-op Student of the Year January 2009	Neil Thomas	UBC Faculty of Science

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CHI 2009 Best Paper Award January 2009	Jessica Dawson, Joanna McGrenere, Karyn Moffatt, Leah Findlater	CHI

2020

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CHI 2020 Honorable Mention Award March 2020	Karon MacLean, Robert Xiao, Soheil Kianzad, Yuxiang Huang	CHI 2020
CHI 2020 Best Paper Award April 2020	Karon MacLean, Sabrina Hauser	CHI 2020
CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award April 2020	Dinesh Pai	Graphics Interface

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Broadridge Financial Solutions Award for Women in Computer Science 2019 June 2020	Hannah Lin	Broadridge Financial Solutions

2018

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award March 2018	Alla Sheffer	Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Broadridge Financial Solutions Award for Women in Computer Science May 2018	Laura Barton	UBC Department of Computer Science

2013

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Charles McDowell Award February 2013	Nando de Freitas	UBC VP Research & International
CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award June 2013	David Poole	CAIAC
CACS Outstanding Young Computer Science Research Prize February 2013	Michael Friedlander	Canadian Association of Computer Science

2021

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Bill Aiello Memorial Award in Computer Science June 2021	Brianna Dungate, Mara Solen	UBC Computer Science