Awards
2023
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Bill Aiello Memorial Award in Computer Science |
Patrick Lee |
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| ASPLOS Distinguished Artifact Award |
Finn Hackett, Ivan Beschastnikh, Matthew Do, Renato Costa, Shayan Hosseini | ASPLOS 2023 |
| ACM SIG-KDD Research Track Test of Time Award |
Kevin Leyton-Brown | ACM SIG-KDD |
2004
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Best Young Researcher Award |
Michael Friedlander | First Mathematical Programming Society International Conference on Continuous O… |
| Best Paper Prize in Cognitive Vision |
A. Taleg, David Lowe , Jim Little, Kenji Okuma, Nando de Freitas | ECCV2004 |
| Best Paper Award ACM SIGMOD |
Raymond Ng | ACM |
| Best Paper Award |
Yuhan Cai | ACM |
| ATI Technologies Fellowship |
Abhijeet Gosh | ATI Technologies |
| Anita Borg Early Career Award |
Joanna McGrenere | Computing Research Association & Anita Borg Early Career Award |
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| ACM SIGMOD Undergraduate Scholarship |
Anoop Shankar | UBC Department of Computer Science |
| ACM Programming Competition Pacific Northwest Division |
Bartholomew Furrow, Coach Jonathan Backer, Frank Pok Man Chu, Igor Naverniouk | ACM |
| ACM Programming Competition Pacific Northwest Division |
Keith Dunwoody, Siamak Tazari , Yury Kholondyrev | ACM |
2011
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Best Student Paper Award, CPM 2011 |
Chris Thachuk | |
| Best Paper Award, CHI 2011 |
Karon MacLean, Louise Oram, Vincent Levesque | CHI |
| Best Paper Award at VLDB 2011 |
Andrew Warfield, Brendan Cully, Shriram Rajagopalan | VLDB 2011 |
| ACM/IEEE Human Robot Interaction Conference Best Paper Award |
Karon MacLean, Steve Yohanan | HRI |
| ACM Fellow |
Margo Seltzer | ACM |
2020
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Best Student Paper Award |
Cristina Conati, Shane D. Sims | ACM ICMI 2020 |
| Best Paper Award, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation |
Hung Yu Ling, Michiel van de Panne, Nam Hee Kim, Zhaoming Xie | ACM SIGGRAPH |
2010
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Best Poster Award, Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop |
Oana Sandu | NW-NLP 2010 |
| BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge |
Mahdi Tayarani Najaran | BCNET |
| Alain Fournier Award |
Tiberiu Popa | Alain Fournier Memorial Fund |
| ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award |
Gail Murphy | ACM SIGSOFT |
| ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award |
Thomas Fritz | ACM SIGSOFT |
| ACM Fellow |
Anne Condon | ACM |
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge |
Dan Ballard, Jonathan Tao | BCNET |
| ACM ICPC World Final |
Kuan-Chieh Tseng, Simon Aloysius Suyadi | ACM |
| ACM ICPC World Final |
Cedric Lin | ACM |
| ACM ICPC Regional Programming Contest |
Simon Aloysius Suyadi | ACM ICPC |
| ACM ICPC Regional Programming Contest |
Aram Ebtekar, Ayden Wong | ACM ICPC |
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award |
Kellogg Booth | ACM SIGGRAPH |
2021
2005
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Best Paper Award |
Anthony Tang, Karen Lowe, Karon MacLean, Peter McLachlan, Rao Chalapati | ICMI 2005 |
| Best Graduate Student Poster Award ACM Student Research - Siggraph 2005 |
Dan Julius, Tiberiu Popa | ACM |
| Best Graduate Student Poster Award - MITACS 2005 |
Stephane Durocher | MITACS |
| Best Graduate Student Paper Award |
Alena Shmygelska | ismb2005 |
| AITO Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize 2005 |
Gail Murphy | AITO |
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| ACM Intercollegiate Programming Competition - Pacific Northwest Division - First Place |
Dustin Tseng, Matthew Chan, Yury Kholondyrev | ACM-ICPC |
| ACM Intercollegiate Programming Competition - Pacific Northwest Division - First Place |
Bartholomew Furrow (coach), Dustin Wei Lung Tseng, Matthew Chan, Yury Kholondyrev | ACM-ICPC |
2022
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Best Paper Award |
Bingyao (Jerry) Wang, Margo Seltzer | EMSOFT |
| Best Paper Award |
Arpan Gujarati | IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2022) |
| ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award |
Alex Summers | ACM SIGPLAN (SPLASH) 2022 |
| ACM SIGOPS HotStorage 2022 Intel Best Paper Award |
Reto Achermann | HotStorage Workshop 2022 |
| ACM Fellow |
Alla Sheffer | ACM |
2012
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Best Paper at 2012 Haptics Symposium |
Karon MacLean, Louise Oram, Vincent Levesque | IEEE Haptics Symposium |
| Best AI Masters Thesis Award |
Martin Lesmana | Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence |
| BC TIA's 'Emerging Company of the Year' Award |
Gail Murphy | |
| Alain Fournier Ph.D Thesis Award |
Gordon Wetzstein | |
| ACM-EC Best Student Paper Award |
Kevin Leyton-Brown | ACM EC |
| ACM Fellow |
Gregor Kiczales | ACM |
2009
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| BCNET Faculty Recognition Award |
Donald Acton | BCNET |
| Association for Constraint Programming (ACP) Research Excellence Award |
Alan Mackworth | ACP |
| AI & Statistics 2009 Best Paper Award |
Ewout van den Berg, Gail Murphy, Mark Schmidt, Michael Friedlander | AI & Statistics |
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition |
Byron Knoll | ACM |
| ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition |
Robert Tseng , Simon Aloysius Suyadi | ACM |
| ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition |
Cedric Lin | ACM |
| ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition |
David Kurokawa, Kenneth Lui, Sandy Robertson | ACM |
| ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition |
Jason Chang, Martin Lau | ACM |
2007
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| BCNet Broadband Innovation Challenge |
Michael Woods | BCNet |
| ACM SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award |
Joanna McGrenere, Karyn Moffatt | SIGACCESS |
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| BCNet Broadband Innovation Challenge |
Afton Lewis, Kyle Porter, Patrick Colp | BCNet |
| ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division |
Kaitlin Sherwood, Patrick Nguyen | ACM |
| ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division |
Anton Likhtarov | ACM |
| ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division |
Chris Head, Robert Tseng, Simon Suyadi | ACM |
| ACM ICPC Regional - Pacific Northwest Division |
Andrew Thomson, Cedric Lin, Sandy Robertson | ACM |
2008
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| BCNet Broadband Innovation Challenge |
Brendan Cully | BCNet |
| Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship (Sponsored by Google) |
Pooja Viswanathan, Viann Chan | |
| Alain Fournier Thesis Award |
Abhijeet Ghosh | Vancouver Foundation Alain Fournier Memorial Fund |
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| ACM World Finals |
Anton Likhtarov | ACM |
| ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition |
Christopher Head, Robert Tseng, Simon Aloysius Suyadi | ACM |
| ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition |
Byron Knoll, Martin Lau | ACM |
| ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional Competition |
Jason Chang, Kenneth Lui, Reilly Wood | ACM |
2006
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| BC.NET Coolest Applications Contest Winners 2006 |
Anthony Yu, PhD, Camilo Rostoker, Msc, Xin Liu, PhD | BC.NET |
| APRU Business Plan Prize Competition (UBC) 2006 |
Mik Kersten | APRU |
| APRU "Extra Chapter Challenge" |
Mik Kersten | Association of Pacific Rim Universities - APRU |
| ACM International Conference on Software Engineering |
Gail Murphy, John Anvik, Lyndon Hiew | ICSE 2006 |
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| ACM SIGMOD/PODS Scholarship |
Morgan Gregory | UBC Department of Computer Science |
| ACM SIGMOD/PODS Scholarship |
ZhiWei (Tony) Qin | UBC Department of Computer Science |
| ACM Intercollegiate World Programming Finals (San Antonio Texas) |
Bartholomew Furrow (coach), Dustin Wei-Lung Tseng, Matthew Chan, Yury Kholondyrev | ACM-ICPC |
2014
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellow |
Holger H. Hoos | AAAI |
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Anita Borg Systers Pass-It-On Award |
Rebecca McKnight | Anita Borg Insitute |
2015
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| AOSA Most Influential Paper Award |
Gail Murphy | AOSA |
| ACM TiiS Best Paper Award |
Ben Steichen, Cristina Conati, Giuseppe Carenini | ACM TiiS |
| ACM ICSE Student Research Competition |
Caroline Lemieux | ACM ICSE |
2013
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Alfred Sloan Research Fellowship |
Nick Harvey | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Alain Fournier Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation |
Tyson Brochu | Alain Fournier Memorial Fund |
| AIJ Classic Paper Award |
Alan Mackworth | AIJ |
| ACM SIGGRAPH/EG Best Paper Honorable Mention |
Michiel van de Panne, Shailen Agrawal | ACM SIGGRAPH/EG |
2018
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Alain Fournier PhD Dissertation Award |
Boris Dalstein | Graphics Interface |
| ACM MIG Best Paper Award |
Michiel van de Panne, Xinyi Zhang | ACM MIG |
2019
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| AGE-WELL Honorary Fellow Award |
Alan Mackworth | AGE-WELL |
2017
| Award | Recipient(s) | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award |
Gail Murphy | International Conference on Program Comprehension |
| ACM SIGGRAPH SCA Best Student Paper Award |
Michiel van de Panne, Xue Bin Peng | ACM SIGGRAPH |
| ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award |
Felix Heide | ACM SIGGRAPH |
| ACM Fellow |
Gail Murphy | ACM |