Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2019

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC Department of Computer Science Academic Award of Excellence (BUCS) May 2019	Clara Chu	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Department of Computer Science Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Majors) May 2019	Nam Hee Kim	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Department of Computer Science Academic Award of Excellence (Honours) May 2019	Jerry Yin	UBC Department of Computer Science

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC Killam Graduate TA Award April 2019	Susanne Bradley	UBC VP Academic
UBC Killam Teaching Prize April 2019	Elisa Baniassad	UBC Vice President Academic

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
AAAI Senior Member February 2019	Cristina Conati	Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
UBC Killam Research Prize February 2019	Tamara Munzner	UBC Research & Innovation
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Honourable Mention January 2019	Chris Yoon	CRA
Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE) January 2019	Margo Seltzer	National Academy of Engineering

2018

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM MIG Best Paper Award December 2018	Michiel van de Panne, Xinyi Zhang	ACM MIG
NeurIPS 2018 Best Paper Award December 2018	Christopher Liaw, Nick Harvey	NeurIPS
ACM Distinguished Member November 2018	Kevin Leyton-Brown	ACM
IEEE Data Science and Advanced Analytics Conference Best Research Paper Award October 2018	Laks V.S. Lakshmanan	IEEE DSAA
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada September 2018	Uri Ascher	Royal Society of Canada
PNSS Best Paper Award September 2018	Holger H. Hoos, Yasha Pushak	Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization July 2018	Mark Schmidt	SIAM
INFORMS Franz Edelman Achievement Award May 2018	Alexandre Frechette, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Neil Newman	INFORMS
ACM CHI Best Paper Award April 2018	Francesco Vitale, Izabelle Janzen, Joanna McGrenere	ACM CHI
Alain Fournier PhD Dissertation Award March 2018	Boris Dalstein	Graphics Interface
CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award March 2018	Alla Sheffer	Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society
CS-Can/Info-Can Outstanding Young Computer Science Research Prize March 2018	Reid Holmes	CS-Can/Info-Can
CS-Can/Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award February 2018	David Kirkpatrick	CS-Can/Info-Can
AAAI Fellow January 2018	Kevin Leyton-Brown	AAAI
IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award January 2018	Gail Murphy	IEEE

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2018 Faculty of Science Excellence in Service Award November 2018	Trey Schiefelbein	UBC Faculty of Science
UBC Computer Science CS 50 Team Award June 2018	Alan Mackworth, Anne Condon, J. Yue, Jade Wang, Joël Pittet, Michele Ng, Michiel van de Panne, Tamara Munzner	UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Faculty Mentoring Award June 2018	Alla Sheffer	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Going Above and Beyond) June 2018	Tim Li	UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Supporting Research) June 2018	Hermie Lam	UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Supporting Students) June 2018	Trey Schiefelbein	UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Undergraduate Team Award June 2018	Celina Berg, Donald Acton, Ed Knorr, Eka Nagatani, George Tsiknis, Giuliana Villegas, Helena Merrell, Ian Mitchell, Mike Feeley, Norm Hutchinson, Patrice Belleville, Paul Carter, Sarah Lee, Steve Wolfman, Trey Schiefelbein	UBC Computer Science
GROW Service Award for Women in Computer Science May 2018	Jeanie Suparman	UBC Department of Computer Science
iQmetrix Service Award for Women in Computer Science May 2018	Sally Pang	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award May 2018	Bahare Fatemi, Clement Fung	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award May 2018	Allan Leung, Andrea Park, Bahar Heravi Moussavi, Chanbin Lee, Charmaine Lee, Christine Cheng, Gora Kong, Janet Poon, Jeff Xiao, Joy Zhang, Lironne Kurzman, Lotus Zhang, Noah Heyl	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Dean of Science Excellence in Service Award January 2018	Anne Condon	UBC Faculty of Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC Governor General's Gold Medal June 2018	Jason Peng	UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Broadridge Financial Solutions Award for Women in Computer Science May 2018	Laura Barton	UBC Department of Computer Science
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2018	Jinny Byun	UBC Department of Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize May 2018	Aaron Mishkin	UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2018	Finn Hackett	UBC Department of Computer Science
Rajan Family Award in Computer Science May 2018	Mandy Chen, Oliver Zhang	UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Summer Internship May 2018	Chris Yoon, Kevin Chow, Raunak Kumar, Rui (Ray) Ning Wu	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BA) May 2018	Min Sang Park	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BCS) May 2018	Sean Vanbergen	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BUCS) May 2018	Wen Chia Hu	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (COGS) May 2018	Shihui Liang	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Honours) May 2018	Oliver Zhang	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Majors) May 2018	Rachel Stiyer	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Honours) May 2018	Aaron Mishkin	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Majors) May 2018	Zixuan Yin	UBC Department of Computer Science

Teaching
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC Computer Science Department 2017 Faculty Teaching Award May 2018	Elisa Baniassad, Jonatan Schroeder, Mark Schmidt, Michael Gelbart, Reid Holmes, William Evans	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Graduate TA Award May 2018	Adrian Lindsay, Clement Fung, Daniel Almeida, Devon Graham, Felipe Andres Banados Schwerter, Giovanni Viviani, Xing Zeng	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Undergraduate TA Award May 2018	Adam Jozefiak, Adrian She, Ben Chugg, Daphne Bliss-Rosval, Emily Fuchs, Harwin Mienata, James Yoo, Keavan Andreassen, Zhi Ting (Jessica) Yang	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Killam Graduate TA Award May 2018	Jordon Johnson	UBC Vice President Academic

2017

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM Fellow December 2017	Gail Murphy	ACM
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award December 2017	Ahmad Shikib Mehri , Kevin Chow, Raunak Kumar	CRA
DNA Computing And Molecular Programming Conference Best Student Paper Award October 2017	Anne Condon, Mark Schmidt, Nasim Zolaktaf	DNA Computing And Molecular Programming Conference
UAI Best Student Paper Award October 2017	David Buchman, David Poole	UAI
ACM SIGGRAPH SCA Best Student Paper Award August 2017	Michiel van de Panne, Xue Bin Peng	ACM SIGGRAPH
Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists August 2017	Joanna McGrenere	Royal Society of Canada
ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award July 2017	Felix Heide	ACM SIGGRAPH
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship June 2017	Yasha Pushak	Government of Canada
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award May 2017	Gail Murphy	International Conference on Program Comprehension
CS-Can/Info-Can Outstanding Young Computer Science Research Prize March 2017	Nick Harvey	CS-Can/Info-Can
Sloan Research Fellow February 2017	Mark Schmidt	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Undergrad Achievement
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BUCS) June 2017	Henry Chee	UBC Department of Computer Science
Governor General's Silver Medal Academic Award of Excellence May 2017	Pang Chieh (Jason) Chiu	Governor General of Canada
Markus Meister Memorial Prize May 2017	Pang Chieh (Jason) Chiu	UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize May 2017	Albert Xing, Alfred Xing	UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Summer Internship May 2017	Patience Shyu	UBC Department of Computer Science
SIMBA Technologies Award May 2017	Angela Chen, Laura Barton, Michelle Findlay-Olynyk	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BA) May 2017	Dylan Michael Basdeo	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BCS) May 2017	Lauren Coombe	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BUCS) May 2017	Henry Chee	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (COGS) May 2017	Michelle Ming Gee Wong	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Honours) May 2017	Yi Fan Yang	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Majors) May 2017	Tae Yun Kim	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Honours) May 2017	Soo Ning Sarah Yeo	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Majors) May 2017	Pang Chieh (Jason) Chiu	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Wesbrook Scholar April 2017	Alice Fredine	UBC

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
UBC Computer Science Department Faculty Teaching Award May 2017	Anthony Estey, Celina Berg, Gregor Kiczales, Ivan Beschastnikh, Meghan Allen, Rachel Pottinger	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Graduate Teaching Assistant Award May 2017	Adnan Reza, Andrew Karpierz, Halldor Thorhallsson, Izabelle Janzen, Susanne Bradley, Tian Qi (Ricky) Chen	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Undergraduate TA Award May 2017	Alec Theriault, Andrew Bates, Grace Liang, Jonathan Budiardjo, Ksenia Pinski, Laura Barton, Nadine Bolotov, Oliver Zhang, Phoenix Song, Raunak Kumar, Ryan Razavi, Tom Jin	UBC Department of Computer Science
2016 Killam Teaching Award April 2017	Jessica Dawson	UBC VP Academic and Provost

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Maria Klawe Endowment Award May 2017	Hasti Seifi, Sampoorna Biswas	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award May 2017	Paul Liu	UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award May 2017	Caledonia Thomson, Erica Lin, Lisa Wong, Paul Cernek, Wesley Berry	UBC Department of Computer Science
2017 Dean of Science Excellence in Service March 2017	Jessica Wrinskelle	UBC Faculty of Science
UBC Dean of Science Excellence in Service Award January 2017	Patrice Belleville	UBC Faculty of Science

2016

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2016 ACM Distinguished Scientist December 2016	Laks V.S. Lakshmanan	ACM
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award December 2016	Khurram Ali Jafery , Xi Bei She	Computer Research Association (CRA)
IVA Best Paper Award September 2016	Cristina Conati, Sebastien Lalle	International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Web3D Best Paper Award July 2016	Anurag Ranjan, Debang a Raj Neog, Dinesh Pai, Joao Cardoso	International Conference on 3D Web Technology
Web3D Best Paper Award For Real-Time Eye Simulation July 2016	Dinesh Pai	International Conference on 3D Web Technology
Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award June 2016	Kellogg Booth	Conference on Graphics, Visualization and HCI

Service
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
UBC Dean Of Science Excellence In Service Awards December 2016	Jessica Wrinskelle	UBC Faculty of Science
UBC Dean Of Science Excellence In Service Awards December 2016	Patrice Belleville	UBC Faculty of Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Team Award) July 2016	Agnes Pak, Betty Cho, Constance Wun, Girish Chandra, Victoria Poon	UBC Computer Science