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If you have questions about the BCS (ICS) program, please contact bcs-info@cs.ubc.ca.

Steering Committee

The Bachelor of Computer Science Program is overseen by a steering committee that will meet periodically to review the program and to address concerns raised by students, alumni, faculty, and administration.

The steering committee consists of:

  • Steve Wolfman, BCS Director
  • Ed Knorr, former BCS Director
  • Paul Carter, former BCS Director
  • Ian Cavers, Associate Dean of Science and former BCS Director
  • Taivo Evard, BCS (ICS) Alumni
  • Michele Ng, Former Program Coordinator
  • Giuliana Villegas, Program Coordinator
Paul Kry (2005 Grad)
Looking back on his time as both a Master’s and Ph.D. student at UBC, Paul Kry is struck by the wealth of learning opportunities the department afforded him. Remembering tough courses in computational geometry, computational robotics, and advanced graphics, Paul notes that the UBC grad classes “were very well organized and easy to follow.”
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Felicity Foxx Herst (2009 Grad)
Felicity Foxx Herst, a dynamic young game designer with Silicon Sisters Interactive in Vancouver, is the daughter of a genomics researcher and a professional opera singer, Felicity grew up in a household devoted both to arts and sciences, so it’s perhaps no wonder that she gravitated toward a field that allows her to engage with her interests in both.
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Dorothy Cheung (2010 Grad)
Dorothy Cheung’s resume shows an impressive list of educational and professional accomplishments. She’s worked in a diversity of UBC-based and private sector labs in Vancouver, including labs in UBC’s departments of botany, biotechnology, and pediatrics, the Centre for Plant Research at the UBC
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Heidi Lam
Heidi Lam (2007 Grad)
Heidi Lam has an impressive string of academic credentials, but she laughs off any suggestion that she’s a super-achiever. Instead, she suggests with quiet, yet focused, determination that she’s been seeking the best way to develop her intellectual interests while being true to her personality. For Heidi, a software engineer at Google, this search to date has yielded impressive results.
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Hendrik Kueck (2010 Grad)
For CS alum Hendrik Kueck, founder of Pocket Pixels of Vancouver, BC, the iPhone display represents the intersection of his passion for aesthetics and his intellectual interest in problem-solving, mapped to his desire to merge the two in fun and functional apps for consumers.
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