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March 20, 2023

Dr. Cristina Conati, Professor of Computer Science at UBC and Distinguished Scholar at the UBC Sauder School of Business, has been awarded a UBC 2022 Killam…

May 31, 2021

When a renowned professor who is expert in her field of research wins a significant achievement award, one could presume she’s had a lifelong love for that area…

May 12, 2021

It was July 2017 when UBC Professor Laks V.S. Lakshmanan was invited by his colleague abroad — Professor Reynold Cheng — to visit the University of Hong Kong…

February 3, 2021

Kellogg Booth does not possess an undergraduate degree in computer science. Never has, never will. Yet he’s just won a 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from CS…

An Overview

The UBC Department of Computer Science (UBC CS) has a strong research presence, where we are consistently in the top 3 in Canada, and have 24 different research groups. Our research, conducted by research-stream faculty and hundreds of graduate

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January 7, 2021

What do four UBC computer science researchers have in common with the musician, Sting? They have all been obsessed with watching and understanding every single…

December 15, 2020

UBC Computer Science Professor Alla Sheffer will be inducted as an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE) Fellow, effective January 1, 2021…

June 4, 2018

Computer Science Professor Joanna McGrenere has been awarded an Inria & Université Paris Sud International Research Chair. Joanna will spend 12 months over a 5…

November 24, 2011

David Lowe wins the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) "Test of Time" Award for his 1999 paper " Object Recognition from Local Scale-Invariant…

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research award

Dr. Cristina Conati receives the UBC Killam Research Prize in Science

Bridging the gap: Dr. Tamara Munzner wins an Achievement Award in Visualization/HCI

Laks V.S. Lakshmanan wins SIGMOD Research Highlight Award

A lifetime of achievement for Dr. Kellogg Booth

An Overview

Every step they took led to SCA Best Paper Award

Professor Alla Sheffer named IEEE Fellow

CS Professor Joanna McGrenere awarded Inria & Université Paris Sud International Research Chair

David Lowe Wins 2011 ICCV Test-of-Time Award