Awards

2024

Research

Award Recipient(s) Organization
SOSP Distinguished Artifact Award
Reto Achermann 30th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
SOSP Distinguished Artifact Honourable Mention
Mathias Lécuyer 30th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
Best Paper Award
Margo Seltzer, Sadaf Sadeghian, Xiaoxiao Li MICCAI Workshop on Machine Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging
Google Academic Research Award
Dongwook Yoon Google Research
RSC Fellow
Margo Seltzer Royal Society of Canada
SIGDIAL Best Paper Award
Chuyuan Li , Giuseppe Carenini, Yuwei Yin Special Interest Group in Discourse and Dialogue
High Impact Award
Dongwook Yoon, Ido Roll, Joice Tang, Kyoungwon Seo, Sidney Fels ETHE 2024 (International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education)
Best Paper Award
Jeff Clune ICML 2024 (International Conference on Machine Learning)
Genome BC Award
Raymond Ng Genome BC
2023 CHCCS/SCDHM Graphics Interface Early Career Researcher Award
Dongwook Yoon Graphics Interface Conference
ACM SIGGRAPH Academy
Dinesh Pai SIGGRAPH Academy
Best Paper Award
Dongwook Yoon, Luanne Sinnamon, Sahar Mavali, Sidney Fels CHI 2024
Best Paper Award
Dongwook Yoon, Luanne Sinnamon, Sidney Fels, Thitaree (Mint) Tanprasert CHI 2024
FSE Most Influential Paper Award
Darioush Jalali, Gordon Fraser, Laura Inozemtseva, Michael D. Ernst, Reid Holmes, René Just Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)
ICSE Most Influential Paper Award
Laura Inozemtseva, Reid Holmes International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
SIAM Fellow (2024)
Michael Friedlander Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
UBC Killam Research Prize in Sciences
Joanna McGrenere UBC Office of Awards & Prizes
AAAI Fellow
Cristina Conati AAAI Elected Fellows

Service

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Faculty Recruiting Support
Ana Kopic Drole, Annie Hu, Aryyn Keane, Brandon Nakasato, Carol Fung, Emily Fuchs, Giuliana Villegas, Holly Kwan, Jessica Choi, Jessica McKay, Lara Hall, Laura Selander, Marjan Molouk-Zadeh, Michaela Butler, Michele Ng, Michelle Lin, Nobu Kawaguchi, Parson Poon, Sharon Craddock, Vivian Leung UBC Computer Science
Fostering a Collegial Environment
Brandon Nakasato UBC Computer Science
Going Above and Beyond
Vivian Leung UBC Computer Science
Supporting Research Staff Award
Marjan Molouk-Zadeh UBC Computer Science
Supporting Students and/or Educational Programs Staff award
Jessie Pan UBC Computer Science
Team Award
Ben Chen, Parson Poon UBC Computer Science
Distinguished Reviewer Award
William J. Bowman OOPSLA Artifacts
Distinguished Reviewer Award
Alex Summers SPLASH 2024 OOPSLA
Bit Quill Technologies Award in Computer Science
Minh Anh Nguyen UBC Computer Science
Marie Klawe Service Award
Rubia Guerra, Sandra Radic UBC Computer Science
Student Community Building Awards
Laura Cang, Mara Solen, Paulette Koronkevich, Victor Sanches Portella UBC Computer Science
Rajan Family Award in Computer Science
Emilie Ma UBC Computer Science
Science Undergrad Society Community Impact Award
Women in Data Science (WiDS) Science Undergrad Society

Undergrad Achievement

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Award for Academic Excellence
Sebastian Gonzales UBC Computer Science
Bit Quill Technologies Award for Women in Computer Science
Taryn Wou UBC Computer Science
Student Community Building Awards for Undergraduates
Alexa Gogoescu, Angela Zhou, Carina Tze, Chloe Van, Kitty Yan, Moira Renata, Oliver Luo, Ryan Kim, Sarah Wong, Tara Ubovic, Yeojun Han UBC Computer Science
Accenture Leadership Award
Edric Antoine UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Jonathan Nah UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Romina Mahinpei UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Alexander Steele UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Sophia Chu UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Andrew Ting UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Oliver Cowley
Award for Academic Excellence
Jerry Xu UBC Computer Science
Bill Aiello Memorial Award in Computer Science
Alexander Steele UBC Computer Science
EA Award for Women in Video Gaming
Xinru Jiang UBC Computer Science
Greer Family Scholarship
Andrew Ting, Ron Friedman UBC Computer Science
Laura Huber Memorial Award for Women in Video Gaming
Hanting Du UBC Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize
Romina Mahinpei UBC Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize  
William Gervasio
Project to Product Award in Computer Science
Marvel Hariadi UBC Computer Science
ICPC North American Championship Bronze Medal
Binh Nguyen, Emily Gong (coach), Joel Gunawan, Vincent Ling, Xingyu Zhou (coach) ICPC
Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
Arvin Sahami Computing Research Association (CRA)

Teaching

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Faculty Teaching Awards
Aastha Mehta, Giulia Toti, Jessica Wong, Norm Hutchinson, Ronald Garcia, William Evans UBC Computer Science
Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards
Abner Turkieltaub, Alan Milligan, Betty Shea, Curtis Fox, Dylan Green, Frederik Kunstner, Guanxiong Chen, Kyle Chin, Laura Cang , Mara Solen, Paulette Koronkevich, Rocco Ruan, Rui Ge, Sarah Chen, Victor Portella UBC Computer Science
Undergraduate Teaching Assistants Awards
Alexander Steele, Charles Hu, Emily Chu, Harry Sadleir, Hung Dinh, Jeffrey Ho, Matthew Kang, Parsa Seyfourian, Ricky Lau, Shreyas Xen Goyal, Susan Chung, Victor Leung UBC Computer Science
2023

Service

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Faculty of Science Service Award
Paulette Koronkevich Faculty of Science
Faculty of Science Service Award
Reto Achermann Faculty of Science
Faculty of Science Service Award
Steve Wolfman UBC Faculty of Science
CS Faculty Mentoring Award
Alla Sheffer UBC Computer Science
Fostering a Collegial Environment
Bruno Mannella UBC Computer Science
Going Above and Beyond Award
Bruno Mannella, Dan Miner, Edward Chu, Gable Yeung, Giao Huynh, Hazita Harun, Koon Ming Lau, Michael Sanderson, Patrick Lai, Vilmos Soti, Vivian Leung UBC Computer Science
Maria Klawe Service Award 2023
Alexa Gogoescu, Sarah Wong UBC Computer Science
Project to Product Award in Computer Science
Lily Lin, Saurav Bhanna Planview (formerly Tasktop)
Rajan Family Award in Computer Science
Chloe Van
Student Community Building Award
Baraa Orabi, Finn Hackett , Gautam Luhana, Mara Solen , Paulette Koronkevic, Rubia Reis Guerra, Victor Sanches Portella
Student Community Building Awards for undergraduates
Anna Friesen, Michael de Marco, Shubh Balla, Taryn Wou
Supporting Research
Laura Selander, Michael Sanderson UBC Computer Science
Supporting Students and/or Educational Programs
Michele Ng UBC Computer Science

Research

Award Recipient(s) Organization
NSERC CRSNG Arthur B. MacDonald Fellowship award
Mark Schmidt NSERC Arthur B. McDonald Fellowships
Academic Data Leader List
Raymond Ng CDO Magazine
IEEE InfoVIS Test of Time Award
Matthew Brehmer, Tamara Munzner IEEE VIS 2023
IEEE VIS Service Award
Tamara Munzner IEEE VIS
SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award
Gail Murphy SIGSOFT
Royal Society of Canada Fellow
Kevin Leyton-Brown Royal Society of Canada
ACM SIG-KDD Research Track Test of Time Award
Kevin Leyton-Brown ACM SIG-KDD
Eurographics Fellow
Alla Sheffer Eurographics (European Association for Computer Graphics)
NORA Award: outstanding publication of the decade
Jeff Clune NORA
Outstanding Paper Award
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Md Tawkat Islam Khondaker, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed Workshop on Online Abuse and Harm (WOAH 2023), ACL 2023
SIGEVO Impact Award
Jeff Clune SIGEVO
ACM FAccT Best Paper Awrd
Danica Sutherland ACM FAccT
Distinguished Dissertation Award (2022)
Yasha Pushak CS-Can/INFO-CAN
Lifetime Achievement Award
Alan Mackworth CS-Can/INFO-CAN
ACM Athena Lecturer Award
Margo Seltzer ACM
Amazon Science Research Award
Thomas Pasquier Amazon
CAIMS Research Prize
Chen Greif CAIMS Research Prize
SIGCHI 2023 Honourable Mention
Charles Berret, Stephen Kasica, Tamara Munzner SIGCHI 2023

Teaching

Award Recipient(s) Organization
CS-Can/INFO-CAN Excellence in Teaching Award
Elisa Baniassad CSCan/InfoCan
Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards
Camilo Talero, Dylan Green, Francis Nguyen, Gregory d'Eon, Laura Cang , Paulette Koronkevich, Victor Sanches Portella, Xincheng Huang, Yilin Yang
Incredible Instructor Awards
Chen Greif, Jeff Clune, Karina Mochetti, Meghan Allen, Tamara Munzner, William J. Bowman
Undergraduate Teaching Assistants Awards
Al Yu, Benjamin Chang, Charles Lake, Eric Kuo, Jamie Ma, Keira Moore, Michael DeMarco, Patrick Lee, Susan Chung, Trevor Chan , Weihan Chen

Undergrad Achievement

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Bill Aiello Memorial Award in Computer Science
Patrick Lee
Bit Quill Technologies Award for Women in Computer Science
Kristine Gonzales, Yeojun Han Improving Vancouver (formerly Bit Quill)
Bit Quill Technologies Award in Computer Science 2022
James Shaw, Kara Deane Improving Vancouver (formerly Bit Quill)
Gary Kusin Award for Women in Video Gaming
Lisa Lin Electronic Arts
Governor General's Silver Medal Award in Science
Sophie Greenwood Governor General's Office
Greer Family Scholarship
Artun Duman, Dora Qi
Laura Huber Memorial Award for Women in Video Gaming
Floria Gu Electronic Arts
Markus Meister Memorial Prize
Floria Gu
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize  
Lily Lin
Rick Sample Memorial Award in Computer Science
Alan Milligan, Jessica Huang, Jordan Coil, Sandy Zhang
VanHacks Award in Computer Science
Emilie Ma