Faculty of Science Computer Science

Awards

2018

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
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

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

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	Canadian Human-Computer Communication Society
Canadian Human-Computer Communication Society Achievement Award June 2016	Michiel van de Panne	Conference on Graphics, Visualization and HCI
ICSE-10 Most Influential Paper 10 Years Later Award May 2016	Gail Murphy, John Anvik, Lyndon Hiew	ICS
UBC Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference Poster Competition 2nd Prize April 2016	Tom Jin	UBC MURC
National Collegiate Research Conference Poster Competition February 2016	Eviatar Bach	National Collegiate Research Conference
Charles McDowell Award January 2016	Kevin Leyton-Brown	UBC
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Finalists January 2016	Alison Clark, Caroline Lemieux	CRA
UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship January 2016	Joanna McGrenere	UBC

2015

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ESEM Best Paper Award October 2015	Ivan Beschastnikh
IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award October 2015	Tamara Munzner	IEEE VIS Conference
Royal Society of Canada Fellow September 2015	Gail Murphy	Royal Society of Canada
SCA Best Paper Award August 2015	Kai Ding, KangKang Yin, Libin Liu, Michiel van de Panne	Symposium on Computer Animation
SCA Best Paper Award August 2015	Benjamin Humberston, Dinesh Pai	Symposium on Computer Animation
SCA Best Poster Award August 2015	Dinesh Pai	Symposium on Computer Animation
SIGGRAPH Laval Virtual Award August 2015	Wolfgang Heidrich	SIGGRAPH 2015
First Place, World Haptics 2015 Student Innovation Challenge June 2015	Brenna Li, Gordon Minaker, Oliver Schneider, Paul Bucci	IEEE World Haptics Conference 2015
NAMRC Outstanding Paper June 2015	Alla Sheffer	International Manufacturing Research Conference
ACM ICSE Student Research Competition May 2015	Caroline Lemieux	ACM ICSE
ACM TiiS Best Paper Award May 2015	Ben Steichen, Cristina Conati, Giuseppe Carenini	ACM TiiS
AOSA Most Influential Paper Award March 2015	Gail Murphy	AOSA
Oscar Technical Achievement Award February 2015	Rook Bridson	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

2014

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellow December 2014	Holger H. Hoos	AAAI
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award December 2014	Caroline Lemieux	CRA
ICVGIP Best Paper Award December 2014	Dinesh Pai	ICVGIP
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (FSE) November 2014	Darioush Jalali, Gordon Fraser, Laura Inozemtseva, Michael D. Ernst, Reid Holmes, René Just	Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)
Humboldt Research Award September 2014	Wolfgang Heidrich	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Award Honourable Mention August 2014	Ron Estrin	CRA
Grace Hopper Celebration Technical Leadership ABIE Award August 2014	Anne Condon	Anita Borg Institute
International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Best Paper Award July 2014	Cristina Conati, Dereck Toker, Giuseppe Carenini, Michael Wu	International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (ICSE) June 2014	Laura Inozemtseva, Reid Holmes	International Conference on Software Engineering
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards June 2014	Carol Huang	CRA
ICICS Graduate Scholarship June 2014	Seyed Mehran Kazemi	ICICS
Motion Metrics/ICICS Graduate Scholarship June 2014	Dereck Toker	ICICS
University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering Alumni Achievement Award June 2014	Gail Murphy	University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship May 2014	Yanyan Zhuang	NSERC
CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award March 2014	Kevin Leyton-Brown	CACS/AIC
Steacie Memorial Fellowship February 2014	Kevin Leyton-Brown	NSERC
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award January 2014	Ron Estrin	CRA

2013

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM SIGGRAPH/EG Best Paper Honorable Mention December 2013	Michiel van de Panne, Shailen Agrawal	ACM SIGGRAPH/EG
Motion in Games Conference Best Paper Award December 2013	Michiel van de Panne, Shailen Agrawal, Shuo Shen	Motion in Games Conference
IEEE Distinguished Paper Award (WCRE) October 2013	Michael W. Godfrey, Oleksii Kononenko, Olga Baysal, Reid Holmes	Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE)
AIJ Classic Paper Award August 2013	Alan Mackworth	AIJ
IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award July 2013	David Matheson, Masrour Zoghi, Nando de Freitas, Ziyu Wang	IJCAI
CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award June 2013	David Poole	CAIAC
Eurographics Fellow June 2013	Wolfgang Heidrich	Eurographics Association
UMAP Best Paper Award June 2013	Cristina Conati, Samad Kardan	UMAP
ICSE Most Influential Paper Award May 2013	Gail Murphy	ICSE
Alain Fournier Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation April 2013	Tyson Brochu	Alain Fournier Memorial Fund
Microsoft SEIF Award April 2013	Joanna McGrenere	Microsoft Research
Alfred Sloan Research Fellowship February 2013	Nick Harvey	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
CACS Outstanding Young Computer Science Research Prize February 2013	Michael Friedlander	Canadian Association of Computer Science
Charles McDowell Award February 2013	Nando de Freitas	UBC VP Research & International
UBC Killam Research Fellowship February 2013	Cristina Conati	UBC VP Research & International
UBC Killam Research Prize February 2013	Dinesh Pai	UBC VP Research & International

2012

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
ACM Fellow December 2012	Gregor Kiczales	ACM
Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design October 2012	Nick Harvey	NSERC CRC
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada September 2012	Anne Condon	Royal Society of Canada
Best AI Masters Thesis Award July 2012	Martin Lesmana	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award July 2012	Albert Xin Jiang	International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
BC TIA's 'Emerging Company of the Year' Award June 2012	Gail Murphy
SATzilla Challenge June 2012	Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Jonathan Shen, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Lin Xu	SAT Challenge
ACM-EC Best Student Paper Award May 2012	Kevin Leyton-Brown	ACM EC
CAIAC Doctoral Dissertation Awards May 2012	Albert Xin Jiang	Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Peter Wall Institute Early Career Scholar May 2012	Kevin Leyton-Brown	UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advance Studies
Faculty of Science Graduate Prize April 2012	Ron Maharik	UBC Faculty of Science
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement April 2012	Alla Sheffer, Dinesh Pai, Joanna McGrenere	NSERC
Alain Fournier Ph.D Thesis Award March 2012	Gordon Wetzstein
Best Paper at 2012 Haptics Symposium March 2012	Karon MacLean, Louise Oram, Vincent Levesque	IEEE Haptics Symposium
CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize March 2012	Joanna McGrenere	CACS/AIC
Dahl-Nygaard Senior Prize March 2012	Gregor Kiczales	Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets
Sloan Research Fellowship February 2012	Andrew Warfield	Sloan Research Fellowship
Charles McDowell Award for Excellence in Research January 2012	Wolfgang Heidrich	UBC Office of the VP Research & International

2011

Research
Award	Recipient(s)	Organization
2011 Audi Production Award December 2011	Alla Sheffer	Audi
University of Washington Diamond Award December 2011	Anne Condon	College of Engineering, University of Washington