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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
2023

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
ASPLOS Distinguished Artifact Award
Finn Hackett, Ivan Beschastnikh, Matthew Do, Renato Costa, Shayan Hosseini ASPLOS 2023
Killam Research Prize in Science
Cristina Conati Faculty of Science
Outstanding Research Award SIGSOFT 2023
Gail Murphy SIGSOFT 2023
Journal of Computer Languages Best Paper Runner Up (COLA)
David Shepherd, Felipe Fronchetti, Igor Scaliante Wiese, Linxi Li, Mauricio Soto, Nico Ritschel, Raoul Jetley, Reid Holmes Journal of Computer Languages (COLA)
2022

Research
Award Recipient(s) Organization
ACM Distinguished Member
Joanna McGrenere ACM
ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award
Alex Summers ACM SIGPLAN (SPLASH) 2022
Best Paper Award
Arpan Gujarati IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2022)
IEEE Fellow
Karon MacLean IEEE
IEEE Fellow
Tamara Munzner IEEE
SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award
Gail Murphy SIGSOFT
Best Paper Award
Bingyao (Jerry) Wang, Margo Seltzer EMSOFT
IEEE VIS Test of Time Award
Tamara Munzner IEEE VIS
2022 Educational Data Mining Test of Time award
Cristina Conati Educational Data Mining Conference
ACM SIGOPS HotStorage 2022 Intel Best Paper Award
Reto Achermann HotStorage Workshop 2022
Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Honourable Mention
Michael Yin, Robert Xiao DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) 2022
Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Honourable Mention Award
Dongwook Yoon, Ning Ma, Oloff C. Biermann DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) 2022
SIGGRAPH Academy Member
Michiel van de Panne SIGGRAPH Academy
SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award
Michiel van de Panne SIGGRAPH
Distinguished Paper Award
Yanze Li International Conference on Software Engineering
IEEE Senior Member
Kwang Moo Yi Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Google Research Award
Mathias Lécuyer Google Research
SIAM Fellow
Chen Greif SIAM
Killam Research Prize
Mark Schmidt, Raymond Ng UBC
ACM Fellow
Alla Sheffer ACM
CRC Chair
Karon MacLean CRC
2021

Research
Award Recipient(s) Organization
Best Paper Award
Arpan Gujarati IEEE QRS 2021
Fellow of Royal Society of Canada
Raymond Ng Royal Society of Canada
Impact Recognition Award
Ashish Chopra, Dongwook Yoon, Ivan Beschastnikh, Morgan Mo, Samuel Dodson Computer-supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)
Prominent Paper Award
Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown AIJ Prominent Paper Award
AITO Test of Time Award
Gregor Kiczales AITO
Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) Blair Spearman Doctoral Prize
Chris Liaw Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS)
Rick Sample Memorial Award in Computer Science
David Ewart, Rebecca Lin, Roark Zhang UBC Computer Science
2021 Best Dissertation Award
Arpan Gujarati ACM SIGBED
2021 CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award
Tamara Munzner Graphics Interface (CHCCS/SCDHM)
ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan SIGMOD
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (ICSE)
Braxton Hall, Felix Grund, Nick C. Bradley, Reid Holmes, Shaiful Chowdhury International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Amazon Research Award
Alex Summers Amazon
Amazon Research Award
Kevin Leyton-Brown Amazon Research
Best Paper Award for AISTATS 2021
Frederik Kunstner, Mark Schmidt AISTATS
Distinguished Scholar Award
Kevin Leyton-Brown UBC
Elected Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Margo Seltzer AAAS
Killam Research Fellowship
Mark Schmidt UBC
Outstanding Paper of 2020
Jeff Clune International Society of Artificial Life
SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan ACM SIGMOD
Killam Accelerator Research Fellowships
Leonid Sigal UBC
ACM Fellow
Kevin Leyton-Brown Association of Computing Machinery
CS-Can/Info-Can 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award
Kellogg Booth CS-Can/Info-Can
ISAL Award for Outstanding Publication of 2020
Jeff Clune
2020

Research
Award Recipient(s) Organization
ACM Distinguished Member
Cristina Conati ACM
IEEE Fellow
Alla Sheffer IEEE
Best Paper Award, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation
Hung Yu Ling, Michiel van de Panne, Nam Hee Kim, Zhaoming Xie ACM SIGGRAPH
Best Student Paper Award
Cristina Conati, Shane D. Sims ACM ICMI 2020
Royal Society of Canada Fellow
Alla Sheffer Royal Society of Canada
SIGGRAPH Academy Member
Alla Sheffer ACM SIGGRAPH
GECCO 2020 Best Paper Award
Holger H. Hoos, Yasha Pushak GECCO 2020
2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship
Sikander Randhawa NSERC
SIGMOD Systems Award
Margo Seltzer BerkeleyDB - 2020 SIGMOD Systems Award
2021 CHCCS Service Award
Kellogg Booth CHCCS Service Award
CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award
Dinesh Pai Graphics Interface
CHI 2020 Best Paper Award
Karon MacLean, Sabrina Hauser CHI 2020
CHI 2020 Honorable Mention Award
Karon MacLean, Robert Xiao, Soheil Kianzad, Yuxiang Huang CHI 2020
UBC Killam Research Prize
Alla Sheffer UBC Research & Innovation
2019

Research
Award Recipient(s) Organization
AGE-WELL Honorary Fellow Award
Alan Mackworth AGE-WELL
IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy
Tamara Munzner IEEE VGTC