Awards

2015

Service

Award Recipient(s) Organization
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Going Above and Beyond)
Renee Stephen UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Supporting Research)
Lara Hall, Michelle Lin, TBD UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Supporting Students/Educational Programs)
Tsang-Kay Mak UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award
Julieta Martinez, Michael Firmin, Michael Phan-Ba UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award
Kerry Li, Michael Wu, Mira Leung, Sean Lee UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Service
Diane Johnson UBC Faculty of Science

Research

Award Recipient(s) Organization
ACM ICSE Student Research Competition
Caroline Lemieux ACM ICSE
ACM TiiS Best Paper Award
Ben Steichen, Cristina Conati, Giuseppe Carenini ACM TiiS
AOSA Most Influential Paper Award
Gail Murphy AOSA
Oscar Technical Achievement Award
Rook Bridson Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Teaching

Award Recipient(s) Organization
2014 UBC Computer Science Department Teaching Award
Ed Knorr, George Tsiknis, Hassan Khosravi, Mike Feeley, Nick Harvey, Steve Wolfman UBC Department of Computer Science
Killam Teaching Award
Gregor Kiczales UBC Faculty of Science
UBC Computer Science Department Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Bita Nejat, Conrad Nickels, Derek Cormier, Frederick Tung, Jianhui Chen, Mohammed Alam, Nowrin Anwar Joyita, Sarah Huber UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Undergraduate TA Award
Alison Clark, Ammar Vahanvaty , Andrew Bates , Banafsheh Derayat, Kenard Agbanlog , Paul Bucci , Ziqin Wang UBC Department of Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Maria Klawe Endowment Award
Samantha Krieger UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BA)
Hung-li Chen UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BCS)
Alim Virani UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BUCS)
Christopher Peterson UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (COGS)
Frederic Ren UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Majors)
Jaxsun McCarthy Huggan UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Honours) UBC Department of Computer
Xue Bin (Jason) Peng UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Majors)
Bo Gong UBC Department of Computer Science
Governor General's Silver Medal Academic Award of Excellence
Xue Bin (Jason) Peng Governor General of Canada
Markus Meister Memorial Prize
Bo Gong UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize
Alim Virani UBC Department of Computer Science
Microsoft Gaming for Education Hackathon
Eric Kim, Lisa Wong, Yea Han Hwang Microsoft Canada
Rick Sample Summer Internship
Stewart Grant UBC Department of Computer Science
SIMBA Technologies Award
Susannah Kirby UBC Department of Computer Science
2014

Research

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

Service

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Anita Borg Systers Pass-It-On Award
Rebecca McKnight Anita Borg Insitute
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award
Baharak Rastegari, Daria Bondareva, Juliette Link, Mark Spear UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award
Crystal Lok Koo, Etienne Hossack, Hardy Wijaya, Kathleen Tichauer, Maggie Phan, Sandy Fang, Vlad Zaharia UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Fostering a Collegial Environment)
Violet Redekop UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Going Above and Beyond)
UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Supporting Students and/or Educational Programs)
Anthony Winstanley, Michele Ng UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Team Award)
Jessica Wrinskelle, Tech Staff, Violet Redekop UBC Department of Computer Science

Teaching

Award Recipient(s) Organization
2013 Computer Science Department Teaching Award
David Kirkpatrick, George Tsiknis, Kurt Eiselt, Michael Friedlander , Paul Carter, Rachel Pottinger UBC Department of Computer Science
Killam Teaching Prize
Kevin Leyton-Brown, Paul Carter UBC Faculty of Science
UBC Computer Science Department Graduate TA Award
Farbod Roosta-Khorasani, James (Teng) Lo, Jonatan Schroeder, Kailun Zhang, Matt Gingerich, Natasha Jaques, Pax Gonzales, Peter Beshai, Rebecca McKnight, Robert Jackson Sumi, Steve Ramage UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Undergraduate TA Award
Albert Xing, Alexander Gondek, Boyang (Tom) Jin, Bryan Tai, Eric Shadwick, Jasdeep Khela, Lynsey Haynes, Patty Wang, Samantha Leung, Wynn Tran UBC Department of Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Governor General's Silver Medal Academic Award of Excellence
Ron Estrin Governor General of Canada
Maria Klawe Endowment Award
Arianne Dee UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize
Ennas Abdussalam UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Summer Internship
Samantha Krieger UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BA)
Mikhail Baryshev UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BCS)
Hardy Wijaya UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (BUCS)
Vitor Cid UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (COGS)
Kevin Budiman UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Honours)
Ron Estrin UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Combined Majors)
Philip Poulin UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Honours)
Xin Ru Wang UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Academic Award of Excellence (Majors)
Yicheng Chen UBC Department of Computer Science
Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
Susannah Kirby Google
2013

Research

Award Recipient(s) Organization
ACM SIGGRAPH/EG Best Paper Honorable Mention
Michiel van de Panne, Shailen Agrawal ACM SIGGRAPH/EG
Motion in Games Conference Best Paper Award
Michiel van de Panne, Shailen Agrawal, Shuo Shen Motion in Games Conference
IEEE Distinguished Paper Award (WCRE)
Michael W. Godfrey, Oleksii Kononenko, Olga Baysal, Reid Holmes Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE)
AIJ Classic Paper Award
Alan Mackworth AIJ
IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award
David Matheson, Masrour Zoghi, Nando de Freitas, Ziyu Wang IJCAI
CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award
David Poole CAIAC
Eurographics Fellow
Wolfgang Heidrich Eurographics Association
UMAP Best Paper Award
Cristina Conati, Samad Kardan UMAP
ICSE Most Influential Paper Award
Gail Murphy ICSE

Service

Award Recipient(s) Organization
IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation Outstanding Service Award
Alan Hu IEEE Council Outstanding Service Award story
IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation Outstanding Service Award
Alan Hu IEEE
UBC President's Staff Award
Moyra Ditchfield UBC
UBC Computer Department Student Service Award
Hagit Schechter, Vasanth Rajendran UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Student Service Award
Maria Piao, Michelle Chuang, Peter Cheung, Richard Lei, Richard Lo, Tina Wang UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Fostering a Collegial Environment)
Dan Miner UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Going Above and Beyond)
Tim Li UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Supporting Research)
Laura Selander UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Supporting Students and/or Educational Program)
Giuliana Villegas UBC Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Staff Award (Team Award)
Hermie Lam, Holly Kwan, Kletnathee Imhiran, Lara Hall, Laura Selander UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Service
Anthony Winstanley UBC Faculty of Science

Teaching

Award Recipient(s) Organization
2012 CS Department Teaching Award
Donald Acton, Gregor Kiczales, Nick Harvey, Patrice Belleville, Paul Carter, Rook Bridson UBC Department of Computer Science
Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Julius Davies UBC VP Academic
Maria Klawe Endowment Award
Anika Mahmud UBC Department of Computer Science
Maria Klawe Endowment Award
Anika Mahmud UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Graduate TA Award
Jessica Dawson, Joel Ferstay, Junhao Shi, Matiul Alam, Michael Firmin, Mikhail Bessmeltsev, Nima Kaviani, Shailen Agrawal, Zachary Drudi UBC Department of Computer Science
UBC Computer Science Department Undergraduate TA Award
Benjamin Israel, Bita Nejat, Brendan Shillingford, Caroline McQuatt, Chris Smith, Chris Thompson, John-Jose Nunez, Shirley Ly, Thea Simpson UBC Department of Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Governor General's Silver Medal
Ruiyuan Chen Governor General of Canada
Maria Klawe Endowment Award
Leemor Yuravlivker UBC Department of Computer Science
Maria Klawe Endowment Award
Leemor Yuravlivker UBC Department of Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize
Angel Cheung UBC Department of Computer Science
Rick Sample Summer Internship
Paul Liu, Stephanie Van Dyk UBC Department of Computer Science