Stelian Coros and Garth Shoemaker Won 2011 Best Canadian Dissertation Awards

UBC CS won best Canadian dissertation awards in both HCI and Computer Graphics. 

Stelian Coros, supervised by Michiel van de Panne, won the Alain Fournier Dissertation Award.  The award is given annually to the best doctoral dissertation completed at a Canadian university in the field of Computer Graphics.

Garth Shoemaker, supervised by Kelly Booth, is the co-winner of the Bill Buxton Dissertation Award.  Daniel Vogel from University of Toronto share the award with Garth. The award is given to the best doctoral dissertation completed at a Canadian university in the field of Human-Computer Interaction.