RESEARCH AWARDS & HONOURS

The School of Computing Science boasts a distinguished faculty whose work has been recognized with numerous awards from academic and industry organizations over the years.

Explore some of these awards by clicking the tabs on the right.

ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithm and Computation Theory (SIGACT)

Andrei Bulatov

Gödel Prize, 2021

ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH)

Richard Zhang

Inducted, 2025
Test-of-Time Award, 2025

Jason Peng

Outstanding Doctoral Research Award, 2022

ACM Special Interest Group on Human Computer Interaction (SIGCHI)

Sheelagh Carpendale

ACM SIGCHI Academy
ACM SIGCHI - ITS Recognition of Service Award, 2009

ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD)

Sheelagh Carpendale

ACM SIGKDD Fellow, 2026

Jian Pei

ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award, 2017
ACM SIGKDD Service Award, 2015
ACM Fellow, 2015

Jianan Wang

ACM SIGMOD Best Demonstration Award, 2016

ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD)

Kaison Huang, Jianqiu Zhang, & Tianzheng Wang

Research Highlight Award, 2023

Xiangpeng Hao & Tianzheng Wang

Research Highlight Award, 2021

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMMS)

Jason Peng

Outstanding Doctoral Research Award, 2022

Mohamed Hefeeda

Best Associate Editor, 2014

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Leonid Chindelevitch

Sloan Research Fellowship, 2016

Amazon

Steven Ko

Amazon Research Award, 2022

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Mohamed Hefeeda

Distinguished Member, 2025

Bafta British Academy of Film & Television Arts Interactive Awards

Sheelagh Carpendale

Category: Interactive Learning.
Project: Antarctic Waves: developed with BRAUNARTS, the British Antarctic Survey and the London Philharmonic.
Position: Computer Visualisation Consultant, 2002

Business in Vancouver (BIV)

Ryan D'arcy

BC500 List - Most Influencial Business Leaders, 2025, 2023, 2022
BC500 Health Tech Leader, 2021

Canada Research Chairs Program (CRCP)

Sheelagh Carpendale

Tier I Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization, 2020
Tier I Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization, 2015
Tier II Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization, 2009
Tier II Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization, 2004

Manolis Savva

Tier II Canada Research Chair in Computer Graphics, 2020

Jian Pei

Tier I Canada Research Chair in Big Data Science, 2014

Canadian Academy of Engineering

Jiangchuan Liu

Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, 2019

Canadian Aritifical Intelligence Association (CAIAC)

Fred Popowich

Distinguished Service Award, 2017

Canadian Human Computer Communications Society (CHCCS)

Jason Peng

2024 Early Career Researcher Award, Graphics Interface

Manolis Savva

CHCCS Early-Researcher Award, 2022

Richard Zhang

CHCCS Achievement Award, 2022

Eugene Fiume

CHCCS Achievement Award, 2014

Sheelagh Carpendale

CHCCS Achievement Award, 2013

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)

Mo Chen

Canada AI Chair, 2021

Canadian Mathematical Society

Andrei Bulatov

Cathleen Synge Morawetz Prize, 2022

ChinaGraph

Richard Zhang

Best Dataset Award, 2020

Computer Science Canada (CS-CAN)

Yasutaka Furukawa

Lifetime Achievement Award, 2022
Outstanding Young Researcher Award, 2018

Parmit Chilana

Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award, 2022

Eurographics

Zhiqin Chen

Eurographics PhD Award, 2024

Eugene Fiume

Fellow, 2014

Genome BC

Maxwell Libbrecht

Genome BC Training Grant, 2012-2014

Google

Ouldooz Baghban Karimi

Google Research exploreCSR, 2023, 2024

Matthew Amy

Early Career Google Research Scholar, 2023, 2022

Zhiqin Chen

Google PhD Fellowship, 2021

Yasutaka Furukawa

Google Faculty Research Award, 2016-2018

Rob Cameron

Google Faculty Research Award, 2015

Anoop Sarkar

Google Faculty Research Award, 2014

Jiannan Wang

Google Faculty Research Award, 2011

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Conference

Ghazal Saheb Jam, Jimin Rhim, & Angelica Lim

Best Late Breaking Report Award, 2021

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Sheelagh Carpendale

2026 IEEE Fellow
2019 IEEE Fellow - Visualization Academy
2018 IEEE Fellow - Visualization Career Award
2011 IEEE Fellow - Recognition of Service Award

Richard Zhang

2024 IEEE Fellow - Shape Analysis and Synthesis in Visual Computing

Jian Pei

2024 IEEE Fellow - International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) Research
2014 IEEE Fellow

Alaa Alameldeen

2021 IEEE Fellow - Transactions on Computers Award for Editorial Service and Excellence

Yasutaka Furukawa

IEEE CVPR PAMI Longuet-Higgins Prize, 2020

Tianzheng Wang

2019 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Early Career Researchers)

Jiannan Wang

IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award, 2018

Jiangchuan Liu

2017 IEEE Fellow

International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)

Hang Ma

People's Choice Best System Demonstration Award, 2021

International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)

Hang Ma

Victor Lesser Distinguished Disseration Award Runner-Up, 2021

Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS)

Oliver Schulte

Mitacs Intership Cluster, 2019

Michael Smith Foundation

Maxwell Libbrecht

Health Research Scholar Award, 2021

Microsoft

Yasutaka Furukawa

Azure Faculty Research Award, 2016

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

Richard Zhang

Overseas, Hongkong, and Macau Scholar Collaborative Research Award, 2015

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

James Delgrande

NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS), 2018 -2021

Kathryn Nurse

NSERC Vanier Scholarship Award, 2019

Ke Wang

NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS), 2019

Greg Mori

NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS), 2016-2019

Anoop Sarkar

NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS), 2012-2015, 2018
NSERC Discovery Grants Program, 2012-2017
NSERC Department of National Defence Award, 2018

Oliver Schulte

NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS), 2018

Sheelagh Carpendale

NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS), 2012-2015
NSERC E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowship, 2012
NSERC/AITF/SMART Technologies Industrial Research Chair: Interactive Technologies (2007-2020)
NSERC Faculty Award (2000-2005)