Awards And Honors
Best Paper Award
The School of Computing Science has a distinguished faculty complement. Their work has been recognized by numerous awards from many academicand industrial organizations over a long period of time.
You can explore some of these awards by clicking on one of the tabs on the right.
2022
- Yazdian, P., Chen, M., Lim, A., "Gesture2Vec: Clustering Gestures using Representation Learning Methods for Co-speech Gesture Generation" (2022). Awarded Best Paper in Cognitive Robotics at IROS2022
- Vaswani, S., Bachem, O., Totaro, S., Mueller, R., Garg, S., Geist, M., Machado, M., Castro, P, and Le Roux, N. "A General Class of Surragate Functions for Stable and Efficient Reinforcement Learning." (2021). Awarded Honourable Mention at AISTATS 2022.
- Zahirnia, K., Schulte, O., Li, K., Sakhuja, A, and Naddaf, P. "Deep Learning of Latent Edge Types from Relational Data." (2022). Awarded Best Student Paper at Canadian AI Conference 2022.
2021
- Aghaei, H, and Funt, B. "A Flying Gray Ball Multi-illuminant Image Dataset for Color Research." (2020). In Journal of Imaging Science and Technology 64. Awarded The Charles E. Ives Journal Award in 2021.
- Mirikharaji, Z., Abhishek, K., Izadi, S, and Hamarneh, G. "D-LEMA: Deep Learning Ensembles from Multiple Annotations - Application to Skin Lesion Segmentation." (2021). Awarded Best Paper at Skin Image Analysis Workshop at CVPR 2021.
- Wang, X., Qu, C., Wu, W., Wang, J., and Zhou, Q. "Are We Ready For Learned Cardinality Estimation?" (2021). Awarded Best Experiments, Analysis & Benchmark Paper Award at VLDB 2021.
- Willet, W., Aseniero, Bon., Carpendale, S., Dragicevic, P., Jansen, Y., Oehlberg, L, and Isenberg, P. "Perception! Immersion! Empowerment! Superpowers as Inspiration for Visualization." (2021). Awarded Best Paper at IEEE VIS 2021.
2020
- Vermette, L., McGrenere, J, and Chilana, P. "Peek-through Customization: Example-Based In-Context Sharing for Learning Management Systems." (2020). Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2020). Best Paper Honorable Mention Award.
- Ashtari, N., Bunt, A., McGrenere, J., Nebeling, M., and Chilana, P. "Creating Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications: Current Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities." (2020). ACM CHI best paper award.
- Chen, Z., Tagliasacchi, A, and Zhang, H. "BSP-Net: Generating Compact Meshes via Binary Space Partitioning." (2020). CVPR Oral. Best Student Paper Award.
- Patil, A., Ben-Eliezer, O., Perel, O, and Averbuch-Elor, H. "READ: Recursive Autoencoders for Document Layout Generation." (2020). CVPR. Best Paper.
- Scott, S., Carpendale, S., and Inkpen, K. "Territoriality in collaborative tabletop workspaces." In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, pp. 294-303. (2004). 2020 ACM CSCW Lasting Impact Award.
- Aseniero, B., Perin, C., Willett, W., Tang, A, and Carpendale, S. "Activity River: Visualizing Planned and Logged Personal Activities for Reflection." In Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI). (2020). Best Paper, Honorable Mention.
- Rajabiyazdi, F., Perin, C., Oehlberg, L, and Carpendale, S. "Exploring the Design of Patient-Generated Data Visualizations." In Graphics Interface (GI). Canadian Information Processing Society. (2020). Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) Journal Selection Paper Award.
2019
- S. Fickling, A. Smith, G. Pawlowski, S. Hajra, C. Liu, K. Farrell, … R. D’Arcy, Brain vital signs detect concussion-related neurophysiological impairments in ice hockey. Brain, 142 (2), 255–262. (2019). Editor's choice, Brain.
- M. Hegazy, K. Diab, M. Saeedi, B. Ivanovic, I. Amer, Y. Liu, … M. Hefeeda. Content-aware video encoding for cloud gaming. Proceedings of the 10th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference on - MMSys 19. (2019).
- O. Alharbi, A. Arif, W. Stuerzlinger, M. Dunlop, A. Komninos. WiseType: A Tablet Keyboard with Color-Coded Visualization and Various Editing Options for Error Correction. (2019). Michael A. J. Sweeney Award for Best Student Paper at Graphics Interface Conference.
- Walny, J., Frisson, C., West, M., Kosminsky, D., Knudsen, S, and Carpendale, S. "Data Changes Everything: Challenges and Opportunities in Data Visualization Design Handoff." (2019). IEEE Computer Society Press Best Paper Award.
2018
- Wang, A., Mitts, R., Guo, P, and Chilana, P. Mismatch of Expectations: How Modern Learning Resources Fail Conversational Programmers. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018). Best Paper Honorable Mention - Top 5%.
- Zhou, B, and Pei, J. Preserving Privacy in Social Networks Against Neighborhood Attacks. (2008). IEEE ICDE Influential Paper Award (10 years best paper award).
- Hancock, M., Cate, T, and Carpendale, S. Sticky tools: full 6DOF force-based interaction for multi-touch tables. (2009). 2018 ACM ISS Ten Year Impact Award.
2017
- Bulatov, A. A dichotomy theorem for nonuniform constraint satisfaction problem. Proceedings of the 58th IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2017. Best Paper Award.
- Ranaweera, W., Chilana, P., Cohen-Or, D, and Zhang, H. ExquiMo: An Exquisite Corpse Tool for Co-creative 3D Shape Modeling. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics (CAD/Graphics), Zhangjiajie, China. Best Paper Award.
- Zhao, M., Miles, B., and Hamarneh, G. Leveraging Tree Statistics for Extracting Anatomical Trees from 3D Medical Images. In Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), pages 131-138, 2017. CIPPRS at the Computer and Robot Vision conference 2017, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Best Computer Vision Paper.
- Gao, C., Wang, J., Pei, J., Li, R, and Chang, Y. Preference-driven Similarity Join. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Leipzig, Germany. Best Student Paper Award.
2016
- Carmosino, M., Impagliazzo, R., Kabanets, V, and Kolokolova, A. "Learning Algorithms from Natural Proofs." Conference on Computational Complexity. (2016). CCC Best Conference Paper Awad.
- Zhang, C., Liu, J, and Wang, H. "Towards hybrid cloud-assisted crowdsourced live streaming: Measurement and analysis." ACM NOSSDAV. (2016). Best Paper Award.
2015
- Chilana, P., Ko, A, and Wobbrock, J. "From User-Centered to Adoption-Centered Design: A Case Study of an HCI Research Innovation Becoming a Product." Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, USA. Best Paper Award (top 1%).
- Calagari, K., Elgharib, M., Didyk, P., Kaspar, A., Matusik, W, and Hefeeda, M. "Gradient-based 2D-to-3D Conversion for Soccer Videos." ACM Multimedia Systems Conference. Best Paper Award.
- Libbrecht, M., Ay, F., Hoffman, M., Gilbert, D., Bilmes, J, and Noble, S. "Joint annotation of chromatin state and chromatin conformation reveals relationships among domain types and identifies domains of cell type-specific expression." Genome research 25(4), 544-557. Named one of ISCB's Top 10 Regulatory and Systems Genomics papers of 2015.
- Zhang, X., Liu, J., Li, B, and Yum, T. "CoolStreaming/DONet: A Data-driven Overlay Network for Peer-to-Peer Live Media Streaming." Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE INFOCOM. Test of Time Paper Award of IEEE INFOCOM.
- Riahi, S, and Schulte, O. "Model-based Outlier Detection for Object-Relational Data." IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, CI and Data Management Track (IEEE SSCI 2015). Best Student Paper Award.
- Zhang, C., Liang, H., Wang, K, and Sun, J. "Personalized Trip Recommendation with POI Availability and Uncertain Traveling Time." CIKM 2015. Runner Up Best Student Paper Award.
- Ding, K., Liu, L., van de Panne, M, and Yin, K. "Learning Reduced-Order Feedback Policies for Motion Skills." Proceeding at ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2015. SCA Best Paper Award.
- Walny, J., Huron, S, and Carpendale, S. "An Exploratory Study of Data Sketching for Visual Representation." (2015). Computer Graphics Forum. 34 (3): 231-240. Best Paper, Honorable Mention.
- Lee, B., Smith, G., Riche, N., Karlson, A, and Carpendale, S. "SketchInsight: Natural Data Exploration on Interactive Whiteboards Leveraging Pen and Touch Interaction." (2015). Proceedings of the IEEE Conference Pacific Visualization. pages 199-206. Best Paper.
2014
- Amir-Khalili, A., Peyrat, J., Abi-Nahed, J., Al-Alao, O., Al-Ansari, A., Hamarneh, G, and Abugharbieh, R. "Auto Localization and Segmentation of Occluded Vessels in Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy." MICCAI 2014, Boston, USA. Best paper award (Young Scientist Award).
- Ester, M., Kriegel, H., Sander, J, and Xu, X. "A density-based algorithm for discovering clusters in large spatial databases with noise." KDD Conference, 1996, Portlan, USA. 2014 SIGKDD Test of Time Award.
- Huron, S., Carpendale, S., Thudt, A., Tang, A, and Mauerer, M. "Constructive Visualization." (2014). In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. pp 433-442, ACM Press. Best Paper, Honorable Mention.
2013
- Shan, Q., Adams, R., Curless, B., Furukawa, Y, and Seitz, S. "The Visual Turing Test for Scene Reconstruction." 3DV 2013. Best Paper Award.
- Cheng, X, and Liu, J. "Exploring interest correlation for peer-to-peer socialized video sharing." ACM TOMCCAP. Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award.
- Thudt, A., Baur, D, and Carpendale, S. "Visits: A Spatiotemporal Visualization of Location Histories." In Proceedings of European Conference on Visualization, EuroVis. (2013). Best Short Paper.
2012
- Xiao, J, and Furukawa, Y. "Reconstructing the World’s Museums." European Conference on Computer Vision. (2012). Best Student Paper Award. Excellent Paper Award by Google Research.
- Wang, Z., Sun, L., Chen, X., Zhu, W., Liu, J., Chen, M, and Yang, S. "Propagation-based social-aware replication for social video contents." ACM Multimedia. Best Paper Award.
2011
- Haber, J., Lynch, S, and Carpendale, S. "ColourVis: exploring colour usage in paintings over time." (2011). In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging, pp 105-112, ACM Press. Best Paper.
- Dörk, M., Carpendale, S, and Williamson, C. "EdgeMaps: Visualizing Explicit and Implicit Relations." In Proceedings of VDA 2011: Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis. IS&T/SPIE. (2011). Best Paper.
