Richard Zhang
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow (2024)
Awards And Honors
By Faculty
The School of Computing Science has a distinguished faculty complement. Their work has been recognized by numerous awards from many academic and 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.
Ouldooz Baghban Karimi
- Google Research exploreCSR (2023)
- Rajan Family Scholar in Computing Science (2023)
Matthew Amy
- Early Career Google Research Scholar (2023)
Alaa Alameldeen
- IEEE Transactions on Computers Award for Editorial Service and Excellence (2021)
Andrei Bulatov
- Gödel Prize (2021)
- Canadian Mathematical Society Cathleen Synge Morawetz Prize (2022)
Sheelagh Carpendale
- Royal Society of Canada Fellow, 2021
- Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Information Visualization, 2020
- Inducted into Institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) Visualization Academy, 2019
- IEEE Visualization Career Award, 2018
- Inducted into ACM CHI Academy, 2018
- Canadian Human Computer Communications Society (CHCCS) Achievement Award, 2013
- 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)
- IEEE Recognition of Service Award, 2011
- ACM SIGCHI Academy
- ACM SIGCHI - ITS Recognition of Service Award, 2009
- NSERC Faculty Award (2000-2005)
- BAFTA (British Academy of Film & Television Arts Interactive Awards), 2002
Mo Chen
- Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Parmit Chilana
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS)
- Ebco Eppich Research Chair, 2021
Leonid Chindelevitch
- Received the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
- Faculty of Applied Sciences Research Excellence Award at SFU, 2016
Diana Cukierman
- Academic Enhancement Program (AEP) Healthy Campus Community Champion, 2015
- Simon Fraser University Excellence in Teaching Award, 2022
Rob Cameron
- Google Faculty Research Award, 2015
Ryan D'Arcy
- BIV BC 500 Health Tech Leader, 2021
James Delgrande
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement, 2018 -2021
Martin Ester
- BC Innovation Council (BCIC) Ignite Award, 2020
- Royal Society of Canada Fellow, 2019
Eugene Fiume
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2014
- Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award, 2014
- Eurographics Fellow, 2014
- NSERC Synergy Award, 2012
Yasutaka Furukawa
- PAMI Longuet-Higgins Prize
- CS-CAN: Outstanding Young CS Researcher Award, 2018
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS)
- Department of National Defence (DND)/NSERC Discovery Grant Supplement
- Google Faculty Research Award, 2016-2018
- Azure Faculty Research Award, 2016
- NSF Career Award, 2015
Mohamed Hefeeda
- Best Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Multimedia on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), 2014
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement, 2011
Pavol Hell
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellow, 2012
Valentine Kabanets
- The Nerode Prize, 2013
Steven Ko
- Amazon Research Award, 2022
Maxwell Libbrecht
- Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award, 2021
- Genome Training Grant, 2012-2014
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship honorable mention, 2013
Angelica Lim
- Rajan Family Scholar in Computing Science
Jiangchuan Liu
- Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, 2019
- Institute of electrical and electronics engineers from Canada (IEEE) Fellow, 2017
- IEEE INFOCOM Test of Time Paper Award, 2015
- NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, 2015
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS), 2009
Greg Mori
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement, 2016-2019
- ICCV Helmholtz Prize, 2017
Jian Pei
- Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow, 2020
- Royal Society of Canada Fellow, 2019
- IEEE ICDE Influential Paper Award, 2018
- ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award, 2017
- ACM Fellow, 2015
- ACM SIGKDD Service Award, 2015
- IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award, 2014
- IEEE Fellow, 2014
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS), 2013
Jason Peng
- Outstanding Doctoral Research Award, 2022
Fred Popowich
- Recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (CAIAC), 2017
Manolis Savva
- Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Computer Graphics, 2020
- Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society Early-Career Researcher Award, 2022
Anoop Sarkar
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplemment, 2018
- NSERC Department of National Defence, 2018
- Google Faculty Research Award, 2014
Oliver Schulte
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS), 2018
- NSERC Discovery award, 2013
- Mitacs Internship Cluster, 2019
Christopher Stolte
- Outstanding Alumni Award, 2022
Ping Tan
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award, 2014
Jiannan Wang
- IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award, 2018
- ACM SIGMOD Best Demonstration Award, 2016
- China Computer Federation (CCF) Distinguished Dissertation Award, 2013
- Google Ph.D Fellowship
Ke Wang
- The recipient of Faculty of Applied Sciences Research Excellence Awards (senior faculty), Simon Fraser University, 2013
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS), 2019
Tianzheng Wang
- IEEE TCSC (Technical Committee on Scalable Computing) Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing, 2019
Richard Zhang
- Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society Achievement Award, 2022
- SFU Distinguished Professorship, 2020
- SFU Dean of Graduate Studies Awards for Excellence in Leadership, 2016
- National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Overseas, Hongkong, and Macau Scholar Collaborative Research Award, 2015
- Faculty of Applied Sciences Research Excellence Award at SFU, 2014
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award, 2014