Awards And Honors
By Organization
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.
The Royal Society of Canada
Sheelagh Carpendale
- Royal Society of Canada Fellow, 2021
Martin Ester
- Royal Society of Canada Fellow, 2019
Eugene Fiume
- Royal Society of Canada Fellow, 2014
Jian Pei
- Royal Society of Canada Fellow, 2019
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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)
Parmit Chilana
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS)
James Delgrande
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS), 2018 -2021
Eugene Fiume
- NSERC Synergy Award, 2012
Yasutaka Furukawa
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS)
- Department of National Defence (DND)/NSERC Discovery Grant Supplement
Mohamed Hefeeda
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS), 2011
Jianchuan Liu
- NSERC E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowship, 2015
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS), 2009
Greg Mori
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS), 2016-2019
Kathryn Nurse
- NSERC Vanier Scholarship Award, 2019
Jian Pei
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS), 2013
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
Ping Tan
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS), 2014
Ke Wang
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS), 2019
Institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE)
Alaa Alameldeen
- Institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Computers Award for Editorial Service and Excellence, 2021
Sheelagh Carpendale
- Institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) Visualization Academy, 2019
- Institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) Visualization Career Award, 2018
- Institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) Recognition of Service Award, 2011
Jiangchuan Liu
- Institute of electrical and electronics engineers from Canada (IEEE) Fellow, 2017
Jian Pei
- IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM) Research Contributions Award, 2014
- Institute of electrical and electronics engineers from Canada (IEEE) Fellow, 2014
Jiannan Wang
- IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award, 2018
Tianzheng Wang
- IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Early Career Researchers), 2019
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Data (SIGKDD)
Jian Pei
- ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award, 2017
- ACM SIGKDD Service Award, 2015
- ACM Fellow, 2015
Jianan Wang
- ACM SIGMOD Best Demonstration Award, 2016
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)
Mohamed Hefeeda
- Best Associate Editor, 2014
ACM Special Interest Group on Human Computer Interaction (SIGCHI)
Sheelagh Carpendale
- ACM SIGCHI Academy
- ACM SIGCHI - ITS Recognition of Service Award, 2009
Canadian Academy of Engineering
Jiangchuan Liu
- Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, 2019
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Pavol Hell
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellow, 2012
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Leonid Chindelvitch
- Sloan Research Fellowship, 2016
Canadian Human Computer Communications Society (CHCCS)
Sheelagh Carpendale
- CHCCS Achievement Award, 2013
Eugene Fiume
- CHCCS Achievement Award, 2014
Manolis Savva
- CHCCS Early-Researcher Award, 2022
Richard Zhang
- CHCCS Achievement Award, 2022
Eurographics
Eugene Fiume
- Fellow, 2014
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
Jian Pei
- Tier I Canada Research Chair in Big Data Science, 2014
Manolis Savva
- Tier II Canada Research Chair in Computer Graphics, 2020
Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (CAIAC)
Fred Popowich
- Distinguished Service Award, 2017
Computer Science Canada (CS-CAN)
Yasutaka Furukawa
- Outstanding Young Researcher Award, 2018
Rajan Family Scholar
Angelica Lim
- Rajan Family Scholar in Computing Science
Rob Cameron
- Google Faculty Research Award, 2015
Yasutaka Furukawa
- Google Faculty Research Award, 2016-2018
Anoop Sarkar
- Google Faculty Research Award, 2014
Jiannan Wang
- Google Faculty Research Award, 2011
Genome BC
Maxwell Libbrecht
- Genome BC Training Grant, 2012-2014
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
Mitacs
Oliver Schulte
- Mitacs Intership Cluster, 2019
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
Simon Fraser University
Leonid Chindelevitch
- Faculty of Applied Sciences Research Excellence Award, 2016
Diana Cukierman
- Academic Enhancement Program (AEP) Healthy Campus Community Champion, 2015
- SFU Excellence in Teaching Award, 2022
Richard Zhang
- Distinguished SFU Professorship
Canadian Mathematical Society
Andrei Bulatov
- Cathleen Synge Morawetz Prize, 2022