Awards And Honors
By Year Awarded
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.
2022
Tianzheng Wang
- 2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
Matthew Amy
- 2022 Canada Research Chair
Alaa Alameldeen
- IEEE Transactions on Computers Award for Editorial Service and Excellence
Stella Atkins
- CS-Can | Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award
Andrei Bulatov
- Canadian Mathematical Society Cathleen Synge Morawetz Prize
Diana Cukierman
- Simon Fraser University Excellence in Teaching Award
Steven Ko
- Amazon Research Award
Jason Peng
- Outstanding Doctoral Research Award
Manolis Savva
- Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society Early-Career Research Award
Christopher Stolte
- Outstanding Alumni Award
Richard Zhang
- Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society Achievement Award
2021
Tianzheng Wang
- 2021 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
Andrei Bulatov
- Gödel Prize
Sheelagh Carpendale
- Royal Society of Canada Fellow
Mo Chen
- Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Ryan D'arcy
- BIV BC 500 Health Tech Leader
Maxwell Libbrecht
- Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award
Milan Tofiloski
- Association for Computational Linguistics Test-of-Time Paper Award
2020
Sheelagh Carpendale
- Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Information Visualization
Parmit Chilana
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS)
Martin Ester
- BC Innovation Council (BCIC) Ignite Award
Yasutaka Furukawa
- PAMI Longuet-Higgins Prize
Jian Pei
- Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow
Manolis Savva
- Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Computer Graphics
Richard Zhang
- Distinguished SFU Professorship
2019
Sheelagh Carpendale
- Institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) Visualization Academy
Martin Ester
- Royal Society of Canada Fellow
Jiangchuan Liu
- Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering
Kathryn Nurse
- NSERC Vanier Scholarship Award
Jian Pei
- Royal Society of Canada Fellow
Oliver Schulte
- Mitacs Internship Cluster
Ke Wang
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS)
Tianzheng Wang
- IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Early Career Researchers)
2018
Sheelagh Carpendale
- Institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) Visualization Career Award, 2018
James Delgrande
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS), 2018 -2021
Yasutaka Furukawa
- CS-CAN: Outstanding Young CS Researcher Award
- Google Faculty Research Award
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS)
- Department of National Defence (DND)/NSERC Discovery Grant Supplement
Jian Pei
- IEEE ICDE Influential Paper Award
Anoop Sarkar
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS)
- NSERC Department of National Defence
Oliver Schulte
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS)
Jiannan Wang
- Institute of electrical and electronics engineers from Canada (IEEE) TCDE Rising Star Award
2017
Yasutaka Furukawa
- Google Faculty Research Award
Jiangchuan Liu
- Institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) Fellow
Greg Mori
- ICCV Helmholtz Prize
Jian Pei
- ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award
Fred Popowich
- Distinguished Service Award from the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (CAIAC)
2016
Leonid Chindelevitch
- Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
- Faculty of Applied Sciences Research Excellence Award at SFU
Yasutaka Furukawa
- Google Faculty Research Award
- Azure Faculty Research Award
Richard Zhang
- SFU Dean of Graduate Studies Awards for Excellence in Leadership
Jiannan Wang
- ACM SIGMOD Best Demonstration Award
2015
Rob Cameron
- Google Faculty Research Award
Sheelagh Carpendale
- Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Information Visualization
Diana Cukierman
- Academic Enhancement Program (AEP) Healthy Campus Community Champion
Yasutaka Furukawa
- NSF Career Award
Jiangchuan Liu
- NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship
- IEEE INFOCOM Test of Time Paper Award
Jian Pei
- ACM SIGKDD Service Award
- ACM Fellow
Richard Zhang
- National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Overseas, Hongkong, and Macau Scholar Collaborative Research Award
2014
Mohamed Hefeeda
- Best Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Multimedia on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)
Jian Pei
- Institute of electrical and electronics engineers from Canada (IEEE) ICDM Research Contributions Award
- Institute of electrical and electronics engineers from Canada (IEEE) Fellow
Anoop Sarkar
- Google Faculty Research Award
Ping Tan
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement
Richard Zhang
- Faculty of Applied Sciences Research Excellence Award at SFU
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement
2013
Sheelagh Carpendale
- Canadian Human Computer Communications Society (CHCCS) Achievement Award
Valentine Kabanets
- The Nerode Prize
Jian Pei
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS)
Oliver Schulte
- NSERC Discovery award
Jiannan Wang
- China Computer Federation (CCF) Distinguished Dissertation Award
Ke Wang
- The recipient of Faculty of Applied Sciences Research Excellence Award SFU
2012
Sheelagh Carpendale
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS), 2012-2015
- NSERC E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowship
Pavol Hell
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellow
Max Libbrecht
- Genome BC Training Grant
2011
Sheelagh Carpendale
- Institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) Recognition of Service Award
Mohamed Hefeeda
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement
Jiannan Wang
- Google PhD Fellowship