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.
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2025
Parmit Chilana
Associate Professor
- Most Influential Paper Award at VL/HCC 2025
- Title: Perceptions of Non-CS Majors in Intro Programming: The Rise of the Conversational Programmer
Kumar Abhisek & Ghassan Hamarneh
PhD Student & Professor
- Best Paper Award at ISIC Skin Image Analysis Workshop at MICCAI 2025
- Title: What Can We Learn from inter-Annotator Variability in Skin Lesion Segmentation?
Jingtao Tang, Zining Mao, Lufan Yang, & Hang Ma
PhD Students & Professor
RICHARD ZHANG
Professor
- Inducted, 2025 ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Class
- Test-of-Time Award at SIGGRAPH 2025
- Title: L1-Medial Skeleton of Point Cloud
Minh Duc Dang, Samira Pulatova & Lawrence Kim
Students & Assistant Professor
- Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention at ACM CHI 2025
- Title: User-defined Co-speech Gesture Design with Swarm Robots
Kaisong Huang, Jiatang Zhou & Tianzheng Wang
PhD Students & Associate Professor
Tanya Gatsak, Kumar Abhisek, Hanene Ben Yedder & Ghassan Hamarneh
Students & Professor
Xingguang Yan, Han-Hung Lee & Angel X. Chang
PhD Students & Associate Professor
- Best Paper Award at 3DV 2025
- Title: An Object is Worth 64x64 Pixels: Generating 3D Object via Image Diffusion
2024
Chris Careaga & Yagiz Aksoy
PhD Student & Assistant Professor
- Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
- Title: Colorful Diffuse Intrinsic Image Decomposition in the Wild
Andrea Tagliasacchi
Associate Professor
- Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention at CVPR 2024
- Title: pixelSplat: 3D Gaussian Splats from Image Pairs for Scalable Generalizable 3D Reconstruction
Yang He & Yuepeng Wang
PhD Student & Assistant Professor
Kumar Abhisek & Ghassan Hamarneh
PhD Student & Professor
- Best Paper Award at ISIC Skin Image Analysis Workshop at MICCAI 2024
- Title: Segmentation Style Discovery: Application to Skin Lesion Images
Linfeng Shen, Guanzhen Wu & Jiangchuan Liu
PhD Students & Professor
- Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE ICDCS 2024
- Title: Towards Integrated Energy-Communication-Transportation Hub: A Base-Station-Centric Design in 5G and Beyond
2023
Ouldooz Baghban Karimi
Lecturer
- Google Research exploreCSR
- Rajan Family Scholar in Computing Science
Kaisong Huang, Jianqiu Zhang & Tianzheng Wang
Students & Associate Professor
Manolis Savva
Associate Professor
- Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2023
- Title: Emergence of Maps in the Memories of Blind Navigation Agents
Rimika Chaudhury, Taha Liaqat & Parmit Chilana
Students & Associate Professor
Ghassan Hamarneh
Professor
- Best Paper Award at ISIC Skin Image Analysis Workshop at MICCAI 2023
- Title: AViT: Adapting Vision Transformers for Small Skin Lesion Segmentation
2022
Alaa Alameldeen
Associate Professor
- IEEE Transactions on Computers Award for Editorial Service and Excellence
Payam Jome Yazdian, Mo Chen & Angelica Lim
PhD Student & Professors
- Best Paper in Cognitive Robotics at IROS2022
- Title: Gesture2Vec: Clustering Gestures using Representation Learning Methods for Co-speech Gesture Generation
Sharan Vaswani
Assistant Professor
- Best Paper, Honourable Mention at AISTATS 2022.
- Title: A general class of surrogate functions for stable and efficient reinforcement learning
Kiarash Zahirnia, Oliver Schulte, Ke Li, Ankita Sakhuja, & Parmis Naddaf
Professors & Researchers
- Best Student Paper at Canadian AI Conference 2022.
- Title: Deep Learning of Latent Edge Types from Relational Data
2021
Hoda Aghaei & Brian Funt
MSc Student & Professor Emeritus
Zahra Mirikharaji, Kumar Abhishek, Saeed Izadi, & Ghassan Hamarneh
Students & Professor
Xiaoying Wang, Changbo Qu, Weiyuan Wu & Jiannan Wang
PhD Students & Associate Professor
- Best Experiments, Analysis & Benchmark Paper Award at VLDB 2021
- Title: Are We Ready For Learned Cardinality Estimation?
Ghazal Saheb Jam, Jimin Rhim & Angelica Lim
Students & Associate Professor Practitioner
- Best Late Breaking Report Award at HRI 2021
- Title: Developing a Data-Driven Categorical Taxonomy of Emotional Expressions in Real World Human Robot Interactions
Linfeng Shen, Yuchi Chen & Jiangchuan Liu
Students & Professor
- Best Paper Award at IEEE MASS 2021
- Title: Energy-Efficient Interactive 360 Video Streaming with Real-Time Gaze Tracking on Mobile Devices
Alaa Alameldeen
Associate Professor
- IEEE Fellow - Transactions on Computer Award for Editorial Service and Excellence
2020
Zhiqin Chen, Andrea Tagliasachi & Richard Zhang
School of Computing Science
- Best Student Paper Award at CVPR 2020
- Title: BSP-Net: Generating Compact Meshes via Binary Space Partitioning
Yasutaka Furukawa
Associate Professor
Narges Ashtari & Parmit Chilana
PhD Student & Associate Professor
Laton Vermette & Parmit Chilana
PhD Student & Associate Professor
- Best Paper Honorable Mention at DIS 2020
- Title: Peek-through Customization: Example-Bsed In-Context Sharing for Learning Management Systems
Angel Chang & Manolis Savva
Associate Professors
- Dataset Award at SGP 2020
- Title: ScanNet: Richly-annotated 3D Reconstructions of Indoor Scenes
Akshay Gadi Patil
PhD Student
Richard Zhang
Professor
- ChinaGraph Best Dataset Award
- Title: 3D-FRONT (3D Furnished Rooms with layOuts and semaNTics