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. Explore some of these awards by clicking the tabs on the right.
2025
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
- Best Paper Award at ACM SIGMOD 2025
- Title: Low-Latency Transaction Scheduling via Userspace Interrupts: Why Wait or Yield When You Can Preempt?
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
2023
Manolis Savva
Associate Professor
- Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2023
- Title: Emergence of Maps in the Memories of Blind Navigation Agents
2022
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
- Best Paper, The Charles E. Ives Journal Award
- Title: A Flying Gray Ball Multi-illuminant Image Dataset for Color Research
Zahra Mirikharaji, Kumar Abhishek, Saeed Izadi, and Ghassan Hamarneh
Students & Professor
- Best Paper at Skin Image Analysis Workshop at CVPR 2021.
- Title: D-LEMA: Deep Learning Ensembles from Multiple Annotations -- Application to Skin Lesion Segmentation
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?
2020
Zhiqin Chen, Andrea Tagliasachi & Hao Zhang
School of Computing Science
- Best Student Paper Award at CVPR 2020
- Title: BSP-Net: Generating Compact Meshes via Binary Space Partitioning