We're hiring! Bring your
#AI
and
#ML
skillset to UBC Computer Science. We seek two full-time tenure-track positions at the rank of Assistant Professor with a start date of July 1, 2024.
APPLY:
@CAIDA_UBC
@ubcscience
ACM programming contest, Pacific NW division: UBC teams place 1,2,6,7,10 (out of 62 teams, including Berkeley, UW, Stanford, SFU, and more). Amazing talent!
UBC CS Professor & VPRI
@gail_murphy
named
#ACMFellow
. "For contributions to recommenders for software engineering and to program comprehension". Congratulations Gail!
Leading up to International Day of Women and Girls in Science,
@ubcscience
is featuring women researchers making their mark at
#UBC
and beyond. Today, we feature
@gail_murphy
, Vice-President of UBC Research and Innovation and a Professor for
@UBC_CS
.
Congratulations to CS professor
@tamaramunzner
& her team for receiving the 2017 InfoVis Best Paper Honourable Mention for their paper 'Bridging From Goals to Tasks with Design Study Analysis Reports':
Congratulations to CS PhD student Bahare Fatemi and MSc student Mehrdad Ghadiri for winning the
@BorealisAI
Graduate Fellowship! The fellowships were awarded to exceptional graduate students in machine learning and AI at top universities across Canada.
Borealis AI is thrilled to announce our 2018-2019 Graduate Fellowship winners! Meet our 10 outstanding finalists and learn more about the research topics they'll be pursuing this year.
#AI
#Canada
Dr. Margo Seltzer was celebrated as one of the top 20 women in Canadian cybersecurity as identified by her peers, at a recent virtual event hosted by
@itworldca
@ubcprez
@ubcnews
@tfjmp
Huge congratulations to
@meghan_e_allen
& Elisa Baniassad on being promoted to senior instructors, to Ivan
@bestchai
& Mark Schmidt on being promoted to associate professors!
CS Assistant Professor Mark Schmidt, together with co-authors Nicolas Le Roux and Francis Bach, receive the prestigious Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization: Congratulations, Mark, Nicolas and Francis!!
Congratulations to CS Professor Joanna McGrenere for receiving an
@Inria
& Université Paris Sud International Research Chair. She will be working with the Ex-Situ research team on the project "Personalization through Co-Adaptive Human-Computer Interaction".
CS Professor & Canada 150 Research Chair Margo Seltzer receives the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her incredible research career & service to the USENIX community. Congratulations, Margo!
CS prof Anne Condon is one of 18 distinguished Canadians being appointed as NSERC council members. She will bring her wealth of experience in research and diversity to further Canada's reputation as an international research leader:
Join us in congratulating UBC computer science researcher Dr. Raymond Ng for being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
@RSCTheAcademies
#COEE2021
Congrats to Ivan Beschastnikh and Dongwook Yoon of
@UBC
Computer Science and their co-authors for winning an Impact Recognition Award from
@ACM_CSCW
2021 re: GitHub pull request communications
@bestchai
@dw__yoon
#GitHub
#coding
Read:
CS student Jason Peng receives the 2018 UBC Governor General’s Gold Medal in recognition of his outstanding academic achievement. Only one student, out of more than 2,000 UBC master's graduates, is chosen to receive the Gold Medal:
Mark Thurs Nov 28 on your calendar! CS Professor
@tamaramunzner
, who just won the
@ieeevis
2019 Test of Time Award, will be giving an alumni/industry lecture on Visualization Analysis and Design at
@wegalvanize
. RSVP:
Congrats to Dr. Ivan Bestchastnikh and co-authors for winning a Distinguished Artifact Award from the ACM International Conference ASPLOS. Their tool, PGo, brings great efficiency to distributed systems
@TheOfficialACM
@bestchai
@ubc_spl
@UBC_Systopia
Alongside Oprah Winfrey this year (yes, really), our own Dr. Margo Seltzer has been elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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We are so proud of UBC Computer Science grad Sophie Greenwood, who won the Governor General's Silver Medal Award in Science for highest academic average! Sophie's story:
@ubcscience
@PinetreeSD43
UBC competitive cybersecurity team, Maple Bacon, together with their Carnegie Mellon teammates on Cloud 9 after capturing 1st at the world's No.1 Capture the Flag competition: DEFCON 2023
Read:
@defcon
@nneonneo
@ubcprez
@CBCNews
@ubcscience
It is with great sadness we announce the passing of recent UBC CS graduate student and research associate, Hooman Hashemi. An online memorial is planned for May 26, 9:30 a.m. -10:30 a.m.
To register:
Congratulations to CS Professor Tamara Munzner for receiving a 2018 UBC Killam Research Prize! Tamara is recognized for her research in creating a scientific basis for principle and design choices for visualization:
Huge congratulations to CS alumnus Derek Bradley, who receives an Oscar (Technical Achievement) for his work on the Medusa Performance Capture System. Derek did his PhD with Prof. Wolfgang Heidrich and graduated from UBC CS in 2010.
UBC CS celebrates 50 years of excellence in research and teaching! Join us at the kick-off events on May 11 and 12, 2018. Events include: panels on AI, the future of CS, symposia on HCI, graphics, systems, and data science, and a dinner & awards ceremony.
Congrats to
#UBC
Computer Science professor Margo Seltzer, a recipient of the 2020 SIGMOD Systems award, along with the team at Berkeley DB.
#sleepycatsoftware
Oracle
Research by
@jeffclune
in
#AI
was recognized for standing the test of time, with 2 awards: the SIGEVO Impact Award and the NORA Award for Outstanding Publication of the Decade
#SoftRobots
@GeccoConf
Tenure track CS faculty teaching position: pursue a career based on excellence in teaching while participating as a first-class colleague at a top-tier CS dept.
CS graduate students Francesco Vitale, Izabelle Janzen and CS professor Joanna McGrenere win Best Paper Award at
@chi2018
for their paper "Hoarding and Minimalism: Tendencies in Digital Data Preservation". Congratulations!
Four UBC CS faculty who were recently-named chairs for CIFAR (Canadian Institute For Advanced Research), contributed to the Pan Canadian AI Strategy at the
#neurips2019
Conference in Vancouver on Dec. 9.
#artificialIntelligence
UBC CS wins two Test of Time Awards at
@ieeevis
2019, taking place Oct 20-25, in Vancouver. Huge congrats to Professor
@tamaramunzner
, UBC alumnus Hamish Carr, former UBC Professor Jack Snoeyink, and Professor
@Mvandepanne
What is the future of
#AI
? Join cognitive scientist and best-selling author
@GaryMarcus
on Jan. 30 at UBC Robson Square. An expert panel discussion follows, including several UBC Computer Science faculty.
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@UBC_CS
is hiring! 3+ positions, Assistant Professor, in each of: (1) AI or ML; (2) systems, including computer architecture, networking and database systems; (3) all other areas of computer science. Apply by Dec 15.
Come work with one of North America’s top-rated computer science departments, in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. Accepting applications now for four tenure-track faculty positions: two in Educational Leadership & two in Research.
Apply:
The UBC WiCS affinity group hosted a Bob Ross paint night and it was a huge success! Everyone had so much fun networking and discovering their artistic talent!