Awards & Leadership
Updated May 2026
Major Awards
UBC Awards
Best Paper Awards & Recognitions
- 2026 Thinking Inside the Box — Best Paper Award, DSN'26
- 2024 Ranger (DSN'21) chosen as IEEE Top Picks in Test & Reliability
- 2023 SC'17 paper chosen as IEEE Top Picks in Test & Reliability
- 2023 EdgeSys'23 Best Paper Award
- 2023 Best of SELSE'23 (1 of 3 papers)
- 2021 PID-Piper — Best Paper Award, DSN'21
- 2021 Ranger — Best Paper Runner-Up, DSN'21
- 2021 OneOS — Best Demo Award, SEC'21
- 2021 QRS'21 Best Paper Award
- 2021 AISafety'21 Best Paper Candidate
- 2020 ACM TECS Best Paper Award (all papers published 2018–2020)
- 2019 Top 10 Cybersecurity Innovations in Canada (SERENE-RISC) — for ACSAC'19 paper
- 2019 SC'19 Reproducibility Challenge Finalist (1 of 3 papers)
- 2019 Highlights of ISSRE — for ISSRE'14 paper (1 of 26 from 1074 over 30 years)
- 2018 DSN'18 Best Paper Runner-Up
- 2016 EDCC'16 Best Paper Award
- 2015 EDCC'15 Best Paper Award
- 2014 ICSE'14 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
- 2013 ICST'13 Best Paper Runner-Up
- 2012 ICST'12 Best Paper Nominee
Student Awards
Research Grants
Leadership & Service
Conference Leadership
- 2022 Program Co-chair, IEEE SRDS 2022
- 2019 Program Co-chair, IEEE/IFIP DSN 2019
- 2017 Program Co-chair, IEEE ISSRE 2017
- 2013 General Chair, IEEE PRDC 2013
- 2024 Inaugural Artifact Evaluation Co-chair, IEEE/IFIP DSN 2024
- 2023 Disrupt Track Co-chair, IEEE/IFIP DSN 2023
- 2021–23 Dependability Track Co-chair, DATE 2021, 2022, 2023
- 2018–20 Co-founder & PC Co-chair, DSML Workshop at DSN (largest DSN workshop 2019–2021)
Steering Committees & Boards
Editorial Roles
- 2022– Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
- 2018 Guest Co-editor, Special Issue, IEEE Trans. on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
- 2019 Guest Co-editor, Special Issue, IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TR)
Award Committees
- 2024 Chair, Rising Star in Dependability Award Committee (IEEE/IFIP)
- 2021 William C. Carter Award Committee (IEEE TCFT & IFIP WG 10.4)
- 2021 CAGS Award for Outstanding Graduate Mentorship Committee
- 2021–24 UBC Faculty Research Awards Committee