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A leading academic computer science department in Vancouver, B.C. Canada.
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Join us on November 11 at UBC's War Memorial Gymnasium for a ceremony to commemorate Remembrance Day.

All UBC students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to attend—to honour and remember all those who served in times of war, military conflict and peace.

events.ubc.ca/ubc-remembers/
November 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Curious about graduate programs at UBC Computer Science? Join our virtual Q&A sessions about admissions to our MSc, PhD-track and PhD program on Wed Dec 3! Register here: www.cs.ubc.ca/graduate-pro...
November 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
From a personalized AI agent to help you communicate with your long-distance family members to a tool that gives subtle feedback on your body language during video calls, UBC’s eDAPT group presented their studies at CSCW2025 last month. Read more: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/11...
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
UBC Computer Science welcomes new Assistant Professor Peter West! Dr. West will lead a research program studying large language models. Learn more about Dr. West’s journey into computer science and his research program at UBC! www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/11...
November 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Whether it’s through a graph or chart, conveying information visually helps people understand data quickly and in an unbiased way. To discuss the latest in data visualization, UBC’s InfoVis Group will be in Vienna next week for the 2025 IEEE VIS conference. Learn more: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/10...
October 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
From a new tool that analyzes bias in text-to-image models to a new method for summarizing multiple documents, UBC researchers are presenting their papers at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference. Read more about their work: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/10...
October 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Protect yourself from the flu — Get your flu shot. #UBC is once again offering free flu immunization clinics to students, faculty and staff on Nov. 5 and 12. To learn more, visit srs.ubc.ca/flu
October 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
In a new paper, UBC Computer Science researchers present a deep learning model to help scientists integrate and generate new multiomics data. Read more: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/10...
October 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Dr. Caroline Lemieux and Dr. Xin Tang from UBC’s Department of Computer Science have been appointed as new Canada Research Chairs. Congratulations! Learn more about their research: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/10...
October 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
UBC Computer Science invites applications for up to two full-time tenure-track positions with the following priority areas: visualization, robotics, reinforcement learning, data management, and data mining. Applications are due Wed Dec 10, 2025. Learn more: www.cs.ubc.ca/our-departme...
October 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The Software Practices Lab is representing UBC Computer Science in Singapore next week at a joint conference on functional programming, programming languages and software engineering! Learn more about their papers, talks and leadership roles in our new article: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/10...
October 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Three undergraduate computer science students represented UBC in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals last month. Congratulations to Joel Gunawan, Phu Binh Nguyen, and Rain Zimin Yang! Read more: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/10...
October 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
From healthcare information to social networks, databases are everywhere. To understand how best to organize, analyze and query large sets of data, researchers gathered at the VLDB conference. Read more about the papers that UBC Computer Science published: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/10...
October 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
September 30 marks Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It's a day to honour and uphold Survivors and Intergenerational Survivors of the Indian Residential School system and to commemorate those who didn’t return home. Learn more: irshdc.ubc.ca/learn/orange...
September 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
UBC Computer Science researchers debuted a new technology that allows us to swipe or tap to enter a PIN or pick a tip amount. Read more about the study, led by PhD student Bu Li and Associate Professor Dr. Robert Xiao: news.ubc.ca/2025/09/forg...
September 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Meet Laszlo Hollander. Laszlo has been a mentor in UBC Computer Science’s Tri-Mentoring Program for 22 years! As our most long-standing mentor, Laszlo shares his experience helping students in the Tri-Mentoring Program in our new article: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/09...
September 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Calling all CS students! The CS Book Club is starting again for the new school year. September's topic is "Indigenous protocol and artificial intelligence"! RSVP and join us tomorrow at 3PM at the ICICS/CS Reading Room!
September 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Distinguished Lecture Series is back! Learn about topics such as generative AI in healthcare, how data can inform AI for education, and the past and future of parallel algorithms. Lectures are free to attend and open to the public. Learn more at cs.ubc.ca/DLS
September 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Congratulations to our undergraduate researchers on their successful summer projects!
September 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Dr. Jiamin (Carrie) Dai from UBC Computer Science will present her research at UBC iSchool's first colloquium of the year! Join to hear more about supporting aging and accessibility needs in social, financial, and digital engagements. Register here: ischool.ubc.ca/events/event...
September 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
As the field of computer science expands, researchers are publishing more and more scientific papers. With increasing numbers of studies, scientists must ensure that their results are validated and that the knowledge they generate is true.
September 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
UBC Computer Science professors Dr. Joanna McGrenere and Dr. Tamara Munzner have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada for their excellence in research and innovation. Read more about their work: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/09...
September 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Congratulations to UBC’s student hacking club Maple Bacon for making history at hacking convention DEF CON 2025! Read more about their win in our new article: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/08...
August 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Imagine Day is just around the corner! To welcome new and returning students who are starting undergraduate and graduate programs, UBC’s Computer Science Department has planned many exciting events for Tues Sept 2, 2024.
August 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Dr. Akshay Ramachandran joins UBC Computer Science as an Assistant Professor! Read about his journey into theoretical computer science in our new article: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/08...
August 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM