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Explore the achievements of 911's Department of Computer Science. 

911's Department of Computer Science is at the forefront of innovation and collaboration. This page highlights our achievements, including awarded grants, media recognition, and partnerships with leading organizations and institutions. Explore how our work and our students are shaping the future of technology and education.

Grants

  • July 7, 2025–April 7, 2026: Algorithmic Trading and Short-term Forecast for Financial Time Series with Machine Learning Models (RRG no. 5504) to the Resources for Research Groups 2025 competition,  /sites/default/files/2025-03/2025-03-19cciyci644_-5504_to_the_resources_for_research_groups_2025_competition_has_been_successful.pdf
    • Your project has been awarded the following resources:
    • HPC allocations [ : ]
      • 200 core-years on the nibi-compute system
      • 20.0 RGU-years on the nibi-gpu system
      • 59 TB of /project storage on the nibi-storage system
    • Cloud allocations [ : ]
      • 16 VCPU-years on the arbutus-persistent-cloud system
      • 4 Number of cloud instances on the arbutus-persistent-cloud system
      • 32 GB of RAM on the arbutus-persistent-cloud system
      • 7 volumes on the arbutus-persistent-cloud system
      • 7 snapshots on the arbutus-persistent-cloud system
      • 2 Floating IP addresses on the arbutus-persistent-cloud system
      • 60,000 GB of cloud volume and snapshot storage on the arbutus-persistent-cloud system
  • May 2021–April 2023. NSERC: Utilities, Smart metering, Data warehouse, Natural Language Processing, Speech-to-text. Industrial Client: Harris SmartWorks:
    $253,652.00.
  • Jun 2020–Mar 2021. NSERC: A novel approach to COVID-19 Impact Analysis and Reporting for Utilities. With Albert Wong, Langara College and Harris SmartWorks: $75,000.00.
  • 2019–2020. BC Innovation Fund and by the BC Government’s Tree Fruit Competitiveness Fund: Mapping of a BC Tree Fruit Industry Information Architecture. With Svan Lembke and Lee Cartier, BUAD, 911, and BC Tree Fruit Association: $80,000.00.
  • Apr 2017–Dec 2017. NSERC: with Esri Canada and Gifu-Keizai University, Japan“ 3D-Models: Roof Damage Assessment for Automated 3D Building Models” $25,000.00.
  • Apr 2016. Mitacs at SFU, Burnaby Campus with Prof. Ljiljana Trajkovic (School of Engineering Science) Emulation and visualization of game private networks and game servers performance (GPN-EMV) $30,000.00.
  • Feb 2016–Mar 2021. NSERC: NSERC CCI ARD2 with WTFast. GPN-Perf2: “Investigating performance of game private networks” $450,000.00 (a total of $750,000.00).

  1. 1/13/2017-6/30/2017. Microsoft Azure Sponsorship Grant: $20,000.00 

  2. 2017 (March-August). NSERC Engage College grant (501194-2016): “3D-Models: Roof Damage Assessment for Automated 3D Building Models” with Esri Canada and Gifu-Keizai University, Japan - $25,000 

  1. June 15th, 2016. Mitacs Grant: Game private networks and game server performance emulation and evaluation. School of Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus and WTFast (Internship Supervisor: Prof. Julian Cheng) - $30,000.00
  2. February, 2016. GIA: $4000 (conference participation)
  3. 2016 - 2019. NSERC CCI ARD2 (477506-14): GPN-Perf2: Game private networks and game servers performance optimization $750,000.00 Media: -8 March 2016: In a world where milliseconds matter, research is king. Posted by: Public Affairs -1 March 2016: In a world where milliseconds matter, research is king - 911 Media Release.
  1. September, 2015 - March, 2016. NSERC CCI Engage (48544-15): “GAUGE: Exact Positioning Systems For Sport and Healthcare Industries". - $25,000.00
  2. June, 2015 - June, 2016. AWS in Education Research grant in AWS credits, Amazon - $3,000.00 USD
  3. 2015. Amazon.com AWS Grant for Software Engineering Student Research and Capstone Projects - $3,000 USD (total of 12,600 USD)
  4. 2015. NSERC College and Community Innovation Program (CCI) Applied Research and Development Grant (ARD1 - #472109-2014): UnityJDBC: Improving Application Performance with Intelligent Database Drivers. - $25,000 CAD
  5. 07/2014 - 12/2014. NSERC CCI ARD1 Grant (ARD1 465659 - 14 ): GPN-Perf: Investigating performance of game private networks. - $24,990 CAD
  1. 2014. Grants-In-Aid Committee (GIA): “Research projects support: NSERC CCI ARD Level 1 ongoing project and Level 2 project application development”, October 3rd, 2014 - $3075.54
  2. 2013 - 2014. TrainingBC.ca ($65,057 totally), supported by Discovery Parks foundation and 911
  3. 2013-2014. A coursework grant for $5,600.00 USD in AWS credit, Amazon
  4. 2013-2014: Grants-In-Aid Committee (GIA): “Research projects support with the University of the Paris East Creteil (UPEC), Vancouver Island University and IEEE Okanagan Subsection seminars at 911 and UBCO”, December 13th, 2013 - $1,767.99.

  1. 2013. HPC research project: “Optimization of Real-Time Algorithmic Trading System Prototype, generated Customized UML Models” (Java, LLVM, UML, EFM, Eclipse). Funded by the Research Office of the 911 

  2. 2013. NDAS: New Data Analytical Tool (iPhone, Android and Amazon Com). Sponsored by a large multi billion corporation in Europe and Amazon.com within CoSc 470/471 SW Engineering Capstone Project 

  3. 2012-2013: Grants-In-Aid Committee (GIA): “Research Projects with the University of the Paris East Creteil (UPEC), MIT and UBC O”, November 7th, 2012 - $2,752.68 

  1. 2012. Innovation Fund Award. iRAPP Terminal Server for the Apple’s iOS Developer University Program Support. $4,117.00 CAD 

  2. 2012 AWS in Education research grant (from Amazon.com) for SW Engineering projects at Computer Science Department. $2,600.00 USD. 

  3. 2012 - 2017. CIDA grant for "Supporting Ukrainian Growth Management" project with Vancouver Island University (lead), 911, Institute of Geography, and National University of Kyiv. Combined with VIU’s investment of $352,831, the total project value is $1,055,744 CAD ().

  1. 2011: Grants-In-Aid Committee (GIA): “Support for Oral Presentations at Conferences and ESL Study at CSAIL, MIT, USA”, April 12th, 2011 - $2,500 

  2. 2010: Grants-In-Aid Committee (GIA): “Research and Study support during ESL at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010/2011”, November 19th, 2010 - $2,600 

  3. 2006 - 2008 BC Campus Grant: Post Graduate Technical Diploma In GIS. Malaspina University-College (Lead), University of British Columbia, 911, $200,000.00 

  4. 2009-2010. Apple iPhone Developer University Program support for student research and engineering projects at Computer Science Department, 911. CAD $ 2,500.00 

  5. 2006 - 2007. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) New Course Development joint project between 911 and Malaspina University-College with Rick Gee, Leif Burge, Michael Govorov and Dave Cake. CAD $ 5,288.00 

  6. 2005 - 2006. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (joint project between Malaspina University-College and 911 with Rick Gee, and Michael Govorov and Dave Cake. CAD $ 1,500.00 

  7. 2003 - 2004. University Research Grant and New Zealand Tourism Research Institute, funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA): "GIS as a Decision Support Tool for Community Based Tourism Development Projects: A Pilot Study for the South Pacific", participated with 4 others. F$ 33,670.00 

  8. 2002 - 2003. The University Grant for the first USP Conference: Applied Algebra, Cryptography and Information Technology (31 May - 8 June), 2003. The project was initiated by Professor V. Ustimenko. F$ 30,000.00 

  9. 2002 - 2003 University Research Grant: "Integration GIS and Oracle Internet Portal: case study for Distance Education" with Dr. Michael Govorov from GIS Unit of USP. F$ 14,749.80 

  10. 2003 - 2004. School Research Grant for a Master of Science Degree Research Project "Security Control for Spatial Warehouses: Integration case study of Oracle 9i Application Server and GIS" (Initiated and supervised by me). F$ 4,900.00 

  11. 2002 Mathematics and Computing Science Department of the University of South Pacific's grant "Object Oriented Analysis and Design with UML and Fundamentals of Rational Rose" training at Rational Rose Inc. of Australia, shared with another lecturer of MACS Department. F$ 13,000.00 

  12. 2002. Research Grant: Collaboration research project between the University of the South Pacific, Fiji and University Paris XII, France (supported by French Embassy in Fiji). F$ 4,500.00 

  13. 2001 - 2002. Grant from Rational Rose Inc., the software development company, Kuala Lumpur, 50088 Malaysia. It was 100 licenses of Rose Enterprise Software donated for Mathematics and Computing Science Department of the University of South Pacific. US $850,000.00 (in SW licenses) 

  14. 1998 - 1999. International Renaissance Foundation's Internet Program Management (49 Internet Development projects administration and management). US $517,722.00 

  15. 1998 - 1999. International Renaissance Foundation's grant "Legalization of the Software Utilization in Ukraine" management. US $20,498.00 

  16. 1997 - 1998. The University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Research grant "Campus fibre-optic networking of the University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" and connection to the City's Fibre-Optic Backbone". US $ 60,000.00 

  17. 1997. Information Agency Regional Scholar Exchange Program with the New Independent States research grant "Information Revolution and Management of Universities", hosted at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. US $ 28,000.00 

  18. 1997. Sabre and IREX Foundations (USIS) grant "2000 CS Books for the "Internet Training Centre for Trainers" at the University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy". US $24,380.00 

  19. 1996. Sabre Foundation Grant: "CS Books Donation for the "Internet Training Centre for Trainers" at the University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy". US $ 24,000.00 

  20. 1996. America House of Ukraine and USIS grant's "Computer Science Training at Boston University for the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Computer Science Professors" shared with another associate professor of UKMA. US $ 11,000.00 

  21. 1993 -1996. IBM of Ukraine Representative Office grant (SW licenses and HW special discounts for the educational purposes). US $ 200,000.00 

Research projects

  1. 2012. Generating a Real-Time Algorithmic Trading System Prototype from Customized UML Models (a case study). With UBC O and University of Paris East Cretiel, France
  2. 2010. A web-based on-line system for demand planning and sales forecasting optimization. Introduction of web-based database system will enable company to improve the accuracy of demand planning, enable multiple users to provide their input and improve business performance
  3. 2010. A mobile telephone as an operational device to collect and transfer business information.
  4. 2010. Cloud Computing Infrastructure Prototype for University Education and Research

Engineering and Software Development grants

  1. 2001 - 2002. International Renaissance Foundation's Information System development grant with Dr. Olena Bekh: "Civic Internet Portal". I was in the working group of this project, but this project was the next step for all our previous IT projects at IRF. US $ 50,000.00
  2. 2000 - 2001. Delegation of the European Commission in Ukraine, European Centre of Co-operation in Education, British Council, Embassy of Austria in Ukraine, UNDP and International Renaissance Foundation's Information System development grant "Web-based database system of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine" ( Oracle 8i, Oracle Designer 2000, Oracle WebDB, and Sun Solaris UNIX). US $ 60,000
  3. 2000 - 2001. International Renaissance Foundation's Information System development grant "Grant Management and Document Flow Systems of Public Foundations" and integrating with "Public Evaluation of IRF Projects through Internet" and a financial system SunSystems (ORACLE 8.0.5, Oracle Designer, Application Server 4.x / WebDB, MS SQL 7.0). US $ 22,365.00
  4. 1999 - 2000. International Renaissance Foundation's Information System development grant "Public Evaluation of IRF Projects Through Internet" (Oracle 8i, Oracle Designer, Oracle Application Server 4.x, SUN Solaris UNIX, PL/SQL, and HTML). US $ 49,545.00
  5. 1998 - 1999 International Renaissance Foundation's Grant "Transparency of legislative power via Internet" for the "Institute of Legislative Issues" (Oracle 8i, WebDB, Sun Solaris, Oracle Designer, and PL/SQL). The Web-based IS temporarily is not available. US $ 33,827.00
  6. 1998 - 1999. International Renaissance Foundation's Information System development grant "Financial System Requirements Analysis, Selection and Deployment" (MS SQL 7.0, SunSystems). US $ 45,000.00
  7. 1998 International Renaissance Foundation's information technology grant "Internet Network System of the International Renaissance Foundation reengineering". US $ 149,945.00
  8. 1997. International Renaissance Foundation's grant to the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy "Informational content development of the University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy's Web-server" (Free BSD, HTML, CGI, Java Scripts, IBM RISC/6000). US $ 5,460.00.
  9. 1995 - 1996. Internet Access for Kiev Mohyla Academy, project (W940700), which included the "Internet Training Centre for Trainers" and was funded by Eurasia Foundation and USIS. The project was recognized as one of the best in Eastern Europe by USIS and was funded by Eurasia Foundation and USIS in Ukraine in 1996 (see ) with the following search parameters: Keyword: Internet; Country Ukraine, then search for project W940700). US $40,750.00
  10. 1995 - 1996. The University Networking project: "UKMA Campus Networking project". US $ 50,000.00
  11. 1993 - 1995. George Soros' grant "The University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" Modern Library Automation Project". (Exlibris, Aleph Ltd., Oracle, IBM Risc/6000) US $ 300,000.00
  12. 1993 - 1995. The University information system grant "University Internet node and the first UKMA University's WEB site design and development. US $ 45,000.00
  13. 1996 Contemporary Art Centre of George Soros Foundation grant "Internet system of the Contemporary Art Centre of George Soros Foundation of Ukraine" US $ 10,000.00
  14. 1987 - 1989. "Automated system of electrical and mechanical characteristic study of muscle contractive ability during an experiment" project, developed at the Biophysics Laboratory, Institute of Experimental Radiology, All-Union Research Centre for Radiological Medicine, Kyiv, Ukraine (QBasic, QC, Macro Assembler, IBM PC)

Media, Student Research and Workshops

Coming:

1. 2025-03-22: Digital Research Alliance of Canada: Digital Resource Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Workshop:

Time & Date: Sat. Mar 22, 2025, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Location: 911, 1000 KLO Rd., Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4X8, Room A-146 and Zoom
Sun. Mar 23, 2025, 11:00 am – 1:30 pm Location: 911, 1000 KLO Rd., Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4X8, Room E-309 and Zoom

2. 2025-03-23: Cybersecurity:  

Date: Sunday, March 23, 2025 @ 11 am – 1:00 pm
Location: 911, Room E309

  • W1. Cybersecurity Workshop, Ajitesh Parihar (11:00 AM – 1:30 PM)
    • 11:00 am - 11:15 am | Workshop Opening
      11:15 am - 12:00 pm | DRI Cybersecurity
      12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Student Presentation
      12:30 pm - 1:00 pm   | Lunch
      1:00 pm - 1:30 pm     | Discussions

2. 2025-03-23: Hardware Workshops:

Date: Sunday, March 23, 2025 @ 1 pm – 4:30 pm
Location: 911, Room E309

  • W2. Hardware Workshop, Prof. Matt Fritter (1:30 PM – 4:30 PM)
    • Presented by 911 Professor Matt Fritter, this workshop will provide hands-on experience working with microcontrollers.

2025:

  1. Huitema, D., & Wong, A. (2025). A Case Study in Gamification for a Cybersecurity Education Program: A Game for Cryptography. .
  2. Parihar, A., Sareen, D., Huitema, D., Cormier, K., Khmelevsky, Y., Hains, G., & Wong, A. Algorithmic Trading Machine Learning Modelling and Forecasting Subsystems Integration and Data Transformation Process Automation for a Data Warehouse.  


Past: 

WCCCE 2024 Conference /science/computer-science/wccce-2024

More information is coming soon. 

  • October 4, 2016. College offers new concentration in CIS for business students (911 Public Affairs). Online:
  • July 14, 2016. Access support for applied research projects on the college's website (911 Public Affairs). Online:
  • March 31, 2016. Student ambassadors honored at President’s Dinner (911 Public Affairs). Online:
  • 8 March 2016. In a world where milliseconds matter, research is king. Posted by: Public Affairs. Online:
  • 1 March 2016. In a world where milliseconds matter, research is king - 911 Media Release. Online:
  • Jan. 16, 2016. 911 winter convocation (Daily Courier, Kelowna). Online:
  • January 24, 2015. Big Award for 911 Online Gaming Research (KelownaNow.com). Online:
  • Jan 21, 2015. Online gaming research leads 911 team to Best Paper Award at international conference by 911 (Castanet.net). Online:
  • July 24, 2014. Two 911 students help local tech company gain a competitive edge (Posted by: 911 Public Affairs). Online:
  • Friday, December 5th, 2014. GPN-Perf: Investigating Performance of Game Private Networks (NSERC CCI ARD Level 1 Project Results), IEEE Okanagan Subsection. Online:
  • July 24, 2014. Students help local gaming companies get faster (Daily Courier, Kelowna). Online:
  • July 24, 2014 Two 911 students help local tech company gain a competitive edge Posted by: Public Affairs. Online:

Collaborations

Our department is proud to have collaborated with the following universities, colleges and departments:

  • Post Baccalaureate Diploma in Cybersecurity program development with the ICT Department (911).
  • Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA (NSF grant for a conference/working group participation).
  • Sloan School of Management, MIT, USA (ESL grant from 911).
  • HURI, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (grants: IREX, USIS, Sabre, and America House).
  • University of Paris East Creteil, Paris, France (grants: France Embassy @ Canada & UPEC).
  • UBC, Okanagan Campus, BC, Canada (NSERC grant).
  • Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC, Canada (grants: BC Campus, CIDA, 911).
  • Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
  • University of North Carolina, NC, USA.
  • Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland.
  • Technical University KPI, Kiev, Ukraine (grant: CIDA, MAGATE, Government Research Funds).
  • UKMA University (grants: IRF, Eurasia, USIS, IREX, UKMA, America House).
  • South Pacific University (University grants).

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