Faculty & Staff Awards

  • Scott A. Smolka – 2021
  • Arie Kaufman – 2009
  • David Warren – 2000
  • Phil Lewis – 1999

  • Michael Bender – 2026
  • Klaus Mueller – 2024
  • Haibin Ling – 2023
  • Theo Pavlidis (Lifetime) – 1999
  • Arie Kaufman – 1998
  • Allen Tannenbaum – 1998
  • Art Bernstein – 1981
  • Phil Lewis – 1979

  • Steven Skiena – 2018

  • Erez Zadok – 2021
  • Michael Bender – 2020

  • Scott Smolka – Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing – 2021

  • Michael Bender – 2023
  • Scott Smolka – 2016

  • Xianfeng Gu – SMA Fellow – 2026
  • Klaus Mueller – AAIA Fellow – 2024
  • Allen Tannenbaum – IFAC Fellow – 2022
  • Arie Kaufman – NAI Fellow – 2018
  • Hong Qin – Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow – 2001
  • Theo Pavlidis – IARP Fellow – 1994

  • Klaus Mueller – IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy Member – 2021
  • Scott Stoller – IEEE Community Service Award on Security & Privacy – 2009
  • Arie Kaufman – IEEE Visualization Career Award – 2005
  • Samir Das – IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor – 2001 - 2003
  • Steve Skiena – IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award – 2001

  • Dominik Kempa – 2024
  • Shuai Mu – 2023
  • Stanley Bak – 2023
  • Shubham Jain – 2023
  • Omkant Pandey – 2022
  • Nick Nikiforakis – 2020
  • Ting Wang – 2019
  • Anshul Gandhi – 2018
  • Robert Patro – 2018
  • Michalis Polychronakis – 2018
  • Jing Chen – 2016
  • Rezaul Chowdhury – 2016
  • Michael Ferdman – 2015
  • Phillipa Gill – 2014
  • Fusheng Wang – 2014
  • Zhaozheng Yin – 2014
  • Donald Porter – 2012
  • Tamara Berg – 2011
  • Radu Sion – 2009
  • Jie Gao – 2006
  • Xianfeng Gu – 2005
  • Radu Grosu – 2002
  • Erez Zadok – 2002
  • Klaus Mueller – 2001
  • C. R. Ramakrishnan – 1999
  • Scott Stoller – 1999
  • Samir Das – 1998
  • Hong Qin – 1996
  • Tzicker Chiueh – 1995

  • Stanley Bak – AFOSR Young Investigator Award – 2021
  • Nick Nikiforakis – ONR Young Investigator Award – 2020
  • Omkant Pandey – DARPA Young Faculty Award – 2020
  • H. Andrew Schwartz – DARPA Young Faculty Award – 2020
  • Michalis Polychronakis – DARPA Young Faculty Award – 2018
  • Omar Chowdhury – DARPA Young Faculty Award – 2017
  • Scott Stoller – ONR Young Investigator Award – 2002
  • Steven Skiena – ONR Young Investigator Award – 1993

  • Arie Kaufman – SC24 Test of Time Award – 2024
  • Steven Skiena – ACM KDD Test of Time Award – 2024
  • Fusheng Wang – VLDB Test of Time Award – 2024
  • Aruna Balasubramanian – ACM IMC Test of Time Award – 2023
  • Niranjan Balasubramanian – ACM IMC Test of Time Award – 2023
  • Omkant Pandey – ACM CCS – 2016
  • Fusheng Wang – EDBT Test of Time Award – 2016
  • Leo Bachmair – ACM/IEEE LICS Test-of-Time Award – 2013
  • Michael Bender – Imre Simon Test of Time Award – 2012
  • Leo Bachmair – ACM/IEEE LICS Test-of-Time Award – 2006
  • Michael Kifer – ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award – 2002
  • Michael Kifer – ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award – 1999

  • Mohammad Javad Amiri – Best Paper Award - USENIX NSDI – 2024
  • Mohammad Javad Amiri – Outstanding Paper Award - USENIX NSDI – 2024
  • Niranjan Balasubramanian – Best Evaluation Paper Award - ACL – 2024
  • Michael Bender – Best Paper Award - ACM PODS – 2024
  • Nick Nikiforakis – Best Paper Award - SecWeb Workshop – 2024
  • Nick Nikiforakis – Distinguished Paper Award - NDSS – 2024
  • Nick Nikiforakis – Distinguished Paper Award - USENIX Security Symposium – 2024
  • Nick Nikiforakis – NSA Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Award – 2024
  • Amir Rahmati – Best Repeatability Evaulation Award - ICCPS – 2024
  • Amir Rahmati – Distinguished Paper Award - NDSS – 2024
  • Michael Bender – Best Paper Award - ASPLOS Distinguished Paper – 2023
  • Xiaojun Bi – Best Paper Award Honorable Mention - ACM CHI – 2023
  • Michael Ferdman – Best Paper Award - ACM SIGARCH/SIGPLAN/SIGOPS ASPLOS Influential Paper – 2023
  • Paul Fodor – Best Paper Award – International Conference on Logic Programming – 2023
  • Xianfeng Gu – Best Paper Award Honorable Mention - ACM CHI – 2023
  • Himanshu Gupta – Best Paper Award - International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering – 2023
  • C. R. Ramakrishnan – Best Paper Award - International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering – 2023
  • Klaus Mueller – Best Paper Award - Visual Analytics in Healthcare Workshop at AMIA – 2022
  • Nengkun Yu – ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award - ACM PLDI – 2022
  • Xiaojun Bi – Best Paper Honorable Mention - Chinese CHI – 2021
  • Xianfeng Gu – Best Paper Award - National Conference on Geometric Design and Computation – 2021
  • Xiaojun Bi – Best Paper Honorable Mention - ACM UIST – 2020
  • Klaus Mueller – Honorary Mention Best Paper Award - EuroVis – 2020
  • Hong Qin – Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative Best Paper Award - Computers & Graphics – 2020
  • Nengkun Yu – ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award - ACM OOPSLA – 2020
  • Xiaojun Bi – Best Paper Award - ACM UIST – 2019
  • Xiaojun Bi – Best Paper Honorable Mention - ACM CHI – 2019
  • Xianfeng Gu – Distinguished Paper Award in Mathematics - International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians – 2019
  • Klaus Mueller – Best Paper Award - Visual Data Science Symposium – 2019
  • Nick Nikiforakis – Best Paper Runner-Up Award - ACM/IEEE ESEM – 2019
  • Xiaojun Bi – Best Paper Honorable Mention - ACM CHI – 2018
  • Xiaojun Bi – Best Paper Honorable Mention - ACM ISS – 2018
  • Xiaojun Bi – Best Paper Award - ACM UIST – 2018
  • Xianfeng Gu – Honorable Mention - Computational Visual Media – 2018
  • Klaus Mueller – Honorary Mention Best Paper Award - IEEE VAST – 2018
  • Amir Rahmati – Best Research Paper Award - IEEE Cybersecurity Development Conference – 2018
  • Ting Wang – Best Paper Award - ACM AISec – 2018
  • Stanley Bak – Best Paper Award - ARCH Workshop – 2017
  • Xiaojun Bi – Best Paper Honorable Mention - ACM CHI – 2017
  • Xianfeng Gu – Distinguished Paper Award in Mathematics - International Congress of Chinese Mathematics – 2017
  • Nick Nikiforakis – Distinguished Paper Award - NDSS – 2017
  • Robert Patro - Best Paper Award – 2017
  • Michalis Polychronakis – Most Influential DIMVA Paper Award - IEEE/ACM – Venue Not Specified – 2017
  • Steven Skiena – Best Paper Award - NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Molecules and Materials – 2017
  • Steven Skiena – Paper Award - CITAMS – 2017
  • Ting Wang – Best Paper Award - IEEE CNS – 2017
  • Xianfeng Gu – Distinguished Paper Award in Mathematics - International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians – 2016
  • Klaus Mueller – Honorary Mention Best Paper Award - IEEE VAST – 2016
  • Nick Nikiforakis – Honorable Mention, Best Student Paper Award - PETS – 2016
  • Scott Stoller – Best Paper Award - DBSec – 2016
  • Scott Stoller – Best Paper Award - IFIP WG 11.3 Conference – 2016
  • Aruna Balasubramanian – Applied Networking Research Prize - USENIX NSDI – 2015
  • Aruna Balasubramanian - Best Paper Award - Ubicomp – 2015
  • Aruna Balasubramanian - Gaetano Borriello Best Student Paper Award - ACM UbiComp – 2015
  • Niranjan Balasubramanian – Best Paper Award - AKBC Workshop at NIPS – 2014
  • Nick Nikiforakis – Best Paper Award - Information Security Conference – 2014
  • Steven Skiena – Clifford James Geertz Prize for Best Article - American Sociological Association – 2014
  • Xiaojun Bi – Google Influential Paper Award - ACM CHI – 2013
  • Paul Fodor, Michael Kifer – Best Paper Award - RuleML – 2013
  • Xianfeng Gu – Autodesk Best Paper Award - Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling – 2013
  • Annie Liu – Best Student Paper Award - Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems – 2012
  • Michalis Polychronakis – Most Influential Paper Award, 2004 - 2008 - DIMVA – 2012
  • Klaus Mueller –  Best Paper Award - Workshop on High Performance Image Reconstruction – 2011
  • Michalis Polychronakis – Best Paper Award - International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software – 2011
  • Michalis Polychronakis – Best Student Paper Award - Information Security Conference – 2011
  • Scott Stoller – Best Paper Award - International Conference on Runtime Verification – 2011
  • Ting Wang – Best Paper Runner-up Award - ACM CoNEXT – 2010
  • Jie Gao – Best Paper Award - ACM IMC – 2009
  • Xianfeng Gu – Best Paper Award - International Journal of CAD/CAM – 2009
  • Samir Das – Best Paper Award - ACM MobiSys – 2007
  • Xianfeng Gu – Best Student Paper Award - International Conference on Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics – 2007
  • Xianfeng Gu – Gaheon Best Paper Award - International Journal of CAD/CAM – 2007
  • Xianfeng Gu – Best Paper Award - International Conference on Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics – 2005
  • Hong Qin – Top Cited Article, 2005-2010 - Graphical Models – 2005
  • Scott Stoller – Best Paper Award - Haifa Verification Conference – 2005
  • Erez Zadok – Best Paper Award, IEEE/ACM Workshop on Cluster Security (CCGrid 2005) – 2005
  • Erez Zadok – Best Paper Award - ACM Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2005) – 2005
  • Hong Qin – Best Paper Award - ACM Solid Modeling and Applications Symposium – 2004
  • Xianfeng Gu – Best Paper Award - International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies – 2003
  • Klaus Mueller – Best Paper Award - IEEE Visualization Conference – 1997
  • Klaus Mueller – Best Paper Award - Annual Conference of Engineering, Ohio State University - 1991
  • Annie Liu – Excellent Paper Award - Beijing Symposium for Young Computer Scientists – 1989

  • Xiaojun Bi – 2018
  • Xiaojun Bi – 2017
  • Francesco Orabona – 2017
  • Aruna Balasubramanian – 2016
  • Michael Ferdman – 2016
  • Anshul Gandhi – 2016
  • Nima Honarmand – 2016
  • Minh Hoai Nguyen – 2016

  • Anshul Gandhi – 2015
  • Erez Zadok – 2008
  • Erez Zadok – 2006

  • Robert Patro – 2018

  • Hong Qin – SMI Tosiyasu L. Kunii Distinguished Researcher Award – 2025
  • Hong Qin – SMA Pioneer Award – 2024
  • Xianfeng Gu – ICCM Morningside Gold Medal of Applied Mathematics – 2013
  • Michael Bender – MIT R&D 100 Award – 2006
  • Michael Kifer – Plummer Fellow by St. Anne's College, Oxford University – 2006
  • Scott Stoller – NASA Turning Goals into Reality Award – 2003
  • R. Sekar – NSA Center of Excellence Award – 2002
  • Steven Skiena – Fulbright Scholar Fellowship Award – 2002
  • R. Sekar – US DoD Critical Infrastructure Protection Award – 2001
  • Theo Pavlidis – IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize – 2000
  • Hong Qin – Honda Initiation Award – 2000
  • David Warren – ALP President Award – 2000
  • Steven Skiena – EDUCOM Higher Education Software Award – 1991
  • Steven Skiena – Apple Personal Computer Competition Award – 1988

  • Scott Smolka – 2016
  • Allen Tannenbaum – 2015
  • Arie Kaufman – 2004
  • Theo Pavlidis – 2001

  • Steven Skiena – 2009

  • Nick Nikiforakis – 2023
  • Erez Zadok – 2022
  • Dimitris Samaras – 2018
  • Scott Stoller – 2012
  • Klaus Mueller – 2011
  • R. Sekar – 2011
  • Annie Liu – 2010
  • Scott Smolka – 2009
  • Michael Kifer – 2008
  • I. V. Ramakrishnan – 2008

  • Ahmad Esmaili – 2025
  • Tony Scarlatos – 2024
  • Kevin McDonnell – 2021
  • Paul Fodor – 2019
  • Michael Bender – 2015
  • Erez Zadok – 2008
  • Steven Skiena – 2000

  • Leo Bachmair – 2008
  • Steven Skiena – 2006
  • R. Sekar – 2004

  • Kathy Germana – 2018
  • Ken Gladky – 2017

University Level

  • Dominik Kempa – 2026
  • Stanley Bak – 2024
  • Niranjan Balasubramanian – 2022

  • Dimitris Samaras – 2023
  • Erez Zadok – 2022

  • Kevin McDonnell – 2024
  • Tony Scarlatos – 2023

  • Ahmad Esmaili – 2024

  • Ahmad Esmaili – 2026

College Level

  • Michael Ryoo – 2025
  • Xiaojun Bi – 2023
  • Nick Nikiforakis – 2015, 2019, 2023
  • I. V. Ramakrishnan – 2019, 2013
  • Ting Wang – 2023
  • Anshul Gandhi – 2022
  • Shuai Mu – 2022
  • Dimitris Samaras – 2015, 2020, 2021, 2022
  • H. Andrew Schwartz – 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
  • R. Sekar – 2016, 2021, 2022
  • Allen Tannenbaum – 2022
  • Himanshu Gupta – 2020
  • Erez Zadok – 2018, 2020
  • Annie Liu – 2019
  • Omkant Pandey – 2019
  • Niranjan Balasubramanian – 2018
  • Robert Patro – 2017
  • Michalis Polychronakis – 2017

  • Andrew Schwartz – 2021, 2023

  • Omar Chowdhury – 2024
  • Ahmad Esmaili – 2024
  • Paul Fodor – 2024
  • Anshul Gandhi – 2024
  • Dongyuan Li – 2024
  • Kevin McDonnell – 2024
  • Nick Nikiforakis – 2024
  • Tony Scarlatos – 2024
  • Aruna Balasubramanian – 2023
  • Niranjan Balasubramanian – 2023
  • Michael Bender – 2023
  • Paul Fodor – 2023
  • Christopher Kane – 2023
  • Nick Nikiforakis – 2023
  • Scott Stoller – 2023
  • Fusheng Wang – 2023

Department Level

  • Jie Gao – 2016
  • Michael Ferdman – 2014
  • Michael Bender – 2012
  • Rob Johnson – 2012
  • Hong Qin – 2006
  • Erez Zadok – 2004
  • Klaus Mueller – 2002
  • Michael Bender – 2000

  • Shubham Jain – 2024
  • Dominik Kempa – 2024
  • Haibin Ling – 2024
  • Shuai Mu – 2024
  • Klaus Mueller – 2024
  • Dimitris Samaras – 2024
  • Stanley Bak – 2022
  • Aruna Balasubramanian – 2022
  • Nick Nikiforakis – 2022
  • Omkant Pandey – 2022
  • Michalis Polychronakis – 2022
  • H. Andrew Schwartz – 2022
  • Xiaojun Bi – 2019
  • Anshul Gandhi – 2019
  • Yanhong Annie Liu – 2016
  • Samir Das – 2014
  • Michael Kifer – 2014
  • Jie Gao – 2012
  • Joseph Mitchell – 2012
  • Scott Smolka – 2012
  • Xianfeng Gu – 2010
  • Radu Sion – 2010
  • I.V. Ramakrishnan – 2008
  • Erez Zadok – 2006
  • Hong Qin – 2004
  • R. Sekar – 2002

  • Anshul Gandhi – 2024
  • Niranjan Balasubramanian – 2022
  • Yifan Sun – 2022
  • Steven Skiena – 2019
  • Nick Nikiforakis – 2016
  • Michael Ferdman – 2014
  • Rob Johnson – 2012

  • Nick Nikiforakis – 2024
  • Eugene Stark – 2024
  • Pramod Ganapathi – 2022
  • Kevin McDonnell – 2022
  • Michael Ferdman – 2019
  • Richard McKenna – 2019
  • Tony Scarlatos – 2018
  • Jennifer Wong – 2016
  • Paul Fodor – 2014
  • Richard McKenna – 2014
  • Leo Bachmair – 2012
  • Jennifer Wong – 2012
  • Rob Johnson – 2010
  • Rob Kelly – 2010
  • Richard McKenna – 2008
  • Michael Tashbook – 2008
  • Michael Bender – 2006
  • Amanda Stent – 2004
  • Rob Kelly – 2002
  • Tom Cortina – 2000
  • Eugene Stark – 2000

  • Ahmad Esmaili – 2024
  • Paul Fodor – 2024
  • Michalis Polychronakis – 2024
  • Amir Rahmati – 2024
  • Aruna Balasubramanian – 2022
  • C.R. Ramakrishnan – 2022
  • I.V. Ramakrishnan – 2022
  • Aruna Balasubramanian – 2019
  • Himanshu Gupta – 2019
  • Kevin McDonnell – 2019
  • Erez Zadok – 2019
  • Klaus Mueller – 2016
  • I.V. Ramakrishnan – 2014
  • C.R. Ramakrishnan – 2012
  • Steve Skiena – 2012
  • Samir Das – 2010
  • Steve Skiena – 2006
  • R. Sekar – 2004
  • Michael Kifer – 2002
  • Leo Bachmair – 2000

  • Peter Ruland – 2024
  • Amy Saas – 2024
  • Michael Delgrosso – 2022
  • Christine Cesaria – 2022
  • Kathy Germana – 2022
  • Molly Kelly – 2022
  • Sara Gergen – 2022
  • Christine Cesaria – 2019
  • Andrew Solar-Greco – 2019
  • Michael Delgrosso – 2019
  • Vibha Mullick – 2019
  • Ken Gladky – 2016 (New CS Building Recognition Award)
  • Kathy Germana – 2016 (New CS Building Recognition Award)
  • Brian Tria – 2016
  • Christine Cesaria – 2016
  • David Cajigas – 2016
  • Michael Delgrosso – 2014
  • Vibha Mullick – 2014
  • Peter Ruland – 2014
  • Ken Gladky – 2014
  • Kathy Germana – 2014
  • Ken Gladky – 2012
  • Kathy Germana – 2012
  • Peter Ruland – 2012
  • Ashwin Nagrani – 2010
  • Bin Zhang – 2008
  • Ashwin Nagrani – 2008

  • David Warren – 2012

  • Michael Bender – David R. Smith, Leading Scholar in Computer Science – 2016
  • Michael Ferdman – David R. Smith Young Scholar in Computer Science – 2016
  • Donald Porter – Kieburtz Young Scholar in Computer Science – 2014