About Our Awards

The students, faculty, and alumni of our department are changing the world through their contributions to the IT industry and to computing research.

Award-winning members of our department confirm what we already know to be true - Illinois computer science faculty, students, and alumni are among the best in the world.

Our department boasts:

• 14 ACM and IEEE Fellows and 23 NSF Career Award Winners on faculty
• 5 Journal Editors and Editors-in-Chief
• 6 trips to ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition in 7 years
• the inaugural Yahoo! Hack Day national winner
• 1 Turing Award winner