Award-Winning Alumni

The lasting effects of our program is clearly demonstrated by the achievements of our alumni, who constantly change the world's science, industry, and society.  Professional societies, industry, and academia recognize our alumni achievement.

If you know of an alumni award or accomplishment not captured here, please contact us at alumni@cs.illinois.edu.

AAAI Fellows
Raymond J. Mooney (2005)

AAAS Members
Ray Ozzie (2010)
Mary Jane Irwin (2009)

A.M. Turing Award
Andrew Yao (2000)

ACM Fellows
Ron Cytron (2010);  Jingsheng Jason Cong (2008); Thomas Dietterich (2002); Clarence Ellis (1998); Der-Tsai Lee (1997); Mary Jane Irwin (1996); Won Kim, Roy Rada (1995); Andrew Yao (1995); Jean E. Sammet (1994)

ACM-W Athena Lecturer
Mary Jane Irwin (2010)

IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award
Kenichi Miura (2009)

IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award
Ray Ozzie (2000), Marc Andreesen (1997), Eric Bina (1997)

IEEE Fellows
Diane J. Cook (2008); Kun-Lung Wu (2007); Pankaj Jalote (2004); Milos A. Ercegovac (2003); Robert W. Horst, Sy-Yen Kuo (2001); Wu-Tung Cheng (2000); Pen Chung Yew (1998); Alfred C. Weaver (1996); Trevor Mudge (1995); Alan Davis, Mary Jane Irwin, Ravi Nair (1994); Charles R. Baugh (1993); Der-Tsai Lee (1992)

Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows
Luis Ceze, Svetlana Lazebnik (2009); Yixin Chen (2007)

National Science Foundation CAREER Award Winners
Feng Qin (2010); Luis Ceze, Svetlana Lazebnik, Alper Üngör, Afra Zomorodian (2009); Romit Roy Choudhruy, Diana Franklin, William Harrison, Michael Huang, Xiaoming Li, Shangping Ren, Koushik Sen, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Ting Yu (2008); Shigang Chen, Yi Cui (2007); Xiaosong Ma, José F. Martínez, Martin Pelikan, Jose Renau, Prasun Sinha, Xiao Su, Dongyan Xu, Rong Zheng (2006); Milos Prvulovic, Carlos Varela, Ricardo Vilalta (2005); Yan Solihin (2004); Cesare Tinelli (2003); Hillol Kargupta (2001); Tara Madhyastha, Vivek Sarin (2000); Michael Holst, Nalini Venkatasubramanian (1999); Lawrence Rauchwerger (1998); Nancy Amato (1996); Zhiyuan Li (1995)

National Academy of Sciences 
Andrew Yao (1998), Gene Golub (1993)

National Academy of Engineering
Joan L. Mitchell (2004), Ray Ozzie (2004), Linda R. Petzold (2004), Mary Jane Irwin (2003), William Gear (1992), Steven S. Chen (1991),  Gene Golub (1990), Jean E. Sammet (1977)

Anita Borg Technical Leadership Award
Mary Jane Irwin  (2007)

ACM SIGACT Knuth Prize
Andrew Yao (1996)