Awards
Faculty Awards
Recognition comes with being a leader. Professional societies, industry, and academia have recognized our faculty's contributions, and junior faculty continute to distinguish themselves as next generation leaders.
Professional Society Honors
ACM Fellows
David Padua (2007) William Gropp, Marianne Winslett (2006), Lui Sha, David Nicol (2005); Benjamin Wah (2004); Jiawei Han, Daniel Reed, William Sanders (2003); Wen-Mei Hwu (2002); Ravi Iyer, Janak Patel, Ouri Wolfson (2001); Michael Heath (2000); Marc Snir (1999); Edward Reingold, Narendra Ahuja (1996); Charles Gear, David Kuck, Dave Liu (1994)
IEEE Fellows
David Forsyth, Jiawei Han (2009); Klara Nahrstedt, Jennifer Hou (2008); Roy Campbell (2005); Josep Torrellas (2004); Jean Ponce; Gul Agha (2002); David Padua (2000); Lui Sha (1998); Marc Snir (1996); Jane Liu (1995); Weng Chew (1993); Narendra Ahuja (1992); Ravi Iyer, Benjamin Wah (1991); Janak Patel (1989); P.R. Kumar (1988); David Kuck (1985); Charles Gear, Duncan Lawrie (1984); Thomas Huang (1979); Saburo Muroga, W.J. Poppelbaum, Daniel Slotnick, James Snyder (1977)
CAREER Award Winners (since 2000)
Darko Marinov, Luke Olson, Madhusudan Parthasarathy, Manoj Prabhakaran, Saurabh Sinha (2008); Anil Hirani , Brian Bailey, Karrie Karahalios (2007); Eyal Amir (2006); Grigore Rosu, Indranil Gupta, Mahesh Viswanathan (2005); Anhai Doan, Robin Kravets, ChengXiang Zhai, Yuanyuan Zhou, Craig Zilles (2004); Marco Caccamo (2003); Kevin Chang, Sariel Har-Peled, Yizhou Yu (2002); Vikram Adve, Jeff Erickson (2001); Dan Roth (2000)
AAAI Fellow
Gerald DeJong
Dan Roth
AAAS Fellow
Marc Snir
ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award
Sarita Adve
Wen-mei Hwu
ACM SIGKDD Service Award
Jiawei Han
ACM SIGKDD Innovations Award
Jiawei Han
ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award
Ralph Johnson
AITO Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard Prize
Ralph Johnson
Apple Award for Innovation in Science
Michael T. Heath
CRA-W Anita Borg Early Career Award
YuanYuan Zhou
Gordon Bell Prize
Laxmikant Kale
William Gropp
HPC Comunity Leadership Award
William Gropp
IEEE Intelligent Systems: AI Ten to Watch
Eyal Amir
IEEE Communication Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize
Klara Nahrstedt
IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award
William Gropp
IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award
David Forsyth
Jiawei Han
Marr Prize
David Forsyth
National Academy of Engineering Members
P.R. Kumar
Thomas Huang
Operations Research Meritorious Service Award
Sheldon Jacobson
Corporate and Foundation Fellows and Scholars
Apple Award for Innovation in Science
Michael Heath
Guggenheim Fellowship
Sheldon Jacobson
HP Innovation Award
Jiawei Han
Humboldt Research Award
Klara Nahrstedt
IBM Faculty Award
Gul Agha
Guy Garnett
Karrie Karahalios
ChengXiang Zhai
Sarita Adve
Kevin Chang*
Yuanyuan Zhou*
Jiawei Han*
* - multiple years
A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award
Karrie Karahalios
ONR Young Investigator Award
Gul Agha
Sloan Research Fellowship
ChengXiang Zhai
Yuanyuan Zhou
Jeff Erickson
Sarita Adve
Journal Editors & Best Paper Awards
Journal Editors-in-Chief
Real-Time Systems, 2006-present
Tarek Abdelzaher
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 2005-present
Jiawei Han
ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2003-2009
John Hart
ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, 2001-2007
Klara Nahrstedt
ACM Computing Surveys, 1999-2007
Gul Agha
University, College, and Department Honors
Chairs and Professorships
Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor (Roy Campbell); Fulton Watson Copp Chair (Michael Heath); Ralph M. and Catherine V. Fisher Professorship (Klara Nahrstedt); Donald B. Gilles Chair (Lui Sha); Michael Faiman and Saburo Muroga Professor (Marc Snir); Donald Biggar Willett Professorship in Engineering (David Padua)
Other Campus, College, & Department Honors
Outstanding Advisor
2009
Steve Herzog
Klara Nahrstedt
2008
Steve Herzog
Craig Zilles
2007
Brian Bailey
Gerald DeJong
Steve Herzog
Robin Kravets
Craig Zilles
ChengXiang Zhai
2006
Brian Bailey
John Hart
Steve Herzog
Craig Zilles
2005
Stephen Bond
Steve Herzog
Mahesh Viswanathan
Campus Award for Excellence in Advising Undergraduate Students
Sam Kamin (2005)
Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Jeff Erickson (2007), Lenny Pitt (2006)
Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching
Michael Heath (2002)
Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising
Geneva Belford (2005)
Campus Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Instruction Using Educational Technology
Klara Nahrstedt (2001)
Center for Advanced Studies
Indranil Gupta (2009-10 CAS Beckman Fellow), Saurabh Sinha (2009-10 Fellow), Eyal Amir (2007-08 Fellow), Sheldon Jacobson (2003 Associate), Dan Roth (2003 Fellow), Gul Agha (1992 Fellow)
College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award
Lenny Pitt (2006)
William L. Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence
Craig Zilles (2008), Jeff Erickson (2001), Lenny Pitt (1999), Michael Heath (1998)
C.W. Gear Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
Karrie Karahalios (2009), Eyal Amir (2008), ChengXiang Zhai (2007), YY Zhou (2007), Grigore Rosu (2006), Sariel Har-Peled (2005), Steven M. LaValle (2003), Vikram S. Adve (2002), Jeff Erickson (2001), Dan Roth (2000), Klara Nahrstedt (1999), Josep Torrellas (1997), Andrew Chien (1995), Lenny Pitt (1992), Laxmikant Kale (1990)
Rose Award for Teaching Excellence
Lawrence Angrave (2009), Craig Zilles (2008), Stephen Bond (2006)
Stanley H. Piece Award
Sam Kamin (2001), Marianne Winslett (1999)
Mother's Associate Medallion of Honor
Geneva Belford (2007)
University Scholars
Klara Nahrstedt (2009), Sarita Adve (2004)
University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar
Lenny Pitt (2004)
Willett Faculty Scholar Award
Jeff Erickson, Sheldon Jacobson, Dan Roth, Josep Torrellas (2002)
Xerox Award for Faculty Research
Eyal Amir (2009), Indranil Gupta (2008), Dan Roth (2001, 2005), Josep Torrellas (1997, 2000), S.H. Teng (1999), Klara Nahrstedt (1998), Jean Ponce (1993, 1998), Marianne Winslett (1990, 1997), Dave C.-L. Liu (1997), Andrew Chien (1996), Wen-mei Hwu (1994), Simon Kaplan (1994), David Padua (1992), Daniel Reed (1991), Pravin Vaidya (1991), Kenneth Forbus (1990), Herbert Edelsbrunner (1989), Nachum Dershowitz (1986)
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