The Illinois Computer Science Young Alumni Achievement Alumni Award honors computer science alumni or faculty members who have attained early career milestones and show great promise toward continued professional and technical contributions that bring distinction to themselves, the department, and the university.

2019: Vinay Hiremath
2018: Vilas Dhar

Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

The Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award honors computer science graduates who have made professional and technical contributions that bring distinction to themselves, the department, and the University.

2019: Jeff Holden
2018: Doug MacGregor
2017: Isaac J. Hall, Rajesh Karmani, Richard M. Schell, James E. Smith, and Drina C. Yue
2016: Steven Ashby, Utpal Banerjee, Carl Dill, Marcin Kleczynski, and Yu Pan
2015: Rick Cattell, Jackson Hu, Pete Koomen, Lynn Reedy, Russel Simmons
2014: Steve Chen, Jason Cong, Jawed Karim, Kenichi Miura, Trevor Mudge, Linda Petzold, Parisa Tabriz
2013: Chris Lattner and Sandra Rankin
2012: Greg Chesson, Ping Fu, Roger Dickey, Amitt Mahajan, Joel Poloney, Luke Rajlich, Sizhao "Zao" Yang
2011: Mary Jane Irwin, Max Levchin, Mary McDowell

Early Career Academic Achievement Alumni Award

The Illinois Computer Science Early Career Academic Achievement Alumni Award honors computer science alumni or faculty members who have attained early career milestones and show great promise toward continued contributions to computer science education and research.

2019: Hui Fang, Ali Farhadi
2018: Eric Gilbert, Karthik Pattabiraman

Distinguished Academic Achievement Alumni Award

The Distinguished Academic Achievement Alumni Award honors computer science alumni or faculty members who have made outstanding contributions to computer science education and recognizes alumni and faculty who excel at motivating computer science students.

2019: Sy-Yen Kuo, Raymond Mooney
2018: Ron Cytron, Won Kim, David Lassner
2017: Nikil Dutt, Svetlana Lazebnik, Steven Ko, Kishor Trivedi, Marianne Winslett, and Martin D.F. Wong
2016: Thomas Dietterich, Edward Reingold, Romit Roy Choudhury, and Yizhou Sun
2015: Nancy Amato, Luis Ceze, Apu Kapadia, Paul Saylor
2014: Lawrence C. Angrave, Cinda Heeren, Der-Tsai Lee, Franco P. Preparata, Koushik Sen
2013: Diane Cook, Milos Ercegovac, and Shan Lu
2012: David J. Kuck, Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Xiaosong Ma, Milos Prvulovic
2011: Baochun Li, C.L. David Liu, Jane W.-S. Liu, José Martínez

Distinguished Alumni Service Award

The Award for Distinguished Service honors computer science alumni or faculty members who have demonstrated an outstanding level of commitment to the department and its students, faculty, and alumni through their support and service.

2019: Shig Matsushita
2018: Ross Erlebacher
2017: Scott Fisher and Jill Zmaczynski
2016: Michael Hughes and Daniel Kaufman
2015: William Dunn, Dave Paola
2014: Alan M. Braverman, Roy H. Campbell, C. William Gear, Michael T. Heath, Duncan Lawrie, Brigid A. Johnson, Daniel A. Reed, Marc Snir
2013: Channing Brown, H. George Friedman, Mehdi Harandi, Sam Kamin, William Kubitz, Steven LaValle, Dennis Mickunas, and Jed Taylor
2012: Geneva Belford, Ari Gesher
2011: Ira Cohen, Dan Peterson

Distinguished Achievement Memorial Award

The Distinguished Memorial Achievement Award is bestowed posthumously on those alumni, students, or faculty members whose lives were characterized by remarkable achievement and accomplishment in computer science.

2019: Clarence "Skip" Ellis
2018: Gene Golub
2016: Michael Faiman
2011: Donald B. Gillies, Erich Hauptmann, Saburo Muroga

David J. Kuck Outstanding Thesis Awards

The David J. Kuck Outstanding Thesis Awards were established by former students and friends in recognition of Professor Kuck's intellectual and leadership contributions. Each year, two awards are given: one for an outstanding doctoral thesis and one for an outstanding master's thesis. Read More...