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AWARDS

Contents Distinguished Awards National Awards International Awards and Honors Institute Awards CoC Faculty Awards CoC Staff / Service Awards Scholarship and Fellowship Awards CoC Student Awards Teaching Awards Nominating Someone for This Year's Awards Honors and Awards Committee Chair


Distinguished Awards

    Special Achievement Award - This occasional award is given to the person in the College who, in the Dean's opinion, has made an extraordinary contribution to the College.
      2000 - Mary Alice Isele

    The Dean's Award - This annual award is given to the person (or persons) in the College who, in the Dean's opinion, best epitomizes the spirit of the College. It recognizes outstanding dedication to the College and significant efforts for its continued improvement.
      2003 Faculty:
            Beth Mynatt
            Rich LeBlanc
            Kishore Ramachandran
            John Stasko
            Ellen Zegura Peter Freeman

      The Edenfield Faculty Fellowship

      The James C. Edenfield Faculty Fellowship is a $20,000 seed grant designed to foster and encourage collaborative activities among CoC faculty members and to further promote a sense of community within the College. This award is presented annually, thanks to Mr. Edenfield's generosity. Mr. Edenfield, IE '57, is a former member of the College Advisory Board and a Charter Member of the Dean's Circle.

      2001 - Ling Liu and John Stasko 2000 - Milena Mihail and Ellen Zegura - Milena and Ellen submitted a proposal entitled "Spectral Metrics for Large Internet Graphs." 1999 - John Stasko - John submitted a proposal entitled, "Personified Agents in the Interface: Exploring the Metaphor." 1998 - Mark Guzdial - Mark submitted a proposal for support of research on "A New Model for Web-Based Executable code." 1997 - Irfan Essa 1996 - Mostafa Ammar and Ann Chervanak - Mostafa and Ann submitted a joint proposal entitled, "Providing Entertainment Content With an Interactive Multimedia Jukebox." 1995 - Chris Atkeson - Chris submitted a proposal entitled, "Building a Computerized Shadow." 1994 - Mustaque Ahamad
    The Imlay Faculty Fellowship

    In 1993, John P. Imlay, Jr., a 1959 graduate of Georgia Tech and Chairman of Imlay Investments, endowed the Imlay Faculty Fellowship. The Imlay Fellowship is awarded for a two-year term to a faculty member who has demonstrated innovativeness, breadth, and has an entrepreneurial nature.

    1996-1998 - Irfan Essa
The Raytheon Faculty Fellowship

Established by E-Systems (now a part of Raytheon Company), the Raytheon Faculty Fellowship is a $20,000 seed grant designed to foster and encourage collaborative activities among CoC faculty members and to further promote a sense of community within the College. Thanks to the ongoing support of the College by Raytheon Company, this award is presented annually. Sven's program focuses on "agent-centered search" and how it can be used as part of complete agent architectures, including robots and animated agents.

2001 - Andre dos Santos and Jun Xu 2000 - Blair MacIntyre and Yannis Smaragdakis - Blair and Yannis submitted a proposal entitled "Language Tools for Exploratory Programming of Highly Interactive Distributed Applications." 1999 - Sven Koenig - Sven's program focused on "agent-centered search" and how it can be used as part of complete agent architectures, including robots and animated agents. 1998 - Amy Bruckman and Jessica Hodgins -Amy and Jessica submitted a proposal for support of the development of the new course, "Electronic Game Programming." 1997 - Gregory Abowd 1996 - Ken Calvert - Ken submitted a proposal entitled, "Home Information Infrastructure Lab." 1995 - Colin Potts - Colin submitted a proposal entitled, "Design and Analysis of Consumer Software."
National & International Awards and Honors American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows

Peter Freeman Calton Pu Vladimir Slamecka ACM Fellows

2004 - Mostafa Ammar 2004 - Richard DeMillo 2004 - Mary Jean Harrold 2004 - Ramesh Jain
James Foley 2000 - Peter Freeman Richard Lipton ACM/CHI highest award (CHI Academy)

James Foley ACM/SIGGRAPH highest award (Coons Award)

James Foley Award of Excellence (Systems Research Foundation, 1986)

Vladimir Slamecka Eurographics Fellows

2000 - Jarek Rossignac FIRST (First Independent Research Support Transition Award)
National Library of Medicine

Norberto Ezquerra (1987) Fulbright Fellow

Karsten Schwan Guggenheim Fellow

Richard Lipton IBM Young Investigator Award

Karsten Schwan IBM Best Paper in Computer Science

1998 (published) - Jarek Rossignac IEEE Fellows

2004 - Krishna Palem 2001 - Mostafa Ammar 1997 - Peter Freeman 1986 - James Foley National Academy of Engineering

Richard Lipton National Science Foundation Career Awards

Gregory Abowd Raja Das Ann Chervenak Mark Guzdial Dana Randall Greg Turk Ellen Zegura Amy Bruckman Ken MacKenzie Leonard Schulman Elizabeth Mynatt Thad Starner Jim Rehg Wenke Lee National Young Investigator Awards

Mary Jean Harrold Jessica Hodgins David and Lucile Packard Fellowship

William Halfond (2002-2003)
  • Jessica Hodgins Presidential Young Investigator Awards

    Chris Atkeson Craig Tovey Kishore Ramachandran Vijay Vazirani Schlumberger Foundation Technical Fellowship

    2001 - Gregory Abowd Sloan Fellow

    Elizabeth Mynatt Dana Randall

    Institute Awards

    Faculty and Staff

    Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship Cup

  • 2003 – Vida Blair Dowling
  • Institute Administrative Service Award

    2000 - David Leonard

    Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award

    2000 - Mark Guzdial 1999 - Nancy Nersessian 1994 - Jim Foley 1993 - Bob Fulton Outstanding Faculty Leadership for the Development of GRAs

    2000 - Jessica Hodgins Excellence in Teaching Award

    1998 - Nancy Nersessian Outstanding Academic Advisor Award

  • Jennifer Gillespie
  • Outstanding Achievement in Research Program Development

    2003 - William Ribarsky
  • 2000 - Karsten Schwan 1998 - Richard Fujimoto Outstanding Continuing Education Award

    1994 - Billie Ann Rice Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award

    Outstanding Innovative Use of Education Technology

    2000 - Irfan Essa 1998 - Gregory Abowd 1997 - Mark Guzdial Outstanding Staff Performance Award

    1995 - Cathy Beam and DeAngela Duff 1994 - Eric Trevena 1993 - Joan Morton 1993 - Tempo Tinch 1992 - Karen Hutcheson Sigma Xi Award for Best Paper by a GT Faculty

    2000 - Jarek Rossignac Sigma Xi Sustained Research Award

    1993 - Jim Foley Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award

    2002 - Amy Bruckman
  • Sigma Xi Young Faculty Research Award

    1997 - Gregory Abowd 1993 - Kishore Ramachandran CETL/Amoco Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

    2003 - Elaine Huang
  • 1995 - Ivan Yanasak 1994 - Kiran Panesar Ten Years of Service to Georgia Tech

  • 2004 Gregory Abowd Amihood Amir Randy Carpenter Barb Ericson Chrissy Hendricks Austin Hijar
  • Matthew Wolf
  • 2003 Mark Guzdial Nancy Nersessian Jack Ramsey Uwanna Smith Ellen Zegura Allyana Ziolko
  • 2002 Terry Countryman Daniel Forsyth Paul Manno Leo Mark Colin Potts Peter Wan
  • 2001 James Foley David Leonard Joan Morton
  • 2000 Peter Freeman Shamkant Navathe
  • 1999 Kurt Eiselt Richard Fujimoto Ashok Goel Jim Greenlee Ashwin Ram John Stasko Tempo Tinch
  • 1998 Gwen Baker Cathy Beam Larry Hodges Jalisa Norton Karsten Schwan
  • 1997 Ron Arkin Eric Trevena
  • 1995 Mustaque Ahamad Mostafa Ammar Nancy Pinion
  • 1994 Karen Hutcheson
  • 1993 Judy Lorier Twenty-five Years of Service to Georgia Tech

    2003
    Norberto Ezquerra
    Rich LeBlanc
    Bill Ribarsky
  • 2000 - Philip Enslow 1998 - Al Badre

    Undergraduate Awards

    Outstanding Undergraduates - 2004 (Sponsored by Schlumberger)

    Outstanding Undergraduate 2004

    *Kristin Vadas

    Outstanding Undergraduates 2003
    * Andrew D. Hilton
    * Douglas K. Powers

    Outstanding Undergraduate Research 2003
    * James H. Hays

    Bierne M. Prager Scholarship

    Bierne M. Prager Scholarship
    *2003 - Brian S. Whited

    Graduate Awards

    CETL/Amoco Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

    1995 - Ivan Yanasek Sigma Xi Research Award

    1998 - Robert Sumner 1993 - Tom Meyer SAIC / Georgia Tech Student Paper Award

    1995 - Kenneth Moorman
    CoC Faculty Awards Outstanding Instructor Award

    2003 – Bill Leahy
  • 2002 - Christopher Jermaine 2001 - David Smith 2000 - Jim Greenlee Outstanding Junior Faculty Research

    2004 - Yannis Smaragdakis 2003 – Sven Koenig 2002 - Amy Bruckman 2001 - Greg Turk and Beth Mynatt 2000 - Irfan Essa 1999 - Gregory Abowd and Leonard Schulman 1998 - Mark Guzdial 1997 - Ellen Zegura 1996 - Jessica Hodgins 1995 - John Stasko 1994 - Ashwin Ram Outstanding Senior Faculty Research

    2004 - Karsten Schwan 2003 – Mustaque Ahamad 2002 - Jarek Rossignac 2001 - Ron Arkin 2000 - Janet Kolodner 1999 - Vijay Vazirani 1998 - Karsten Schwan 1997 - Mustaque Ahamad 1996 - Kishore Ramachandran 1995 - Richard Fujimoto 1994 - Amihood Amir 1993 - Mostafa Ammar 1992 - Mustaque Ahamad
    CoC Staff / Service Awards Outstanding Service Staff

    2004 - Carla Bennett 2003 – Jennifer Chisholm 2002 - Cathy Beam 2001 - Dan Forsyth 2000 - Christine McMahan and Uwanna Smith 1999 - Barbara Durham 1998 - Eric Trevena 1997 - Cathy Dunahoo 1996 - Sheronda Minton 1995 - Peter Wan 1994 - Susan Haglund 1993 - Joan Morton Outstanding Support Staff

    2004 - Chelcea Warren 2003 – Cathy Dunnahoo 2002 - Jack Ramsey 2001 - Chrissy Hendricks 2000 - Susan Jackson 1999 - Linda Williams 1998 - Rashmi Patel 1997 - Gwen Baker 1996 - Pam Craig 1995 - De Angela Duff 1994 - Jalisa Norton
    External Awards received by CoC Graduate Students AT&T Fellowship

    2001 - Lenitra Clay 1995 - Robin Kravets The Donald V. Jackson Fellowship

    Established by Jeannie Jackson in memory of her husband, Don Jackson, a 1971 Masters graduate of IS and a 1965 Bachelors graduate of the Math department. Don had an extremely successful career in the computing industry, which included serving as CIO of Computer Products. The Donald V. Jackson Fellowship will support the Masters program and be awarded in recognition of well-rounded qualities and the ability to succeed.

    2003 – Poonam Hattangady 2002 - Hailemelekot Seifu 2001 - Srividhya Srinivasan 2002 - Oleg M. Kolesnikov 1999 - James Hudson 1998 - Jeff Chastine The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship

    1995 - Kenneth Moorman GT Bookstore / Student Center Leadership Scholarship

    1994 - Annie Anton GTE Fellowships

  • 2001 Nisheeth Vishnoi
  • 2000 Alla Safonova
  • 1999 Elizabeth Gordon Anna Shleyfman
  • 1998 Amy Ayers May Cheng Travis Maxwell
  • 1997 Chad Jenkins Marcia Riley
  • 1995 Yves Jean Vernard Martin Juan Santamaria IBM Cooperative Fellowship

    2001 - Jennifer Mankoff, Jason Ellis, James Hudson 2000 - Jason Ellis 1999 - Jason Ellis
  • 1998 Sumeer Bohla Jason Ellis 1997 - Sumeer Bohla Intel Fellowships

    2004

    2003

  • Nancy Babiarz Amon D. Millner Patrick Widener
  • 2001 Gabriel Brostow, Ph.D. Davis King, Ph.D. Jennifer Mankoff, Ph.D.
  • 2000 Michael Covington, Ph.D. Thomas Drewes, M.S. HCI Anne Jacobs, M.S. HCI Davis King, Ph.D.
  • 1999 Michael Covington, Ph.D. Thomas Drewes, M.S. HCI Anne Jacobs, M.S. HCI
  • 1998 Jason Brotherton Kevin Scott 1995 Wayne Wooten The Marshall D. Williamson Fellowship

    Established by Billie I. Williamson in memory of her husband, Marshall Williamson, a 1969 Masters graduate of Information Sciences. Marshall had an extremely successful career, serving most recently as the General Manager of the Garland Division of E-Systems. The Marshall D. Williamson Fellowship will support the Masters program and be awarded to a well-rounded student who best embodies Marshall's values.

    2003 – David White 2002 - Matthew Might 2001 - Michael Kaess 2000 - Steve Voida 1999 - Derrick Whittle 1998 - Bill Leahy Merri Gaye Hitt Memorial Scholarship

    1993 - Jason Tolbert Microsoft Research Fellowship

    2000 - Arno Schoedl Schlumberger Collegiate Scholarship

    1997 - Namrata Patel 1995 - Amihai Feinstein Syntellect Scholarship

    1997 - Rafael Cintron Texaco Scholarship

    1997 - Maria Gullickson and Carlos Ugarte 1995 - Alex Snoeren


    CoC Student Awards Outstanding Rising Junior - Sponsored by Procter and Gamble

    2004 - Kyle Mahan 2003 – Kyle W. Mahan 2002 -Jason Harmening 2001 - David Zurow 2000 - Seth Markle 1999 - Andrew Smith 1998 - Michael Anyiwo 1997 - Adam Tegen 1996 - Devon Ziegler 1995 - John Michael Federovitch 1994 - Matthew Owen Kressel 1993 - Daniel Bassett Outstanding Rising Senior - Endowed by EDS

    2004 - Ahnil Jagdish Chalwa 2003 – James P. Gruen 2002 - David Zurow 2001 - Ryan Dawe 2000 - Arief Sugianto 1999 - Jennifer Dempsey 1998 - Kevin Sykora 1997 - Robert Sumner 1996 - Zellyn Hunter 1995 - Brandon Craig Rhodes 1994 - Stephen Phillip Thorne 1993 - David Cardoze Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship - Sponsored by Schlumberger

    2002 - Bryan Kennedy 2001 - Namrata Bachwani 2001 - George Perantatos 2000 - Cory Kidd 1999 - Susan Fisher 1998 - Robert Sumner 1997 - Solomon Duskis 1996 - Brandon Rhodes and Alex Snoeren 1995 - Reza Ghorieshi 1994 - Michael Caldwell Macaluso 1993 - Allison Elliott 1992 Faye Davis Morse Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant

    2004 - Yoichiro Endo 2003 – Amin Saberi 2002 - Arno Schoedl and Yaxin Liu 2001 - Jen Mankoff and William Murdock 2000 - Anind Dey 1999 - David Brogan and Kamal Jain 1998 - James O'Brien 1997 - Ian Smith 1996 - Tucker Balch 1995 - Anand Sivasubramaniam 1994 - George Rouskas 1993 - Samir Das 1992 - Anurag Gupta Sigma Xi PhD Thesis Award

    1993 - Erika Rogers The Dave and Carrie Armento Scholarship

    Established by David D. Armento to be awarded to an African-American Computer Science major who is a resident of the state of Georgia.

    2003 – Dennis A. Delgado 2002 - Chukwuemeka Okonkon 2001 - Belinda Nambooze 2000 - Hailemekot Seifu 1999 - Tiffany Ross The William A. "Gus" Baird Faculty Undergraduate Award

    1995 - Reza Ghorieshi 1994 - Elizabeth Bright 1993 - Tom Meyer
    Teaching Awards The William A. "Gus" Baird Faculty Teaching Award

    The William A. "Gus" Baird Faculty Teaching Award is given to a faculty member who is recognized by his or her peers and students for excellence in teaching. It is fitting that "Gus" - "the man who wanted nothing more than to teach" - be remembered each time this award is presented. "Gus" received his Master's degree from Georgia Tech in 1980 and was a favorite College of Computing undergraduate professor for nearly 15 years.

    2004 - Umakishore Ramachandran 2003 - Olin Shivers 2002 - Irfan Essa 2001 - Mark Guzdial 2000 - Dana Randall 1999 - Greg Turk 1998 - Ashwin Ram 1997 - Gregory Abowd 1996 - Ken Calvert 1995 - Larry Hodges 1994 - Ashok Goel 1993 - Richard Fujimoto 1992 - Gil Neiger Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

    2004 - Jason Whitehurst 2004 James Malcolm 2003 – Bryan Kennedy 2002 - Anthony Gelsomini 2001 - Dan Lerner 2000 - John Molnar 1999 - Choo Yei Chong 1998 - Paul Griswold 1997 - Mark Canup Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant

    2003 - Elaine Huang 2002 - Martin Geier 2001 - Gabriel Brostow and Ion Mandoiu 2000 - Ion Mandoiu and David Dagon 1999 - Scott McCrickard 1998 - Kamal Jain 1997 - Idris Hsi 1996 - Francisco Torres-Rojas 1995 - Ivan Yanasak 1994 - Kiran Panesar 1993 - Terry Kane 1992 - Greg Eisenhauer

    Corporate Awards

    Boeing Scholarships
    2003-2004 - Jay Anderson
    2003-2004 - Ayite Ayite
    2003-2004 - Meghan Byrne
    2003-2004 - Suyi Li
    2003-2004 - David Respaldiza

    2002-2003 - Donald Ali
    2002-2003 - Ayite Ayite
    2002-2003 - Meghan Byrne
    2002-2003 - Danielle Dees
    2002-2003 - Lauren Rich
    2002-2003 - Maria Rueda

    Cisco Systems Information Assurance Scholarship (2002-2003)
    Chaoting Xuan

    IBM Research Fellowship

    (2003 - 2004)
    Yazin Liu
    (2003 - 2004) Christian Poellabauer
    (2002 - 2003) Yazin Liu
    (2002 - 2003) Christian Poellabauer

    Intel Opportunity Scholars

    2003-2004
    Jay Anderson
    Varun Bapna
    Jesslyn Beattie
    Mike Boyce
    Mina Doroudi
    Andy Durso
    Jessica Frame
    Marlena Frank
    Daniel Hernandez
    Kenyatta Hill
    Michelle Kitaoka
    Gina Lee
    Joanna Liedy
    Priyanka Mahalanabis
    Ellen Matthews
    Kamaram Munira
    Angela Navarro
    Leonard Neely
    Veronica Peshterianu
    Kathy Pham
    Mai Phung
    Tiffany Reece
    Chris Ronderos
    Laura Rouse
    Logan Thomas
    Megan Thomas
    Stephanie Timms
    Louis Ucheya
    Dana VanDevender
    Jenelle Walker
    Omari Worthy
    Crystal Wrenn

    (2002-2003)
    Jesslyn Beattie
    Marlena Frank
    Daniel Hernandez
    Joanna Leidy
    Veronica Peshterianu
    Maianh Phung
    Laura Rouse
    Chyke Ucheya
    Omari Worthy

    Nortel Networks Scholarships (2003-2004)
    Meghan Byrne
    Philip Chow
    Joseph Scoccimaro
    Joseph Uhl

    Verizon Scholarship

    (2004)
    Chris Parnin
    Femui Olumoko

    2002-2003)
    William Halfond
    Tammara Massey
    Marcela Musgrove

    DoD Information Assurance Scholarship BS Program
    (2004)
    Stephen C. (Craig) Wampler

    DoD Information Assurance Scholarship MS Program
    (2004) - Sheree Elliott

    (2002-2003) - Sheree Elliott

    National Defense Science & Eng. Graduate Fellowship

    (2004) - Ilya Bagrak
    (2002-2003) - Chris Plaue

    NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

    2004-2005 j- Valerie Henderson
    2004-2005 - Julie Kientz
    2003-2004 - Giovanni Iachello
    2003-2004 - Daron Vroon
    2003-2004 - Stephanie Brubaker
    2003-2004 - Zhen Hao (Howard) Zhou
    2003-2004 - David Zurow
    (2002-2003) - David Minnen
    (2002-2003) - Hugh Patrick

    NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2003-2004)
    Rachel Fithian
    Giovanni Iachello
    Daron Vroon
    Stephanie Wojtkowski
    Zhen Zhou

    NSF Graduate Scholarship for Service

    (2003-2004) - James P. (Jim) Gruen
    (2002-2003) - Charles Sellers

    NSF Undergraduate Scholars

    (2003-2004) - Tysen Perszyk
    (2003-2004) - John Scimone
    (2002-2003) - Tysen Perszyk
    (2002-2003) - John Scimone


    Honors and Awards Committee 2002-2003

    Chair
    Calton Pu

    Members
    Ronald C. Arkin
    Faith Diehl
    Pamela Ruffin
    Maureen Biggers
    Thad E. Starner
    Mary Jean Harrold
    Brendan Hannigan
    Vijay Vazirani






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