College of Computing Faculty Distinctions

National Academy of Engineering Members

• James Foley (2008)
• Zvi Galil (2004)
• Richard Lipton (1999)

American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellows

• Beth Mynatt (2024)
• Charles Isbell (2021)
• Richard Lipton (2014)
• Zvi Galil (2005)

National Associate of the National Academies

• Dana Randall (2008)

AAAS Fellows

• David Sherrill (2014)
• Srinivas Aluru (2010)

American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows

• Srinivas Aluru
• Richard DeMillo
• James Foley
• Peter Freeman
• Nancy Nersessian
• Calton Pu
• David Sherrill
• Vladimir Slamecka

American Chemical Society Fellows

• David Sherrill (2011)

ACM Fellows

• Michael Bailey (2024)
• Dana Randall (2024)
• Thad Starner (2024)
• John Stasko (2022)
• Srinivas Aluru (2020)
• Haesun Park (2020)
• Richard Fujimoto (2017)
• Wenke Lee (2018)
• Santosh Vempala (2015)
• Sham Navathe (2014)
• Ellen Zegura (2013)
• Mostafa Ammar (2003)
• Richard DeMillo (2003)
• Mary Jean Harrold (2003)
• Peter Freeman (2000)
• James Foley (1999)
• Richard Lipton (1997)
• Zvi Galil (1995)

American Mathematical Society Fellow

• Santosh Vempala (2022)
• Eric Vigoda (2019)
• Santosh Vempala (2021)
• Dana Randall (2012)

American Physical Society Fellow

• David Sherrill (2010)

Eurographics Fellow

• Jarek Rossignac (2000)

IEEE Fellows

• Hyesoon Kim (2024)
• Moinuddin Qureshi (2023)
• Wenke Lee (2021)
• Alessandro (Alex) Orso (2021)
• Vivek Sarkar (2020)
• Richard Fujimoto (2019)
• Haesun Park (2017)
• Calton Pu (2016)
• Ümit V. Çatalyürek (2015)
• Karsten Schwan (2015, posthumous)
• Ling Liu (2014)
• David Sherrill (2014)
• Kishore Ramachandran (2013)
• John Stasko (2013)
• Irfan Essa (2012)
• Mary Jean Harrold (2011)
• Ellen Zegura (2011)
• Srinivas Aluru (2010)
• Thomas Conte (2005)
• Ronald Arkin (2003)
• Mostafa Ammar (2001)
• Peter Freeman (1997)
• James Foley (1986)

I/ITSEC Fellows

• Richard Fujimoto (2019)

ISCB Fellows

• Mark Borodovsky (2020)

Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Democracy and Technology

• Annie Antón (2009)

SIAM Fellow

• Elizabeth Cherry (2024)
• Edmond Chow (2021)
• Srinivas Aluru (2020)
• Ümit Çatalyürek (2020)
• Haesun Park (2013)
• Prasad Tetali (2009)

ACM/CHI Award (CHI Academy)

• Shaowen Bardzell (2024)
• Munmun De Choudhury (2024)
• Amy Bruckman (2018)
• Thad Starner (2017)
• John Stasko (2016)
• Keith Edwards (2014)
• Rebecca Grinter (2013)
• Elizabeth Mynatt (2009)
• Gregory Abowd (2008)
• James Foley (2001)

ACM Gordon Bell Prize

• Toby Isaac (2015)
• Rich Vuduc (2010)
• George Biros (2010)
• Edmond Chow (2009)

ACM/SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

• Greg Turk (2012)
• Jessica Hodgins (2010)

ACM/SIGGRAPH Coons Lifetime Achievement Award

• Jessica Hodgins (2017)
• James Foley (1997)

ACM/SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award

• James Foley (2007)

ACM/SIGACT Donald E. Knuth Prize

• Richard Lipton (2014)

ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Contribution in Simulation Award

• Richard Fujimoto (2013)

Award of Excellence (Systems Research Foundation)

• Vladimir Slamecka (1986)

Edison Award, Productivity

• Larry Sweet (2013)

IEEE AI's 10 to Watch

• Diyi Yang (2020)
• B. Aditya Prakash (2017)

IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award

• John Stasko (2012)

John V. Atanasoff Discovery Award

• Srinivas Aluru (2017)

Lilian Gilbreath Lectureship from the National Academy of Engineers

• Melody Jackson (2004)

Manufacturing Leadership Council, Supply Chain Excellence Highest Achiever

• Larry Sweet (2015)

Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science and Diversifying Computing

• Charles Isbell (2023)
• Ayanna Howard (2018)
• Peter Freeman (2007)

R&D 100 Award

• Larry Sweet

SEG Reginald Fessenden Award

• Felix Herrmann (2020)

Solid Modeling Association Bézier Award

• Jarek Rossignac (2014)

SIAM Early Career Travel Award

• B. Aditya Prakash (2015)

SIAM SDM/IBM Early Career Data Mining Research Award

• Jimeng Sun (2017)

SIAM/Supercomputing Early Career Prize

• Toby Isaac (2016)

Technology Review TR35 Award (includes prior TR100 winners)

• Nick Feamster (2010)
• Andrea Thomaz (2009)
• Karen Liu (2007)
• Amy Bruckman (1999)
• Thad Starner (1999)

Fulbright Fellows

• Frank Dellaert (2014-5)
• Norberto Ezquerra
• Nancy Nersessian

Guggenheim Fellows

• Larry Sweet
• Richard Lipton (1981)
• Santosh Vempala (2005)

Kolon Faculty Fellow

• Chao Zhang (2021)
• Le Song (2020)

Miller Institute for Basic Science Research Fellow

• Santosh Vempala (1998)

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellow

• Nancy Nersessian (2005)

Sloan Fellows

• Daniel Genkin (2024)
• Anqi Wu (2023)
• James Hays (2015)
• Chris Peikert (2011)
• Karen Liu (2010)
• Nick Feamster (2008)
• Adam Kalai (2008)
• Subhash Khot (2006)
• Dana Randall (2003)
• Santosh Vempala (2002)
• Elizabeth Mynatt (2001)
• Dana Randall (2001)

Swarnajayanti Fellowship

• Srinivas Aluru (2007)

Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow

• Surya Kalidindi (2018)

DARPA Computer Science Study Group

• Rich Vuduc (2009)
• Charles Isbell (2006)

DARPA Young Faculty Award

• Mark Riedl (2011)

FIRST (First Independent Research Support Transition Award) NIH

• Norberto Ezquerra (1987)

NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award

• Kishore Ramachandran (1990)
• Chris Atkeson (1988)

NSF National Young Investigator Award

• Mary Jean Harrold
• Jessica Hodgins (1994)

NSF CAREER Award

• Elizabeth Qian (2025)
• Yunan Luo (2025)
• Matthew Gombolay (2024)
• Alexandros Daglis (2023)
• Judy Hoffman (2023)
• Paul Pearce (2023)
• Srijan Kumar (2023)
• Joy Arulraj (2023)
• Zsolt Kira (2023)
• Ashutosh Dhekne (2023)
• Yingyan (Celine) Lin (2021)
• B. Aditya Prakash (2018)
• Jacob Eisenstein (2015)
• Le Song (2014)
• Mark Riedl (2013)
• Sonia Chernova (2012)
• James Hays (2012)
• Rich Vuduc (2010)
• Alexander Gray (2009)
• Adam Kalai (2008)
• Ümit V. Çatalyürek (2007)
• Subhash Khot (2007)
• Guy Lebanon (2007)
• Gabriel Loh (2007)
• Sasha Boldyreva (2006)
• Charles Isbell (2006)
• Bruce Walker (2006)
• Frank Dellaert (2005)
• Milos Prvulovic (2005)
• Tucker Balch (2004)
• Blair MacIntyre (2004)
• Yannis Smaragdakis (2003)
• Jim Xu (2003)
• Sauguata Basu (2002)
• Wenke Lee (2002)
• Jim Rehg (2002)
• Thad Starner (2001)
• David Sherrill (2001)
• Irfan Essa (2000)
• Amy Bruckman (1999)
• Ken Mackenzie (1999)
• Leonard Schulman (1999)
• Santosh Vempala (1999)
• Srinivas Aluru (1997)
• Ann Chervenak (1997)
• Dana Randall (1997)
• Greg Turk (1997)
• Thomas Conte (1996
• Raja Das (1996)
• Ellen Zegura (1995)

NSF Research Initiation (RIA) Award

• Santosh Pande (1995)
• Thomas Conte (1994)
• Ashok Goel (1992)
• Mary Jean Harrold (1991)
• John Stasko (1991)
• Kishore Ramachandran (1988)

Office of Naval Research Young Investigator

• Sonia Chernova (2014)

Presidential Early CAREER Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

• osiah Hester (2024)
• Saman Zonouz (2019)
• Dhruv Batra (2019)
• Nick Feamster (2008)
• Edmond Chow (2002)
• Dhruv Batra (2019)
• Edmond Chow (2002)

Adobe Faculty Research Award

• Srijan Kumar

Amazon AWS Machine Learning Research Award

• Chao Zhang (2020)

Facebook Faculty Research Award

• Yinghan (Celine) Lin, 2020)
• Srijan Kumar (2020)
• Polo Chau (2020)
• B. Aditya Prakash (2015)

Google Faculty Research Award

• Chao Zhang (2020)
• Polo Chau (2015)
• Mark Riedl (2013)

Google Air Award

• Polo Chau (2023)
• Carl DiSalvo (2023)
• Andrea Parker (2023)

Google Academic Research Award

• Wei Xu — Google Academic Research Award (2024)
• Betsy DiSalvo — Google Academic Research Award (2024)

IBM Faculty Award

• Yingyan (Celine) Lin (2021)
• Ashok Goel (2014, 2015)
• Mary Jean Harrold (2008)
• Srinivas Aluru (2007)
• Jun "Jim" Xu (2006)
• Thomas Conte (1996)
• Dana Randall
• Bill Rouse

IBM Faculty Partnership Award

• Dana Randall (2003)

Intel Outstanding Researcher Award

• Moinuddin Qureshi (2020)
• Polo Chau (2019)

LexisNexis Dean's Excellence Award

• Polo Chau (2014)

NVIDIA Professor Partnership

• Blair MacIntyre (2009)
• David Bader (2008)

Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP) Award

• Polo Chau (2014)

Every year, the College of Computing awards faculty and staff for their outstanding service and leadership. Browse a list of past award recipients or nominate faculty and staff for one of the College's Annual Awards.

Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award

• Ellen Zegura (2023)
• Richard Lipton (2012)
• James Foley (2008)

Class of 1934 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activity Award

• Richard Fujimoto (2019)
• Santosh Vempala (2012)
• James Foley (1994)

Outstanding Service Award

• Tucker Balch (2012)
• Richard Fujimoto (2009)

Outstanding Faculty Leadership

• Wenke Lee (2012)

Outstanding Professional Education

• Mustaque Ahamad (2012)

Advance Professor of Computing

• Dana Randall
• Mary Jean Harrold

Distinguished Professors

• Gregory Abowd
• Henrik Christensen
• Richard DeMillo
• Merrick Furst
• Santosh Vempala

Regents' Professors

• Michael Bailey, 2024 
• Dana Randall, 2024 
• Thad Starner, 2024 
• Moinuddin Qureshi, 2022 
• John Stasko, 2022 
• Srinivas Aluru, 2020 
• Haesun Park, 2020 
• Beth Mynatt (2019)
• Surya Kalidindi (2019)
• Haesun Park (2019)
• Amy Bruckman, 2018 
• Charles Isbell, 2018 
• Charles Isbell (2018)
• John Stasko (2018)
• Richard Fujimoto (2017)
• Wenke Lee (2017)
• Gregory Abowd (2012)
• Richard Fujimoto (2007)
• Nancy Nersessian (2007)
• Janet Kolodner (2004)
• Mostafa Ammar (2003)
• Ron Arkin (2002)
• Mark Borodovsky

Regents' Entrepreneurs

• Mustaque Ahamad (2024)

John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing

• Vivek Sarkar (current)
• Charles Isbell (former)
• Zvi Galil (former)

KUKA Chair in Robotics

• Seth Hutchinson
• Hendrik Christensen

Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications

• Vivek Sarkar (2017–2024)
• James Foley (2001–~2008)

Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing

• Richard Lipton

John P. Imlay Jr. Chair in Software

• Calton Pu

Charlotte B. & Roger C. Warren Chair in Computing

• Richard DeMillo

John P. Imlay Jr. Chair II in Software

• Wenke Lee

Frederick G. Storey Chair II in Computing

• Santosh Vempala

Stephen Fleming Chair II in Telecommunications

• Ellen Zegura

Catherine M. and James E. Allchin Early-Career Assistant Professorship

• Sonia Chernova

ACM Distinguished Scientist

• Srinivas Aluru (2017)
• John Stasko (2011)
• Annie Antón (2009)
• Keith Edwards (2009)
• Beki Grinter (2009)

ACM Senior Member

• Amy Bruckman (2009)
• Frank Dellaert (2009)
• Beth Mynatt (2009)
• Milos Prvulovic (2009)
• Jun "Jim" Xu (2009)
• Albert N. Badre (2008)
• Irfan Essa (2008)

ACM Distinguished Member

• Shaowen Bardzell (2025)