Faculty Distinctions

GT College of Computing Pamphlets

Throughout the years, the faculty of Georgia Tech’s College of Computing have been continuously recognized for their exceptional achievements and contributions within their profession; receiving many honors and awards.

From the College's own Annual Awards to the highest of national distinctions, explore the outstanding research and leadership success of our faculty.

Honors

National Academy of Engineering Members

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

American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellows

Richard Lipton (2014)
Zvi Galil (2005)

National Associate of the National Academies

Dana Randall (2008)

Professional Society Fellows

American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows

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

ACM Fellows

Richard Fujimoto (2018)
Wenke Lee (2018)
Beth Mynatt (2016)
Santosh Vempala (2016)
Mark Guzdial (2014)
Sham Navathe (2014)
Ellen Zegura (2013)
Gregory Abowd (2008)
Lance Fortnow (2007)
Krishna Palem (2005)
Vijay Vazirani (2005)
Mostafa Ammar (2003)
Richard DeMillo (2003)
Mary Jean Harrold (2003)
Ramesh Jain (2003)
Peter Freeman (2000)
James Foley (1999)
Richard Lipton (1997)
Zvi Galil (1995)

American Mathematical Society Fellow

Dana Randall (2012)
Prasad Tetali (2012)

Eurographics Fellow

Jarek Rossignac (2000)

IEEE Fellows

Haesun Park (2017)
Calton Pu (2016)
Karsten Schwan (2016)
Ümit V. Çatalyürek (2015)
Aaron Bobick (2014)
Henrik Christensen (2014)
Ling Liu (2014)
David Sherrill (2014)
Kishore Ramachandran (2013)
Raghupathy Sivakumar (2013)
John Stasko (2013)
Sudhakar Yalamanchili (2013)
Irfan Essa (2012)
Mary Jean Harrold (2011)
Ellen Zegura (2011)
Srinivas Aluru (2010)
Thomas Conte (2005)
Krishan Palem (2004)
Ronald Arkin (2003)
Mostafa Ammar (2001)
Peter Freeman (1997)
James Foley (1986)

Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Democracy and Technology

Annie Antón (2009)

SIAM Fellow

Haesun Park (2013)
Prasad Tetali (2009)

Professional Society Awards

A. Richard Newton Educator Award

Barbara Ericson (2012)

ACADIA Award

Ellen Do (2011)

ACM/CHI Award (CHI Academy)

John Stasko (2016)
Keith Edwards (2014)
Rebecca Grinter (2013)
Elizabeth Mynatt (2009)
Gregory Abowd (2008)
James Foley (2001)

ACM Distinguished Educator

Mark Guzdial (2014)

ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science & Informatics

Gregory Abowd (2010)
Gregory Abowd (2009)

ACM Gordon Bell Prize

George Biros (2010)

ACM Karl V. Karlstron Outstanding Educator Award

Mark Guzdial (2010)
Barbara Ericson (2010)

ACM/SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Greg Turk (2012)

ACM/SIGGRAPH Coons Lifetime Achievement Award

James Foley (1997)

ACM/SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award

James Foley (2007)

ACM/SIGCOMM Rising Star Award

Nick Feamster (2010)

ACM/SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award

Karen Liu (2012)

ACM/SIGCHI Social Impact Award

Gregory Abowd (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)

Engelberger Robotics Award for Education

Henrik Christensen (2011)

IEEE Computer Society Undergraduate Teaching Award

Mark Guzdial (2012)

IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award

John Stasko (2012)

Fulkerson Prize

Eric Vigoda (2006)

George M. Sprowls Award

Jinwoo Shin (2010)
Nick Feamster (2006)
Yael Kalai (2006)

Lilian Gilbreath Lectureship from the National Academy of Engineers

Melody Jackson (2004)

Manufacturing Leadership Councile, Supply Chain Excellence Highest Achiever

Larry Sweet (2015)

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

Peter Freeman (2007)

R&D 100 Award

Larry Sweet

Solid Modeling Association Bézier Award

Jarek Rossignac (2014)

SIAM SDM/IBM Early Career Data Mining Research Award

Jimeng Sun (2017)

Technology Review TR35 Award (includes prior TR100 winners)

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

Charitable Foundation Fellows

Fulbright Fellows

Ezquerra, Norberto
Nancy Nersessian
Karsten Schwan

Fullbright Scholar

Lance Fortnow

Guggenheim Fellows

Larry Sweet
Vijay Vazirani
Richard Lipton
Santosh Vempala (2005)

Miller Institute for Basic Science Research Fellow

Santosh Vempala (1998)

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellow

Nancy Nersessian (2005)

Schlumberger Foundation Technical Fellow

Gregory Abowd (2001)

Sloan Fellows

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)

U.S. Government Awards

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) National Library of Medicine

Norberto Ezquerra (1987)

NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow

Lance Fortnow (1992-1998)

NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award

Kishore Ramachandran (1990)
Chris Atkeson (1988)
Vijay Vazirani (1987)
Craig Tovey (1985)

NSF National Young Investigator Award

Mary Jean Harrold
Jessica Hodgins

NSF CAREER Award

Jacob Eisenstein (2015)
Le Song (2014)
Mark Riedl (2013)
Sonia Chernova (2012)
James Hayes (2012)
Rich Vuduc (2010)
Nina Balcan (2009)
Alexander Gray (2009)
Adam Kalai (2008)
Karen Liu (2008)
Ümit V. Çatalyürek (2007)
Nick Feamster (2007)
Subhash Khot (2007)
Guy Lebanon (2007)
Gabriel Loh (2007)
Sasha Boldyreva (2006)
Mark Guzdial (2006)
Charles Isbell (2006)
Bruce Walker (2006)
Frank Dellaert (2005)
Milos Prvulovic (2005)
Tucker Balch (2004)
Constantine Dovrolis (2004)
Blair MacIntyre (2004)
Eric Vigoda (2004)
Yannis Smaragdakis (2003)
Jim Xu (2003)
Sauguata Basu (2002)
Wenke Lee (2002)
Jim Rehg (2002)
Beth Mynatt (2001)
Thad Starner (2001)
Irfan Essa (2000)
Amy Bruckman (1999)
Sven Koenig (1999)
Ken Mackenzie (1999)
Leonard Schulman (1999)
Santosh Vempala (1999)
Gregory Abowd (1997)
Srinivas Aluru (1997)
Ann Chervenak (1997)
Dana Randall (1997-2001)
Greg Turk (1997)
Thomas Conte (1996)
Raja Das (1996)
Mark Guzdial (1995)
Ellen Zegura (1995)

NSF Research Initiation (RIA) Award

Santosh Pande (1995)
Thomas Conte (1994)
Ashok Goel (1992)
Mary Jean Harrold (1991)
John Stasko (1991)
Lance Fortnow (1990-1992)
Kishore Ramachandran (1988)

Office of Naval Research Young Investigator

Sonia Chernova (2014)
Andrea Thomaz (2008)

Presidential Early CAREER Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

Nick Feamster (2008)
Edmond Chow (2002)

Corporate Research Awards

Google Faculty Research Award

Polo Chau (2015)
Jacob Eisenstein (2014, 2015)
Mark Riedl (2013)

IBM Faculty Award

Ashok Goel (2014, 2015)
Mary Jean Harrold (2008)
Nick Feamster (2007)
Jun “Jim” Xu (2006)
Thomas Conte (1996)
Dana Randall
Bill Rouse

IBM Faculty Partnership Award

Dana Randall (2003)

IBM Research Faculty Fellow

Gregory Abowd (2001)

IBM Young Investigator Award

Karsten Schwan

LexisNexis Dean's Excellence Award

Polo Chau (2014)

Microsoft Research—New Faculty Fellow

Nina Balcan
Subhash Khot

NVIDIA Professor Partnership

Blair MacIntyre (2009)

Schlumberger Foundation Technical Fellow

Gregory Abowd (2000-2001)

Sun Microsystems Academic Excellence Award

Karsten Schwan

Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP) Award

Polo Chau (2014)

Georgia Tech Awards

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

Dick Liption (2012)
James Foley (2008)

Class of 1934 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activity Award

Santosh Vempala (2012)
Mark Guzdial (2001)
Jim Foley (1994)

Class of 1940 W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teaching Award

Mike Stilman (2014)

Don Bratcher Human Relations Award

Gregory Abowd (2007)

Geoffrey Eichholz Teaching Award

Colin Potts (2012)

Outstanding Service Award

Richard Fujimoto (2009)

Outstanding Innovative Use of Educational Technology Award

Gregory Abowd (1998)

Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award

Ling Lu (2012)
Gregory Abowd (2008)

Outstanding Faculty Leadership

Wenke Lee (2012)

Outstanding Professional Education

Mustaque Ahamad (2012)

Outstanding Service Award

Tucker Balch (2012)

Sigma Xi Young Faculty Research Award

Gregory Abowd (1997)

Georgia Tech Distinctions

Advance Professor of Computing

Dana Randall
Mary Jean Harrold (2001-2011)

Distinguished Professors

Gregory Abowd
Henrik Christensen
Richard DeMillo
Merrick Furst
Santosh Vempala

Regents’ Professors

Gregory Abowd (2012)
Karsten Schwan (2010)
Richard Fujimoto (2007)
Nancy Nersessian (2007)
Janet Kolodner (2004)
Mostafa Ammar (2003)
Ron Arkin (2002)

Endowed Chairs

John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing

Charles Isbell
Zvi Galil (former)

KUKA Chair in Robotics

Henrik Christensen

Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications

James Foley

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

Rich DeMillo

J.Z. Liang Chair in Computing

Gregory Abowd

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

Recognitions

ACM Distinguished Scientist

Srinivas Aluru (2017)
John Stasko (2011)
Jun “Jim” Xu (2010)
Annie Antón (2009)
Keith Edwards (2009)
Beki Grinter (2009)

ACM Senior Member

Amy Bruckman (2009)
Frank Delleart (2009)
Mark Guzdial (2009)
Gabriel Loh (2009)
Beth Mynatt (2009)
Milos Prvulovic (2009)
Jun “Jim” Xu (2009)
Albert N. Badre (2008)
Irfan Essa (2008)

Atlanta’s Top Woman Innovator in Technology by Atlanta Woman Magazine

Beth Mynatt (2005)

IEEE Senior Member

Gabriel Loh (2009)
Milos Prvulovic (2009)
Henrik Christensen (2008)
Ellen Zegura (2008)
Mary Jean Harrold (2003)
Annie Antón (2003)
Alex Goldstein (1999)
Ron Arkin (1991)

No. 1 Software Engineering Scholar in the World (Ranked by Communications of the ACM)

Mary Jean Harrold

Regents Research in Undergraduate Education Award, University System of Georgia

Mark Guzdial (2001)