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Honors and Awards by Year

This is a listing of significant awards and honors received by Purdue CS faculty. Listed are those items that are distinctive and based on technical achievement and/or professional service. Included items must be decided by peer deliberation; awards decided solely by students (e.g., "Top 10 Teacher") and best paper awards are not included, nor are awards well outside the mainstream of faculty areas of achievement.

2023

 

2022

  • Mikhail Atallah
    • Test of Time award from the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
  • Bedrick Benes
    • Fellow of the European Association for Computer Graphics
  • Aniket Bera
    • Best Paper, ACM SIGGRAPH MIG
  • Elisa Bertino
    • Elected Vice President of the ACM
    • Listed, Best Female Scientists in the World, Research.com
  • Bharat Bhargava
    • Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
  • Antonio Bianchi
    • Google Aspire Award
  • Simina Brânzei
    • Kavi Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
  • Z. Berkay Celik
    • NSF CAREER Award
    • Google Aspire Award
  • Petros Drineas
    • University Faculty Scholar
  • Sonia Fahmy
    • Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
  • Pedro Fonseca
    • NSF CAREER Award
  • David Gleich 
    • University Faculty Scholar
    • Promoted to full professor
  • Dan Goldwasser
    • Amazon Research Award
  • Changhee Jung
    • MICRO Hall of Fame
    • Samsung MSL, Award for exploring deep memory hierarchy on top of emerging CXL
  • Aniket Kate
    • University Faculty Scholar
  • Ninghui Li
    • Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    • ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award
  • Pan Li
    • JP Morgan Faculty Award
    • Best paper, Learning on Graphs Conference
  • Anuran Makur
    • IEEE Dissertation Award
  • Voicu Popescu
    • Facebook Networking Research Award
  • Alex Pothen
    • Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 
  • Alex Psomas
    • NSF CAREER Award
    • Google Research Award
  • Roopsha Samanta
    • Amazon Research Award
  • Muhammad Shahbaz
    • IETF/ANRP Research Prize
  • Eugene Spafford
    • ACSAC Cybersecurity Artifacts Competition Impactful System Award
    • Appointed to the CRA Board of Directors
  • Wojtek Szpankowski
    • Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association
  • Dave (Jing) Tian
    • NSF CAREER Award
  • Lin Tan
    • Distinguished Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    • Promoted to full professor
  • Ming Yin
    • Best Paper, ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW)
    • Best Paper, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
  • Yongle Zhang
    • ACM SIGOPS, Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award
  • Vassilis Zikas
    • Awarded $8M from Algorand Foundation

2021

2020

  • Elisa Bertino
    • Kristian Beckman Award
  • Chris Clifton 
    • Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
    • ACM CODASPY Research Award
  • Sonia Fahmy
    • AT&T Virtual University Research Initiative (VURI) Award
  • Diasuke Kihara
    • Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) 
  • Bruno Ribeiro
    • NSF CAREER Award
  • Tiark Rompf
    • Purdue College of Science Team Award
  • Wojciech Szpankowski
    • Flajolet Prize 
  • Eugene H. Spafford
    • Named to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
    • IEEE Security and Privacy Test-of-Time Award
  • Lin Tan
    • J.P. Morgan AI Research Faculty Award
    • Facebook Probability and Programming Research Award

2019
  • George Adams 
    • Fellow of the Purdue University Teaching Academy 
  • Elisa Bertino
    • ACM Athena Lecturer Award 2019-2020
    • GSM Mobile Security Research Hall of Fame 
  • Jeremiah Block
    • Purdue Seed for Success Award
  • Douglas Comer
    • Internet Hall of Fame
  • Ben Delaware
    • Purdue Seed for Success Award
  • Pedro Fonseca
    • Google Faculty Research Award
  • Christina Garman
    • Purdue Seed for Success Award
  • Hemanta Maji
    • Purdue Seed for Success Award
  • Aniket Kate
    • NSF CAREER Award
    • Purdue Seed for Success Award
  • Ninghui Li 
    • GSM Mobile Security Research Hall of Fame
    • University Faculty Scholar
  • Tiark Rompf
    • Facebook Probability and Programming Research Award
    • Purdue Seed for Success Award
    • Purdue College of Science Team Award
    • ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award (Scala Team)
  • Roopsha Samanta
    • NSF CAREER Award
    • Purdue Seed for Success Award
  • Lin Tan
    • Facebook Probability and Programming Research Award
  • Yexiang Xue
    • NSF CRII Award

2018

2017

  • Walid Aref
    • Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
  • Mikhail Atallah
    • Purdue University Arden L. Bement Award
  • Elisa Bertino
    • Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) Hall of Fame
    • Purdue Innovators Hall of Fame
  • Bharat Bhargava
    • Purdue Focus Award
    • Purdue Helen B. Schleman Gold Medallion
  • Chris Clifton
    • Distinguished Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Changhee Jung
    • AMD Faculty Research Award
  • Tiark Rompf
    • United States Department of Energy Early Career Research Award
    • Google Faculty Research Award
  • Eugene Spafford
    • Quora "Best Writer"
    • Kristian Beckman Award, IFIP Technical Committee TC 11
  • Dongyan Xu
    • Purdue Discovery Park Big Idea Challenge Award

2016

2015

2013

  • Eugene Spafford
    • Cyber Security Hall of Fame
    • (ISC)2 Harold F. Tiptoon Lifetime Achievement Award
    • College of Liberal Arts, Department of Political Science, Courtesy Appointment

2012

  • Bradley Lucier
    • Fellow, American Mathmatical Society
    • Fellow, Simons Foundation
  • Ahmed Sameh
    • Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)

2011

  • Chris Clifton
    • IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award
    • Teaching for Tomorrow Fellowship
  • Charles Killian
    • NSF CAREER Award
  • Ramana Kompella
    • NSF CAREER Award
  • Yuan Qi
    • NSF CAREER Award
  • Ahmed Sameh
    • Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)
  • Eugene H. Spafford
    • SANS Lifetime Achievement Award
    • WORLDCOMP Outstanding Achievement Award
  • Olga Vitek
    • NSF CAREER Award

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

  • Bharat Bhargava
    • Book of Great Teachers
    • School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Courtesy Appointment
  • Elisa Bertino
    • Fellow, Association for Computing Machiery (ACM)
  • Douglas E. Comer
    • Fellow of the Purdue Teaching Academy
    • School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Courtesy Appointment
  • Sonia Fahmy
    • NSF CAREER Award
  • Zhiyuan Li
    • School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Courtesy Appointment
  • Eugene H. Spafford
    • Taylor Booth Award
    • U.S. Air Force medal for Meritorious Civilian Service
    • Added to Purdue University's Book of Great Teachers
    • School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Courtesy Appointment
    • Department of Communication, Courtesy Appointment
  • Dongyan Xu
    • School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Courtesy Appointment

2002

2001

2000

  • Douglas E. Comer
    • Fellow, Association For Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Eugene H. Spafford
    • Applied Computer Security Associates, Distinguished Practitioner
    • National Computer/Information System Security Award
    • Department of Philosophy, Courtesy Appointment

1999

1998

1997

  • Mikhail J. Atallah
    • Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
  • H. E. (Buster) Dunsmore
    • Fellow of the Purdue Teaching Academy
  • Ahmed Sameh
    • Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science
  • Eugene H. Spafford
    • Fellow, Assoiciation of Computing Machinery (ACM)
    • Fellow, American Assoication for Advanced Science (AAAS)
    • Book of Great Teachers

1996

1995

1994

  • John R. Rice
    • Member of the National Academy of Engineering

1993

  • Bharat Bhargava
    • Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
  • Ahmed Elmagarmid
    • Distinguished Alumnus Award, Ohio State University
  • Ahmed Sameh
    • Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)

1992

1991

  • John R. Rice
    • IFIP Silver Core
    • W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science

1988

1985

1972

  • John R. Rice
    • Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)

1990

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