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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.

2020

Bruno Ribeiro
- NSF CAREER Award
Chris Clifton
- Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
Wojciech Szpankowski
- Flajolet Prize
Eugene H. Spafford
- Named to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- IEEE Security and Privacy Test-of-Time Award

2019

Elisa Bertino
- ACM Athena Lecturer Award 2019-2020
- GSM Mobile Security Research Hall of Fame
Douglas Comer
- Internet Hall of Fame
Pedro Fonseca
- Google Faculty Research Award
Aniket Kate
- NSF CAREER Award
Ninghui Li
- GSM Mobile Security Research Hall of Fame
- University Faculty Scholar
Tiark Rompf
- Facebook Probability and Programming Research Award
Roopsha Samanta
- NSF CAREER Award
- Purdue College of Science Team Award
Lin Tan
- Facebook Probability and Programming Research Award
Yexiang Xue
- NSF CRII Award

2018

Elias Bareinboim
- NSF CAREER Award
Elisa Bertino
- IEEE 2018 Research Innovation Award
Jeremiah Blocki
- NSF CRII Award
Ben Delaware
- NSF CRII Award
Greg Frederickson
- Alumnus of the Year, University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science
Ananth Grama
- College of Science Research Award
Chunyi Peng
- NSF CAREER Award
Alex Pothen
- College of Science Graduate Student Mentoring Award
- SIAM Fellow
Tiark Rompf
- VMware Systems Research Award
- College of Science Professional Achievement Award
Eugene Spafford
- ISE Luminary Leadership Award Winner
Dongyan Xu
- College of Science Team Award
Xiangyu Zhang
- College of Science Team Award

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)
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

Mikhail Atallah
- Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award
Elisa Bertino
- Fellow of the AAAS
Sonia Fahmy
- College of Science Team Award
David Gleich
- Sloan Research Fellow
Suresh Jagannathan
- Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service
Hemanta Maji
- NSF CRII
Tiark Rompf
- NSF CAREER Award
- Member, IFIP TC-2 Working Group 2.11
Eugene Spafford
- Indiana Sagamore of the Wabash
- Outstanding Research Award, ITERA
- Quora "Best Writer"
Wojciech Szpankowski
- Purdue Arden Bement Award
Dongyan Xu
- College of Science Leadership Award

2015

Sonia Fahmy
- University Faculty Scholar
Ananth Grama
- Distinguished Alumnus, University of Minnesota
Mathias Payer
- NSF CRII
Dongyan Xu
- College of Science Research Award
- College of Science Team Award

2014

Elisa Bertino
- ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award
Eugene Spafford
- Fellow, The Ponemon Institute
Dongyan Xu
- College of Science Graduate Advising Award

2013

Mikhail Atallah
- Purdue University Outstanding Commercialization Award

Ananth Grama
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Daisuke Kihara
- University Faculty Scholar

Jennifer Neville
- Outstanding Achievement by a Young Alum (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

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

Dongyan Xu
- College of Science Leadership Award

2012

Daniel Aliaga
- College of Science Diversity Award

Elisa Bertino
- College of Science Engagement Award

Douglas Comer
- Joel and Ruth Spira Excellence in Teaching Award

Ahmed Elmagarmid
- Fellow of the ACM

Walter Gautschi
- Fellow of SIAM

David Gleich
- NSF CAREER Award

Tony Hosking
- ACM Distinguished Scientist

Suresh Jagannathan
- College of Science Graduate Student Mentoring Award

Ninghui Li
- ACM Distinguished Scientist

Bradley Lucier
- Fellow of AMS
- Simons Fellow

Jennifer Neville
- NSF CAREER Award

Ahmed Sameh
- Fellow of IACM

Eugene Spafford
- Purdue University Morrill Professor Award

Wojciech Szpankowski
- College of Science Leadership Award

Xavier Tricoche
- NSF CAREER Award

Dongyan Xu
- Purdue University Faculty Scholar

2011

Mikhail Atallah
- Purdue Research Foundation Inventors Recognition

Bharat Bhargava
- Purdue Research Foundation Inventors Recognition

Charles Killian
- NSF CAREER Award
Ramana Kompella
- NSF CAREER Award
Yuan Qi
- NSF CAREER Award
Ahmed Sameh
- Fellow of SIAM

Robert D. Skeel
- Fellow of SIAM

Eugene H. Spafford
- SANS Lifetime Achievement Award
- WORLDCOMP Outstanding Achievement Award
Olga Vitek
- NSF CAREER Award

2010

Ahmed Elmagarmid
- Fellow of the IEEE

2009

Daniel Aliaga
- Purdue University Undergraduate Advising Award
Ahmed Elmagarmid
- ACM Distinguished Scientist
Greg N. Frederickson
- George Pólya Award
Alex Pothen
- Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD)
Sunil Prabhakar
- University Faculty Scholar
Eugene H. Spafford
- Upsilon Pi Epsilon Abacus Award
- CRA Distinguished Service Award
- Distinguished Fellow of the Information Systems Security Association
Wojciech M. Szpankowski
- Humboldt Research Award

2008

Daniel Aliaga
- Purdue University Engagement Award
Greg N. Frederickson
- Book of Great Teachers
Christoph M. Hoffmann
- Techpoint Mira Award
Luo Si
- NSF CAREER Awards
Eugene H. Spafford
- Fellow of (ISC)²
- Information Security Secure 7
Wojciech M. Szpankowski
- Saul Rosen Professor of Computer Science

2007

Mikhail J. Atallah
- Distinguished Alumnus Award, American University in Beirut
Suresh Jagannathan
- University Faculty Scholar
Eugene H. Spafford
- ACM President's Award

2006

Mikhail J. Atallah
- Fellow of the ACM
Patrick Eugster
- NSF CAREER Awards
Eugene H. Spafford
- ACM SIGSAC "Outstanding Contribution Award"
- Wasserman Award
Wojciech M. Szpankowski
- University of Canterbury, New Zealand "Erskine Fellowship"
Dongyan Xu
- NSF CAREER Awards
Samuel Wagstaff
- Department of Mathematics, Courtesy Appointment
Xiangyu Zhang
- ACM SIGPLAN "Doctoral Dissertation Award"

2005

Elisa Bertino
- Tsutomu Kanai Award
H. E. (Buster) Dunsmore
- Teaching for Tomorrow Award
Zhiyuan Li
- University Faculty Scholar
Eugene H. Spafford
- IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award
- Honorary D.Sc. from SUNY
Team award, including Chris Clifton, Ahmed Elmagarmid, and Sunil Prabhakar
- Techpoint Mira Award

2004

Walid G. Aref
- University Faculty Scholar
Mikhail J. Atallah
- Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
- Fellow of the Purdue Teaching Academy
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Courtesy Appointment
Elisa Bertino
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Courtesy Appointment
Douglas E. Comer
- Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Greg N. Frederickson
- George Pólya Award
Susanne Hambrusch
- Techpoint Mira Award
Ninghui Li
- NSF CAREER Award
Robert D. Skeel
- Department of Mathematics, Courtesy Appointment
Eugene H. Spafford
- ACM SIGCAS "Making A Difference Award"
Wojciech M. Szpankowski
- Fellow of the IEEE
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Courtesy Appointment

2003

Bharat Bhargava
- Book of Great Teachers
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Courtesy Appointment
Elisa Bertino
- Fellow of the 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

Elisa Bertino
- Fellow of the IEEE
- IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award
Walid G. Aref
- University Faculty Scholar
Christoph M. Hoffmann
- European Academy of Sciences
Suresh Jagannathan
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Courtesy Appointment
Eugene H. Spafford
- ACM President's Award

2001

Walid G. Aref
- NSF CAREER Awards
Buster Dunsmore
- INITA Outstanding Educator
Walter Gautschi
- Member of Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Member of Turin Academy of Sciences
Eugene H. Spafford

2000

Douglas E. Comer
- Fellow of the ACM
Eugene H. Spafford
- Applied Computer Security Associates, Distinguished Practitioner
- National Computer/Information System Security Award
- Department of Philosophy, Courtesy Appointment