Awards and Honors

2024

• Prof. Santhoshini Velusamy, NSF CRII Funding Award
• Prof. Julia Chuzhoy, NSF CRF Funding Award
• Prof. Zhiyuan Li, Superalignment Fast Grant Funding Award
• Students Gene Li and Naren Manoj, Prof. Avrim Blum, and collaborators received an Outstanding Paper award at the 35th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2024)
• Prof. Ali Vakilian, University of Chicago students Erasmo Tani and Adela DePavia, Outstanding Student Paper Highlight Award (AISTATS 2024)
• Student Kumar Kshitij Patel, Distinguished Paper Award at IJCAI 2024
• Student Davis Yoshida, ACL 2024 Outstanding Paper Award
• Student Shashank Srivastava, SODA 2025 Best Paper and Best Student Paper
• Prof. Kanishka Misra, EMNLP 2024 Outstanding Paper Award
• Prof. Karen Livescu, EMNLP 2024 Best Paper Award
• Prof. Karen Livescu, 2025 IEEE Fellow

2023

• TTIC students Chung-Ming Chien and Ju-Chieh Chou, University of Chicago student Mingjiamei Zhang, and TTIC Prof. Karen Livescu won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2023)
• Prof. Karen Livescu, Test of Time Award Runner Up, ICML 2023
• Prof. Jinbo Xu, ISCB Fellow Class of 2023
• Prof. Siddharth Bhandari, ACM India 2022 Doctoral Dissertation Award
• Student Xiaodan Du, TTIC Outstanding TA Award
• Staff Deree Kobets, Latrice Richards Outstanding Administrator
• Students Kshitij Patel and Nirmit Joshi, and Professors Lingxiao Wang and Nati Srebro, Best Student Paper Honorable Mention, ICML 2023 Workshop on Federated Learning and Analytics in Practice
• Student Chung-Ming Chien, 2023 Government Scholarship to Study Abroad from Taiwan Ministry of Education

2022

• Prof. Jinbo Xu, Marshall and Arlene Bennett Family Research Program Funding Award
  
• President Matthew Turk, Appointed as a New Member of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council
• Staff Mary Marre, Latrice Richards Outstanding Administrator Award
• Student Haochen Wang, TTIC Outstanding TA Award
• Student Max Ovsiankin, TTIC Outstanding TA Award
• Prof. David McAllester, Open Philanthropy Funding Award
• Prof. Avrim Blum, Prof. Julia Chuzhoy, Prof. Yury Makarychev, and Prof. Nati Srebro, NSF TRIPODS Phase II Award
• Student Shubham Toshniwal, Prof. Kevin Gimpel, and Prof. Karen Livescu, Best Paper Award, CRAC 2021
• Student Freda Shi, TTIC 6th Annual Student Workshop Best Talk
• Student Kshitij Patel, TTIC 6th Annual Student Workshop Best Talk
• Student Anmol Kabra, TTIC 6th Annual Student Workshop Best Poster

2021

• Prof. Avrim Blum, ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
• Prof. Karen Livescu, Elected Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association
• President Matthew Turk, Named an ACM Fellow
• Student Blake Woodworth, Best Paper Award, COLT 2021
• Student Haoyue (Freda) Shi, Google PhD Fellowship
• Prof. Karen Livescu, IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer
• Staff Adam Bohlander, Latrice Richards Outstanding Administrator
• Student Davis Yoshida, TTIC Outstanding TA Award
• Student Omar Montasser, TTIC 5th Annual Student Workshop Best Talk
• Student Ankita Pasad, TTIC 5th Annual Student Workshop Best Poster
• Student Han Shao, TTIC 5th Annual Student Workshop Best Poster
• Student Bowen Shi, TTIC 5th Annual Student Workshop Best Short Talk

2020

• Prof. Julia Chuzhoy, NAS Held Prize
  
• Prof. Steve Hanneke, Best Paper Award, COLT 2020
• Student Mingda Chen, Google PhD Fellowship
• Staff Rose Bradford, Latrice Richards Outstanding Administrator
• Ankita Pasad, TTIC Outstanding TA Award
• Student Davis Yoshida, TTIC 4th Annual Student Workshop Best Talk
• Student Pedro Savarese, TTIC 4th Annual Student Workshop Best Poster
• Student Kevin Stangl, TTIC Outstanding TA Award
  
• Student David Yunis, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• Prof. Kevin Gimpel, Amazon Research Award
• Prof. Karen Livescu, Amazon AWS Machine Learning Research Award

2019

• Student Omar Montasser, Prof. Steve Hanneke, and Prof. Nati Srebro, Best Student Paper Award, COLT 2019
• Student Blake Woodworth and Prof. Nati Srebro, Best Student Paper Award, COLT 2019
• Prof. Arturs Backurs, Distinguished Dissertation Award, EATCS 2019
• Prof. Jinbo Xu, Test of Time Award, RECOMB 2019
• Prof. Thatchaphol Saranurak, Best Paper Award, PODC 2019
• Student Blake Woodworth, Google PhD Fellowship
• Student Pedro Savarese, TTIC 3rd Annual Student Workshop Best Talk
• Student Omar Montasser, TTIC 3rd Annual Student Workshop Best Talk
• Student Shubham Toshniwal, TTIC 3rd Annual Student Workshop Best Poster

2018

• Prof. David McAllester, Longuet-Higgins Prize (the CVPR 10-year Test-of-Time Award)
• Visiting Student Yujuan Gao, TTIC postdoc Sheng Wang, Yujuan’s advisor Minghua Deng, and Prof. Jinbo Xu, Best Paper Award, APBC2018
• Prof. Jinbo Xu, PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize 2018 in the category Breakthrough Advance/Innovation.

2017

• Prof. Nati Srebro, Test of Time Honorable Mention, ICML2017
• Student Blake Woodworth, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• President Sadaoki Furui, Honorary Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Prof. Li-Yang, Best Paper Award, 2017 Computational Complexity Conference
• Prof. Kevin Gimpel, Prof. Karen Livescu, and Student Lifu Tu, Best Paper Award, 2nd Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP
• Student Hai Wang, Student Takeshi Onishi, Prof. Kevin Gimpel, and Prof. David McAllester, Best Paper Award, 2nd Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP
• Prof. Avrim Blum, Classic Paper Award, 2017 AI Journal
• Student Charles Schaff, TTIC 2nd Annual Student Workshop Best Talk
• Student Blake Woodworth, TTIC 2nd Annual Student Workshop Best Talk Runner-up
• Student Andrea Daniele, TTIC 2nd Annual Student Workshop Best Poster

2016

• Visiting Student Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha, Prof. Mohit Bansal, Prof. Kevin Gimpel, and Prof. Karen Livescu, Best Paper Award, 1st Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP
  
• PhD Candidate Hao Tang, Best Student paper Award, ICASSP2016
• President Sadaoki Furui named a Person of Cultural Merit
• Student Herman Kamper, TTIC 1st Annual Student Workshop Best Talk
• Student Blake Woodworth, TTIC 1st Annual Student Workshop Best Poster
• Student David Kim, TTIC 1st Annual Student Workshop Best Poster

2015

• Prof. Li-Yang Tan, Best Paper Award for FOCS 2015
• Prof. Karen Livescu, Google Faculty Research Award

2014

• Prof. Mohit Bansal, IBM Faculty Award
• Prof. Mohit Bansal, Karen Livescu, Kevin Gimpel, Google Faculty Research Award
• Student Zhiyong Wang, Prof. Jinbo Xu, and UNC-Charlotte Prof. Xinhua Shi, ACM SIGBio Best Student Paper Award
• Prof. Mohit Bansal, Best Long Paper Honorable Mention at ACL 2014
• Prof. Jinbo Xu’s group, Best Paper Award at RECOMB 2014
• Prof. David McAllester, ICLP Test of Time Award
• Prof. Julia Chuzhoy, Invited speaker at International Congress of Mathematicians
• Prof. Jinbo Xu’s group, Warren DeLano Award for Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics, ISMB 3DSIG 2014 for “MRFalign: remote protein homology detection through alignment of Markov Random Fields”

2013

• Prof. Raquel Urtasun, CVPR 2013 Best Paper Runner-Up Award
• Prof. Ben Moseley, SPAA’13 Best Paper Award
• Prof. Madhur Tulsiani, NSF Career award
• Prof. Greg Shakhnarovich, IBM Faculty Award
• Prof. Alexander Razborov, David P. Robbins Prize
• Prof. Karen Livescu, ASRU 2013 Best Student Paper runner-up
• Prof. Kevin Gimpel, WMT 5-Year Retrospective Best Paper Award

2012

• Prof. Julia Chuzhoy, FOCS 2012 Best Paper award
• Prof. Karen Livescu, Interspeech 2012 Best Student Paper
• Prof. Yury Makarychev, NSF Career award
• Prof. Jinbo Xu, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship
• Prof. Jinbo Xu, NSF Career award
• Dr. Sadaoki Furui, Okawa Prize
• Prof. Jinbo Xu’s group, Warren DeLano Award for Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics

2011

• Prof. Devi Parikh, Marr Prize
• Dr. Stuart Rice, 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
• Prof. Julia Chuzhoy, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship

2010

• Prof. David McAllester, PASCAL VOC “Lifetime Achievement” Prize
• Prof. David McAllester, AAAI Classic Paper award
• Jian Peng, Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship

2009

• Prof. Julia Chuzhoy, NSF Career award

2008

• Prof. Karen Livescu, Invited speaker, Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium 2008