Awards and Honors

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
• Student Blake Woodworth, Google PhD Fellowship
• 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
• Prof. Kevin Gimpel, Amazon Research Award
• Prof. Karen Livescu, Amazon AWS Machine Learning Research Award

2019

• 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

• 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.
• Prof. David McAllester, Longuet-Higgins Prize

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