Research Honors and Awards

Khoury College faculty are regularly published, recognized, and awarded for their work and research in their fields. They are passionate and lead the industry to routinely make meaningful contributions in a wide range of areas in computer science and technology. From data science to machine learning, our faculty are shaping the future.

Awards by the numbers

146

proposals submitted in FY25 ($151,922,826 funding requested)

170

active grants, including 13 NSF CAREER grant awards (for early-career faculty) in FY25

77

Khoury College faculty with active grants in FY25

ACM Fellows

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recognizes ACM professional members for outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology.

Kenneth Church (2024), Kevin Fu (2023), Carla Brodley (2016), Ricardo Baeza-Yates (2009), Usama Fayyad (2007), Mitchell Wand (2007), Matthias Felleisen (2006)

AAAS Fellows

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recognizes members who advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people.

Kevin Fu (2023), Yun Raymond Fu (2023), Alessandro Vespignani (2023), Elizabeth Mynatt (2021), Carla Brodley (2020), David Madigan (2012)

AAAI Fellows

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) recognizes individuals who have made significant and sustained long-term contributions to the field of computer science.

Yun Raymond Fu (2024), Carla Brodley (2014), Usama Fayyad (2006)

Sloan Fellows

The Sloan Research Fellowship recognizes and provides support to early-career faculty who have the potential to revolutionize their fields of study.

Soheil Behnezhad (2026), David Bau (2025), Christo Wilson (2019), Daniel Wichs (2018)

ASA Fellows

The American Statistical Association (ASA) recognizes members who have an established reputation and have made outstanding contributions to statistical science.

Olga Vitek (2021), David Madigan (2006)

IEEE Fellows

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of that prestigious grade elevation.

Engin Kirda (2026), Yun Raymond Fu (2019), Ricardo Baeza-Yates (2011)

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and world, and collaborate for the betterment of society.

Read about Dean Mynatt’s induction into the Academy, including the AI-knitted shawl she wore to the event.

ISCB Fellows

The International Society for Computational Biology introduced the ISCB Fellows Program in 2009 to honor members that have distinguished themselves through outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.

Predrag Radivojac (2025)

Early Career Awards

NSF CAREER Awards

National Science Foundation CAREER awards are presented to junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education in accordance with their organizations’ missions.

Best Paper Awards

Khoury College faculty and students have won Best Paper or Test of Time Awards at the following conferences, forums, and workshops:

  • ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)
  • ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)/ACM CCS DeFi
  • ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN)
  • ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
  • ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec)
  • ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)
  • ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
  • ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD)
  • ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE)
  • ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM)
  • ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
  • ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT)
  • ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT)
  • ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC)
  • ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)
  • ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISec)
  • Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT)
  • Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
  • Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
  • Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW)
  • Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
  • European Association for Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS)
  • Foundations of Digital Games (FDG)
  • Future of Privacy Forum (FPF)
  • IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS)
  • IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
  • IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev)
  • IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P)
  • Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS)
  • International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT)
  • International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS)
  • International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
  • International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)
  • International Conference on Networked Systems (NETYS)
  • International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS)
  • International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC)
  • The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
  • Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
  • Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)
  • Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS)
  • USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST)
  • USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)

DARPA Awards

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty awards are given to rising stars in junior research positions in order to develop the next generation of academic scientists who will focus a significant portion of their career on DoD and National Security Issues.

  • Ehsan Elhamifar (2018)

Defense Sciences Study Group

The Defense Sciences Study Group (DSSG) introduces outstanding science and engineering professors to security challenges in the United States and encourages them to apply their talents to these issues.

  • William Robertson (2020)

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