Six NSF CAREER Awards for Purdue CS Faculty propelling excellence and innovation in research and education
10-30-2024
Purdue CS professors Muhammad Shahbaz, Tianyi Zhang, Ming Yin, Jianguo Wang, Yexiang Xue and Anuran Makur earned National Science Foundation Early CAREER Awards in 2024.
Purdue University’s Department of Computer Science is celebrating a milestone as six faculty members received National Science Foundation Early CAREER Awards. This achievement underscores Purdue CS’s commitment to pioneering research and educational outreach, aligned with the university’s ambitious Purdue Computes and One Health initiatives.
The NSF CAREER Award, granted by the National Science Foundation, is one of the most prestigious honors for early-career faculty in science and engineering fields. This program supports faculty who demonstrate a strong commitment to integrating research and education in ways that address pressing scientific, societal, and educational needs. Faculty who earn this award show exceptional promise as researchers and educators, often influencing advancements in science, technology, and education at both local and national levels.
"Our department is very proud of our colleagues' research accomplishments. Their NSF CAREER Awards are a recognition of those achievements by the broader research community,” remarked Petros Drineas, professor and Samuel D. Conte Head of the Department of Computer Science. “Each award signifies exceptional research and a deep commitment to educating the next generation of innovators in Computer Science."
NSF CAREER Award recipients are recognized not only for leading cutting-edge research but also for their commitment to integrating this research into educational outreach and curriculum development. The achievement of these six Purdue professors underscores the university's culture of research excellence, innovation, and leadership. These young faculty members are advancing impactful research across a diverse range of fields, embodying the goals of university-wide initiatives like Purdue Computes and One Health.
Purdue CS NSF CAREER 2024 Awardees
Assistant Professor Anuran Makur earned an NSF CAREER Award for his work, "Information Propagation over Networks.”
Kevin C. and Suzanne L. Kahn New Frontiers Assistant Professor of Computer Science Muhammad Shahbaz earned an NSF CAREER Award for his work, “A Platform for Per-Packet AI using Heterogeneous Data Planes.”
Assistant Professor Ming Yin earned an NSF CAREER Award for her work, “Redesigning the Human-AI Interaction Paradigm for Improving AI-Assisted Decision Making.”
Assistant Professor Tianyi Zhang earned a NSF CAREER award for his proposed work titled, “Regularizing Large Language Models for Safe and Reliable Program Generation."
Assistant Professor Jianguo Wang earned an NSF CAREER Award for his proposed work titled, “The Case for Disaggregated Database Systems.”
Assistant Professor Yexiang Xue earned an NSF CAREER Award for his proposed work titled, “Solving Beyond-NP Satisfiability Modulo Counting Problems with Guarantees Using NP Oracles”
About the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University
Founded in 1962, the Department of Computer Science was created to be an innovative base of knowledge in the emerging field of computing as the first degree-awarding program in the United States. The department continues to advance the computer science industry through research. US News & Reports ranks Purdue CS #8 in computer engineering and #19 and #16 and #18 overall in undergraduate and graduate computer science, respectively. Additionally the program is ranked 6th in cybersecurity, 8th in software engineering, 13th in systems, 15th in programming languages and data analytics, and 18th in theory. Graduates of the program are able to solve complex and challenging problems in many fields. Our consistent success in an ever-changing landscape is reflected in the record undergraduate enrollment, increased faculty hiring, innovative research projects, and the creation of new academic programs. The increasing centrality of computer science in academic disciplines and society, and new research activities—centered around foundations and applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning, such as natural language processing, human computer interaction, vision, and robotics, as well as systems and security—are the future focus of the department. cs.purdue.edu