Honors and Awards by Faculty

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.

George Adams

• Fellow of the Purdue University Teaching Academy [2019]
• Purdue College of Science Team Award [2019]

Daniel Aliaga

• Purdue University Engagement Award [2008]
• Purdue University Undergraduate Advising Award [2009]
• Google Faculty Research Awards [2010]
• OECD Fellowship Award [2011]
• Purdue College of Science Diversity Award [2012]
• Fulbright Scholar Award [2018]

Walid Aref

• NSF CAREER Award [2001]
• Purdue University Faculty Scholar [2004]
• Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) [2017]

Mikhail Atallah

• NSF Presidential Young Investigator [1985]
• Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) [1997]
• Listed in Purdue University Book of Great Teachers [1999]
• Purdue University Distinguished Professor [2004] 
  Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
• Fellow of the Purdue University Teaching Academy [2004]
• Fellow,  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [2006]
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, American University in Beirut [2007]
• Purdue Research Foundation Inventors Recognition [2011]
• Purdue University Outstanding Commercialization Award [2013]
• Test of Time Award from the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) [2015]
• Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award [2016]
• Arden L. Bement Award [2017]
• Test of Time award from the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) [2022]

Bedrich Benes

• Purdue University Faculty Scholar [2011]
• Senior Member,  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Senior Member, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
• Fellow of the European Association for Computer Graphics [2022]
• Editor-in-Chief, Graphical Models [2023]

Aniket Bera

• Best Paper,  ACM SIGGRAPH MIG [2022]

Elisa Bertino

• Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) [2002]
• IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award [2002]
• Fellow,  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [2003]
• IEEE Tsutomu Kanai Award [2005]
• Purdue College of Science Engagement Award [2012]
• ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award [2014]
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science [2016]
• Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) Hall of Fame [2017]
• Purdue Innovators Hall of Fame [2017]
• Purdue University Named Professor [2017]
  Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science
• ACM Athena Lecturer Award [2019-2020]
• GSM Mobile Security Research Hall of Fame [2019]
• Kristian Beckman Award, IFIP Technical Committee TC 11 [2020]
• IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award [2021]
• Elected Vice President of the ACM [2022]
• Listed, Best Female Scientists in the World, Research.com [2022]

Bharat Bhargava

• Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) [1993]
• IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Award [1996]
• Fellow, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE0) [1996]
• IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award [1999]
• Listed in Purdue University Book of Great Teachers [2003]
• Purdue Research Foundation Inventors Recognition [2011]
• Focus Award [2017]
• Purdue Helen B. Schleman Gold Medallion [2017]
• Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) [2022]

Antonio Bianchi

• NSF CRII Award [2019]
• Android Security and PrIvacy REsearch (ASPIRE) Award [2021]
• Android Security and PrIvacy REsearch (ASPIRE) Award [2022]

Jeremiah Blocki

• NSF CRII Award [2018]
• Purdue Seed for Success Award [2019]
• NSF CAREER Award [2021]

Simina Brânzei

• Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences [2022]
• NSF CAREER Award [2023]

Z. Berkay Celik

• Android Security and PrIvacy REsearch (ASPIRE) Award [2021]
• Android Security and PrIvacy REsearch (ASPIRE) Award [2022]
• NSF CAREER Award [2022]

Chris Clifton

• TechPoint Mira Award [2005]
• IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award [2011]
• Teaching for Tomorrow Fellowship [2011]
• Distinguished Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [2017]
• Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) [2020]
• ACM CODASPY Research Award [2020]

Douglas Comer

• Usenix "The Flame" Lifetime Achievement Award (as part of the Software Tools Project) [1996]
• Listed in Purdue University Book of Great Teachers [1999]
• Fellow,  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [2000]
• Fellow of the Purdue University Teaching Academy [2003]
• Purdue University Distinguished Professor [2004] 
  Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
• Joel and Ruth Spira Excellence in Teaching Award [2012]
• Internet Hall of Fame [2019]

Ben Delaware

• NSF CRII Award [2018]
  Purdue Seed for Success Award [2019]

Tamal Dey

• Ohio State University Lumley Research Award [2004, 2010]
• Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) [2017]
• Fellow,  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [2018] 
• Fellow, Solid Modeling Association (SMA) [2019]
• Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association [2023]

Petros Drineas

• Promoted to Professor [2021]
• University Faculty Scholar [2022]
• SIAM Fellow [2023]

Buster Dunsmore

• Purdue University Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in Memory of Charles B. Murphy [1996]
• Fellow of the Purdue University Teaching Academy [1997]
• Listed in Purdue University Book of Great Teachers [1999]
• INITIA Outstanding Educator [2001]
• Purdue University Teaching for Tomorrow Award [2005]

Ahmed Elmagarmid (emeritus)

• NSF Presidential Young Investigator [1988]
• Distinguished Alumnus Award from Ohio State University [1993]
• Distinguished Alumnus Award from University of Dayton [1995]
• TechPoint Mira Award [2005]
• ACM Distinguished Scientist [2009]
• Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) [2009]
• Fellow,  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [2012]

Sonia Fahmy

• NSF CAREER Award [2003]
• Purdue College of Science Leadership Award [2010]
• University Faculty Scholar [2015]
• Purdue College of Science Team Award [2016]
• AT&T Virtual University Research Initiative (VURI) [2020]
• Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) [2022]

Pedro Fonseca

• Google Faculty Research Award [2019]
• NSF CAREER Award [2022]

Greg Frederickson (emeritus)

• MAA George Pólya Award [2004]
• Listed in Purdue University Book of Great Teachers [2008]
• MAA George Pólya Award [2009]
• Alumnus of the Year Award, University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science [2018]

Christina Garman

• Purdue Seed for Success Award [2019]
• NSF CAREER Award [2021]

Walter Gautschi (emeritus)

• Fulbright Scholar [1970]
• Member of Bavarian Academy of Sciences [2001]
• Member of Turin Academy of Sciences [2001]
• Fellow of SIAM [2012]

David Gleich

• NSF CAREER Award [2012]
• Sloan Research Fellow [2016]
• Purdue University Named Associate Professor [2018] 
  Juoti and Aditya Mathur Associate Professor of Computer Science
• Purdue University Faculty Scholar [2021]
• University Faculty Scholar [2021]
• Promoted to full professor [2022]

Dan Goldwasser

• NSF CAREER Award [2021]
• Amazon Research Award [2022]

Ananth Grama

• NSF CAREER Award [1998]
• Purdue University Faculty Scholar [2002]
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) [2013]
• Distinguished Alumnus, University of Minnesota [2015]
• Purdue University Named Professor [2017]
  Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science
• Purdue College of Science Research Award [2018]
• Amazon Research Award [2021]

Susanne Hambrusch

• Listed in Purdue University Book of Great Teachers [1999]
• Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award,  Pennsylvania State University   [2003]
• Techpoint Mira Award [2004]
• Violet Haas Award, Purdue University [2019]
• Fellow,  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [2020]

Christoph M. Hoffmann

• European Academy of Sciences [2002]
• TechPoint Mira Award [2008]
• Pierre Bézier Award (SIAM) [2011]

Suresh Jagannathan

• Purdue University Faculty Scholar [2007]
• Purdue College of Science Graduate Student Mentoring Award [2012]
• Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service [2016]
• Purdue University Named Professor [2018]
  Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science

Changhee Jung

• Google Faculty Research Award [2015]
• AMD Faculty Research Award [2017]
• NSF Career Award [2018]
• MICRO Hall of Fame [2021]
• Samsung MSL Award [2022]

Aniket Kate

• NSF CAREER Award[2019]
• Purdue Seed for Success Award [2019]
• Promoted to Associate Professor [2020]
• University Faculty Scholar [2022]

Daisuke Kihara

• University Faculty Scholar [2013]
• Fellow,  American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) [2021]

Ninghui Li

• NSF CAREER Award [2004]
• ACM Distinguished Scientist [2012]
• GSM Mobile Security Research Hall of Fame [2019]
• Purdue University Faculty Scholar [2019]
• Purdue University Named Professor [2020] 
  Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science
• Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) [2021]
• Fellow,  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [2021]
• ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award [2022]

Pan Li

• NSF CAREER Award [2023]

Zhiyuan Li

• NSF CAREER Award [1995]
• University Faculty Scholar [2005]

Hemanta Maji

• NSF CRII Award [2016]
• Purdue Seed for Success Award [2019]

Anuran Makur

• IEEE Dissertation Award [2021]

Jennifer Neville

• NSF CAREER Award [2012]
• Outstanding Achievement by a Young Alum, University of Massachusetts Amherst [2013]
• Purdue University Faculty Scholar [2019]
• Purdue University Named Professor [2020] 
  Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science

Kihong Park

• NSF CAREER Award [1999]

Chunyi Peng

• NSF CAREER Award [2018]
• Promoted to Associate Professor [2020]

Sunil Prabhakar

• NSF CAREER Award [2000]
• TechPoint Mira Award [2005]
• Purdue University Faculty Scholar [2009]

 

Voicu Popescu

• Facebook Networking Research Award [2022]

Alex Pothen

• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD) [2009]
• Purdue College of Science Graduate Student Mentoring Award [2018]
• Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) [2018]
• George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics (SIAM) [2021]
• Fellow of the ACM [2022]
• Fellow of the American Mathematical Society [2023]

Alex Psomas

• NSF CAREER Award [2022]
• Google Research Award [2022]

Vernon Rego

• ACM/IEEE Gordon Bell Prize [1992]

Bruno Ribeiro

• NSF CAREER Award [2020]
• Amazon Research Award [2022]

John Rice (emeritus)

• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) [1972]
• IFIP Silver Core Award [1989]
• National Academy of Engineering member [1994]
• Purdue University Distinguished Professor [1989] 
  W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
• Fellow,  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [1996]
• Listed in Purdue University Book of Great Teachers [1999]
• Named as an Indiana Sagamore of the Wabash

Tiark Rompf

• NSF CAREER Award [2016]
• Member, IFIP TC-2 Working Group 2.11 [2016]
• United States Department of Energy Early Career Research Award [2017]
• Google Faculty Research Award [2017, 2018]
• Purdue College of Science Professional Achievement Award [2018]
• VMware Systems Research Award [2018]
• Facebook Probability and Programming Research Award [2019]
• Purdue Seed for Success Award [2019]
• Purdue College of Science Team Award [2019, 2020]
• ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award (Scala team) [2019]
• Promoted and named Kevin C. and Susanne L. Kahn New Frontiers Associate Professor [2020]

Roopsha Samanta

• NSF CAREER Award [2019]
• Purdue Seed for Success Award [2019]
• Purdue College of Science Team Award [2019, 2020]
• Amazon Research Award [2021]

Ahmed Sameh (emeritus)

• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) [1993]
• IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Award [1996]
• Purdue University Named Professor [1997] 
  Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science
• Fellow,  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [1999]
• Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)[1999]
• IEEE Harry H. Goode Memorial Award [1999]
• Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)[2011]
• Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) [2012]

Robert D. Skeel (emeritus)

• Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) [2011]

Muhammad Shahbaz

• Purdue University Named Professor [2021]
  • K evin C. and Suzanne L. Kahn New Frontiers Assistant Professor
• IETF/ANRP Research Prize [2022]

  Eugene Spafford

• IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Award [1996]
• Fellow,  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [1998]
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) [1999]
• Listed in Purdue University Book of Great Teachers [1999]
• Distinguished Practitioner, Applied Computer Security Associates [2000]
• National Computer/Information System Security Award [2000]
• Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)  [2001]
• Fellow of the Purdue University Teaching Academy [2001]
• Purdue University Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in Memory of Charles B. Murphy [2001]
• ISSA Hall of Fame Award [2001]
• NCISSE Founders' Medal [2001]
• IEEE Taylor Booth Award [2003]
• Awarded U.S. Air Force medal for Meritorious Civilian Service [2003]
• Added to Purdue University's Book of Great Teachers [2003]
• ACM SIGCAS "Making a Difference" Award [2004]
• IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award [2005]
• Honorary D.Sc. from SUNY [2005]
• ISACA Wasserman Award [2006]
• ACM SIGSAC "Outstanding Contribution" Award [2006]
• ACM President's Award [2007]
• Fellow of (ISC) ² [2008]
• Information Security Secure 7 [2008]
• Upsilon Pi Epsilon Abacus Award [2009]
• CRA Distinguished Service Award [2009]
• Distinguished Fellow of the Information Systems Security Association [2009]
• SANS Lifetime Achievement Award [2011]
• WORLDCOMP Outstanding Achievement Award [2011]
• Purdue University Morrill Professor Award [2012]
• Inducted to the Cyber Security Hall of Fame [2013]
• Recipient of the (ISC) ² Harold F. Tipton Lifetime Achievement Award [2013]
• Fellow of the Ponemon Institute [2014]
• Named as an Indiana Sagamore of the Wabash [2016]
• Outstanding Research Award, ITERA [2016]
• Quora "Best Writer" [2016, 2017]
• Kristian Beckman Award, IFIP Technical Committee TC 11 [2017]
• ISE Luminary Leadership Award Winner [2018]
• IEEE Security and Privacy Test-of-Time Award [2020]
• Named to American Academy of Arts & Sciences [2020]
• Georgia Tech College of Computing Hall of Fame [2021]
• Appointed to the CRA Board of Directors [2022]
• ACSAC Cybersecurity Artifacts Competition Impactful System Award [2022]
• Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) [2023]

Wojciech Szpankowski

• Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) [2004]
• University of Canterbury, New Zealand  "Erskine Fellowship" [2006]
• Purdue University Named Professor [2008]
  Saul Rosen Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
• Humboldt Research Award [2009]
• Purdue College of Science Leadership Award [2012]
• Arden Bement Award [2016]
• Flajolet Prize [2020]
• Member of the Academia Europaea [2021]
• Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) [2022]

Dave (Jing) Tian

• NSF CAREER Award [2022]

Xavier Tricoche

• NSF CAREER Award [2012]

Lin Tan

• Facebook Probability and Programming Research Award [2019]
• Mary J. Elmore New Frontiers Associate Professor [2020]
• J.P. Morgan AI Research Faculty Award [2020]
• Facebook Probability and Programming Research Award [2020]
• Early Career Academic Achievement Alumni Award by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign [2021]
• Distinguished Member ACM [2021]
• Promoted to full professor [2022]

Jeff Turkstra

• Purdue College of Science Team Award [2019]

Dongyan Xu

• Purdue University Seed for Success Award [2004, 2008, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2017]
• NSF CAREER Award [2006]
• Purdue College of Science Undergraduate Advising Award [2008]
• Purdue University Faculty Scholar [2012]
• Purdue College of Science Leadership Award [2013, 2016]
• Purdue College of Science Graduate Advising Award [2014]
• Purdue College of Science Research Award [2015]
• Purdue College of Science Team Award [2015]
• Purdue Discovery Park Big Idea Challenge Award [2017]
• Purdue College of Science Team Award [2018]
• Purdue University Named Professor [2018]
  Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science

Yexiang Xue

• NSF CRII Award [2019]

Ming Yin

• NSF CRII Award [2019]
• Best Paper, ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW) [2022]
• Best Paper, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) [2022]

Yongle Zhang

• ACM SIGOPS, Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award [2022]

Xiangyu Zhang

• ACM SIGPLAN Doctoral Dissertation Award [2006]
• NSF CAREER Award [2009]
• Purdue College of Science Team Award [2018]
• Purdue University Named Professor [2020] 
  Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science