Faculty Awards & Honors

The following list gives a brief overview of both national and international awards and recognitions received by our faculty:

Amazon Research Awards

• Yinzhi Cao, 2017 & 2021
• Daniel Khashabi, 2023
• Anqi Liu, 2024

American Academy of Arts & Sciences Members

• Steven Salzberg, 2018
• Alex Szalay, 2003

American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows

• Gregory D. Hager, 2018
• Steven Salzberg, 2004

American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellows

• Gregory D. Hager, 2017
• Russell Taylor, 1999

Association for Computational Linguistics Fellows

• Jason Eisner, 2019
• David Yarowsky, 2013

Association for Computing Machinery

• Fellows
  • Gregory D. Hager, 2017
  • S. Rao Kosaraju, 1995
  • Krishan Sabnani, 2001
  • Steven Salzberg, 2020
  • Alex Szalay, 2023
• Senior Members
  • Randal Burns, 2009
  • Aviel D. Rubin, 2011
• Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory Distinguished Service Award
  • S. Rao Kosaraju, 2000

Bell Labs Fellows

• Krishan Sabnani, 2009

Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences

• Steven Salzberg, 2013
• Ben Langmead, 2016

Causality in Statistics Education Award

• Ilya Shpitser, 2017

Computing Community Consortium Council Members

• Randal Burns, 2022

DARPA Young Faculty Awards

• Yinzhi Cao, 2022
• Suchi Saria, 2016

Edison Patent Awards

• Krishan Sabnani, 2005, 2009, & 2010

Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award

• Matthew Green, 2016

Frontiers of Engineering Participants

• Suchi Saria, 2017
• Mathias Unberath, 2023

Fulbright Scholars

• Aviel D. Rubin, 2010

Google Research

• Award for Inclusion Research
  • Eric Nalisnick, 2024
• Scholar/Faculty Awards
  • Suchi Saria, 2013
  • Scott Smith, 2012
  • Mathias Unberath, 2023
  • Benjamin Van Durme, 2014
  • Alan Yuille, 2019
• Security and Privacy Research Award
  • Matthew Green, 2019

Honda Prize

• Russell Taylor, 2015

Hungarian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Members

• Alex Szalay, 1990

IBM

• Outstanding Contribution Awards
  • Russell Taylor, 1982 & 1987

• Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards
  • Russell Taylor, 1984 & 1993

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award

• Krishan Sabnani, 2005

Institute for Advanced Study School of Mathematics Members

• Raman Arora, 2019 & 2020

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

• Eric E. Sumner Award
  • Krishan Sabnani, 2005
• Fellows
  • Anton Dahbura, 1997
  • Gregroy D. Hager, 2006
  • S. Rao Kosaraju, 1993
  • Krishan Sabnani, 1991
  • Russell Taylor, 1994
  • Alan Yuille, 2009
• Hemholtz Prize
  • Alan Yuille, 2013
• Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award, Robotics & Automation Society
  • Russell Taylor, 2008
• Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award, Computer Society
  • Alex Szalay, 2015
• Technical Achievement Awards
  • Russell Taylor, 2015 — Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society
  • Alan Yuille, 2022 — Computer Society
• W. Wallace McDowell Award, Computer Society
  • Krishan Sabnani, 2005

International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery Maurce E. Müller Award for Excellence in Computer Assisted Surgery

• Russell Taylor, 2000

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions Society

• Fellows
  • Gregroy D. Hager, 2015
  • Russell Taylor, 2019
• Enduring Impact Award
  • Russell Taylor, 2015

Meta Research Awards

• Soudeh Ghorbani, 2020

National Academy of Engineering Members

• Krishan Sabnani, 2021
• Russell Taylor, 2020

National Academy of Inventors Fellows

• Krishan Sabnani, 2022
• Russell Taylor, 2017

National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine

• Suchi Saria, 2019

National Academy of Sciences

• Members
  • Alex Szalay, 2023
• Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellows
  • Randal Burns, 2014 & 2015

National Science Foundation

• Appointments
  • Head of the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering — Gregory D. Hager, 2024
  • Director of the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering — S. Rao Kosaraju, 2014–2018
• CAREER Awards
  • Raman Arora, 2020
  • Randal Burns, 2003
  • Vladimir Braverman, 2017
  • Yinzhi Cao, 2021
  • Jason Eisner, 2004
  • Matthew Green, 2017
  • Susan Hohenberger-Waters, 2010
  • Chien-Ming Huang, 2022
  • Abhishek Jain, 2020
  • Misha Kazhdan, 2008
  • Ben Langmead, 2014
  • Xin Li, 2019
  • Michael Schatz, 2014
  • Ilya Shpitser, 2020
  • Mathias Unberath, 2023
  • David Yarowsky, 2000

New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame

• Krishan Sabnani, 2014

Optum Research Award

• Mark Dredze, 2023

Sloan Research Fellows

• Ben Langmead, 2014
• Suchi Saria, 2018
• Michael Schatz, 2015

Technische Universität München Ambassadors

• Gregory D. Hager, 2017

University of Tokyo School of Engineering Fellows

• Russell Taylor, 2008

Viktor Ambartsumian International Science Prize

• Alex Szalay, 2020

World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders

• Suchi Saria, 2018