4/26/2019
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Illinois Computer Science honored students, faculty, and staff who have received important awards and other distinctions at the Celebration of Excellence on April 24, 2019. The department extends its congratulations to:
GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
ACM ESEC/FSE Best Paper
Umang Mathur
ACM SIGHPC Dissertation Award
Bilge Acun, Runner Up
C. L. and Jane W.-S. Liu Award
Yunan Luo
C. W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Umang Mathur
Debra and Ira Cohen Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science
Sarah Christensen
Dissertation Travel Grant
Faraz Faghari
Graduate Student Outstanding Ambassador Award
Kristen Vaccaro
Graduate Student Outstanding Service Award
Helen Wauck
Kenichi Miura Award
Nikoli Dryden
Outstanding TA Award
Christiaan Hazlett
Heather Huynh
Faria Kalim
Konstantinos Koiliaris
Sahand Mozaffari
Nathan Bowman
Siebel Fellowship
Ed Karrels
W. J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award
Dimitrios Skarlatos
Yunni & Maxine Pao Memorial Fellowship
Xiaohong Chen
Wing Lam
Yuchen Su
Ji (Carl) Yang
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
C. W. Gear Outstanding Undergraduate Award
Yingying (Samara) Ren
Harshay Shah
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
Jonah Casebeer, Finalist
Xuanyu (Ben) Zhou, Finalist
Edward Huang, Honorable Mention
Harshay Shah, Honorable Mention
Crowe Outstanding Computer Science Student
Christopher Kovac
Daniel L. Slotnick Scholarship
Ann Rajan
Duncan H. Lawrie Student Leadership Award
Christopher Settles
Franz Hohn and J. P. Nash Scholarship
Caleb Ju
ICCP James N. Snyder Memorial Award
Brandon Willis
James N. Snyder Award for Scholastic Achievement
Annie Qiu
Arnav Sankaran
Jeffrey P. Blahut Memorial Scholarship
Xiaomin Li
John R. Pasta Award
Jiacheng Liu
Jieyu Zhang
JP Morgan Chase WCS Scholarship
Xingyu Fu
Caren Zeng
Knights of St. Patrick
Shachi Solanki
Outstanding CA Award
Eric Cao
Nathaniel Myren
Nicolas Nytko
Nathan Walters
FACULTY AND STAFF AWARDS
Kay Kappes Golden Shamrock Award
Cynthia Coleman
ACM Distinguished Member
Brian Bailey
Indranil Gupta
ACM Fellow
Gul Agha
ACM IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award
Sarita Adve
ACM Senior Member
Luke Olson
Army Research Office Young Investigator Program
Aditya Parameswaran
Best of Language, Vol. III
Tandy Warnow
DARPA Assured Autonomy Award
Grigore Rosu
Dean's Award for Excellence in Research (Assistant Professor)
Ranjitha Kumar
Dean's Award for Excellence in Research (Associate Professor)
Paris Smaragdis
Diploma of doctor Honoris Causa of the École normale supérieure de Lyon
Marc Snir
Engineering Council Outstanding Advisor
Lawrence Angrave
Matthew Caesar
Mariana Silva
Funai Achievement Award
Jiawei Han
Google Faculty Research Award
Sarita Adve
Svetlana Lazebnik
IC2E 2018 Best Paper
Indranil Gupta
IEEE CS TCHPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing
Edgar Solomonik
IEEE Senior Member
Indranil Gupta
IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize
Julia Hockenmaier
Most Impactful HiPC Papers Over 25 Years
Sanjay Kale
NSF CAREER Award
Sasa Misailovic
Robert-Piloty Award
Klara Nahrstedt
Rose Award for Teaching Excellence
Margaret Fleck
Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award
Klara Nahrstedt
Top 10 SIGCSE Technical Symposium Papers of All Time – No. 1
Geoffrey Herman