Awards and Honors
Dimiduk receives ASEE campus representive award
Kathryn Dimiduk, director of the James McCormick Family Teaching Excellence Institute, was recently recognized with the 2023 ASEE Zone 1 Outstanding Zone Campus Representative Award.
Éva Tardos recognized by ACM with Knuth Prize
Éva Tardos, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science and department chair in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, has been awarded the Donald E. Knuth Prize, which recognizes visionaries in computer science whose work has had foundational, long-term impact.
De Sa wins Google Research Scholar Award
Chris De Sa, assistant professor (CS), has won a Google Research Scholar Award in Machine Learning and Data Mining for his paper Example Selection for Large-Scale Optimization and Learning. The Research Scholar Program aims to support early-career professors who are pursuing research in fields relevant to Google.
CS's Trummer receives SIGMOD award
Immanuel Trummer, assistant professor (CS), has received the SIGMOD Best Demonstration Award runner-up for Demonstrating NaturalMiner: Searching Large Data Sets for Abstract Patterns Described in Natural Language.
DeLisa selected to receive the BIOT Marvin J. Johnson Award
Matt DeLisa, the William L. Lewis Professor (CBE), received the 2023 Marvin J. Johnson Award in Microbial and Biochemical Technology from the Division of Biochemical Technology of the American Chemical Society.
Godwin selected for AIChe Award for Excellence
Allison Godwin, associate professor (CBE), was selected as the 2023 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Research presented by the AIChE Education Division and sponsored by Elsevier.
ORIE's Davis wins best paper prize
Damek Davis, associate professor (ORIE), was part of a team that won the SIAM Optimization Best Paper Prize. The prize is awarded once every three years.
Snavely, students receive best paper honorable mention
Noah Snavely, associate professor (CS), and students received the Best Paper Honorable Mention at the 2023 EEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
Pollock granted emeritus status
Clifford Pollock (ECE) was promoted to emeritus status as the Ilda and Charles Lee Professor of Engineering Emeritus, effective July 1, 2023.
Fuchs, Bindel & Ristenpart promoted to full professor
Three more faculty promotions were recently announced.
- Greg Fuchs, associate professor (AEP), was promoted to the rank of professor, effective July 1, 2023
- David Bindel, associate professor (CS), was promoted to the rank of professor, effective July 1, 2023.
- Thomas Ristenpart, associate professor (CS), was promoted to the rank of professor, effective July 1, 2023.