Faculty Awards

Research Awards

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

  • Kai Shu New Faculty Highlights,  2023

Association for Computing Machinery

  • Xian-He Sun    ICPP Best Paper Award, 2001
  • Xian-He Sun    ICPP Best Paper Award, 2001
  • Mustafa Bilgic ACM SIGKDD Best Student Paper Award, 2008
  • Xian-He Sun    ACM SIGSIM PADS Best Paper Award, 2015
  • Xian-He Sun & Anthony Kougkas ACM/IEEE SC Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award, 2019
  • Kyle Hale         ACM EuroSys Giles Muler Best Artifact Award, 2022

Asia Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association

  • Sanjiv Kapoor  Fellow, 2022

Baidu

  • Kai Shu AI Global High-Potential Young Scholar Award, 2022
  • Binghui Wang Global Top 50 Chinese Rising Stars in AI + X, 2022

Cisco

  • Kai Shu, Faculty Research Award, 2022
  • Binghui Wang, Faculty Research Award, 2022

European Association for Theoretical Computer Science

  • Lance Fortnow, IPEC Nerode Prize, 2014

Fulbright Association 

  • Cindy Hood, Fulbright United States Scholar Award, 2023

Google

  • Nik Sultana Research Scholar Award, 2022

IEEE

  • Wu-Hon Leung Fellow , IEEE Computer Society, Communication Society, 1998
  • Cindy Hood, IEEE IPDPS Best Paper Award, 2007
  • Xian-He Sun, ISPA Best Paper Award, 2011
  • Ioan Raicu, IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Young Achievers in Scalable Computing, 2014
  • Peng-Jun Wan, WASA  Best Paper Award, 2016
  • Xian-He Sun, ISPA Best Paper Award, 2016
  • Lance Fortnow, FOCS Test of Time Awards (2), 2020
  • Xian-He Sun, IEEE/ACM CCGrid, Best Paper Award, 2021

Illinois Institute of Technology

  • Xian-He Sun, Sigma Xi Senior Faculty Award, 2009
  • Xian-He Sun, College of Computing Dean's Excellence in Research Award , 2022
  • Kyle Hale, College of Computing Excellence in Research Award , 2023
  • Xian-He Sun, Dean's Excellence in Research Award , 2006
  • Ioan Raicu, Junior Researcher Excellence Award, 2013
  • Mustafa Bilgic, Junior Researcher Excellence Award, 2014

Michigan State University College of Engineering

  • Xian-He Sun, CSE Distinguished Alumni Award, 2022

National Academy of Inventors

  • Sanjiv Kapoor, NAI Fellow, 2021

National Science Foundation

  • Cindy Hood, NSF CAREER Award, 2000
  • Ioan Raicu, NSF CAREER Award, 2011
  • Mustafa Bilgic, NSF CAREER Award, 2014
  • Kyle Hale, NSF CAREER Award, 2023
  • Binghui Wang, NSF CRII Award, 2023

Office of Naval Research & The American Society for Engineering Education

  • Xian-He Sun, Certificate of Recognition Award, 1999

SIAM/ACM

  • Hong Zhang    SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering, 2015

U.S. Department of Energy

  • Bogdan Nicolae          Early Career Research Program Award, 2020

R&D 100 Award

  • Hong Zhang    R&D 100 Award, 2009

Service Awards

Association for Computing Machinery

  • Peng-Jun Wan, ACM SIGMOBILE Distinguished Service Award, 2008
  • Xian-He Sun, ACM SIG Governing BoardService Award, 2014
  • Lance Fortnow, ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Award, 2014
  • Binghui Wang, GLSVLSI Service Recognition Award, 2021

China Computer Federation & IEEE Beijing Section

  • Xian-He Sun    Service Award, 2004

IEEE

  • Ioan Raicu, Outstanding Service Award, IEEE/ACM CCGrid Conference, 2014
  • Xian-He Sun, Golden Core Award, IEEE Computer Society, 2016   
  • Xian-He Sun, Meritorious Service Certificate, IEEE Computer Society, 2016         
  • Cindy Hood, Distinguished Service Award, IEEE VTC, 2018

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

  • Cindy Hood, Member, Panel on NIST CTL Review, 2019
  • Cindy Hood, Chair, Panel on NIST CTL Review, 2022   

Rep. Lauren Underwood (IL-14) 117th Congress

  • Cindy Hood, Appointed Member, Technology & Environment Advisory Council for 117th Congress, 2020

Teaching Awards

Argonne Board of Governors

  • Mike Papka, Pinnacle of Education Award, 2022

Illinois Institute of Technology

  • Matthew Bauer, Bauer Undergraduate Teacher of the Year, 2002
  • Jon Hanrath, Department of Computer Science Teacher of the Year, 2004
  • Jon Hanrath, Bauer Undergraduate Teacher of the Year, 2005
  • Jon Hanrath, Department of Computer Science Teacher of the Year, 2012
  • Jon Hanrath, College of Science Teacher of the Year, 2013
  • Matthew Bauer, Department of Computer Science Teacher of the Year, 2014
  • Ioan Raicu, Department of Computer Science Teacher of the Year, 2016
  • Jon Hanrath, Department of Computer Science Teacher of the Year, 2019
  • Kyle Hale, Department of Computer Science Teacher of the Year, 2020
  • Kyle Hale, College of Computing Excellence in Teaching Award, 2021
  • Mustafa Bilgic, College of Computing Excellence in Teaching Award, 2021
  • Mustafa Bilgic, Department of Computer Science Excellence in Teaching Award, 2022