Awards and Accolades
This page features a list of awards and accolades earned by department personnel.
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2019
Individual Faculty Accolades
ShowIEEE Fellow
Turner Whitted
Individual Student Accolades
ShowNSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Darryl Hannan
Best Paper/Poster/Demo Awards
ShowBest Student Paper Award
European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) 2019
“Efficient and Safe Network Updates with Suffix Causal Consistency”
Sheng Liu, Theophilus A. Benson, Michael K. Reiter
First Place, F1/10 Autonomous Racing Competition
Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things (CPS-IoT) Week 2019
Nathan Otterness, Charlotte Dorn, Tanya Amert, Abel Karimi, Manish Goyal, Sridhar Duggirala
Best Paper Award
International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS) 2019
“ZenCam: Context-Driven Control of Autonomous Body Cameras”
Shiwei Fang, Ketan Mayer-Patel, Shahriar Nirjon
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2018
Individual Faculty Accolades
ShowAdobe Faculty Research Award
Mohit Bansal
Verisk AI Faculty Research Award
Mohit Bansal
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellow
Dinesh Manocha
Computer Science Undergraduate Faculty Award
David Stotts
CSSA Excellence in Teaching Award
Donald Porter & Cynthia Sturton
Salesforce Research Deep Learning Grant Award
Mohit Bansal
Facebook Faculty Research Award
Mohit Bansal
IBM Faculty Award
Mohit Bansal
Honorary Doctorate, TU Wien
Henry Fuchs
Amy Research Office Young Investigator Program Award
Mohit Bansal
IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award
James Anderson
International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Science and Technology Program Career Impact Award
Henry Fuchs
Individual Student Accolades
ShowUNC Thomas S. Kenan III Graduate Fellowship
Alan Kuntz
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Lisa Bauer
Frank Porter Graham Honor Society
Catherine Nemitz and Tanya Amert
Best Paper/Poster/Demo Awards
ShowBest Paper Award Nominee
USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST) 2018
“The Full Path to Full-Path Indexing”
Yang Zhan, Alex Conway, Yizheng Jiao, Eric Knorr, Michael A. Bender, Martin Farach-Colton, William Jannen, Rob Johnson, Donald E. Porter, Jun Yuan
Emerging Technologies Best in Show Award
ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) 2018
“Steerable Application-Adaptive Near-Eye Displays”
Kishore Rathinavel, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Turner Whitted, Kaan Aksit, Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, David Luebke, Henry Fuchs
Area Chair Favorite Paper Award
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018)
“Dynamic Multi-Level, Multi-Task Learning for Sentence Simplification”
Han Guo, Ramakanth Pasunuru, Mohit Bansal
Best Paper Award
International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2018)
“Supporting I/O and IPC via Fine-Grained OS Isolation for Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Tasks”
Namhoon Kim, Stephen Tang, Nathan Otterness, James Anderson, F. Donelson Smith, Donald Porter
Best Paper Award
International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2018
“FocusAR: Auto-focus Augmented Reality Eyeglasses for both Real and Virtual”
Praneeth Chakravarthula, David Dunn, Kaan Aksit, Henry Fuchs
First Place, Fact Extraction and Verification (FEVER) Challenge
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
“Combining Fact Extraction and Verification with Neural Semantic Matching Networks”
Yixin Nie, Han Guo, Mohit Bansal
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2017
Individual Faculty Accolades
ShowDARPA Young Faculty Award
Mohit Bansal
Google Research Award in Natural Language Processing
Mohit Bansal
Eurographics Fellow
Ming Lin
AAAI Fellow
Dinesh Manocha
UNC-Chapel Hill Kenan Distinguished Professorship
Fabian Monrose
Individual Student Accolades
ShowUNC Graduate School Horizon Award
Joshua Welch
UNC University Award for the Advancement of Women
Kaylee Llewellyn
Goldwater Scholarships
Scott Emmons
VGTC Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award (2016)
Ravish Mehra
Best Paper/Poster/Demo Awards
ShowHelmholtz Prize
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2017
“Recognizing Action at a Distance”
Alexei A. Efros, Alexander C. Berg, Greg Mori, Jitendra Malik
Best Paper Honorable Mention
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR) 2017
“Down to Earth: Using Semantics for Robust Hypothesis Selection for the Five-Point Algorithm”
Andreas Kuhn, True Price, Helmut Mayer, Jan-Michael Frahm
Outstanding Paper Award
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2017
“Multi-Task Video Captioning with Video and Entailment Generation”
Ramakanth Pasunuru, Mohit Bansal
Best Paper Award
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2017
“Asymptotically Optimal Design of Piecewise Cylindrical Robots Using Motion Planning”
Cenk Baykal, Ron Alterovitz
DCEXPO Prize for Best Emerging Technology Exhibition
ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) 2017
“Membrane AR: Varifocal, Wide-Field-of-View Augmented Reality Display from Deformable Membranes”
David Dunn (in collaboration with NVIDIA)
Best Paper Award
IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) 2017
“Wide Field of View Varifocal Near-Eye Display Using See-Through Deformable Membrane Mirrors”
David Dunn, Cary Tippets, Kent Torell, Petr Kellnhofer, Kaan Aksit, Piotr Didyk, Karol Myszkowski, David Luebke, Henry Fuchs
Best Paper Nominee
International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) 2017
“SteamBlue: Seamless Bluetooth Low Energy Connection Migration for UnModified IoT Devices”
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Shagufta Mehnaz, Sahriar Nirjon, Elisa Bertino
Best Student Paper Award
The International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS)
“Real-Time Multiprocessor Locks with Nesting: Optimizing the Common Case”
Catherine Nemitz, Tanya Amert, and James H. Anderson
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2016
Individual Faculty Accolades
ShowNational Security Agency’s 4th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition
Michael Reiter
2016 SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award
Michael Reiter
Lemelson-MIT Prize
Ramesh Raskar
UNC Hettleman Price
Tamara Berg
2016 -2017 National Consortium for Data Science (NCDS) Data Fellows
Shahriar Nirjon
Individual Student Accolades
Show2016 Royster Student Scholarship Award
Nicolas Morales
Google Lime Scholarship
Tia Holmes
Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Matthew Leming
Best Paper/Poster/Demo Awards
ShowBest Demo Runner-Up
ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) 2016
“SEUS – A Wearable Multi-Channel Acoustic Headset Platform to Improve Pedestrian Safety”
Rishikanth Chandrasekaran, Daniel de Godoy, Stephen Xia, Md Tamzeed Islam, Bashima Islam, Shahriar Nirjon, Peter Kinget, Xiaofan Jiang
Royster Award
North Carolina Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America (NC-ASA) 2016
“Acoustic Material Optimization”
Nicolas Morales, Dinesh Manocha
Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Award
National Security Agency 2016
“Nomad: Mitigating Arbitrary Cloud Side Channels via Provider-Assisted Migration”
Soo-Jin Moon, Vyas Sekar, Michael K. Reiter
Best Paper Award
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2016
“Towards Kilo-Hertz 6-DoF Visual Tracking Using an Egocentric Cluster of Rolling Shutter Cameras”
Akash Bapat, Enrique Dunn, Jan-Michael Frahm
Best Student Paper Award
IEEE Real-Time Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS) 2016
“Attacking the One-Out-Of-m Multicore Problem by Combining Hardware Management with Mixed-Critically Provisioning”
Namhoon Kim, Bryan Ward, Micaiah Chisholm, Cheng-Yang Fu, James Anderson, F. Donelson Smith
Best Paper Award
IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) 2016
“From Motion to Photons in 80 Microseconds Towards Minimal Latency for Virtual and Augmented Reality”
Peter Lincoln, Alex Blate, Montek Singh, Turner Whitted, Andrei State, Anselmo Lastra, Henry Fuchs
Best Paper Honorable Mention
IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) 2016
“Interactive Coupled Sound Synthesis-Propagation using Single Point Multipole Expansion”
Atul Rungta, Carl Schissler, Ravish Mehra, Chris Malloy, Ming Lin, Dinesh Manocha
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2015
Individual Faculty Accolades
ShowNational Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
Alex Berg
Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award
Ravish Mehra
Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards 2015
Mark Mine
2015 UW CSE Alumni Achievement Award
Kevin Jeffay
2015 Steven A. Coons Award
Henry Fuchs
Individual Student Accolades
ShowUNC University Award for the Advancement of Women
Maegan Clawges
Best Paper/Poster/Demo Awards
ShowBest Paper Honorable Mention
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR) 2015
“Efficient Two-View Geometry Classification”
Johannes L. Schonberger, Alexander C. Berg, Jan-Michael Frahm
Best Paper Award
Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) 2015
“Surface Registration in the Presence of Missing Patches and Topology Change”
Quingyu Zhao, James Price, Stephen Pizer, Marc Niethammer, Ron Alterovitz, Julian Rosenman
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2014
Individual Faculty Accolades
ShowTCRTS Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award
Sanjoy Baruah
2015 IEE Fellow
Henry Fuchs
Friday Center Excellence in Teaching Award
Tessa Nicholas
2014 Inventor of the Year Award
Dr. Russell M. Taylor II
IEEE Fellow
Michael K. Reiter
Individual Student Accolades
ShowTimothy L. Quiqq Student Inventor of the Year Award
Andrew Maimone
Goldwater Scholarship
Matthew James Leming
Churchill Scholarship
Surojit “Surge” Biswas