Faculty, Staff, and Student Awards and Accolades
This page features a list of awards and accolades earned by department personnel.
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2023
Individual Faculty Accolades
Amazon Research Award
Snigdha Chaturvedi, Shashank Srivastava
Google Research Scholar Award
Saba Eskandarian
Sony Faculty Innovation Award
Gedas Bertasius
Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)
Jim Anderson
Individual Student Accolades
Best Paper/Poster/Demo Awards
VGTC Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) 2023
“Towards Everyday-Use Augmented Reality Eyeglasses”
Praneeth Chakravarthula
Best Paper Awards
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- Outstanding Paper: Frontiers in Computer Science
“Mosaic Pages: Big TLB Reach with Small Pages”
Krishnan Gosakan, Jaehyun Han, William Kuszmaul, Ibrahim Nael Mubarek, Nirjhar Mukherjee, Karthik Sriram, Guido Tagliavini, Evan West, Michael Bender, Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Alex Conway, Martin Farach-Colton, Jayneel Gandhi, Rob Johnson, Sudarsun Kannan, Donald Porter - Distinguished Paper: International Conference on Architectural Support for Operating Systems and Programming Languages (ASPLOS) 2023
“Mosaic Pages: Big TLB Reach with Small Pages”
Steve Pizer, Steve Marron, James Damon, Jared Vicory, Akash Krishna, Zhiyuan Liu, Mohsen Taheri
- Outstanding Paper: Frontiers in Computer Science
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2022
Individual Faculty Accolades
JP Morgan Chase AI Research Early Career Fellowship
Danielle Szafir
IBM Global University Program Academic Award
Prasun Dewan
Sony Faculty Innovation Award
Gedas Bertasius
Amazon Research Award
Sridhar Duggirala
Army Research Office Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Mohit Bansal
NSF Faculty Early Development Award
Snigdha Chaturvedi, Colin Raffel, Danielle Szafir
IEEE Fellow
Samarjit Chakraborty
Individual Student Accolades
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher, Honorable Mention
Abhay Zala
Best Paper/Poster/Demo Awards
1st place, Generalized Racing Intelligence Competition
Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things (CPS-IoT) Week
Abel Karimi, Sridhar Duggirala
2nd place, Intel Hardware Security Academic Award
IEEE Symposium on Privacy and Security
“Transys: Leveraging Common Security Properties Across Hardware Designs”
Rui Zhang, Cynthia Sturton
IEEE VGTC Visualization Dissertation Award
IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS) 2022
“Constructing Frameworks for Task-Optimized Visualizations”
Ghulam Jilani Quadri
IEEE VGTC Visualization Significant New Researcher Award
IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS) 2022
Danielle Szafir
Best Student Paper Honorable Mention
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
“Less is More: ClipBERT for Video-and-Language Learning via Sparse Sampling”
Jie Lei, Linjie Li, Luowei Zhou, Zhe Gan, Tamara Berg, Mohit Bansal, Jingjing Liu
ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH)
“Joint Neural Phase Retrieval and Compression for Energy- and Computation-efficient Holography on the Edge”
Yujie Wang, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Qi Sun, Baoquan Chen
Best Paper Awards
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- ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (BCB) 2022
“Image Features Influence Reaction Time: A Learned Probabilistic Perceptual Model for Saccade Latency”
Budmonde Duinkharjav, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Rachel Brown, Anjul Patney, Qi Sun - ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (BCB)2022
“Transparent Single-Cell Set Classification with Kernel Mean Embeddings”
Siyuan Shan, Vishal Baskaran, Haidong Yi, Jolene Ranek, Natalie Stanley, Junier Oliva - IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing
“CUPiD^RT: Detecting Improper GPU Usage in Real-Time Applications”
Tanya Amert, James Anderson - IEEE Design & Test, Hardware Security Top Pick
“End-to-End Automated Exploit Generation for Processor Security Validation”
Rui Zhang, Calvin Deutschbein, Peng Huang, Cynthia Sturton - Outstanding Paper Award: Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems
“Tight Tardiness Bounds for Pseudo-Harmonic Tasks under Global-EDF-Like Schedulers”
Shareef Ahmed, James Anderson - Best Paper Award Finalist: Robotics: Science and Systems
“Toward Certifiable Motion Planning for Medical Steerable Needles”
Mengyu Fu, Oren Salzman, Ron Alterovitz - Best Paper, Runner-Up: SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
“Summary-Source Proposition-level Alignment: Task, Datasets and Supervised Baseline”
Ori Ernst, Ori Shapira, Ramakanth Pasunuru, Michael Lepioshkin, Jacob Goldberger, Mohit Bansal, Ido Dagan - Influential Paper Award: Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
“Rethinking the Library OS from the Top Down”
Donald Porter, Silas Boyd-Wickizer, Jon Howell, Reuben Olinsky, Galen C. Hunt - ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
“Energy Modeling for the Bluetooth Low Energy Protocol”
Philipp Kindt, Daniel Yunge, Robert Diemer, Samarjit Chakraborty
- ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (BCB) 2022
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2021
Individual Faculty Accolades
IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Career Award
Mary Whitton
IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award
David Luebke
NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
Shahriar Nirjon
Individual Student Accolades
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher, Honorable Mention
Best Paper/Poster/Demo Awards
Best Long Paper Honorable Mention
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)
“Hidden Biases in Unreliable News Detection Datasets”
Xiang Zhou, Heba Elfardy, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Thomas Butler, Mohit Bansal
Best Paper Awards
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- IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)
“Mobile, Egocentric Human Body Motion Reconstruction Using Only Eyeglasses-mounted Cameras and a Few Body-worn Inertial Sensors”
Young-Woon Cha, Husam Shaik, Qian Zhang, Fan Feng, Andrei State, Adrian Ilie, Henry Fuchs - International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS)
“Exploring AMD GPU Scheduling Details by Experimenting With ‘Worst Practices’”
Nathan Otterness, James Anderson
- IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)
Best Presentation, Judges Award
ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp)
“Intermittent Learning: On-Device Machine Learning on Intermittently Powered System”
Seulki Lee, Bashima Islam, Yubo Luo, Shahriar Nirjon
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2020
Individual Faculty Accolades
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows
James Anderson
APPLES Teaching Excellence Award
Gary Bishop
DARPA Director’s Fellowship
Mohit Bansal
Eurographics Fellow
Henry Fuchs
Microsoft Investigator Fellowship
Mohit Bansal
Individual Student Accolades
Amazon Research Award
Ron Alterovitz
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
Runner-Up, Sweta Karlekar
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
Finalist, Han Guo
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Early Career Spotlight
Mohit Bansal
Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement
Mohit Bansal
Best Paper/Poster/Demo Awards
Best Paper Awards
- IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA)
“Exploiting Simultaneous Multithreading in Priority-Driven Hard Real-Time Systems”
Sims Osborne, Shareef Ahmed, Saujas Nandi, James Anderson - Workshop on Challenges in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Internet of Things (AIChallengeIoT)
“Learning in the Wild: When, How, and What to Learn for On-Device Dataset Adaptation”
Seulki Lee, Shahriar Nirjon
Best Presentation, Judges Award
ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp)
“Intermittent Learning: On-Device Machine Learning on Intermittently Powered System”
Seulki Lee, Bashima Islam, Yubo Luo, Shahriar Nirjon
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2019
Individual Faculty Accolades
CSSA Teaching Award
James Anderson, Montek Singh
Google Faculty Research Award
Jasleen Kaur
Google Focused Research Award
Mohit Bansal
IEEE Fellow
Turner Whitted
NSF CAREER Award
Mohit Bansal
National Institute of Health R01 grant
Mohit Bansal, Shahriar Nirjon
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Ron Alterovitz
UNC Information Technology Award
Jackson Cox
Undergraduate Teaching Award
Donald Porter
Individual Student Accolades
Best Presentation Award
22nd International Conference on Medial Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
Ruibin Ma
Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship
Hao Tan
Honorable Mention
IEEE VGTC Best VR/AR Dissertation Award
Rick Skarbez
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Darryl Hannan
Royster Society Recruitment Fellowship, UNC Graduate School
Peter Hase
Best Paper/Poster/Demo Awards
1st Place, F1/10 Autonomous Racing Competition
Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things (CPS-IoT) Week
Nathan Otterness, Charlotte Dorn, Tanya Amert, Abel Karimi, Manish Goyal, Sridhar Duggirala
Best Paper Award nominee (top 28 out of ~2,900)
ACL
Mohit Bansal
Best Student Paper Awards
- European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys)
“Efficient and Safe Network Updates with Suffix Causal Consistency”
Sheng Liu, Theophilus A. Benson, Michael K. Reiter - International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS)
“ZenCam: Context-Driven Control of Autonomous Body Cameras”
Shiwei Fang, Ketan Mayer-Patel, Shahriar Nirjon - International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS)
Clara Hobbs and Zelin “Peter” Tong - International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS)
James Anderson
Best Presentation Award
MICCAI
Jan-Michael Frahm, Stephen Pizer, Julian Rosenman
Test of Time Awards
- ACM CCS
Michael Reiter - IEEE SciVis
Jack Snoeyink
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2018
Individual Faculty Accolades
Adobe Faculty Research Award
Mohit Bansal
Amy Research Office Young Investigator Program 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
Facebook Faculty Research Award
Mohit Bansal
Honorary Doctorate, TU Wien
Henry Fuchs
IBM Faculty Award
Mohit Bansal
IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (TCRTS) Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award
James Anderson
International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Science and Technology Program Career Impact Award
Henry Fuchs
Salesforce Research Deep Learning Grant Award
Mohit Bansal
Verisk AI Faculty Research Award
Mohit Bansal
Individual Student Accolades
Frank Porter Graham Honor Society
Catherine Nemitz and Tanya Amert
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Lisa Bauer
UNC Thomas S. Kenan III Graduate Fellowship
Alan Kuntz
Best Paper/Poster/Demo Awards
Area Chair Favorite Paper Award
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)
“Dynamic Multi-Level, Multi-Task Learning for Sentence Simplification”
Han Guo, Ramakanth Pasunuru, Mohit Bansal
Best Paper Nominee
USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST)
“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
Best Paper Awards
- International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS)
“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 - International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)
“FocusAR: Auto-focus Augmented Reality Eyeglasses for both Real and Virtual”
Praneeth Chakravarthula, David Dunn, Kaan Aksit, Henry Fuchs
Emerging Technologies Best in Show Award
ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH)
“Steerable Application-Adaptive Near-Eye Displays”
Kishore Rathinavel, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Turner Whitted, Kaan Aksit, Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, David Luebke, 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
AAAI Fellow
Dinesh Manocha
DARPA Young Faculty Award
Mohit Bansal
Eurographics Fellow
Ming Lin
Google Research Award in Natural Language Processing
Mohit Bansal
UNC-Chapel Hill Kenan Distinguished Professorship
Fabian Monrose
Individual Student Accolades
Goldwater Scholarships
Scott Emmons
UNC Graduate School Horizon Award
Joshua Welch
UNC University Award for the Advancement of Women
Kaylee Llewellyn
VGTC Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award
Ravish Mehra
Best Paper/Poster/Demo Awards
Best Paper Nominee
International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN)
“SteamBlue: Seamless Bluetooth Low Energy Connection Migration for UnModified IoT Devices”
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Shagufta Mehnaz, Sahriar Nirjon, Elisa Bertino
Best Paper Awards
- IEEE Virtual Reality (VR)
“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 - Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)
“Asymptotically Optimal Design of Piecewise Cylindrical Robots Using Motion Planning”
Cenk Baykal, Ron Alterovitz - 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
Best Paper Honorable Mention
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR)
“Down to Earth: Using Semantics for Robust Hypothesis Selection for the Five-Point Algorithm”
Andreas Kuhn, True Price, Helmut Mayer, Jan-Michael Frahm
DCEXPO Prize for Best Emerging Technology Exhibition
ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH)
“Membrane AR: Varifocal, Wide-Field-of-View Augmented Reality Display from Deformable Membranes”
David Dunn (in collaboration with NVIDIA)
Helmholtz Prize
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
“Recognizing Action at a Distance”
Alexei A. Efros, Alexander C. Berg, Greg Mori, Jitendra Malik
Outstanding Paper Award
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
“Multi-Task Video Captioning with Video and Entailment Generation”
Ramakanth Pasunuru, Mohit Bansal
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2016
Individual Faculty Accolades
Lemelson-MIT Prize
Ramesh Raskar
National Consortium for Data Science (NCDS) Data Fellows
Shahriar Nirjon
National Security Agency’s 4th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition
Michael Reiter
SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award
Michael Reiter
UNC Hettleman Prize
Tamara Berg
Individual Student Accolades
Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Matthew Leming
Google Lime Scholarship
Tia Holmes
Royster Student Scholarship Award
Nicolas Morales
Best Paper/Poster/Demo Awards
Best Demo Runner-Up
ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys)
“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
Best Paper Awards
- IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)
“Towards Kilo-Hertz 6-DoF Visual Tracking Using an Egocentric Cluster of Rolling Shutter Cameras”
Akash Bapat, Enrique Dunn, Jan-Michael Frahm - IEEE Real-Time Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS)
“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 - IEEE Virtual Reality (VR)
“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)
“Interactive Coupled Sound Synthesis-Propagation using Single Point Multipole Expansion”
Atul Rungta, Carl Schissler, Ravish Mehra, Chris Malloy, Ming Lin, Dinesh Manocha
Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Award
National Security Agency
“Nomad: Mitigating Arbitrary Cloud Side Channels via Provider-Assisted Migration”
Soo-Jin Moon, Vyas Sekar, Michael K. Reiter
Royster Award
North Carolina Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America (NC-ASA)
“Acoustic Material Optimization”
Nicolas Morales, Dinesh Manocha
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2015
Individual Faculty Accolades
Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award
Ravish Mehra
National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
Alex Berg
Steven A. Coons Award
Henry Fuchs
UW CSE Alumni Achievement Award
Kevin Jeffay
Visual Effects Society (VES) Award
Mark Mine
Individual Student Accolades
UNC University Award for the Advancement of Women
Maegan Clawges
Best Paper/Poster/Demo Awards
Best Paper Award
Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA)
“Surface Registration in the Presence of Missing Patches and Topology Change”
Quingyu Zhao, James Price, Stephen Pizer, Marc Niethammer, Ron Alterovitz, Julian Rosenman
Best Paper Honorable Mention
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR)
“Efficient Two-View Geometry Classification”
Johannes L. Schonberger, Alexander C. Berg, Jan-Michael Frahm
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2014
Individual Faculty Accolades
Friday Center Excellence in Teaching Award
Tessa Nicholas
IEEE Fellow
Henry Fuchs
IEEE Fellow
Michael K. Reiter
Inventor of the Year Award
Dr. Russell M. Taylor II
Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (TCRTS) Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award
Sanjoy Baruah
UNC Information Technology Award
Murray Anderegg
Individual Student Accolades
Churchill Scholarship
Surojit “Surge” Biswas
Goldwater Scholarship
Matthew James Leming
Timothy L. Quiqq Student Inventor of the Year Award
Andrew Maimone