IEEE Fellow
Samarjit Chakraborty

CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher, Honorable Mention
Abhay Zala

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

CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher, Honorable Mention

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

• 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Gates Cambridge Scholarship 
Matthew Leming

Google Lime Scholarship 
Tia Holmes

Royster Student Scholarship Award
Nicolas Morales

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

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

UNC University Award for the Advancement of Women 
Maegan Clawges

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

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

Churchill Scholarship
Surojit “Surge” Biswas

Goldwater Scholarship
Matthew James Leming

Timothy L. Quiqq Student Inventor of the Year Award 
Andrew Maimone