Faculty, Staff, and Student Awards and Accolades
This page features a list of awards and accolades earned by department personnel. Click on one of the tabs below to view the honors earned during that calendar year.
For paper, poster, and demo awards, including from conferences and journals, please visit this page.
Faculty
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
Mohit Bansal
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow
Ron Alterovitz
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow
Mohit Bansal
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trailblazer R21 Award
Roni Sengupta
NVIDIA Applied Research Accelerator Award
Praneeth Chakravarthula
Microsoft Accelerate Foundation Models Research Award
Mohit Bansal
Students
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Christine Mendoza
Bloomberg PhD Fellowship
Jaemin Cho
Faculty
Amazon Research Award
Snigdha Chaturvedi, Shashank Srivastava
Google Research Scholar Award
Saba Eskandarian
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Young Alumnus Award
Mohit Bansal
National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
Saba Eskandarian
Sony Faculty Innovation Award
Gedas Bertasius
Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) Fellow
Jim Anderson
UNC Senior Faculty Research and Scholarly Leave Award
Mohit Bansal
UNC Junior Faculty Development Award
Gedas Bertasius
Students
Faculty
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
NSF Faculty Early Development (CAREER) Award
Snigdha Chaturvedi, Colin Raffel, Danielle Szafir
IEEE Fellow
Samarjit Chakraborty
IEEE VGTC Visualization Significant New Researcher Award
Danielle Szafir
UNC oSTEM DEI Inclusive Teaching Award
Kris Jordan
Students
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher, Honorable Mention
Abhay Zala
Faculty
IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Career Award
Mary Whitton
IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award
David Luebke
Army Research Office Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Mohit Bansal
NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
Shahriar Nirjon
Students
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher, Honorable Mention
Amazon Research Award
Ron Alterovitz
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
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Early Career Spotlight
Mohit Bansal
Microsoft Investigator Fellowship
Mohit Bansal
UNC Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement
Mohit Bansal
Students
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, Runner-Up
Sweta Karlekar
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, Finalist
Han Guo
Faculty
Google Faculty Research Award
Jasleen Kaur
Google Focused Research Award
Mohit Bansal
IEEE Fellow
Turner Whitted
NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
Mohit Bansal
National Institute of Health R01 grant
Mohit Bansal, Shahriar Nirjon
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Ron Alterovitz
Undergraduate Teaching Award
Donald Porter
Staff
UNC Information Technology Award
Jackson Cox
Students
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
Faculty
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
Students
Frank Porter Graham Honor Society
Tanya Amert, Catherine Nemitz
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Lisa Bauer
UNC Thomas S. Kenan III Graduate Fellowship
Alan Kuntz
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
Students
Goldwater Scholarship
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
Faculty
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
Students
Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Matthew Leming
Google Lime Scholarship
Tia Holmes
Royster Student Scholarship Award
Nicolas Morales
Faculty
National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
Alex Berg
ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award
Henry Fuchs
UW CSE Alumni Achievement Award
Kevin Jeffay
Students
UNC University Award for the Advancement of Women
Maegan Clawges
Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award
Ravish Mehra
Faculty
Friday Center Excellence in Teaching Award
Tessa Nicholas
IEEE Fellow
Henry Fuchs
IEEE Fellow
Michael K. Reiter
TCRTS Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award
Sanjoy Baruah
UNC Inventor of the Year Award
Dr. Russell M. Taylor II
Staff
UNC Information Technology Award
Murray Anderegg
Students
Churchill Scholarship
Surojit “Surge” Biswas
Goldwater Scholarship
Matthew James Leming