Awards and Fellows

Giorgio Ascoli: 2012 – Outstanding Faculty Award for excellence in research, teaching, knowledge integration, and public service presented by SCHEV, Commonwealth of Virginia. 

Daniel Menascé:  

• 2001 – A. A. Michelson Award from the Computer Measurement Group, a lifetime achievement award given in recognition of outstanding contributions to computer metrics. (Read the acceptance speech and the citation plaque)  

• 2017 Outstanding Faculty Award for excellence in research, teaching, knowledge integration, and public service presented by SCHEV, Commonwealth of Virginia. 

Gheorghe Tecuci: 2005 – Volgenau School of Engineering Outstanding Research Faculty Award 

• 2003 – U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, for groundbreaking contributions to the application of artificial intelligence to the center of gravity determination 

Rajesh Ganesan: 2004 – Institute of Industrial Engineers IE Graduate Research 1st Prize Award. The IIE Graduate Research Award promotes excellence in master's level research. The recipients are student members who are candidates for a master's degree in the field of industrial engineering and whose research and resulting thesis have been the most outstanding for that year.  

Daniel Menascé: 2001 – A. A. Michelson award from the Computer Measurement Group, a lifetime achievement award given in recognition of "outstanding contributions to computer metrics." (Read the acceptance speech and the citation plaque.) 

• 2009 – Volgenau School of Engineering Outstanding Research Faculty Award 

Mark J. Pullen: February 23, 2005 – First place in the First International Competition of Non-Commercial Software Systems, Tools, and Products for Web-based Education. 

John Shortle: 2000 – Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice. Optimal Design of a Data Offload Network. Shortle, J. D. Dietz, P. Katz, C. Williamson, J. Koehler, A. Elcan  

• 2001 – Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. Performance of the Neal-Wilkinson Model with Internet Traffic 

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a National Science Foundation activity that offers the NSF’s most prestigious awards to early career-development activities of teacher-scholars who integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization. 

Yotam Gingold: 2015 – "Direct Manipulation of Numerical Optimization for Structured Geometry Creation” 

Huzefa Rangwala: 2013 – "Annotating the Microbiome Using Machine Learning Methods” 

Amarda Shehu: 2012 – "Probabilistic Methods for Addressing Complexity and Constraints in Protein Systems” 

Siddhartha Sikdar: 2010 – "An Integrated Systems Approach to Understanding Complex Muscle Disorders” 

Jill Nelson: 2010 – "Detection and Estimation in Complex and Uncertain Environments” 

Qiliang Li: 2009 – "High-Performance Nanowire FETs for Logic and Memory”  

Xinyuan (Frank) Wang: 2009 – "Malware Immunization and Forensics Based on Another Sense of Self” 

Songqing Chen: 2008 – "Internet Resource Management to Deliver High-Quality Live and On-Demand Streaming for Wireless Clients” 

Hakan Aydin: 2006 – "A Holistic Energy Management Framework for Real-Time Embedded Systems” 

Carlotta Domeniconi: 2005 – "Learning Local Feature Relevance for Pattern Classification and Clustering” 

Jana Kosecka: 2003 – "Geometric and Appearance Based Methods for Model Acquisition” 

Brian L. Mark: 2002 – "Design, Modeling, and Control of High-Performance Communication Networks” 

Faculty

Jana Kosecka: 2023 – Elected IEEE Fellow "for contributions to robust embodied vision systems and semantic modeling in robotics." 

Amarda Shehu: 2022 – Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering for "pioneering contributions to computational biology and bioinformatics." 

Ariela Sofer: 2016 – Elected INFORMS Fellow. This award recognizes members who have made significant contributions to the advancement of operations research and the management sciences, such contributions including service to the professional field and to INFORMS.  

• 2022 – Elected INCOSE Fellow for Significant Contributions to Systems Engineering education and advancing the recognition of Systems Engineering in academia. 

John Stufken

• 2000 – Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
• 2001 – Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
• 2005 – Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
• 2011 – Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Issac Newtown Institute for Mathematical Sciences
• 2020 – Honorary Member of the Society of Statistics, Computer, and Applications (SSCA)

Mohan Venigalla: 2019 – Elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. 

Chun-Hung Chen: 2016 – Fellow, IEEE. For contributions to simulation-based optimization of automation systems.  

Sushil Jajodia: 2013 – Fellow, IEEE. For contributions to information security, data protection, and privacy.  

• 2021 – Fellow, IFIP. For professional standing and expertise; service to IFIP 

Zhi Tian: 2013 – Fellow, IEEE. “For contributions to ultra-wideband wireless communications and localization.” 

K.C. Chang: 2010 – Fellow, IEEE. For contributions to multi-sensor data fusion and Bayesian inference. 

Dimitrios Ioannou: 2010 – Fellow IEEE. For contributions to reliability and characterization of silicon-on-insulator devices and materials.   

Bijan Jabbari: 2009 – Fellow IEEE. For contributions to resource management and mobility in wireless networks. 

• 1999 – Fellow IEEE (UK) 

William Rosenberger: 2011 – Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics. "For major contributions in sequential analysis and clinical trials, involving rigorous treatment of adaptive randomization and response-adaptive design and including the development of a framework for optimal allocations, work that has been accepted by practitioners as the standard in the field."  

• 2005 – Fellow, American Statistical Association. "For important contributions to the theory underlying the design of clinical trials, particularly response-adaptive randomization, for service on clinical trials monitoring boards, and for excellence in teaching and mentoring."   

Inchi Hu: 2007 – Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)

Jiayang Sun: 

• 2005 – Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). "For outstanding contributions to statistical theory, application, and interdisciplinary work, particularly in simultaneous confidence regions and multiple testing, bump hunting and biased sampling, mixtures, analysis, and high-dimensional graphics; for innovation in teaching; and service to the profession."  

• 2005 – Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). "For Contributions to development, dissemination and application of Mathematical Statistics, with the IMS qualification that "The candidate shall have demonstrated distinction in research in statistics or probability, by the publication of independent work of merit. 

• 2001 – Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).  

Karla Hoffman: 2002 – Elected INFORMS Fellow. The Fellow Award recognizes members who have made significant contributions to the advancement of operations research and the management sciences, such contributions including service to the professional field and to INFORMS.