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Faculty Awards

Computer Science faculty have been recognized by their peers and by the profession for their outstanding work.

ACM and IEEE Fellows

• Songqing Chen
  • IEEE Fellow for contributions to Internet streaming, content delivery, and security, 2024
• Jana Kosecka
  • IEEE Fellow for contributions to robust embodied vision systems and semantic modelling in robotics, 2023
• Daniel Menascé*
  • ACM Fellow for fundamental contributions to education and practice of computer networks and performance evaluation, and material contributions to the establishment of a strong computing industry in Brazil, 1997
  • IEEE Fellow for contributions to research and education in performance evaluation of computer systems, 2014
  • IEEE Life Fellow, 2025
• Mark J. Pullen*
  • IEEE Fellow for technical leadership in computing systems and networking
  • ACM Fellow for contributions to information technology in transitioning the Internet from a Federal research project to commercial availability, and development of Internet distance education technologies
• David S. Rosenblum
  • ACM Fellow for contributions to software testing and distributed systems, and for service to the software engineering community, 2010
  • IEEE Fellow for contributions to scalable, distributed component- and event-based software systems, 2006
• Harry Wechsler*
  • IEEE Fellow, 1993

Other Lifetime Achievement Awards

• Amarda Shehu
  • Fellow, The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2022
• Kenneth DeJong*
  • IEEE Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award, to recognize significant contributions to early concepts and developments in the field of evolutionary computation, 2005
• Daniel Menascé*
  • A. A. Michelson award from the Computer Measurement Group, a lifetime achievement award given in recognition of outstanding contributions to computer metrics, 2001
• Kenneth DeJong*
  • Senior Fellow, International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2002
• Gheorghe Tecuci*
  • Full Member, Romanian Academy, 1993
• Gheorghe Tecuci*
  • U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, for groundbreaking contributions to the application of artificial intelligence to center of gravity determination.
• Hary Wechsler*
  • Fellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition, 1998

Most Influential Scholar Awards

• Giuseppe Ateniese — AMiner’s A-10 Most Influential Security and Privacy Scholars, 2019
• Sanjeev Setia — AMiner’s A-10 Most Influential Security and Privacy Scholars, 2016
• Giuseppe Ateniese — MLSEC’s Influential Top-100 Security Papers, 2007
• Giuseppe Ateniese — MLSEC’s Influential Top-100 Security Papers, 2005
• Sanjeev Setia — MLSEC’s Influential Top-100 Security Papers, 2003

Most Influential Paper, Impact Paper, and Test of Time Paper Awards

• ThanhVu Nguyen
  • Most Influential Paper Award, TSE (50th anniversary) 2025 — GenProg: A Generic Method for Automated Software Repair, TSE 2013
• Andrian Marcus
  • Most Influential Paper Award, ICPC 2023 — Automatic generation of natural language summaries for Java classes, ICPC 2013
• Jeff Offutt*
  • Most Influential Paper Award, MODELS 2020 — Modeling presentation layers of web applications for testing, SoSyM 2010
• Andrian Marcus
  • Most Influential Paper Award, WCRE 2020 — On the use of automated text summarization techniques for summarizing source code, WCRE 2010
• Jeff Offutt*
  • 30-year Most Influential Paper Award, ISSRE 2019 — Inter-class mutation operators for Java, ISSRE 2002
• ThanhVu Nguyen
  • Most Influential Paper Award, ICSE 2019 — Automatically finding patches using genetic programming, ICSE 2009
• ThanhVu Nguyen
  • Impact Paper Award, SIGEVO 2019 — A genetic programming approach to automated software repair, GECCO 2009
• Andrian Marcus
  • Most Influential Paper Award, ICSM 2019 — On the use of relevance feedback in IR-based concept location, ICSM 2009
• Thomas LaToza
  • Classic Paper, Google Scholar 2017 — Maintaining mental models: a study of developer work habits, ICSE 2006
• Sanjeev Setia
  • Classic Paper, Google Scholar 2017 — LEAP+: Efficient security mechanisms for large-scale distributed sensor networks, TOSN 2006
• Andrian Marcus
  • Most Influential Paper Award, ICPC 2017 — Combining formal concept analysis with information retrieval for concept location in source code, ICPC 2007
• Andrian Marcus
  • Most Influential Paper Award, ICSM 2016 — The conceptual coupling metrics for object-oriented systems, ICSM 2006
• Andrian Marcus
  • Most Influential Paper Award, WCRE 2014 — An information retrieval approach to concept location in source code, WCRE 2004
• Jeff Offutt
  • Notable Article, ACM Computing Reviews 2013 — Putting the engineering into software engineering education, IEEE Software 2013
• Andrian Marcus
  • Most Influential Paper Award, VISSOFT 2012 — A task oriented view of software visualization, VISSOFT 2002
• David Rosenblum
  • Impact Paper Award, SIGSOFT 2008 — A design framework for internet-scale event observation and notification, SIGSOFT 1997
• David Rosenblum
  • Most Influential Paper Award, ICSE 2002 — Towards a method of programming with assertions, ICSE 1992

Industrial Awards

• ThanhVu Nguyen — NVIDIA Academic Grant Award, 2025
• Mingrui Liu — Cisco Research Award, 2024
• ThanhVu Nguyen — Amazon Research Award (Automated Reasoning), 2023
• Jana Kosecka — Amazon Research Award (Fairness in AI), 2022
• Brittany Johnson-Matthews — Google Research Scholar Award (Software Engineer), 2022
• Evgenios Kornaropoulos — Facebook Research Award (Security), 2022
• Bo Han — Facebook Research Award (Security), 2022
• Songqing Chen — Facebook Research Award (Security), 2022
• Kevin Moran* — Cisco Advanced Security Research Group Award, 2022
• Kevin Moran* — Cisco Advanced Security Research Group Award, 2021
• Foteini Baldimtsi — Google Faculty Research Award, 2021
• Foteini Baldimtsi — Facebook Faculty Research Award (Privacy), 2020
• Antonios Anastasopoulos — Google Award for Inclusion, 2020
• Foteini Baldimtsi — IBM Faculty Award, 2016
• Grigory Yaroslavtsev — Facebook Research Award (at Indiana University), 2017
• Craig Yu — Microsoft Azure Award, 2017
• Yotam Gingold — Google Faculty Research Award, 2014
• Alex Brodsky — Dominion Virginia Power, 2013
• Giuseppe Ateniese — IBM Faculty Award, 2012
• Giuseppe Ateniese — Google Faculty Research Award, 2012

NSF CAREER Awards

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.

• Antonios Anastasopoulos — “Leveraging Grammar Books to Develop Language Technologies for Data-Scarce Languages”, 2025
• Giuseppe Ateniese — “Health Information Privacy Protection: System and Social Aspects,” 2002
• Hakan Aydin — “A Holistic Energy Management Framework for Real-Time Embedded Systems,” 2006
• Foteini Baldimtsi — “Privacy Preserving Transactions with Accountability Extensions,” 2022
• Jonathan Bell* — “Amplifying Developer-Written Tests for Code Injection Vulnerability Detection,” 2019
• Alexander Brodsky — “Constraint Databases: Space, Time and Combinatorial Optimization,” 1998
• Songqing Chen — “Internet Resource Management to Deliver High Quality Live and On-Demand Streaming for Wireless Clients,” 2008
• Yue Cheng** — “Harnessing Serverless Functions to Build Highly Elastic Cloud Storage Infrastructure,” 2021
• Carlotta Domeniconi — “Learning Local Feature Relevance for Pattern Classification and Clustering,” 2005
• Yotam Gingold — “Direct Manipulation of Numerical Optimization for Structured Geometry Creation,” 2015
• Dov Gordon — “Trading Security for Efficiency in Secure Computation,” 2020
• Evgenios Kornaropoulos — “Encrypted Systems with Fine-Grained Leakage,” 2025
• Jana Kosecka — “Geometric and Appearance Based Methods for Model Acquisition,” 2003
• Wing Lam — “Enhanced Reliability and Efficiency of Software Regression Testing in the Presence of Flaky Tests”, 2024
• Thomas LaToza — “Debugging Mental Models,” 2019
• Andrian Marcus — “Management of Unstructured Information During Software Evolution,” 2009
• Sam Malek** — “A Mining‐Based Approach for Consistent and Timely Adaptation of Component‐Based Software,” 2013
• ThanhVu Nguyen — “NeuralSAT: A Constraint-Solving Framework for Verifying Deep Neural Networks,” 2023
• Parth Pathak — “Unifying Millimeter-wave Networking and Sensing using Commodity Backscatter,” 2021
• Huzefa Rangwala* — “Annotating the Microbiome Using Machine Learning Methods,” 2013
• David Rosenblum — “Mechanisms for Ensuring the Integrity of Distributed Object Systems”, 1997 (Received at University of California, Irvine)
• Amarda Shehu — “Probabilistic Methods for Addressing Complexity and Constraints in Protein Systems,” 2012
• Gurdip Singh — “Modular Design of Protocols,” 1995 (Received at Kansas State University)
• Xinyuan (Frank) Wang — “Malware Immunization and Forensics Based on Another Sense of Self,” 2009
• Liz White — “General Support for Dynamic Reconfiguration,” 1996
• Thema Monroe-White — “Investigating Undergraduate Student Persistence Intentions for a Diverse Data Science Community”
• Jinwei Ye — “Towards Polarimetric Visual Understanding,” 2023
• Lap-Fai (Craig) Yu — “Performance-Guided Synthesis of Virtual Environments for Personalized Training,” 2020
• Qiang Zeng — “Towards Secure and Usable IoT Authentication Under Constraints,” 2022 (Received at University of South Carolina and Transferred to GMU)

Airforce Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program

• Songqing Chen — “Self Detecting Stealthy Malware on your Host”, 2009

Early Career Awards

• Xuesu Xiao
  • ICRA New Generation Star, 2024
• Kevin Moran*
  • MOBILESoft Rising Star Award, 2023
• ThanhVu Nguyen
  • NSF CRII Award, 2020
• Jinwei Ye
  • NSF CRII Award, 2020
• Grigory Yaroslavtsev*
  • NSF CRII Award, 2017
• Craig Yu
  • NSF CRII Award, 2015

Dissertation Awards

• Keren Zhou — Doctoral Dissertation Award, ACM SIGHPC, 2023
• Evgenios Kornaropoulos — Miretta Flytzani-Stephanopoulos Doctoral Thesis Achievement Award, The Circle of Hellenic Academics in Boston, 2022
• Wing Lam — Outstanding Dissertation Award, ACM SIGSOFT, 2022
• Lishan Yang — Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award, Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), 2022

Virginia Awards

• Xuesu Xiao
  • 2025 Outstanding Faculty Award (Rising Star) from the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV) for excellence in research, teaching, knowledge integration, and public service.
• Missy Cummings
  • Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine (VASEM) Members, 2025
• Amarda Shehu
  • Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine (VASEM) Members, 2024
• Amarda Shehu
  • 2022 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV) for excellence in research, teaching, knowledge integration, and public service.
• Jeff Offutt*
  • 2019 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV) for excellence in research, teaching, knowledge integration, and public service.
• Daniel Menascé*
  • 2017 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV) for excellence in research, teaching, knowledge integration, and public service.

Mason Awards

• Craig Yu
  • Innovators Award (Digital Innovation), 2025
• Kevin Andrea
  • Teaching Excellence Award, 2025
  • Outstanding Term Assistant Professor 2025
• Mark Snyder
  • Service Excellence Award, 2025
• Xuesu Xiao
  • Presidential Faculty Excellence Awards, 2025
  • Research Excellence Award, 2025
• Thomas LaToza
  • Teacher of Distinction Award, 2024
• Antonios Anastasopoulos
  • Presidential Faculty Excellence Awards, 2024
• Amarda Shehu
  • Presidential Faculty Excellence Awards, 2021
• Daniel Menascé*
  • David J. King Teaching Award, 2021
• Amarda Shehu
  • Beck Family Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Research & Scholarship, 2021
• Jeff Offutt*
  • Alumni Association Faculty of the Year Award, 2020
  • Presidential Faculty Excellence Awards, 2020
• Katherine (Raven) Russell
  • Teacher of Distinction Award, 2020
• Jonathan Bell*
  • Teacher of Distinction Award, 2020
• Paul Ammann*
  • Teaching Excellence Award, 2019
• Huzefa Rangwala*
  • OSCAR Mentor Award, 2018
• Amarda Shehu
  • Teaching Excellence Award, 2018
• Chris Kauffman*
  • Teaching Excellence Award, 2017
• Yotam Gingold
  • Teaching Excellence Award, 2017
• Kinga Dobolyi*
  • Teaching Excellence Award, 2016
• Mark Snyder
  • Teaching Excellence Award, 2016
• Jyh-Ming Lien*
  • Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards, 2015
• Sean Luke
  • Teaching Excellence Award, 2015
• Amarda Shehu
  • Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards, 2014
• Huzefa Rangwala*
  • Teaching Excellence Award, 2014
  • Mason Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards, 2014
• Jeff Offutt*
  • Teaching Excellence Award, 2013
• Amarda Shehu
  • OSCAR Mentor Awar, 2013
• Sam Malek*
  • Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards, 2013
• Tamara Maddox
  • Teaching Excellence Award, 2012
• Angelos Stavrou*
  • Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards, 2012
• Songqing Chen
  • Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards, 2009
• Carlotta Domeniconi
  • Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards, 2008
• Daniel Menascé*
  • Teaching Excellence Award, 2000

* No longer at George Mason (retired or moved). Rewards received while at GMU.