Research Awards

Honors and Awards for Faculty Research

Scientific Society Fellows

Huili Grace Xing: American Physical Society Fellow 2019
Debdeep Jena: American Physical Society Fellow 2017
Daniel Lee: Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow 2016; IEEE Fellow 2013
Ed Wolf: National Academy of Inventors Fellow 2015
Qing Zhao: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow of the European Union Research and Innovation Program 2019, IEEE Fellow 2020
David Albonesi: IEEE Fellow2011
Clifford Pollock: Optical Society of America Fellow 2010; IEEE Fellow 1997
Stephen Wicker: IEEE Fellow2010
Zygmunt Haas: Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Fellow 2019; European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) Fellow 2019; IEEE Fellow2007
Lang Tong: IEEE Fellow2005
Vikram Krishnamurthy: IEEE Fellow 2004
Peter Doerschuk: American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow 2003
Hsiao-Dong Chiang: IEEE Fellow 1997
David Hammer: IEEE Life Fellow 1995
Sandip Tiwari: IEEE Fellow 1994
C. Richard Johnson: IEEE Life Fellow 1989

Fellowships and Awards from Academic Institutions (Outside of Cornell)

Christopher Batten: Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge 2018
Qing Zhao: Jubilee Chair Professor of Chalmers Univeristy of Technology, Sweden 2018
Zhiru Zhang: UCLA Rising Professional Achievement Award 2017
Francesco Monticone: Margarida Jacome Dissertation Prize 2017; Raj Mittra Travel Grant Award 2017

Distinguished Lecturers

Alyssa Apsel: IEEE Distinguished Lecturer 2018
Zygmunt Haas: Distinguished Lecture at KTH 2018; IEEE Distinguished Lecturer 2009
José Martínez: Distinguished Lecture at SHPE 2015
Lang Tong: IEEE Distinguished Lecturer 2008
Qing Zhao: IEEE Distinguished Lecturer 2020

External Leadership

Alyssa Apsel: Board of Governors, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2013
José Martínez: Program Chair of HPCA-22 2015; Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Computer Architecture Lectures 2013
Stephen Wicker: U.S. AIr Force Scientific Advisory Board 2010
David Hammer: American Physical Society (APS) Executive Board 2008; Vice Chair, APS Division of Plasma Physics 2003

Honors and Awards from Governmental Agencies

Ao (Kevin) Tang: Defense Thread Reduction Agency Young Investigator Award 2010
Amit Lal: Office of Secretary of Defense Award for Exceptional Service 2010
Michael Spencer: AFOSR MURI Award 2009

NSF Early CAREER Awards

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Awards

Zhiru Zhang - DARPA 2015
Christopher Batten - DARPA 2012
Alyosha Molnar - DARPA 2010
Farhan Rana - DARPA 2008

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

Ao (Kevin) Tang - PECASE 2012

U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Award

Francesco Monticone - AFOSR 2018 (Monticone AFOSR Chronicle article)
Christopher Batten - AFOSR 2015
Ao (Kevin) Tang - AFOSR 2012
G. Edward Suh - AFOSR 2008

Research Awards from Scientific Societies

Qing Zhao: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow of the European Union Research and Innovation Program 2019
Francesco Monticone: European Association of Antennas and Propagation L eopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics 2019
David Hammer: Fusion Power Associates (FPA) Distinguished Career and Leadership Award 2018; IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society Award 2004
Aaron Wagner: IEEE Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars 2017
Zygmunt Haas: IEEE AHSN Technical Recognition Award 2016; IEEE Communications Society WTC Award 2012
Ron Kline: da Vinci Medal Society for the History of Technology 2016
Zhiru Zhang: IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award 2015
Toby Berger: IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal 2011
Sandip Tiwari: IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award 2007
Tom Parks: IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Award 2003

Awards and Honors from Industry

Google Faculty Research Awards

Awards from Industry

Hsiao-Dong Chiang: Network Awards Innovation Project of the Year 2019
Christina Delimitrou: Facebook Hardware & Software Systems Research Award 2018
Zhiru Zhang: Young Under 40 Innovator at Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2018
Ao (Kevin) Tang: IBM Faculty Award 2018, 2009; AT&T SDN Network Design Challenge First Place 2016
Christopher Batten: Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Program 2013
José Martínez: IBM Faculty Award 2009, 2006
Alyssa Apsel: Lockheed Martin University Research Grant 2004

Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Awards

Best Paper Awards

Zhiru Zhang:[and co-authors] ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays 2019; [and students] IEEE FCCM Best Paper Award 2018; ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems Best Paper Award 2012
Christina Delimitrou: IEEE Micro Top Pick 2018; HiPEAC Best Paper Award 2018; Three HiPEAC Best Paper Awards 2017; IEEE Micro Top Picks Award 2017; HiPEAC Best Paper Award 2015; IEEE Micro’s Top Picks 2014; Best of Computer Architecture Letters (CAL) 2013; ASPLOS Best Paper Award Runner-Up 2013; IISWC Best Paper Award Runner-Up 2012
Lang Tong: [and students] IEEE PESGM Best Conference Papers 2018; [and Ph.D. graduates] HICSS'50 Best Paper Award [and Ph.D. graduates] HICSS'50 Best Paper Award 2017; IEEE Signal Processing Society 2005
Jayadev Acharya: ICLM Honorable Mention 2017
Khurram Afridi: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Second Place Prize Paper Award 2017
Christopher Batten: IEEE Micro Top Pick from HOTCHIPS’17 2017
Alyosha Molnar: IEEE Sensors Journal Best Paper Award 2017; [and Ph.D. graduates] The Darlington Best Paper Award 2016; IEEE Conference on Computational Photography 2014
Ed Suh: ACM Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security and Privacy (CPS-SPC) Best Paper Award 2018; 39th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Distinguished Practical Paper Award 2018; VLSI Symposium Most Frequently Cited Paper Award 2017; ASPLOS Most Influential Paper 2014; IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems Best Paper Award 2001
José Martínez: HPCA Best Paper Nomination 2015; IEEE Micro Top Picks in Computer Architecture 2007; [with Albonesi, Apsel] IEEE Micro Top Pics from Computer Architecture Conferences 2006; MICRO Best Paper Nomination 2006; HPCA Best Paper Award 2005; IEEE Micro Top Pick 2003
Amit Lal: IEEE International MEMS Conference 2014
David Albonesi: [with Apsel, Martínez] IEEE Micro Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences 2006
Alyssa Apsel: [with Albonesi, Martínez] IEEE Micro Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences 2006
Zygmunt Haas: IEEE International Conference on AINA 2003

Cornell University Fellows and Endowed Professors

David Albonesi: Faculty Fellow, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Eilyan Bitar: David Croll Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow; Faculty Fellow, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Christina Delimitrou: John and Norma Balen Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow
David Hammer: J. Carlton Ward, Jr. Professor of Nuclear Energy Engineering; Faculty Fellow, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Debdeep Jena: David E. Burr Professor of Engineering; Richard E. Lunquist Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow
C. Richard Johnson: Jacobs Fellow in Computational Arts and Humanities; Geoffrey S. M. Hedrick Senior Professor of Engineering; Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow (2004)
Edwin Kan: Faculty Fellow, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Ronald Kline: S.G. and H.E. Bovay Professor in History and Ethics of Engineering; Faculty Fellow, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Amit Lal: Robert M. Scharf 1977 Professor; Faculty Fellow, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Bruce Land: Stephen H. Weiss Provost’s Teaching Fellow (2018)
Daniel Lee: Tisch University Professor
José Martínez: Faculty Fellow, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Clifford Pollock: Ilda and Charles Lee Professor of Engineering; Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow (1997)
Farhan Rana: Joseph P. Ripley Professor of Engineering
Sandip Tiwari: Charles N. Mellowes Professor of Engineering; Faculty Fellow, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Lang Tong: Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor of Engineering; Faculty Fellow, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Stephen B.Wicker: Faculty Fellow, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Huili (Grace) Xing: William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Richard E. Lunquist Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow
Qing Zhao: Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering