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Faculty Honors + Awards (2018-2019)
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Christine Alvarado was named a 2018 ACM Distinguished Member for her “outstanding contributions to the field.” In April, she also received a Faculty Excellence Award from the chancellor. The award honored her for “innovative research, extraordinary teaching and making a difference in the community.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”3826″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Ravi Ramamoorthi was inducted into the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy for his “groundbreaking theoretical work in mathematical representations of visual appearance and for translating these into computational methods with wide practical impact.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4043″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Alex Snoeren was named a 2018 ACM Fellow for his “innovative approaches to measuring, managing and detecting network traffic.” In addition, a paper by Snoeren and colleagues, Inferring Persistent Interdomain Congestion, was selected as best paper at the SGICOMM 2018 conference in Budapest.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4072″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Vineet Bafna was honored as an International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) Fellow, which “honor members that have distinguished themselves through outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4075″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Mihir Bellare received the Levchin Prize at the Real World Crypto conference “for outstanding contributions to the design and analysis of real-world cryptosystems, including the development of the random oracle model, modes of operation, HMAC and models for key exchange.” Bellare was also named the S. Gill Williamson Endowed Chair in Computer Science. He is the first person to hold the chair.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4058″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”2/4″][vc_column_text]Alin Deutsch, Victor Vianu and colleagues were honored with the International Conference on Database Theory’s Test of Time award for their 2009 paper: Automatic verification of data-centric business processes .[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4060″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4074″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Hadi Esmaeilzadeh was named Halicioglu Endowed Chair in Computer Architecture. He is the first person to hold the chair. He also received the Young Computer Architect Award from IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4061″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Sicun Gao was honored as an Air Force Office of Scientific Research AFOSR Young Investigator for his work in automated reasoning for high-assurance hybrid system control.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4062″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”2/4″][vc_column_text]Rajesh Gupta and Pavel Pevzner were named AAAS Fellows.
Pevzner was also honored with the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for his pioneering contributions to the theory, design and implementation of genome assembly algorithms.
Gupta also received the 2019 IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award for his “seminal contributions in design and implementation of microelectronic systems-on-chip and cyberphysical systems.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4069″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4067″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Stefan Savage received the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contributions as the inaugural chair of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Test of Time Award Committee.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4071″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Zhuowen Tu was named an IEEE Fellow for his “contributions to computer vision, medical imaging and deep learning.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4077″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Daniele Micciancio was named an IACR Fellow in 2019 for his work on lattice-based cryptography, the complexity of lattice problems and his service to IACR.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4066″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Joseph Politz was named CSE Teacher of the Year for 2017-2018 by the Jacobs School of Engineering. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4068″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Dean Tullsen, CSE PhD student Mohammadkazem Taram and alumnus and assistant professor at the University of Virginia Ashish Venkat, had their paper Mobilizing the Micro-Ops: Exploiting Context Sensitive Decoding for Security and Energy Efficiency selected as an IEEE Micro Top Pick in Computer Architecture, which recognizes the top papers in the field published each year. Of the 123 papers nominated for this distinction, only 12 were selected.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4073″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Geoff Voelker and alumnus Lonnie Liu won the USENIX Test of Time Award at NSDI “for their work on Sora: High Performance Software Radio using General Purpose Multicore Processors,” the first software-based Wi-Fi radio platform on PC.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4076″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”2/4″][vc_column_text]Manmohan Chandraker and Julian McAuley both received NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4059″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4065″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Arun Kumar was named a fellow in the UCSD Hellman Fellowship Program, which provides financial support and encouragement to young faculty in the core disciplines who show capacity for great distinction in their research and creative activities.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4064″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”margin-fix”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Ranjit Jhala received the Robin Milner Young Researcher Award given by ACM SIGPLAN to recognize outstanding contributions by young investigators in the area of programming languages.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”4063″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row]