Faculty & Staff Awards

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Selected Computer Science Faculty Awards & Accolades

Dr. Barbara Jasmine Adams, ; Director of Advising (Undergraduate)

George H. Blessis Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award - 2011
2009-2010 Pride of the Wolfpack Award

Dr. Annie I. Anton, Adjunct Professor

eHow Shift 100, 2011 Edition
ACM Distinguished Scientists - 2009
IEEE Software 25th Anniversary “Most Cited Articles” - 2009
IBM Faculty Award - 2008
Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) Advisory Board, member - 2008
Information Science and Technology (ISAT) study group member - 2008
St. Pius X Distinguished Alumna - 2007
National Academy of Engineering U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium invitee - 2006, 2007
Computing Research Association, Board of Directors, member - 2006
Intel Privacy and Security Policy Advisory Board, member - 2006
Computing Research Association, Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research, board member - 2005
NSF CISE Advisory Council, member - 2005
"Women of Influence in the Public Sector" award - 2005
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Software Engineering, member, editorial board - 2004
Computing Research Association Digital Government Fellow - 2002
National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2000

Dr. Kemafor Anyanwu, Assistant Professor

IBM Faculty Award - 2008

Dr. Donald Bitzer, Distinguished University Research Professor

Consumer Electronics Association, Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame - 2006
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Emmy Award, 2002, for his role in developing the plasma screen
National Academies National Associate (National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine & National Research Council) - 2002
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Life Fellow - 1982
National Academy of Engineering Member - 1974

Dr. Rada Y. Chirkova, Associate Professor

Senior Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - 2012
IBM Faculty Award - 2012
IBM Faculty Award - 2011
IBM Faculty Award - 2010
IBM Faculty Award - 2007
IBM University Partnership Program Awards - 2003, 2004, 2007
National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2005
Faculty Research and Professional Development Award (NCSU), 2003

Dr. Wu-show Chou, Professor Emeritus

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow - 1987
US General Service Administration Award for "Significant Contributions" to federal telecommunications system - 1988
"Editor's Choice" Award by IEEE Communications Magazine - 1982
Who's Who in America - 1990
Who's Who in the World - 1995
Meritorious Service Award from IEEE Computer Society - 2002
Golden Core Member from IEEE Computer Society - 2002

Dr. Edward W. Davis, Professor Emeritus

NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers inductee - 1997

Dr. Jon Doyle, SAS Institute Professor

American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Fellow - 1981

Dr. Patrick Dreher, Adjunct Faculty

IBM Faculty Award - 2010

Dr. Robert Fornaro, Professor (PRP) ; Director, Senior Design Center

Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award - 2008
NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers Award - 2008
IEEE Computer Science International Design Competition, mentor of 1st place team - 2006
IEEE Computer Science International Design Competition, mentor of 1st place team - 2005

Dr. Vincent W. Freeh, Associate Professor

IBM Faculty Award - 2012
IBM University Partnership Program Award - 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007
IBM Faculty Award - 2000, 2007, 2008
NSF CAREER Award, "Collaborative Memory" - 1999
National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 1998

Dr. Xiaohui (Helen) Gu, Assistant Professor

National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2011
IBM Faculty Award - 2011
IBM Faculty Award - 2010
IBM Exploratory Stream Analytics Innovation Award - 2008
IBM Faculty Award - 2008

Dr. Khaled Harfoush, Associate Professor

National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2004 -- more

Dr. Christopher G. Healey, Associate Professor

IBM Faculty Award - 2012
IBM Faculty Award - 2011
IBM Faculty Award - 2010
IBM Faculty Award - 2008
IBM Faculty Award - 2007
Member, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society - 2007
Senior member, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) - 2007
Senior member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - 2007
NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers inductee - 2003
National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2001

Dr. Steffen Heber, Associate Professor

IBM Faculty Award - 2008

Ms. Margaret Heil, Lecturer ; Interim Director, Senior Design Center

NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers inductee - 2010

Dr. Xuxian Jiang, Associate Professor

National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2010
Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) - 2008

Dr. Jaewoo Kang, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship Award Program - 2005

Dr. James C. Lester, Distinguished Professor

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, Editor-in-Chief - 2009-2015
National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 1997
NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers inductee - 1998

Dr. Xiaosong Ma, Associate Professor

National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2006
DOE Early Career Primary Investigator Award - 2005

Ms. Carolyn Miller, Lecturer

NC State Alumni Association Distinguished Undergraduate Professorship Award - 1998
NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers inductee - 1993

Dr. Frank Mueller, Professor

Gold Core Member Award, IEEE- Computer Society (IEEE-CS) - 2012
Member, IEEE Golden Core - 2012
Distinguished Member Award, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
NVIDIA Research Award - 2010
Google Research Award - 2009
Humboldt Research Fellowship (Humboldt Foundation) - 2007/2008
Gelato (IP)2 Award, Innovative Project on Itanium processors - 2007
Best Paper Award, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium - 2007
IBM Faculty Award - 2006
National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award - 2003
Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) - 2003
Best Paper Award at the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) - 2002
Faculty Research and Professional Development Award, North Carolina State University - 2002
Advisor of Best Master's Thesis at Humboldt University Berlin in Computer Science - 1999-2000
Fulbright-Stipend and Stipend by the Federation of German-American Clubs - 1989-1991

Dr. Emerson Murphy-Hill, Assistant Professor

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award - 2010

Dr. Peng Ning, Professor

IBM Open Collaborative Faculty Award - 2011
IBM Open Collaborative Faculty Award - 2009
National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2005

Dr. Harry Perros, Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow - 2009
National Lambda Rail (NLR) Network Research Council, member - 2004
NC State Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professorship Award - 2002

Dr. Michael Rappa, Distinguished University Professor ; Director, Institute for Advanced Analytics

IBM Faculty Award - 2010

Dr. Douglas S. Reeves, Professor ; Director of Graduate Programs

NC State Libraries Faculty Award Winner - 2011
Professional Engineer [Alumnus] of the Year Award, 2003, Speed Scientific School at the University of Louisville, Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department

Dr. Injong Rhee, Professor

Google Research Award - 2010
NCSU Inventor's Award - 2002
National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 1999

Dr. Robert D. Rodman, Professor

Member, American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) - 2009

Dr. George N. Rouskas, Professor

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow - 2011
IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer - 2010 & 2011
IBM Faculty Award - 2007
Alcoa Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award - spring 2004
NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers inductee - 2004
NC State Alumni Outstanding Research Award - 2003
Best Paper Award, SPIE Conference on All-Optical Networking - 1998
National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Development Award - 1997

Dr. Nagiza Samatova, Associate Professor

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Outstanding Mentor Award - 2008

Dr. Carla D. Savage, Professor

American Mathematical Society (AMS) Fellow - 2012

Dr. Munindar P. Singh, Professor

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow - 2009
IBM Faculty Award - 2007
Cisco University Research Award - 2001
IBM Partnership Award - 1996, 2000
National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 1996

Dr. Robert St. Amant, Associate Professor ; Accreditation Coordinator

Google Research Award - 2010
Best Paper Award, Behavior Representation in Modeling & Simulation (BRIMS) Conference - 2010
Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) - 2007
Best Applied Paper Award, International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM) - 2004
Outstanding new teacher award, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University - 1999

Dr. Alan L. Tharp, Professor Emeritus

Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) of ABET, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., commissioner - 2004
NC State's Alumni Association Distinguished Undergraduate Professorship Award - 1985
NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers inductee - 1976, 1980

Dr. David Thuente, Professor

Pride of the Wolfpack Award - 2010

Dr. Mladen Vouk, Professor and AVP for Info Techn. ; Department Head

IBM Faculty Award - 2012
IBM Faculty Award - 2011
IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member - 2011
IBM Faculty Award - 2010
IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Service Award - 2010
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow - 2001
1999 RAMS Alan O. Plait Award for Tutorial Excellence
Recepient of the IFIP Silver Core Award - 1992

Dr. Ben Watson, Associate Professor

NVIDIA Professor Partnership Award - 2007
National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award - 2006

Dr. Laurie Williams, Professor

IBM Faculty Award - 2012
ACM Distinguished Scientist - 2011
IBM Smarter Planet Innovation Faculty Award - 2011
IBM Faculty Award - 2010
ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award - 2009
IEEE Software 25th Anniversary "Top Picks” for full-length, peer-reviewed articles - 2009
IEEE Software 25th Anniversary “Most Cited Articles” - 2009
IBM Faculty Award - 2008
IBM Jazz Innovation Award - 2007
Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) - 2007
NC State Academy of Outstanding Teaching inductee - 2006
National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2004
IBM University Partnership Award - 2003
IBM Eclipse Innovation Award - 2002

Dr. Peter Wurman, Associate Professor

National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2001

Dr. Tao Xie, Associate Professor

Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - 2012
Senior Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - 2011
Microsoft Research Software Engineering Innovation Foundation Award - 2011
ACM Distinguished Speaker - 2011
IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor - 2011-2013
IBM Faculty Award - 2010
Appointed to ACM History Committee - 2010
Sigma Xi Outstanding Young Researcher - 2010
IBM Faculty Award - 2009
ACM SIGSOFT History Liaison - 2009
ACm SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award - 2009
National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2009
IBM Jazz Innovation Award - 2008
IBM Faculty Award - 2008
Microsoft Faculty Award - 2007

Dr. R. Michael Young, Professor

NC State Libraries Faculty Award Winner - 2012
Named GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Faculty Fellow by the Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) - 2009
Named Research Director for Triangle Game Initiative - 2009
NC State Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension - 2009
NC State Outstanding Extension Service Award - 2009
IBM Faculty Award - 2007
NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers inductee - 2005
National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2001

Dr. Ting Yu, Associate Professor

National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2008

NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers Awards

The following Computer Science faculty members have been named to the NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers. Established in 1965, this honor recognizes faculty members for exceptional classroom service at North Carolina State University.

Marshall Brain, Lecturer

Dr. Edward W. Davis, Professor Emeritus

Dr. Robert Fornaro, Professor (PRP)

Dr. Christopher G. Healey, Associate Professor

Ms. Margaret Heil, Lecturer

Dr. James C. Lester, Distinguished Professor

Ms. Carolyn Miller, Lecturer

Dr. George N. Rouskas, Professor

Dr. Alan L. Tharp, Professor Emeritus

Dr. Laurie Williams, Professor

Dr. R. Michael Young, Professor

National Science Foundation's Career Awards

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Development Award is the highest honor given by the NSF to young university faculty in science and engineering.

Dr. Annie I. Anton

Dr. Rada Y. Chirkova

Dr. Vincent W. Freeh

Dr. Xiaohui (Helen) Gu

Dr. Khaled Harfoush

Dr. Christopher G. Healey

Dr. Vicki E. Jones