Faculty & Staff Awards
The Department of Computer Science is very proud of its faculty and staff members. Many of them have been recognized by the university and countless other organizations. It is our privilege work along side these people and we proudly acknowledge their accomplishments.
Please check the Awards section on the right navigational menu for various award winners and nominees.
Selected Computer Science Faculty Awards & Accolades
Dr. B. Jasmine Adams, Director of Advising (Undergraduate)
- Joyce Hatch Service Award - 2014
- Outstanding Undergraduate Staff Award - 2013
- George H. Blessis Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award - 2011
- 2009-2010 Pride of the Wolfpack Award
Dr. Suzanne Balik, Assistant Teaching Professor
- ACM/AITP "Most Receptive Undergraduate Professor Outside the Classroom" Award - 2012
Dr. Tiffany Barnes, Distinguished Professor
- NC State CSC Alumni Hall of Fame Inductee - 2021
- National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award - 2016
- Most Receptive Undergraduate Professor Outside of the Classroom - 2016
- National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2009
Dr. Donald Bitzer, Distinguished University Research Professor
- National Academy of Inventors Fellow - 2017
- National Inventors Hall of Fame - 2013
- 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. Franc Brglez, Research Professor
- Grant by Mentor Graphics ($15,000) - support for the computational resources of the laboratory - 2005
- Two grants by DARPA ($1,000,000) - Globally Distributed Microsystems Design: Proof-of-Concept (The Vela Project: a collaborative project engaging 6 universities) - 1995-2000
- Grants by SRC/Sematech ($400,000) - National Benchmark Program in Microelectronic Systems Design Automation - 1994-1998
- Grants by ACM/SIGDA ($84,000) - Benchmark Archival and Distribution - 1992-1994
- Grant by Siemens Corp. ($62,000) - Partitioning and Testability of FPGAs - 1992
- Travel and Scholarship Grant by German Science Foundation, a collaborative research sabbatical at the Technical University of Munich, Germany - 1992
- Travel Grant by Saudi Arabian Ministry of Education for a short course on CAD methods for VLSI design at at King Fahd University, and an invited talk at VLSI conference in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia - 1991
- Best paper award - IEEE International Conference on Circuits, Computers, and Design - 1990
- Travel Grant by Brazilian Engineering Society for a short course on CAD methods for VLSI design at University of Sao Paulo, and an invited talk at VLSI conference in Porto Allegre, Brazil - 1990
- Dr. France Preseren's Award for best Diploma Thesis in Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - 1966
Dr. Veronica Catete, Assistant Professor
- Computer Science Department Rising Star Award (Outstanding Young Alumni) - 2021
- North Carolina State University Award for Excellence, Spirit of North Carolina - 2021
- College of Engineering Award for Excellence, Spirit of North Carolina - 2021
- Erskine B. Bowles Staff Service Award, UNC System Staff Assembly - 2020
- Pride of the Wolfpack Award - 2020
- Outstanding Dissertation Award, NCSU Department of Computer Science - 2018
- Graduate Student Leadership Award, NCSU Department of Computer Science - 2018
- Equity for Women Award, NCSU Council on the Status of Women - 2017
- Deborah S. Moore Outstanding Student Volunteer Award, NCSU - 2016
- Centennial Campus Partnership Award, NCSU - 2012
- Microsoft Research Graduate Women’s Scholar -2012
- NSF Graduate Research Fellow - 2012
Dr. Min Chi, Professor
- Best Paper Award, the 14th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2021)
- Best Paper Award 7th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2019)
- Best Paper Award 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2019)
- Best Student Paper Award 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2019)
- Alcoa Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award - 2018
- NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation - 2017
- Outstanding Paper Award, 24th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP) - 2016
- Best Paper Award, Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXIX (DBSec) - 2015
- Best Paper Award, 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) - 2010
- James Chen Best Student Paper Award, 18th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP) - 2010
- Best Student Paper Award, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) - 2008
- Best Poster Award, 1st International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) - 2008
Dr. Rada Chirkova, Professor
- Senior Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - 2012
- IBM Faculty Award - 2007, 2010, 1011, 2012, 2014
- 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, Professor Emeritus
- American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Fellow - 1981
- Member, AAAI Executive Council (1996-1999)
- Chair, ACM SIGART (1989-1991)
- Extraordinary Member, Frege Centre for Structural Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
- Director, Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Associate chair, NSF/CRA/ACM Strategic Directions in Computing Research
- Invited speaker, AAAI-90, NM-96, KR-06
Dr. Rudra Dutta, Professor
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Engineer - 2016
- IEEE Senior Member - 2015
Dr. William Enck, Professor
- Distinguished Paper at the ISOC Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS) - 2024
- Best Student Paper at the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT) - 2022
- SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award, with co-authors Peter Gilbert, Byung-Gon Chun, Landon P. Cox, Jaeyeon Jung, Patrick McDaniel, and Anmol N. Sheth - 2020
- Carla Savage Award, Depatment of Computer Science, NC State University - 2020
- Best Paper at the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec) - 2019
- Distinguished Paper Award at the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) - 2017
- Most Receptive Graduate Professor Outside of the Classroom Award - 2016
- Google Research Award - 2014
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2013
- Best Paper at the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec) - 2013
Dr. Robert Fornaro, Professor Emeritus
- Most Receptive Undergraduate Professor Outside of the Classroom Award - 2014
- IEEE Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award - 2013
- 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. Edward Gehringer, Professor
- Google Research Award - 2014
- Sloan Consortium Effective Practice Award - 2008
- NCSU Gertrude L. Cox Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching & Learning with Technology, Honorable Mention - 2007
Dr. Xiaohui (Helen) Gu, Professor
- National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2011
- IBM Faculty Award - 2008, 2010, 2011
- IBM Exploratory Stream Analytics Innovation Award - 2008
Zhishan Guo, Associate Professor
- Best Paper Award, RTSS - 2023
- Best Paper Award, ICIST - 2023
- ACM SIGBED CAREER Award - 2023
- UCF Reach for the Stars Award - 2022
- Best Industry Solution Award, RTSS - 2021
- Best Paper Award, EMSOFT - 2020
- Best Student Paper Award, RTSS - 2019
- Outstanding Paper Award, RTSS - 2019
- Outstanding (Faculty) Undergraduate Teaching Award, Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill - 2014-2015
Dr. Christopher Healey, Goodnight Distinguished Professor
- IBM Faculty Award - 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012
- 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, Professor
- Carol Miller Graduate Lecturer Award - 2018 and 2013
- Thank a Teacher Recognition Letter - Fall 2016 (2 nominations), Spring 2015 (3 nominations), Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013
- IBM Faculty Award - 2008
- One of the “RASS” Top Ten Papers Advancing the Science of Risk Assessment - 2007
- Best Paper Award, ACMSE - 2007
- Faculty Research and Professional Development Award, NC State University - 2006
- Travel Award, ISCB - 2002
- Best Poster Award, DKFZ Poster Presentation - 2000
- Diploma passed with distinction - 1995
- Baccalaureate exam passed with distinction - 1987
- 1st Place, Baden-Wuerttemberg Mathematics Contest - 1986
Dr. Sarah Heckman, Teaching Full Professor
- Computer Science 'Person of Exceptional Performance' (PEP) Award - 2019
- Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor Award - 2018
- NC State Computer Science Outstanding Young Alumni Award - 2017
- NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers inductee - 2015
- Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award - 2015
- Google CS Engagement Award - 2015
- Carol Miller Undergraduate Lecturer Award - 2014
- Most Receptive Undergraduate Professor Outside of the Classroom - 2013
Ms. Margaret Heil, Lecturer
- IBM Faculty Award - 2015, 2016, 2018
- Outstanding Undergraduate Computer Science Staff Member Award - 2014
- NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers inductee - 2010
- IEEE Computer Science International Design Competition, mentor of 1st place team - 2006
- IEEE Computer Science International Design Competition, mentor of team who received Software Engineering award - 2006
- IEEE Computer Science International Design Competition, mentor of 1st place team - 2005
- IEEE Computer Science International Design Competition, mentor of 3rd place team - 2003
Dr. Jason King, Associate Teaching Professor
- Gertrude Cox Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching and Learning with Technology - 2018
- Most Receptive Undergraduate Professor Outside of Class - 2018
Dr. Sandeep Kuttal, Associate Professor
National Science Foundation CAREER Award - 2021
U.S. Air Force Young Investigator Program Award - 2021
Honorable Mention, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - 2021
Best Paper, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - 2016
Best Paper, International Conference on Global Software Engineering - 2016
First Prize for User-Centered Design, Global User Experience Career Summit - 2014
Dr. James Lester, Director of the Center for Educational Informatics
- Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence, North Carolina State University - 2022
- Research Leadership Academy, North Carolina State University - 2022
- Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award, North Carolina State University - 2022
- IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - 2017
- Best Paper Award, Twenty-Third Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization - 2015
- AAAI Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence - 2014
- Best Paper Award, Seventh AAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment - 2011
- Best Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces - 1999
- Outstanding Teacher Award, North Carolina State University - 1998
- Academy of Outstanding Teachers, North Carolina State University - 1998
- Best Paper Award, Eighth World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education - 1997
- NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation - 1997
Dr. Jianqing Liu, Assistant Professor
- COE Outstanding Research Award, University of Alabama in Huntsville - 2022
- NSF CAREER Award - 2021
- Best Track Paper Award, IEEE MSN - 2020
- Best Paper Award, IEEE HotICN - 2019
- Aspiring PI Award, NSF SCH Program - 2019
- Best Journal Paper Award, IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing - 2018
- Best Paper Award, IEEE MMWCST - 2012
Dr. Xu Liu, Associate Professor
- Distinguished Artifact Award, ASPLOS'22 - 2022
- Phi Beta Kappa John D Rockefeller Jr. Faculty Award for the Advancement of Scholarship - 2020
- IEEE-CS TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing - 2019
- ACM SIGPLAN Research Highlight - 2019
- Distinguished Paper Award, ICSE'19 - 2019
- Best Paper Award, PPoPP'19 - 2019
- Google Faculty Research Award - 2018
- Best Paper Award, PPoPP'18 - 2018
- HiPEAC Paper Award - 2017
- Best Paper Award, SC'15 - 2015
Ms. ToniAnn Marini, Lecturer
- Carla Savage Award - 2021
- Outstanding Undergraduate Staff - 2018
- Outstanding Undergraduate Staff - 2016
Dr. Chris Martens, Adjunct Professor
- National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2019
Dr. Noboru Matsuda, Associate Professor
- Honorable Mention Award. International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2023) - 2023
- Most Receptive Graduate Professor Outside of Class Award (CSC, NCSU) - 2019
- Finalist of the Best Paper Award. International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL2012) - 2012
- Finalist of the Best Paper Award. International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS2012) - 2012
- Best Demo Award. International Conference on User Modeling and Adaptive Personalization (UMAP2010) - 2010
Dr. Timothy Menzies, Professor
- Mining Software Repositories Foundational Contribution Award - 2017
- Carol Miller Graduate Lecturer Award - 2016
- IBM Faculty Award - 2016, 2017
- LexisNexis Faculty Award - 2015, 2016, 2017
- Laboratory for Analytical Science funding - 2017, 2018
- Software Engineering Institute Research grant - 2016
Dr. Bradford Mott, Senior Research Scientist
- Best Paper Award, Seventh AAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment - 2011
- Editors' Choice Award from IGN - 2003
- Game of the Year Award from GameSpot - 2002
Dr. Frank Mueller, Professor
- Best Paper Award at the IEEE Cluster Computing Conference (Cluster) - 2019
- Gauss Award for “most outstanding research paper submitted to the International Supercomputing Conference” (ISC) - 2019
- Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data (BDCAT) -2018
- ACM Fellow - 2018
- Outstanding Paper Award at the European Conference on Real-Time Systems - 2017
- IEEE Fellow - 2016
- Humboldt Research Award (Humboldt Foundation) 2014/2015
- Gold Core Member Award, IEEE- Computer Society (IEEE-CS) - 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. Christopher Parnin, Adjunct Associate Professor
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) - 2019
- Blue Sky Idea Award, Computing Community Consortium - 2016
- Most Influential Paper IBM HVC Award - 2013
- Most Promising Idea Award, International Conference on Program Comprehension - 2013
- IEEE Best Paper Award, International Conference on Program Comprehension - 2012
- Best Paper Nominee, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - 2010
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) - 2009
Dr. Harry Perros, Professor Emeritus
- Cisco Services Research Advisory Board - 2014-15
- Member of scientific committee for ISTE-Wiley series on Networks and Telecommunication
- Editor, Annals of Telecommunications - Annales des Telecommunications
- Professeur Invite: Univ. Marie et Pierre Curie, Lab PRiSM - 2012-2013
- Most Receptive Graduate Professor Outside of the Classroom Award - 2013
- Associate Editor, International Journal on Advances in Networks and Services
- IEEE Fellow - 2010
- External Examiner, Computer Science Department, University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia - 2009-2011
- Expert, University of Post and Telecommunications, Beijing - 2010-2012
- Associate Editor, International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET)
- Guest of honor, NIST, National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan - 2007
- Member of the National LambdaRail Networking Research Council - 2004
- Chairman of IFIP WG 6.10, “Optical Networks” - 2004-2006.
- Editor for Performance Evaluation Journal since 2004
- IFIP Outstanding Service Award - 2003
- NC State Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor - 2002-2003
- NC State Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professorship Award - 2002
- NC State University Honors Council: Outstanding Academic Performance Honors Baccalaureate and Celebration of Academic Excellence - 2002
- Silver Core, IFIP “In appreciation for services rendered to IFIP” - 2001
- Chairman of IFIP Working Group 6.3 - 1995-2002
- Member (permanent) of IFIP WG 6.2 and 7.3
- Professeur Invité: Univ. of Versailles, France - 2000
- Professeur Invité: Paris 6 University, France - 2000 & 2002
- Professeur Invité: Paris 13 University, France - 2006
- Member of the International Scientific Committee for the MS on Computer and Communication Networks, Institut National de Telecommunication (INT) - 2000
- Editor for Telecommunications Systems Journal - 1998-2014
- IEEE Senior Member - 1997
Dr. Bradley Reaves, Associate Professor
- Best Paper at the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec) - 2013
Dr. Douglas Reeves, Professor Emeritus
- Most Receptive Graduate Professor Outside of the Classroom Award - 2017
- 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. George Rouskas, Professor
- Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professor - 2018
- Most Receptive Graduate Professor Outside of the Classroom Award - 2014
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow - 2011
- IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer - 2010 & 2011
- IBM Faculty Award - 2007
- Best Paper Award, EVGM Workshop - 2007
- Best Paper Award, CSNDSP Symposium - 2006
- Alcoa Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award - 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. Carla Savage, Professor Emeritus
- Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) - 2019
- Fellow, American Mathematical Society (AMS) - 2012
Dr. Muhammad Shahzad, Associate Professor
- Best Poster Award, IIUG - 2017
- Winner Virginia Tech Spectrum Sharing Radio Challenge - 2016
- Fitch-Beach Outstanding Research Award - 2015
- Outstanding Graduate Student Award - 2015
Dr. Xipeng Shen, Professor
- ACM Distinguished Member - 2018
- University Faculty Scholar - 2017-18
- ACM Distinguished Speaker - 2016-2019
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member - 2016
- IBM Canada CAS Faculty Research Fellow - 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
- Google Faculty Research Award - 2015
- Adina Allen Term Distinguished Associate Professor 2012
- DOE (Department of Energy) Early CAREER Award - 2011
- Nominee of Virginia Outstanding Professor Award - 2011
- NSF (National Science Foundation) CAREER Award - 2010
- ACM PPoPP Best Paper Award 2010
Dr. Munindar P. Singh, SAS Institute Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
- ACM Fellow - 2021
- Carla Savage Award - 2021
- Member, NCSU Research Leadership Academy: 2017
- NCSU Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award: 2017
- Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): 2017
- IBM Partnership Award: 2016
- IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award: 2016
- NCSU Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professorship Award: 2016
- NCSU Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award: 2015
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow - 2009
- IBM Faculty Award - 2007
- Intel Research Council Faculty Award: 2007
- Cisco University Research Award - 2001
- IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor: 1997-2000
- IBM Partnership Award - 1996, 2000
- National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 1996
Dr. Kathryn Stolee, Associate Professor
- National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2018
- Best Paper Award - International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) - 2011
Dr. David Sturgill, Associate Teaching Professor
- Carol Miller Undergraduate Lecturer Award - 2017
- Carol Miller Undergraduate Lecturer Award - 2013
Ken Tate, Director of Engagement & External Relations
- College of Engineering 'Award of Excellence' Nominee - 2024
- Triangle Business Journal "Leaders in Diversity" Award - 2018
- Computer Science 'Person of Exceptional Performance' (PEP) Award - 2018
- IBM Faculty Award - 2016
- ACM/AITP "Outstanding Undergraduate Staff" Award - 2015
- ACM/AITP "Outstanding Graduate Staff" Award - 2014
- ACM/AITP "Most Outstanding Staff Member" Award – 2004, 2011
- Pride of the Wolfpack Award - 2004
- Nortel Networks PRIDE Award for team leadership (ePerformance Solutions) - 2000
- Bronze Quill Award for multi-media marketing (Advisor ’98 CD-ROM) - 1998
- Nortel Networks Award of Merit for launch of Remote Access Learning technology - 1998
- Golden Hugo Award for marketing video production (On Course video) - 1997
- Aurora Gold Award for On Course promotional video - 1997
Dr. Sharma Thankachan, Associate Professor
- National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Development Award - 2022
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. Mladen Vouk, Distinguished Professor and VC for Research
- ICACON Keynote Speaker - 2017
- Computer Science Department Appreciation Award - 2017
- Computer Science Strategic Advisory Board Appreciation Award - 2017
- Member National Institute for Aerospace, member of the Board - 2017
- QSR17 General co-Chair - 2017
- Computer Science Leadership Award for 2006-2016 period - 2017
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Life Membership - 2016
- Member ORNL Board of Governors - 2016
- NCA16 General Chair - 2016
- HPCCON Keynote Speaker - 2015
- Names Distinguished Professor (NCSU) - 2015
- RTI International, member of the Board of Governors - 2014-15
- IBM Faculty Award - 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
- ICACON Keynote Speaker - 2013
- Robyn Render Endeavor Award - 2013
- ICICS Keynote Speaker - 2013
- ICLMA Keynote Speaker - 2012
- ICACON Keynote Speaker - 2012
- IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member - 2011
- HASE Keynote Speaker - 2011
- LaGrid Keynote Speaker - 2011
- IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Service Award - 2010
- CECIIS Keynote Speaker - 2010
- Computerworld Honors Program Laureate Medal for NC State University Cloud Computing Services - 2009
- ISSRE2009 Finance Chair - 2009
- ITI Keynote Speaker - 2008
- NCA General Chair - 2008
- ISSRE Finance Chair - 2008
- ICVCI General Co-Chair - 2008
- VCL named Finalist at the Computerworld Infrastructure Management World in the Servers and Virtualization category - 2007
- Computerworld Honors Program Laureate Medal for Virtual Computing Laboratory - 2007
- ICVCI General Co-Chair - 2007
- STARS Keynote Speaker - 2007
- Pride of the Wolfpack Award - 2006
- ISSRE General Chair - 2006
- ASQ Senior Member - 2006
- IIS Keynote Speaker - 2005
- ICTAI Keynote Speaker - 2004
- ITRE CTE – “Good Egg” Award for the 10 year (1994 – 2004) contributions to the CTE National Teleconference Series - 2004
- ITRE/CTE Recognition for Collaboration - 2004
- Sponsor Chair, International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) - 2004
- IIS Keynote Speaker - 2003
- ITI Keynote Speaker - 2003
- NSF ANIR Committee of Visitors - 2003
- PNNL Advisory Committee on Scientific Computing - 2002-2003
- CRMSE/GoT Recognition for work in Education of Women and Girls - 2002
- ACM Service Award - 2002
- ISSRE Publications Chair Service Recognition - 2002
- CACC Industrial Advisory Board – Formal Recognition of the IEEE 2001 Fellow Award - 2002
- IEEE Communications Society – 10 year Anniversary Recognition - 2002
- ISSRE Publications Chair Service Recognition - 2002
- HASE Program Co-Chair Service Recognition - 2002
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow - 2001
- Girls on Track Program Award, “Committed to Excellence in Educating Women and Girls in Information Technology” - 2001
- CRMSE/GoT Recognition for work in Education of Women and Girls - 2001
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics (IEEE) - 2001
- Technical Director of CACC - 2001-2004
- Judge – Best Student Paper, 38th Annual ACM Southeast Conference @ Clemson University, SC - 2000
- Appointed to the NCSU Genomic Sciences Faculty - 2000
- Joined the UNC-NCSU Joint BME Graduate Program Faculty - 2000
- RAMS Alan O. Plait Award for Tutorial Excellence - 1999
- Distinguished Lecture Series Speaker, “Network-Based Learning” Florida Atlantic University - 1999
- ISSRE "Best Paper" Award - 1998
- Editor of the IEEE TCSE Software Reliability Engineering Newsletter - 1997
- Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices - 1997-2002
- IBM System Journal Appreciation Certificate - 1997
- NCQADG Certificate of Appreciation and Service Recognition Award - 1995
- IEEE Publications Board Member - 1995
- IBM System Journal Appreciation Certificate - 1995
- Chairman, IFIP WG 2.5 on Numerical Software - 1994
- IEEE Senior Member - 1993
- IFIP Silver Core Award - 1992
- Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Computing and Information Technology - 1992
- Recepient of the IFIP Silver Core Award - 1992
- NCQADG Commendation in the area of Software Quality - 1991
- NCSU Graduate Faculty, full member - 1990
- Sigma Xi, Member - 1985
- Member of the International Federation for Information Processing - 1982
- TC 2, Working Group 2.5 on Numerical Software. Secretary of IFIP/WG 2.5 - 1986
- Scientific Associate at the Institute Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb, Croatia - 1981
- University of London, U.L. Postgraduate Scholarship - 1972-75
- University of London, King's College, Department of Physics, The Best Junior Year Student Award - 1971
Dr. Ben Watson, Associate Professor
- NVIDIA Professor Partnership Award - 2007
- National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award - 2006
Dr. Wujie Wen, Associate Professor
- William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award, 42nd ACM/IEEE Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) - 2023
- NSF Faculty Early Career Award - 2023
- Best Ph.D. Forum Poster Presentation at 52nd Design Automation Conference (DAC) - 2015
- ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) Student Research Competition (SRC) Bronze medal, ICCAD - 2014
- 49th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) A. Richard Newton Graduate Scholarship - 2012
Dr. Laurie Williams, Goodnight Distinguished University Professor in Security Sciences
- IEEE Fellow - 2018
- Carol Miller Graduate Lecturer Award - 2017
- NCSU Research Leadership Academy, 2016
- 2015-2016 NCSU Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award
- IEEE Senior Member - 2015
- NC State Faculty Scholar - 2013
- 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
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.
Dr. Lina Battestilli, Associate Teaching Professor
Mr. Samuel Carter, Adjunct
Dr. Edward W. Davis, Professor Emeritus
Dr. Robert Fornaro, Professor Emeritus
Dr. Christopher Healey, Goodnight Distinguished Professor
Dr. Sarah Heckman, Teaching Full Professor
Ms. Margaret Heil, Lecturer
Dr. James Lester, Director of the Center for Educational Informatics
Dr. George Rouskas, Professor
Dr. Robert St. Amant,
Dr. Alan L. Tharp, Professor Emeritus
Dr. Laurie Williams, Goodnight Distinguished University Professor in Security Sciences
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. Tiffany Barnes, Distinguished Professor
Dr. Min Chi, Professor
Dr. Rada Chirkova, Professor
Dr. William Enck, Professor
Dr. Xiaohui (Helen) Gu, Professor
Dr. Khaled Harfoush, Associate Professor
Dr. Christopher Healey, Goodnight Distinguished Professor
Dr. Alexandros Kapravelos, Associate Professor
Dr. Sandeep Kuttal, Associate Professor
Dr. James Lester, Director of the Center for Educational Informatics
Dr. Jianqing Liu, Assistant Professor
Dr. Chris Martens, Adjunct Professor
Dr. Frank Mueller, Professor
Dr. Peng Ning, Adjunct
Dr. Christopher Parnin, Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr. Injong Rhee, Adjunct
Dr. George Rouskas, Professor
Dr. Donald Sheehy, Associate Professor
Dr. Xipeng Shen, Professor
Dr. Munindar P. Singh, SAS Institute Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Dr. Kathryn Stolee, Associate Professor
Dr. Sharma Thankachan, Associate Professor
Dr. Ben Watson, Associate Professor
Dr. Wujie Wen, Associate Professor
Dr. Laurie Williams, Goodnight Distinguished University Professor in Security Sciences
Dr. Peter Wurman
Dr. Tao Xie, Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr. R. Michael Young, Adjunct Professor
Dr. Ruozhou Yu, Assistant Professor
Dr. Ting Yu, Adjunct Associate Professor
College of Engineering Award of Excellence
Winners
Tammy Coates - 2019
Carlos Benavente - 2015
Andrew Sleeth - 2012
Carol Holloman - 2003
Margery Page - 2001
Nominees
Linda Honeycutt - 2019
Linda Honeycutt - 2018
Todd Gardner - 2016
Carlos Benavente - 2015
Tenille Naumann - 2015
Tammy Coates - 2013
Andrew Sleeth - 2012
Carlos Benavente - 2012
Garry Stelling - 2003
Carol Holloman - 2003
Margery Page - 2001
Pride of the Wolfpack Awards
2020-2021
Veronica Catete
Todd Gardner
2017 - 2018
Leslie Rand-Pickett
2016 - 2017
Ann Hunt
Xelda Tuazama
2011 - 2012
Michelle Healey
Jeremy Meeler
Trey Murdoch
2010 - 2011
Tammy Coates
Linda Honeycutt
Tari Ryan
2009 - 2010
Dr. Barbara Adams
Carlos Benavente
Ann Hunt
Dr. David Thuente
2006 - 2007
Susan Peaslee
Michelle Healey
Dr. Mladen Vouk
2005 - 2006
Ginny Adams
Ron Hartis
2004 - 2005
Carol Allen
Linda Honeycutt
Kelly Potter
Melissa Seate
2003 - 2004
Carlos Benavente
Jennifer Craddock
Dana Lasher
Anna Rzewnicki
Ken Tate
2002 - 2003
Annie Anton
Jacqueline Cox
Carol Holloman
Krista Hutchinson
Gary Stelling
The Carla Savage Awards
Learn more about the Carla Savage award and how it is chosen here!
CSC Person of Exceptional Performance (PEP) Award
February 2024
DK Xu Awarded Microsoft’s AFMR Award
Dr. Dongkuan (DK) Xu was recently honored with Microsoft’s AFMR Award for his ground-breaking research proposal that seeks to address the critical challenge of assessing the trustworthiness of large language models (LLMs).
2/29/24
