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2026
ASU-Science Prize for Transformational Impact
— Mayank Kejriwal
2025
Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award
— Ewa Deelman
Best Paper Honorable Mention
— Luca Luceri
2024
Embassy of Italy Young Investigator Award for Research in AI
— Luca Luceri
Board of Trustees
— Ewa Deelman
Presidential appointment to US National Science Board
— Yolanda Gil
Best Paper Award
— Luca Luceri
Best Presentation Award
— Luca Luceri
Best Paper Award
— Luca Luceri
ARIS Emerging Broader Impacts Leader Award
— Mayank Kejriwal
2023
Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
— Yolanda Gil
SWSA 10-year award
— Jay Pujara
New Faculty Highlights
— Mohammad Rostami
ISI Fellow
— Ewa Deelman
ISI Fellow
— Yolanda Gil
Best Paper Award
— John Heidemann
2022
AI for Critical Mineral Assessment Competition
— Craig Knoblock
Top Poster Award, Health Equity in Action Annual Workshop of the NIH NIMH
— Abigail Horn
IEEE Brain Community Best Paper Award
— Akhilesh Jaiswal
Euro-Par Achievement Award
— Ewa Deelman
Outstanding Paper Award
— Jonathan May
Best Paper Award
— John Heidemann
AAAI Fellow
— Kristina Lerman
SIAM Science Policy Fellowship
— Mayank Kejriwal
2021
Senior Member of IEEE
— Carl Kesselman
HPC Wire Readers' Choice award: Best HPC Collaboration (Academia/Government/Industry)
— Ewa Deelman
Judge CSAW’21 Cybersecurity and Games Conference, Logic Locking Contest
— Matthew French
Future Generation Computer Systems Journal Best Paper award
— Ewa Deelman
William M. Keck Chair in Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
— Carl Kesselman
Research gift, Bosch Research North America
— Filip Ilievski
Special Paper Award
— Abdul Qadeer and John Heidemann
Special Paper Award
— John Heidemann
AAIA Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association
— Craig Knoblock
Best Paper Award, Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence, AI-2021: The Forty-first SGAI International Conference, On the Generalization Abilities of Fine-Tuned Commonsense Language Representation Models
— Ke Shen
Goldwater Scholar, Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
— Haoda Wang
Best Paper Award, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (TrustNLP), AutoTriggER: Named Entity Recognition with Auxiliary Trigger Extraction
— Dong-Ho Lee
2021 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
— Xiang Ren
Finalist of AAAS 2021 Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science
— Mayank Kejriwal
Award for Excellence in Mentoring (Graduate Student Category), USC
— Mayank Kejriwal
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
— Craig Knoblock
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
— Yolanda Gil
2020
Member of IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors
— Terry Benzel
Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
— Yolanda Gil
Fellow of IEEE
— Yolanda Gil
IEEE Fellow
— Craig Knoblock
Best Student Paper Award
— George Papadimitriou
Senior Member of IEEE
— Terry Benzel
ACM SIGCOMM 2020 Networking Systems Award
— John Heidemann, Yuri Pradkin, et al.
Senior Member of AAAI
— Yigal Arens
2020 IEEE Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
— Carl Kesselman
ACM Senior Member
— Emilio Ferrara
2019
Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
— Ewa Deelman
Senior Member of ACM
— Emilio Ferrara
Paper selected as one of 15 contributions to the Grand Challenges in the Earth and Space Sciences for the Centennial Collection of the Review of Geophysics Journal of the American Geophysical Union
— Deborah Khider, Daniel Garijo, Yolanda Gil et al.
Best Paper Award, 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings
— Yolanda Gil, Shrikanth Narayanan et al.
Distinguished Paper, Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference
— Wes Hardaker
Best Technical Paper, PEARC19 Conference
— Mats Rynge, Karan Vahi, Ewa Deelman et al.
Phil Andrews Most Transformative Contribution Award, PEARC19 Conference
— Mats Rynge, Karan Vahi, Ewa Deelman et al.
Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award, 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC)
— Connor Imes
Inaugural EarthCube Legacy Award
— Yolanda Gil
Mensa Foundation’s Intellectual Benefits to Society Award
— Mayank Kejriwal
USC Stevens Technology Commercialization Award
— Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli
USC Associates Award for Creativity in Research and Scholarship
— Shrikanth Narayanan
Distinguished Alumni Award, College of Engineering—Guindy (India)
— Shrikanth Narayanan
Forbes Asia 30 Under 30: Asia – Healthcare and Science
— Xiang Ren
Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
— Shrikanth Narayanan
2018
2018 Amazon Research Award
— Greg Ver Steeg for a project titled "Information-theoretic Invariant Representation Learning."
2018 Amazon Research Award
— Xiang Ren for a project titled "Model Programming: Model-Level Fusion of Structured Knowledge Priors for Information Extraction."
Best Paper Award (co-author), 5th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio- Cultural Computing (BESC2018)
— Shrikanth Narayanan
Appointment to NSF Directorate for Computer, Information Science and Engineering Advisory Committee
— Terry Benzel
Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award
— Craig Knoblock
Outstanding Paper
— Jonathan May
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
— Ewa Deelman
2017
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
— Carl Kesselman
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
— Craig Knoblock
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
— Yolanda Gil
IEEE Fellow
— Ewa Deelman
Distinguished Service Award from the Digital Government Society
— Yigal Arens
Technology Advancement Grant, USC Stevens Center for Innovation
— Young Cho
Named to ACM’s Future of Computing Academy
— Yonatan Bisk
2016
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
— Yolanda Gil
President-Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
— Yolanda Gil
Junior Scientific Award, Complex Systems Society
— Emilio Ferrara
Outstanding Service Award, IEEE Communications Society
— Joseph Touch
Young Faculty Award
— Emilio Ferrara
Leadership Computing Challenge Award, 2015-2016
— Itay Hen
2015
Senior Fellow, UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics
— Emilio Ferrara
Top 100 Big Data Experts, selected by Maptive
— Emilio Ferrara
HPDC Achievement Award
— Ewa Deelman
Leadership Computing Challenge Award, 2014-2015
— Itay Hen
Fellows, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
— Daniel Marcu
Fellows, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
— Kevin Knight
2014
ACL Fellow
— Premkumar Natarajan
Challenge Award, International Speech Communication Association
— Matthew Black
Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
— Craig Knoblock
Use-Inspired Research Award, USC Viterbi
— Rajiv Maheswaran, Yu-han Chang
Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
— Kevin Knight
2013
Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Computational Linguistics
— Jerry Hobbs
Chair, Association for Computing Machinery special interest group on AI, 2013-2016
— Yolanda Gil
Innovations in Network Award, Corporation for Educational Network Initiatives
— Ewa Deelman
2012
Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
— Yolanda Gil
Milestone Award, IEEE, 1974-1982
— Danny Cohen et al
Internet Hall of Fame (Innovator)
— Paul Mockapetris
Internet Hall of Fame (Pioneers)
— Danny Cohen, Steve Crocker, Jonathan Postel
Grand Prize, MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
— Rajiv Maheswaren, Yu-Han Chang et al
2011
Challenge Award, International Speech Communication Association
— Matthew Black
Best Demonstration Award, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems conference
— Yu-Han Chang and Rajiv Maheswaren
2010
Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery
— Eduard Hovy
2008
First Place, Planetary Robotic Contingency Challenge, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
— Benham Salemi et al
2007
Internet2 IDEA Award
— Carl Kesselman
2006
Jonathan B. Postel Award, Internet Society
— Bob Braden, Joyce K. Reynolds
Honorary Doctorate, University of Amsterdam
— Carl Kesselman
2005
SIGCOMM Awards, Association for Computing Machinery
— Paul Mockapetris
Significant Technical Achievement Award, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
— W. Lewis Johnson
2004
Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
— Craig Knoblock
2003
Top 10 Technology Innovators, InfoWorld magazine
— Carl Kesselman
Internet Award in collaboration with the late Jonathan Postel, IEEE
— Paul Mockapetris
Honorary Doctorate, University of Uppsala
— Jerry Hobbs
2002
Fellow and Ada Lovelace Medal, British Computer Society
— Carl Kesselman
Top 10 Technology Innovators, InfoWorld magazine
— Clifford Neuman
2001
Software Tools User Group Award, USENIX association
— Clifford Newman et al
1999
Endowed center at USC ISI and endowed chair at UCLA named for
— Jonathan B. Postel
Fellows, Association for Computing Machinery
— Robert Braden
1998
Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
— Steven Minton
1997
SIGCOMM Awards, Association for Computing Machinery
— Jonathan Postel
Third Place, World Cup Robot Soccer Competition (RoboCup97)
— ISI Team
Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
— Robert MacGregor
1994
Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
— Paul Rosenbloom
1993
Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
— Ramesh Patil
Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
— Robert Balzer
1992
Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
— William Swartout