Carnegie Mellon University

Faculty Awards

AAAI Award for AI that Benefits Humanity
Tuomas Sandholm, 2023

ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award
Manuela Veloso, 2009
Katia Sycara, 2002
Tuomas Sandholm, 2001

ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
Maria-Florina Balcan, 2019

Adobe Faculty Research Award
Aaditya Ramdas, 2020

Air Force Young Investigator Research Program Award
Katerina Fragkiadaki, 2020
Yuejie Chi, 2015
Aarti Singh, 2014
Eric Xing, 2010

Amazon Research Award
Sivaraman Balakrishnan, 2021
Katerina Fragkiadaki, 2021
Andrej Risteski, 2021
Maria-Florina Balcan, 2018

Bloomberg Data Science Research Grant
Maria-Florina Balcan, 2019

Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award
Aaditya Ramdas, 2021

Cadence Design Systems Chair in Computer Science
Maria-Florina Balcan, 2021

Carnegie Bosch Institute Research Award
Virginia Smith, 2019
Ameet Talwalkar, 2019
Graham Neubig, 2019

Carnegie Science Award
Eric Xing, 2019

Chinese Academy of Sciences Einstein Chair
Manuela Veloso, 2011

Computers and Thought Award (IJCAI)
Fei Fang, 2021
Tuomas Sandholm, 2003
Tom Mitchell, 1983

The Conde Nast Portfolio Brilliant Issue
Tuomas Sandholm, 2008

Facebook Faculty Research Award
Hoda Heidari, Steven Wu, 2021
Virginia Smith, 2020

GoodAI Research Award
Deepak Pathak, 2021

Google Research Faculty Awards
Deepak Pathak, 2019
Leila Wehbe, 2018
Virginia Smith, 2018
Ameet Talwalkar, 2017
Katerina Fragkiadaki, 2017
David Held, 2017

Google Research Scholar Award
Aaditya Ramdas, 2022
Sivaraman Balakrishnan, 2021
Nihar Shah, 2021
Virginia Smith, 2021

Guggenheim Fellowship
Jian Ma, 2020

A. Nico Habermann Chair of Computer Science (SCS Award)
Aarti Singh, 2014

Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize
Aaditya Ramdas, 2023

IBM Faculty Award
Eric Xing, 2012
Christos Faloutsos, 2006

IEEE Information Theory Society Goldsmith Lecturer
Yuejie Chi, 2019

IEEE Signal Processing Society Early Career Technical Achievement Award
Yuejie Chi, 2019

Innovators under 35 (MIT Technology Review)
Virginia Smith, 2021

Institute for Operations Research & the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Information Systems Society Distinguised Fellow Award
Ramayya Krishnan, 2011

John McCarthy Award (IJCAI)
Tuomas Sandholm, 2021

J.P. Morgan AI Research Awards
Ameet Talwalkar, 2019
Tom Mitchell, 2019

K&L Gates Career Development Professorship
Hoda Heidari, 2023

Leonardo Assistant Professorship
Fei Fang, 2021

Estella Loomis McCandless Professorship
Ann Lee, 2011

Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship
Maria Florina Balcan, 2011

North Macedonia's Best Young Scientist Award
Andrej Risteski, 2023

NSF Career Award
Andrej Risteski, 2023
Leila Wehbe, 2023
Virginia Smith, 2022
George Chen, 2022
Yuanzhi Li, 2022
Fei Fang, 2021
Ameet Talwalkar, 2021
Katerina Fragkiadaki, 2020
Aaditya Ramdas, 2020
Nihar Shah, 2020
Yuejie Chi, 2017
Aarti Singh, 2013
Jian Ma, 2010
Maria Florina Balcan, 2009
Eric Xing, 2006
Ziv Bar-Joseph, 2005

NSF-Amazon Fairness in AI Award
Hoda Heidari, 2021

Okawa Research Grant
Drew Bagnell, 2014

ONR Young Investigator Award
Yuejie Chi 2015
Eric Xing, 2010

Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering
Jun-Yan Zhu, 2023

Presidential Early Career Award
Yuejie Chi, 2019
Russell Schwartz, 2005

Regents Fellowship
Eric Xing, 1999

Robotics Science & Systems Early Career Spotlight
Drew Bagnell, 2011

Samsung AI Researcher of the Year
Virginia Smith, 2023

Simmel Award, International Network for Social Network Analysis
Kathleen M. Carley, 2011

Simons Investigator in Computer Science
Maria-Florina Balcan, 2021

Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship
Aaditya Ramdas, 2024
Virginia Smith, 2024
Yuanzhi Li, 2023
Fei Fang, 2022
Maria Florina Balcan, 2014
Eric Xing, 2008
Carlos Guestrin, 2006
Tuomas Sandholm, 2003

Sony Faculty Innovation Award
Deepak Pathak, 2020

Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award
Roni Rosenfeld, 2021

William H. & Frances S. Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching
Drew Bagnell, 2016

Yahoo! Academic Career Enhancement (ACE) Award
Barnabas Poczos, 2012