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CSE Faculty Accomplishments and Awards

Many of our faculty members have been recognized with prestigious memberships and preeminent awards in computer science, computer engineering and related fields. For a young department, this recognition demonstrates our faculty's energy and the quality of their research contributions. A listing of some of our faculty members' awards and accomplishments are listed below.
* indicates separation or Emeritus status

IEEE, ACM and CRA Awards and Fellows

  • IEEE Fellows Program
    Walter Burkhard (2000), Larry Carter (2000)*, C. K. Cheng (2000), Jeanne Ferrante (2005), Bill Howden (2001), Andrew Kahng, Rajesh Gupta (2004), Andrew Chien (2007), Dean Tullsen (2009)
  • ACM Fellows
      Fran Berman (2000)*, Venkat Rangan (1998)*, Andrew Chien (2004)*, Jeanne Ferrante (2005), Ron Graham (1999), Sid Karin (2002)*, George Varghese (2002), Victor Vianu (2006), Pavel Pevzner (2010), Stefan Savage (2010), Keith Marzullo (2011), Dean Tullsen (2011), Amin Vahdat (2011), Andrew Kahng (2012) 
  • CRA Digital Government Fellowship
    Geoff Voelker (2000)
  • ACM Awards
    PODS "Test of Time" Award
    Victor Vianu
    Kanellakis Award
    Mihir Bellare (2009), Yoav Freund (2004)
    ISCA "Test of Time" Award
    Dean Tullsen
  • Godel Award
    Yoav Freund, Christos Papadimitriou
  • IEEE Meritorious Service Award
    David Kriegman
  • IEEE Outstanding Contribution Award
    Alex Orailoglu

NSF/DARPA/ONR/DOE/AF and Government Awards

  • NSF Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) Award
    Joseph Pasquale (1989)
  • NSF Young Investigator (NYI) Award
    David Kriegman (1992), Andrew Kahng (1992)
  • Young Investigator/Early Career Awards
  • NSF Career Award (learn more)
    Venkat Rangan (1993)*, Andrew Chien (1994)*, Pavel Pevzner (1994), Mihir Bellare (1996), Bennet Yee (1998)*, Brad Calder (1998)*, Lawrence Saul (1999), Amin Vahdat (2000), Serge Belongie (2004), Sanjoy Dasgupta (2004), Alin Deutsch (2004), YY Zhou (2004), Rajesh Gupta (1995), Daniele Micciancio (2001), Yannis Papakonstanitou (1998), Alex Snoeren (2004), Dean Tullsen (1997), Steven Swanson (2007), Ranjit Jhala (2007), Sorin Lerner (2007), Michael Taylor (2009)
  • ONR Young Investigator Award
    George Varghese (1996)
  • DOE Early Career Award
    YY Zhou (2005)
  • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineering (PECASE)
    Daniele Miccianciio (2001), Sanjoy Dasgupta (2004), Alin Deutsch (2004), Alex Snoeren (2004)

UCSD/Jacobs School Administered Programs and Awards

  • Hellman Fellows
    Serge Belongie, Charles Elkan, Bill Griswold, Daniele Micciancio, Geoff Voelker
  • Jacobs Faculty Fellows
    Stefan Savage
  • UCSD Distinguished Teaching Award
    Joseph Pasquale
  • UCSD Outstanding Instructor Award
    Scott Baden, Rick Ord
  • UCSD Warren College Outstanding Teacher Award
    Bill Griswold
  • Faculty Research Lecturer
    Ron Graham
  • Jacobs School Teacher of the Year Award
    Rick Ord, Gary Gillespie
  • CSE Teacher of the Year Awardees
    Bill Griswold, Mohan Paturi, Joseph Pasquale (1992), Joseph Pasquale (1998), George Varghese
  • UCSD Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action and Diversity Awards
    Dean Tullsen, Beth Simon (2007, 2009), Sanjoy Dasgupta (2012) 
  • Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Awards
    Geoff Voelker, Joseph Pasquale, Pavel Pevzner
  • UCSD Sustainability Award
    Ingolf Krueger, Yuvraj Agarwal (2012) 
  • Endowed Chairs
    Ronald Graham, Irwin & Joan Jacobs Chair in Information & Computer Science
    Rajesh Gupta, Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Embedded Microsystems
    Joseph Pasquale, J. Robert Beyster Chair in Engineering
    Pavel Pevzner, Ronald R. Taylor Chair in Information Technology in Computing
    Larry Smarr, Harry E. Gruber Professor of Computer Science and Information
    Fan Chung-Graham Paul Erdos Chair of Combinatorics
    Amin Vahdat, SAIC Chair
    YY Zhou, Qualcomm Chair in Mobile Computing
    Andrew Kahng, High Performance Computing

Awards and Fellowships from Foundations and Academies

Industry Awards

  • IBM Faculty Award
    Joseph Pasquale, (1991); Dean Tullsen (2003)Scott Baden (2007); CK Cheng (2007)
  • TRW Young Investigator Award
    Joseph Pasquale, (1991)
  • NCR Faculty Innovation Award
    Joseph Pasquale, (1991)
  • RSA Conference Award for Mathematics
    Mihir Bellare, (2003)
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
    Henrik Wann Jensen (2004)

Other Awards and Honors

  • Fran Berman* was selected as one of the "Outstanding Teachers in the School of Science" at Purdue University for 1983-1984.
  • Bill Griswold received a Xerox Research and Technology Achievement Award in 2000 for his work on AspectJ.
  • David Kriegman is elected Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society, 1996.
  • Rajesh Gupta is elected Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society, 2006
  • David Kriegman received Willett Faculty Scholar Award in 2002.
    This award is targeted for faculty members who are in a relatively early stage of their career and are excelling in their contributions to the university. The award is intended as a type of "junior professorship."
  • Ron Graham has won the Polya Prize and Euler Medal (both in Combinatorics); and the Carl Allendorfer and Lester Ford awards from the Math Association of America.
  • Ingolf Krueger received an invitation as a "young investigator" to participate in the 2001-2003 cycle of board-member-meetings of the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring foundation and to participate in scientific exchange with the members of the board, in recognition of his recent contributions towards service-oriented software architectures for distributed, reactive systems, and their exploration by means of industrially applicable development techniques.
    "Stiftung Werner-von-Siemens Ring," Germany,
  • Alon Orlitsky was awarded the IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Award in 1992. This Award was established in 1956 and is presented by the IEEE Board of Directors for the most outstanding paper, reporting original work, in the Transactions, Journals and Magazines of the IEEE Societies, or in the Proceedings of the IEEE.
  • Joseph Pasquale was invited to be a member of the DARPA/IDA Defense Science Study Group (DSSG) in 1996 and served in the group for the period 1996-1997.
  • Daniele Micciancio received Machtey Award (best student paper) at FOCS 1998 for the paper, "The shortest vector problem is NP-hard to approximate to within some constant."
  • Daniele Micciancio received the Sprowl Award (best Ph.D. thesis at MIT EECS department) in 1999 for this thesis, "On the hardness of the shortest vector problem."
  • Mihir Bellare is in the top 100 most cited CS authors (citeSeer) 2005-2008, and the world #2 author for number of Crypto/Eurocrypt pubs 2005-2008
  • Andrew Kahng is the world’s 4th most cited author in the Hardware and Architecture field, according to Microsoft Academic Search
  • Serge Belongie wins MIT TR-100 yung innovators award(2004)


by Dr. Radut.