Computer Science faculty have been recognized by their peers and by the profession for their outstanding work.

Lifetime Achievement Awards

Kenneth Dejong

IEEE 2005 Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award, to recognize significant contributions to early concepts and developments in the field of evolutionary computation

Daniel Menascé

2001 A. A. Michelson award from the Computer Measurement Group, a lifetime achievement award given in recognition of outstanding contributions to computer metrics. 

2017 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV) for excellence in research, teaching, knowledge integration, and public service.

Jeff Offutt

2019 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV) for excellence in research, teaching, knowledge integration, and public service.

Gheorghe Tecuci

U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, for groundbreaking contributions to the application of artificial intelligence to center of gravity determination.

Amarda Shehu

2022 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV) for excellence in research, teaching, knowledge integration, and public service.


 

 

Fellows

Songqing Chen
  • IEEE Fellow for contributions to Internet streaming, content delivery, and securitys, 2024
Kenneth DeJong
  • Senior Fellow, International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2002
Jana Kosecka
  • IEEE Fellow for contributions to robust embodied vision systems and semantic modelling in robotics, 2023
Daniel Menascé
  • ACM Fellow for fundamental contributions to education and practice of computer networks and performance evaluation, and material contributions to the establishment of a strong computing industry in Brazil, 1997
  • IEEE Fellow for contributions to research and education in performance evaluation of computer systems, 2014
Mark J. Pullen
  • IEEE Fellow for technical leadership in computing systems and networking
  • ACM Fellow for contributions to information technology in transitioning the Internet from a Federal research project to commercial availability, and development of Internet distance education technologies
David S. Rosenblum
  • ACM Fellow for contributions to software testing and distributed systems, and for service to the software engineering community, 2010
  • IEEE Fellow for contributions to scalable, distributed component- and event-based software systems, 2006
Amarda Shehu
  • Fellow, The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2022
Gheorghe Tecuci
  • Full Member, Romanian Academy, 1993
Harry Wechsler
  • IEEE Fellow, 1993
  • Fellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition, 1998

National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a National Science Foundation activity that offers the NSF's most prestigious awards to early career-development activities of teacher-scholars who integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization.

Giuseppe Ateniese "Health Information Privacy Protection: System and Social Aspects," 2002
Hakan Aydin "A Holistic Energy Management Framework for Real-Time Embedded Systems," 2006
Foteini Baldimtsi "Privacy Preserving Transactions with Accountability Extensions," 2022
Jonathan Bell* "Amplifying Developer-Written Tests for Code Injection Vulnerability Detection," 2019
Alexander Brodsky "Constraint Databases: Space, Time and Combinatorial Optimization," 1998
Songqing Chen "Internet Resource Management to Deliver High Quality Live and On-Demand Streaming for Wireless Clients," 2008
Yue Cheng* "Harnessing Serverless Functions to Build Highly Elastic Cloud Storage Infrastructure," 2021
Sanmay Das "The Dynamics of Collective Intelligence," 2010 (Received at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Carlotta Domeniconi "Learning Local Feature Relevance for Pattern Classification and Clustering," 2005
Yotam Gingold

"Direct Manipulation of Numerical Optimization for Structured Geometry Creation," 2015

Dov Gordon

"Trading Security for Efficiency in Secure Computation," 2020

Jana Kosecka "Geometric and Appearance Based Methods for Model Acquisition," 2003
Thomas LaToza "Debugging Mental Models," 2019
Andrian Marcus "Management of Unstructured Information During Software Evolution," 2009
Sam Malek* "A Mining‐Based Approach for Consistent and Timely Adaptation of Component‐Based Software," 2013
ThanhVu Nguyen "NeuralSAT: A Constraint-Solving Framework for Verifying Deep Neural Networks," 2023
Parth Pathak "Unifying Millimeter-wave Networking and Sensing using Commodity Backscatter," 2021
Huzefa Rangwala "Annotating the Microbiome Using Machine Learning Methods," 2013
David Rosenblum "Mechanisms for Ensuring the Integrity of Distributed Object Systems”, 1997 (Received at University of California, Irvine) 
Amarda Shehu "Probabilistic Methods for Addressing Complexity and Constraints in Protein Systems," 2012
Gurdip Singh "Modular Design of Protocols," 1995 (Received at Kansas State University)
Xinyuan (Frank) Wang "Malware Immunization and Forensics Based on Another Sense of Self," 2009
Liz White "General Support for Dynamic Reconfiguration," 1996
Jinwei Ye "Towards Polarimetric Visual Understanding," 2023
Lap-Fai (Craig) Yu "Performance-Guided Synthesis of Virtual Environments for Personalized Training," 2020
Qiang Zeng "Towards Secure and Usable IoT Authentication Under Constraints," 2022 (Received at University of South Carolina and Transferred to GMU)

* No longer at George Mason

 

Airforce Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program

The objective of the YIP is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering; enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators; and increase opportunities for the young investigator to recognize the Air Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering.

Songqing Chen "Self Detecting Stealthy Malware on your Host" 2009

 

Early Career Awards

Kevin Moran MOBILESoft Rising Star Award 2023
ThanhVu Nguyen NSF CRII Award 2020
Jinwei Ye NSF CRII Award 2020
Grigory Yaroslavtsev NSF CRII Award 2017
Craig Yu NSF CRII Award 2015

 

Dissertation Awards

Keren Zhou Doctoral Dissertation Award ACM SIGHPC 2023
Evgenios Kornaropoulos Miretta Flytzani-Stephanopoulos Doctoral Thesis Achievement Award The Circle of Hellenic Academics in Boston 2022
Wing Lam
Outstanding Dissertation Award ACM SIGSOFT 2022
Lishan Yan Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) 2022

 

Most Influential Paper, Impact Paper, and Test of Time Paper Awards

Andrian Marcus Most Influential Paper Award, ICPC 2023 Automatic generation of natural language summaries for Java classes, ICPC 2013
Jeff Offutt Most Influential Paper Award, MODELS 2020 Modeling presentation layers of web applications for testing, SoSyM 2010
Andrian Marcus Most Influential Paper Award, WCRE 2020 On the use of automated text summarization techniques for summarizing source code, WCRE 2010
Jeff Offutt 30-year Most Influential Paper Award, ISSRE 2019 Inter-class mutation operators for Java, ISSRE 2002
ThanhVu Nguyen Most Influential Paper Award, ICSE 2019 Automatically finding patches using genetic programming, ICSE 2009
ThanhVu Nguyen Impact Paper Award, SIGEVO 2019 A genetic programming approach to automated software repair, GECCO 2009
Andrian Marcus Most Influential Paper Award, ICSM 2019 On the use of relevance feedback in IR-based concept location, ICSM 2009
Thomas LaToza Classic Paper, Google Scholar 2017 Maintaining mental models: a study of developer work habits, ICSE 2006
Sanjeev Setia Classic Paper, Google Scholar 2017 LEAP+: Efficient security mechanisms for large-scale distributed sensor networks, TOSN 2006
Andrian Marcus Most Influential Paper Award, ICPC 2017 Combining formal concept analysis with information retrieval for concept location in source code, ICPC 2007
Andrian Marcus Most Influential Paper Award, ICSM 2016 The conceptual coupling metrics for object-oriented systems, ICSM 2006
Andrian Marcus Most Influential Paper Award, WCRE 2014 An information retrieval approach to concept location in source code, WCRE 2004
Jeff Offutt Notable Article, ACM Computing Reviews 2013 Putting the engineering into software engineering education, IEEE Software 2013
Andrian Marcus Most Influential Paper Award, VISSOFT 2012 A task oriented view of software visualization, VISSOFT 2002
David Rosenblum Impact Paper Award, SIGSOFT 2008 A design framework for internet-scale event observation and notification, SIGSOFT 1997
David Rosenblum Most Influential Paper Award, ICSE 2002 Towards a method of programming with assertions, ICSE 1992

 

Most Influential Scholar Awards

Giuseppe Ateniese AMiner's A-10 Most Influential Security and Privacy Scholars 2019
Sanjeev Setia AMiner's A-10 Most Influential Security and Privacy Scholars 2016
Giuseppe Ateniese MLSEC's Influential Top-100 Security Papers 2007
Giuseppe Ateniese MLSEC's Influential Top-100 Security Papers 2005
Sanjeev Setia MLSEC's Influential Top-100 Security Papers 2003

 


Industrial Awards

ThanhVu Nguyen Amazon Research Award (Automated Reasoning) 2023
Jana Kosecka Amazon Research Award (Fairness in AI) 2022
Brittany Johnson-Matthews Google Research Scholar Award (Software Engineer) 2022
Evgenios Kornaropoulos Facebook Research Award (Security)

2022

Bo Han
Facebook Research Award (Security) 2022
Songqing Chen Facebook Research Award (Security) 2022
Kevin Moran Cisco Advanced Security Research Group Award 2022
Kevin Moran Cisco Advanced Security Research Group Award 2021
Foteini Baldimtsi Google Faculty Research Award 2021
Foteini Baldimtsi Facebook Faculty Research Award (Privacy) 2020
Antonios Anastasopoulos Google Award for Inclusion 2020
Foteini Baldimtsi IBM Faculty Award 2016
Grigory Yaroslavtsev Facebook Research Award (at Indiana University) 2017
Craig Yu Microsoft Azure Award 2017
Yotam Gingold Google Faculty Research Award 2014
Alex Brodsky Dominion Virginia Power 2013
Giuseppe Ateniese IBM Faculty Award 2012
Giuseppe Ateniese Google Faculty Research Award 2012

 

Mason Awards

Amarda Shehu

Mason Presidential Faculty Excellence Awards

2021
Daniel Menascé

Mason David. J. King Teaching Award 

2021
Amarda Shehu Mason Beck Family Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Research & Scholarship 2021

Jeff Offutt

Mason Alumni Association Faculty of the Year Award

2020

Jeff Offutt

Mason Presidential Faculty Excellence Awards

2020

Katherine (Raven) Russell

Mason Teacher of Distinction Award Winners

2020
Jonathan Bell Mason Teacher of Distinction Award Winners 2020
Paul Ammann

Teaching Excellence Award Winners

2019
Huzefa Rangwala Mason OSCAR Mentor Award Winners 2018
Amarda Shehu Teaching Excellence Award Winners 2018
Chris Kauffman Teaching Excellence Award Winners 2017
Yotam Gingold Teaching Excellence Award Winners 2017
Kinga Dobolyi Teaching Excellence Award Winners 2016
Mark Snyder Teaching Excellence Award Winners 2016
Jyh-Ming Lien Mason Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards 2015
Sean Luke Teaching Excellence Award Winners 2015
Amarda Shehu Mason Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards 2014
Huzefa Rangwala Teaching Excellence Award Winners 2014
Huzefa Rangwala Mason Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards 2014
Jeff Offutt Teaching Excellence Award Winners 2013
Amarda Shehu Mason OSCAR Mentor Award Winners 2013
Sam Malek Mason Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards 2013
Tamara Maddox

Teaching Excellence Award Winners

2012
Angelos Stavrou

Mason Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards

2012
Songqing Chen

Mason Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards

2009
Carlotta Domeniconi

Mason Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards

2008
Daniel Menascé

Teaching Excellence Award Winners

2000