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 |
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| Kenneth DeJong |
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| Jana Kosecka |
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| Daniel Menascé |
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| Mark J. Pullen |
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| David S. Rosenblum |
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| Amarda Shehu |
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| Gheorghe Tecuci |
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| Harry Wechsler |
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ACM Distinguished Member
| Sanmay Das | 2024 |
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 |
| Wing Lam | "Enhanced Reliability and Efficiency of Software Regression Testing in the Presence of Flaky Tests", 2024 |
| 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 |
| Thema Monroe-White | "Investigating Undergraduate Student Persistence Intentions for a Diverse Data Science Community" |
| 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
| Mingrui Liu | Cisco Research Award | 2024 |
| 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
| Thomas LaToza |
Teacher of Distinction Award Winners |
2024 |
| Antonios Anastasopoulos |
Presidential Faculty Excellence Awards |
2024 |
| Amarda Shehu |
Presidential Faculty Excellence Awards |
2021 |
| Daniel Menascé |
David. J. King Teaching Award |
2021 |
| Amarda Shehu | Beck Family Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Research & Scholarship | 2021 |
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Jeff Offutt |
Alumni Association Faculty of the Year Award |
2020 |
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Jeff Offutt |
Presidential Faculty Excellence Awards |
2020 |
| Katherine (Raven) Russell |
Teacher of Distinction Award Winners |
2020 |
| Jonathan Bell | Teacher of Distinction Award Winners | 2020 |
| Paul Ammann |
Teaching Excellence Award Winners |
2019 |
| Huzefa Rangwala | 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 | Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards | 2015 |
| Sean Luke | Teaching Excellence Award Winners | 2015 |
| Amarda Shehu | 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 | OSCAR Mentor Award Winners | 2013 |
| Sam Malek | Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards | 2013 |
| Tamara Maddox |
Teaching Excellence Award Winners |
2012 |
| Angelos Stavrou |
Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards |
2012 |
| Songqing Chen |
Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards |
2009 |
| Carlotta Domeniconi |
Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards |
2008 |
| Daniel Menascé |
Teaching Excellence Award Winners |
2000 |