Honors and Awards

The award recognizes Prof. Wenisch’s contributions to memory persistency and energy-efficient systems.

The award highlights Kasikci as an emerging leader in the design of efficient and trustworthy computer systems.

A new method enables robot arms to build a tower of champagne glasses.

The grant recognizes recently appointed faculty whose research interests and accomplishments seem poised to have significant impact within the industry and academia.

Cormier has served as CSE’s UA from the start and has helped to shape one of the most dynamic and influential units at the College of Engineering.

The papers dealt with issues of accessibility, privacy, and consent in technology.

The Professor of the Year Award is given based on a popular vote by all undergraduate and graduate students

An interdisciplinary team of faculty created a new introductory course in robotics that is designed for inclusivity by focusing on linear algebra instead of AP calculus, opening it up to freshman students with a broad mathematical background.

Marina’s research in security closely investigates the boundary between software and hardware.

These students are recognized by the department for their outstanding scholarship, research, service, leadership, and entrepreneurship.

Students throughout the College of Engineering are eligible for these awards; ten went to EECS students for outstanding scholarship, leadership, and service.

The six students have interests from accelerators to programming languages.

Through her work in augmented reality, Jaylin hopes to improve the accessibility of emerging technologies for people with disabilities and expand access to computing.

It was another outstanding year for the EECS honor society, that works hard to serve while having fun

Through his work in NLP and computational social science, Sky hopes to understand complex social interactions and contribute towards the democratization of technology.

Through his work, Tim hopes to dramatically accelerate genomic sequencing analysis, enabling the use of handheld genomic sequencers to produce actionable diagnostic data within minutes.

Zhizhuo is interested in computer vision and its ability to make breakthroughs in interdisciplinary fields such as ecology and climatology.

Jule is active in teaching and outreach activities to help broaden participation in the field of computer science and engineering.

The fellowship will advance her work in inferring relational world knowledge in machines with explicit and implicit representations.

Wang hopes that, by summarizing longer documents, she can make a new class of information more accessible to a variety of audiences.

The fellowship will advance his research on exploiting hardware reconfigurability in an effort to bridge the gap between programmability and efficiency that affects modern computing systems.

Kuipers has made numerous contributions to the CSE Division and U-M Robotics Institute, as well as contributed to national-level efforts to promote more ethical and diverse research in robotics and AI.

Madhyastha has focused on making undergraduate upper level courses reflect the changing needs of industry.

The paper introduces new hardware and software design principles to improve the performance of several important large-scale irregular workloads.

The award is given for active participation in research, leadership, and academic performance.

His work is in the area of coordinating systems of autonomous agents that operate in uncertain, dynamic environments.

The EECS Department has honored five faculty for their sustained excellence in instruction and curricular development, distinguished participation in service activities, or for their significant achievements in scholarly research.

This project is part of Kapritsos’ larger goal of bringing formal verification to developers and other practitioners.

Mahlke designs next-generation computer systems whose hardware is customized to the software it will be running.

His work on reinforcement learning is aimed at accelerating the training of RL agents.

Computer Engineering junior Himaja Motheram is heavily involved in campus organizations, including as Advocacy Officer for both Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Society of Women Engineers.

A Q&A with Kevin Fu, who will help protect software that saves lives at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.

The longtime advocate and leading researcher in medical device security heads to Washington for a one-year term.

The technique turned out to be a significant and long-lasting development for microprocessor design.

Jenkins is a prolific researcher in human-robot interaction and a leader in ensuring robotics and AI are accessible to everyone.

Mihalcea is known for her outstanding research in natural language processing and commitment to engaging more women in the field of computing.

Chowdhury is an expert in network-informed data systems design for big data and AI applications.

This distinction recognizes young researchers with exceptional promise who are having an impact on the world.

Gurevich is recognized for his distinguished contributions to logic, particularly finite model theory, and the development of abstract state machines.

The winning paper broke open a new area of investigation in hardware-based data leaks.

The award recognizes students who make significant contributions toward increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the division.

The competition recognizes the research done by PhD students at CSE and the final competition is the culmination of a process that narrows a field of entrants to a handful of finalists.

The new technique automatically constructs policies for applications that keep them from compromising other programs.

The award, named for a U-M alum, is a preeminent honor in the field of operating systems.

This honor recognizes outstanding researchers with eight or more papers at the International Symposium on Microarchitecture.

The award recognizes early career faculty who show great promise in developing future computing technologies.

The new fellowship program was designed to study the effects of connected products and services.

His work is in complexity theory of distributed computing.

The Rising Star Award is based on an individual’s whole body of work in the first five years after the PhD.

A new system called Leap earned a Best Paper award at USENIX ATC ‘20 for producing remote memory access speed on par with local machines over data center networks.

Kasikci will sift through the byproducts of hundreds of millions of common program executions to determine how this data can automate some key steps in bug finding and fixing.

The approaches to energy adaptation he proposed are now commonplace, and the applications he analyzed (web browsers, voice recognition, video players, and maps) are still ubiquitous.

The model is a practical method for robots to look for target items in complex, realistic environments.

The system targets software that runs using concurrent execution, a widespread method for boosting performance, and proves whether a program will output what it’s supposed to.

The projects impact voting systems, physical sensors, integrated circuit fabrication, and multiple microarchitectural side-channel vulnerabilities.

The project, which received a best paper award, demonstrated that a certain bias in humans who train intelligent agents significantly reduced the effectiveness of the training.

Mihalcea specializes in identifying the underlying emotions, beliefs, and values expressed in written text, and using that to draw inferences about the meaning of the text and certain characteristics of the writer.

Weimer is well known as a passionate educator, and for going the extra mile to engage with and advocate for students.

The division congratulates the four lecturers, all of whom have demonstrated commitment to excellence in education and innovation in the classroom.

Her work uses machine learning to measure mood, emotion, and other aspects of human behavior for purposes of providing early or real-time interventions for people in managing their health.

The nine students represent a broad range of research areas in the department.

Subarno Banerjee uses program analysis to improve software systems’ safety and security.

Goel designs algorithms that can automatically demonstrate the correctness of hardware systems.

This award is presented to an outstanding graduate student in each degree program.

Computational caches are an emerging technology based on the use of a processors cache space to perform computations.

She was recognized for her work harnessing patient data to improve healthcare outcomes.

This award is the highest honor awarded to a faculty member by the College.

Kamil has shown a consistent and unrelenting commitment to bettering education in CSE.

The ARC works to solve a broad set of issues pertaining to the modeling and simulation of ground vehicle systems.

For “exemplifying the leadership and vision of Dr. King,” four CSE students and faculty were honored as part of U-M’s annual MLK symposium.

Akshitha Sriraman works to enable hyperscale computing on high-demand web services.

Wurman and his cofounders were recognized for their invention of the Kiva system, a revolutionary warehouse order fulfillment system that uses mobile robots and control software to bring inventory shelves to workers.

Co-chaired by Dr. David Chesney, the team was formed to address how disabled students experience campus.

Mihalcea is recognized for her outstanding research on natural language processing.

Koutra specializes in advancing network methods to speed up a variety of big data applications.

Jenkins was recognized for his work on human-robot interaction and methods that enable robots to learn human skills.

Comparing graphs the team’s tool is up to an order of magnitude faster than competitive baselines.

Prof Jagadish is an internationally recognized expert in the field of very large databases.

Bertacco will advocate for and support university initiatives that create opportunities for action-based and engaged student learning.

Nominees were selected based on their career accomplishments, impact in their field, and contributions to their community.

Tang’s project will redesign data center systems to support large-scale use of hardware accelerators to meet future computational demand.

The goal of Lasecki’s proposal is to create methods for making AI systems more robust and flexible.

Wiens is transitioning to Co-Director from a successful role as a Co-Lead for Precision Health’s Data Analytics & IT Workgroup, which expanded access to data and research tools across the university.

Baveja’s paper tackled the difficult problem of giving artificial intelligence a way to understand and represent knowledge collected over time.

The research generated a chatbot to help users sift through important details in privacy policies.

The research suggests that common blacklist-based prevention systems are ineffective.

Mudge’s paper examined the power-saving needs of high-performance computing.

The STARX suit helps first-responders bear greater weights and spend less energy.

Top Picks is an annual special edition of IEEE Micro magazine that acknowledges the 10-12 most significant research papers.

Defibrillator security paper receives Test of Time Award from IEEE Security & Privacy

Danai Koutra earned the award for her proposal to innovate the way we use networks to understand the world and speed up our technology.

Jenkins has been appointed as one of seven new members on the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council, which is affiliated with the Computing Research Association (CRA). His term begins July 1.

Guzdial is a leading expert in the field of computing education, and was one of its earliest researchers.

Bertacco is a key leader in efforts to improve the representation of women in computer science and develop more extensive cross-cultural connections within the department.

The goal of the work was to identify seven things about who the subject was talking to just by analyzing text messages.

Halderman will work to further educate lawmakers, future cybersecurity experts, and the public about how to ensure that election results can relied upon and verified

Chowdhury connects all unused memory in a data cluster and treats it as a single unit.

Ten years ago, Prof. Westley Weimer set out to shave off time and expenditure sunk into patch fixes.

“Thanks to his tireless support and unparalleled patience, I am now equipped with a fundamental research skill set.”

To meet computing demand in a post Moore’s Law future, Das develops new architectures that improve performance by orders of magnitude.

Congratulations to these recipients of the EECS Outstanding Achievement Award

Published in 1999, Todd Austin’s paper turned out to be a major contribution to the field, cited over 870 times

Mihalcea has dedicated substantial effort to developing programs aimed at introducing women to the world of computing

Kevin Compton has been committed to service in his work that has enhanced the student experience

Bill Arthur was recognized for demonstrating sustained excellence in instruction and guidance.

Jagadish will help lead MIDAS into its next stage and further expand data science efforts across disciplines.

Laird has been an energetic contributor to AI and cognitive science for over 30 years

In recognition of his outstanding contributions to education, Dr. David Chesney has been named a 2018-2019 Toby Teorey Collegiate Lecturer.

Dreslinski is working with a $9.5million DARPA grant to overcome the limitations of Moore’s Law

The new $2.5 million endowment to support a professorship is the second U-M sponsorship from Toyota

“His course really opened my eyes to the difficulties that some people have when using a universally designed product.”

Lynn Conway is a leader in the microchip design revolution that made cell phones and laptops possible, and an internationally-recognized advocate for transgender rights.

Austin is a recognized leader in the area of computer architecture research.

The highest accolade from the Michigan Engineering Alumni Board goes to a thought leader with a track record of predicting the industry’s future.

“We are trying to change the stereotypes.”

Jonathan Kummerfeld is recognized for his work in artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on language.

Mihalcea and Wendlandt believe a key strategy to increasing the number of women in computing research is to introduce them to the research process early on.

This award is given to the VLDB paper published ten years earlier that has had the most influence since its publication.

Das is passionate about promoting diversity and mentoring women in computer science.

Stander has given 33 years of exceptional service to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as a Hardware and Electronics Technician

The Professor of the Year Award is voted on by all undergraduate and graduate students of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Profs. Jia Deng, Roya Ensafi, and Manos Kapritsos have been selected to receive Google Faculty Research Awards.

He has answered over 3800 questions on the Q&A site, with over 41 million views.

Prof. Deng was selected for his work in computer vision and machine learning.

The award recognizes his significant and consequential contributions in service to the academy and his professional communities.

Congratulations to these recipients of the EECS Outstanding Achievement Award

This professorship is awarded to junior faculty members in CSE in recognition of outstanding contributions to teaching and research.

Prof. Fu was named an IEEE Fellow, Class of 2018, “for contributions to embedded and medical device security.”

Professors H. V. Jagadish and Christopher Poulsen are honored for advancing socially impactful research.

Prof. Peikert and his co-author received the award at the Fifteenth Theory of Cryptography Conference for their paper on efficient collision-resistant hashing on cyclic lattices.

This honor recognizes outstanding researchers with eight or more papers at the International Symposium on Microarchitecture.

Kevin Fu has been recognized for informing policy makers and Congress about issues in computer security.

Prof. Ackerman recognized quite early how social context could harness computing technologies for the development of systems in expertise finding and sharing, as well as in collaborative information access.

The national magazine recognized Jenna Wiens as one of 2017’s 35 Innovators Under 35.

Jenkins hopes to cultivate new and leading-edge ideas in both robotics and the human-centered sciences.

Dr. Dorf has made notable contributions to instruction through her reimagining of EECS 183.

Dr. Dorf has transformed EECS 183 into an interactive and inclusive experience.

Peikert’s research is dedicated to developing new, stronger mathematical foundations for cryptography.

Prof. Mozafari is passionate about building large-scale data-intensive systems that are more scalable, more robust, and more predictable.

Prof. Madhyastha seeks to enable the cloud provider to monitor traffic on behalf of all the web services hosted on its platform.

Prof. Bertacco is enthusiastic and passionate about teaching and has made it her mission to improve the undergraduate educational experience of all of her students.

Prof. Mao has led inquiries into issues of Internet routing, measurement and security, wide-area and enterprise network management, malware behavior analysis and host-based security in general.

Paoletti has transformed a 600+ student course into of the best-regarded classes in the EECS department.

Congratulations!

Prof. Austin is a recognized leader in the area of computer architecture research.

His inventive approaches have led to new technologies that reduce the energy consumption of microprocessors while maintaining acceptable performance.

Prof. Flinn has been an active researcher in the field of mobile computing for a number of years.

Prof. Bertacco is a highly noted researcher in the area of computer architecture and is Director of the department’s Computer Engineering (CE) Lab.

Chang’s research interest is in complexity theory of distributed computing.

Dr. Howes’ doctoral research focused on Internet directory services, and he co-invented LDAP, the Internet directory protocol, while a graduate student at U-M.

Prof. Madhyastha’s recent research has focused on enabling latency-sensitive web services to optimize user experience.

Prof. Deng and his collaborators received the award for their work on ImageNet.

Professor Wellman brings expertise on algorithmic trading and other computational techniques that are transforming financial markets and the financial system.

She recently helped develop a modular load tester platform for data centers, which is designed to help measure and mitigate tail latency.

Four EECS students part of the Michigan Men’s Rowing team that won their 9th consecutive national championship

Prof. Radev was elected a Fellow for “contributions to natural language processing and computational linguistics.”

DROWN allows attackers to break encryption used to protect HTTPS websites and read or steal sensitive communications.

The SIGMOD Test of Time Award recognizes the best paper from the SIGMOD proceedings 10 years prior.

The annual SIGKDD doctoral dissertation award recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery.

Prof. Chowdhury bridges the gap between application-level performance and network-level optimizations through the coflow abstraction.

The two papers from Michigan introduced the Sirius personal digital assistant and the MBus bus for modular microcomputing systems.

Prof. Markov is a frequent contributor to Quora, where his contributions cover subjects ranging from computer science to geopolitical affairs.

The award is to support his research in reinforcement learning.

Prof. Wellman’s research applies principles of computation and economics to engineer rational decision-making strategies and analyze complex systems of interacting agents.

Through his courses, students are able to learn the fundamentals of programming and software systems, while also seeing the social impact of computer science.

Mann is the research administrator for the AI and IS Labs.

Her research interests include text mining, natural language processing, and bioinformatics.

Darden teaches both large sections of EECS 281 and a more specialized EECS 398 course. He also serves as a faculty advisor for CS students.

Vidal is currently the GSI for EECS 381: Object Oriented and Advanced Programming.

Genevieve will continue her research in the MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute joint program, pursuing a PhD in computer science with a focus in oceanography.

Ryan works with Prof. Edwin Olson in the APRIL Lab, where his research is in the area of multi-agent search algorithms for both known and unexplored environments.

Yu-Wei is a third year PhD student whose research focuses on computer vision and machine learning.

Students, parents, and faculty gathered to celebrate the achievements of EECS students who earned a special award for academic achievement, research, service, or entrepreneurial activities.

His research addresses the problem of diminishing reliability in future computer systems.

He has built software systems for information extraction, database integration, and feature engineering and applied these to problems in the social sciences.

His work impacts computer vision, audio recognition, robotics, text modeling, and healthcare.

The award recognizes unwavering commitment to the betterment of women, and clear record of success and significant achievement in research and scholarship, distinguished leadership, and mentoring women.

Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and healthcare.

Karl’s career goals are to obtain a Ph.D. in Mathematics, to conduct research in number theory and algebraic geometry, and to teach at the university level.

Prof. Mozafari is passionate about building large-scale data-intensive systems that are more scalable, more robust, and more predictable.

The EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards are presented annually to faculty members for their outstanding accomplishments in teaching, research, and service.

The award will enable Prof. Mars to understand how future cloud and mobile systems should be designed to support increasing demand from users of intelligent assistants.

The recipients are Prof. Valeria Bertacco and Dr. Mary Lou Dorf.

The professorship is awarded to junior faculty members in recognition of outstanding contributions to teaching and research.

He is recognized for raising awareness regarding medical device cybersecurity issues by speaking out about critical concerns.

His research takes place at the intersection of information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, bioinformatics, text and data mining, social networks, social media, collective behavior, text generation, information extraction, and artificial intelligence.

The competition is the culmination of a process that narrows a field of entrants to four finalists, each of whom give a summary presentation on an area of their research.

Halderman has met significant contributions in the areas of electronic voting security, internet security, and electronic censorship resistance.

The paper was published at the 2002 Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation.

Prof. Flinn joined the department in 2002 as an assistant professor.

The research outcomes will be distributed through publications, talks, and tutorials.

The paper proposes an interactive natural language interface for relational databases, which enables novice users to construct complex queries.

A CSE graduate student, Durumeric’s work focuses on developing quantitative, measurement-based approaches to combat threats against hosts and networks on the Internet.

The paper addresses the question of whether introducing an interactive textbook into introductory STEM courses can improve student grades.

Prof. Igor Markov considers his Knuth checks and important honor.

The International Linguistics Olympiad been held annually since 2003, and Prof. Radev has coached teams each year.

Dr. Dreslinski conducts research in the area of energy efficient processor architectures

Duc is interested in using the computer’s modeling power to better understand the inner workings of the human mind, and using this understanding to create more intelligent software programs.

Brehob has been a lecturer in the department since 2000.

The two winning papers were selected from a field of 127 full paper submissions in the main technical track.

It describes their work in measuring important network phenomena for debugging problems at the edge of a cellular network.

In an unusual turn of events, we've tied with ourselves for this one.

His three-year term will begin July 1.

The U-M Mobile Apps Challenge is held each year and is open to faculty, students, and staff from across the U-M Ann Arbor campus.

Wah’s research interests lie at the intersection of finance and artificial intelligence, specifically in applying computational methods to study automated trading in financial markets.

Wah’s research interests lie at the intersection of finance and artificial intelligence, specifically in applying computational methods to study automated trading in financial markets.

Karl’s career goals are to obtain a Ph.D. in Mathematics, to conduct research in Number Theory and Random Matrix Theory, and to teach at the university level.

Students, parents, and faculty gathered to celebrate the achievements of EECS students who earned a special award for academic achievement, research, service, or entrepreneurial activities.

The proposed work investigates computational methodologies to differentiate emotion perception patterns of healthy controls and individuals with Major Depressive Disorder or Bipolar Disorder.

His 1992 paper describes problems associated with utilizing conventional compiler support for predicated execution, a technique for dealing with conditional branches in application programs, on superscaler processors. It introduces the hyperblock, a structure to overcome those shortcomings.

We thank these individuals for their commitment to excellence in teaching our students!

The professorship is awarded to junior faculty members in recognition of outstanding contributions to teaching and research.

Mao’s goal was to create a diagnosis tool to achieve responsive and energy-efficient mobile apps that work well in diverse network conditions.

The foundation honors researchers it deems “rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders,” according to a statement. The fellows, who were nominated by their peers and chosen by a panel of senior scholars, each receives $50,000 to further their research.

Dutta’s research has pioneered practical, low-power platforms and wireless protocols for pervasive sensing, computing, and communications.

Prof. Halderman’s research interests span software security, network security, data privacy, anonymity, electronic voting, censorship resistance, digital rights management, computer forensics, ethics, and cybercrime, as well as the interaction of technology with law, governmental regulation, and international affairs.

Schoenebeck's research is in theoretical computer science, linear and semidefinite programs, the intersection of computer science and social networks, the intersection of computer science and economics, NP-complete optimization problems, and computational complexity theory.

Abernethy's research is in machine learning, with additional interests in game theory, decision theory, optimization, market mechanism design, and other financial applications.

Prof. Corso believes that this research could make it easier to search for certain types of videos on the web.

Prof. Deng’s primary research interest is in the area of computer vision, with a focus on image and video understanding, human computation, and large-scale machine learning.

Helen has an interest in the efficient design of the hardware and software components of embedded systems to be deployed in ecofriendly applications.

Winners are chosen for their outstanding accomplishments in teaching, research, and service.

Congratulations to the following CSE Faculty recipients of 2014-15 College of Engineering Awards.

Mahlke's research has been focused on the design of customized multicore processors, accelerators, and systems consisting of both that are higher performance, lower power, and more reliable.

Bertacco's research is focused on creating novel solutions to enable the sustainable development of silicon systems, by making them more powerful, more reliable and significantly cheaper to design and manufacture.

Prof. Mihalcea's research interests are in computational linguistics, with a focus on lexical semantics, graph-based algorithms for natural language processing, and multilingual natural language processing.

The research team performed a comprehensive, measurement-based analysis of the impact of the recent Heartbleed vulnerability.

Hayes was recognized “for his pioneering contributions to logic design, fault tolerant computing, and testing.”

He was recognized as an “outstanding educator and researcher whose work has advanced the field of low-power computer architecture and its interaction with technology.”

His research focus is on addressing concurrency issues in mobile and cloud systems, which increasingly rely upon event-driven programming and customized processor accelerators.

The goal of the research is to revolutionize how Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is managed to provide a transformative means of extracting utility-scale energy from waste.

Bertacco's research is in the area of computer design, with emphasis on reliability, design correctness, and hardware-security assurance.

Mars' current research interests include cross-layer systems in software and hardware, datacenter and warehouse-scale computer architecture, and hardware/software co-design.

Dutta designs hardware and software for smart dust and larger sensors that don't need batteries because they can harvest energy from the world around them.

Conway will be named a fellow at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

These faculty are recognized for their unique contributions during the past year.

Starting this year, an award will be presented to a faculty member from each division – both CS and ECE.

A big thank you to these students for all their hard work and dedication!

The issue features Prof. Conway’s 24-page memoir about the VLSI revolution and related articles by Conway’s colleagues.

The research addressed voltage scaling of processors at the point where, at very low voltages, voltage leakage begins to dominate the computational power consumption.

Congratulations to the two student teams!

Dr. Brehob was chosen for the award because of his deep engagement with and commitment to his students and their success.

Max will be employed by KPCB portfolio company One Kings Lane, where he will develop his technical skills and be mentored by an engineering executive.

Congratulations to these outstanding faculty members!

Congratulations to these amazing faculty members!

The contest is highly competitive and features the best student projects from the largest and most prestigious conferences in their respective fields.

Congratulations to these winning companies. Go Blue!

Congratulations to Keith Porter and Patrick Theisen!

Congratulations to these outstanding faculty members!

Their paper introduces new techniques that improve speed, solution quality, simplicity, and integration with other optimizations for global placement technology.

With D4AR models, you can monitor progress, productivity, safety, quality, constructability and even site logistics remotely.

“I am confident we can do better than the ubiquitous keyboard and mouse paradigm, and I intend to find out how,” said O’Keefe.

The award is presented to outstanding individuals whose main contribution to the computer field was made at least fifteen years earlier.

Not only is Brehob an excellent educator, he is also a fantastic Undergrad Chief Program Advisor for CE, where he advises students on program needs.

The competition sought solutions for a better way for the deaf and hearing-impaired population to appreciate music.

Dongjin’s research is a blend of computer science with computer and electrical engineering, and can have a huge impact on upcoming integrated circuits.

The award recognized research that is “at least five years old and has had significant industrial impact.”