Faculty Awards

Over the years, our world-class faculty and students have been recognized with prestigious awards and fellowships.

Best Paper Awards

Ten-year Impact Award Paper for UbiComp  

  • Gregory Abowd, 2017, 2019

ICRA IEEE Milestone Award  

  • Frank Dellaert, 2020

AAAI 

  • Pascal Van Hentenryck, 2015
  • Frank Dellaert, 2005

AISTATS 

  • Molei Tao, 2020

RSS Test of Time Award 

  • Frank Dellaert, 2020

CP 

  • Pascal Van Hentenryck, 2003, 2004, 2016 

EMNLP

  • Stefan Lee, 2017, Best Short Paper  

IJCAI

  • Pascal Van Hentenryck, 2007 

KDD - Best Student Paper

  • Jacob Abernethy, 2018

Best Ph.D Thesis Award, Georgia Tech

  • Faramarz Fekri

Best Paper VFS Aerodynamics and Modeling & Simulation

  • Marilyn Smith

TRO

  • Frank Dellaert, 2017

ICCV David Marr Prize

  • Devi Parikh, 2011

SIAM Data Mining (SDM) - Best Student Paper Award

  • Polo Chau, 2014

DISC

  • Rachel Cummings, 2014

KDD - Best Applied Data Science Student Paper, Runner-up

  • Polo Chau, 2016

INFORMS Applied Probability Society Best Paper Award

  • Siva Theja Maguluri

SIGMOD - Best Demo, Honorable Mention

  • Polo Chau, 2017

AIAA, Best Intelligent Systems Paper Award

  • Matthew Gombolay, 2012

SEDE

  • Pascal Van Hentenryck, 2009 

Faculty Awards

AAAI Fellow:

  •  Charles Isbell, 2019
  •  Pascal Van Hentenryck, 2009 
  • Ashok Goel, 2021 

ACM Fellow:

  • Gregory Abowd, 2008
  • Ellen Zegura, 2013 

IEEE Fellow

  •  Faramarz Fekri, 2015 
  • Ron Arkin, 2003 
  • Irfan Essa, 2011 
  • Seth Hutchinson, 2007 
  • Magnus Egersetdt, 2011
  •  Ellen Zegura 
  • Justin Romberg, 2018 

ACM SIGGRAPH Fellow 

  • Greg Turk, 2012 

Regents' Professor

  •  Ron Arkin 

PECASE 

  • Dhruv Batra, 2019 
  • Mark Davenport, 2019 

Sloan Fellowship 

  • Eva Dyer, 2019 
  • Devi Parikh, 2016 
  • Mark Davenport, 2017 
  • James Hays, 2015 

INFORMS ICS Award 

  • Pascal Van Hentenryck, 2002 
  • ARO Young Investigator Award 
  • Cassie Mitchell, 2014 
  • Devi Parikh, 2014, 2016 
  • Mark Davenport, 2014 

National Science Foundation CAREER Award 

  • Faramarz Fekri, 2001 
  • Sonia Chernova, 2012 
  • Peng Qiu, 2016 
  • Christopher Rozell, 2014 
  • Molei Tao, 2019 
  • Devi Parikh, 2016 
  • Mark Davenport, 2014 
  • James Hays, 2012 
  • Yao Xie, 2017 
  • Magnus Egerstedt 
  • Irfan Essa 
  • Dhruv Batra, 2014 
  • Frank Dellaert, 2005 

ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award 

  • Greg Turk, 2012 

ACM SIGCHI Social Impact Award 

  • Gregory Abowd, 2007

NASA Early Career Faculty Award 

  • Sonia Chernova, 2016 

Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award, Georgia Tech 

  • Polo Chau, 2015 

James S. McDonnell Foundation 21st Century Science Initiative Award 

  • Christopher Rozell, 2014 

AIAA Fellow 

  • Marilyn Smith, 2016 

ACM Eugene Lawler Humanitarian Award 

  • Gregory Abowd, 2009 

NASA Group Achievement Award 

  • Marilyn Smith, 2007, 2018 

ECASE-Army Dhruv Batra, 2018 NSF National Young Investigator Award (USA) Pascal Van Hentenryck, 1993 Agusta Westland International Award Marilyn Smith, 2012, 2014 / Allen Distinguished Investigator in Artificial Intelligence Devi Parikh, 2014 IOP Select Gari Clifford, seven-time winner INFORMS Fellow Pascal Van Hentenryck, 2016 Allen Institute for Brain Science's Next Generation Leader Award Eva Dyer, 2017 Forbes' List of 20 "Incredible Women Advancing AI Research" Devi Parikh, 2019 Oklahoma State University Hall of Fame Cassie Mitchell, 2015 Google Women in Engineering Award Swati Gupta, 2011 Martin Black Award Gari Clifford Google Faculty Research Award Devi Parikh, 2012, 2015, 2016 / Polo Chau, 2015 Amazon Academic Research Award Devi Parikh, 2016 NFCS Early Career Award Matthew Gombolay, 2018 Georgia Tech Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Cassie Mitchell, 2016 NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative Award Swati Gupta, 2019 / Eva Dyer, 2018 Lockheed Martin Inspirational Young Faculty Award Devi Parikh, 2019 R&D Magazine - R&D 100 Award Matthew Gombolay, 2018 Sony Faculty Research Award Faramarz Fekri, 2018 Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology Ron Arkin, 2012 Test of Time Award (20 years): Association of Logic Programming Pascal Van Hentenryck, 2014 Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech Ron Arkin, 2001