Awards and Honors

Dmitry Savransky, associate professor (MAE), has been named a senior member of SPIE, the international society of optics and photonics.

Rob Shepherd, associate professor (MAE, Systems), has been chosen for the 2024-26 cohort of the Defense Science Study Group, which introduces outstanding science and engineering professors to the United States’ security challenges.

Timothy Sands, professor of practice (MAE, Systems), has been recognized for the second year in a row with MDPI's Best Paper in Engineering Award for his paper, "Development of Deterministic Artificial Intelligence for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV)," which was published in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering.

Yoav Artzi, associate professor (CS, Cornell Tech), and colleagues won one of two Outstanding Demo Paper Awards at the 61st annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics for their work, "CB2: Collaborative Natural Language Interaction Research Platform."

Gennady Samorodnitsky, professor (ORIE), has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences to support his proposal entitled “Collaborative Research: Learning and forecasting high-dimensional extremes: sparsity, causality, privacy.”

Pierre Patie, associate professor (ORIE), has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Mathematical Sciences to support his proposal entitled “Intertwining ideas for some problems in probability.”

Timothy Sands, professor of practice in space systems (MAE, Systems), had his paper, "Flattening the Curve of Flexible Space Robotics", designated as a Highly Cited Paper by Applied Science MDPI.

Owolabi Legunsen, assistant professor (CS), and colleagues' paper, "More Precise Regression Test Selection via Reasoning about Semantics-Modifying Changes," won an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis 2023 last month in Seattle.

Christina Lee Yu, assistant professor (ORIE), has been awarded a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for her project “Efficiently Exploiting Structure for Causal Inference in the Presence of Network Interference.”

Lillian Lee, the Charles Roy Davis Professor (CS), received the Best Paper Award at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics for her research "Do Androids Laugh at Electric Sheep? Humor 'Understanding' Benchmarks from The New Yorker Caption Contest."