Honors & Awards
The Paul G. Allen School is widely regarded to be among the top computer science and engineering programs in the nation and in the world, and this is reflected in the quality of our faculty.
The following list represents national and international awards and recognition earned by our talented faculty members for their impact through research, teaching and service.
National and International Awards and Recognition
Allen Distinguished Investigators
- Ali Farhadi
- Hannaneh Hajishirzi
- Jeff Heer
- Josh Smith
- Luke Zettlemoyer
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- Tom Anderson
- Susan Eggers (emerita)
- Anna Karlin
- Ed Lazowska
- Dan Suciu
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Tom Daniel (Adjunct)
- Pedro Domingos (emeritus)
- Susan Eggers (emerita)
- Richard Ladner (emeritus)
- Ed Lazowska
- Dan Weld (emeritus)
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
- Pedro Domingos (emeritus)
- Oren Etzioni (emeritus)
- Dieter Fox
- Henry Kautz (now at the University of Rochester)
- Dan Weld (emeritus)
Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
- Yejin Choi
- Mari Ostendorf (Adjunct)
- Noah Smith
- Luke Zettlemoyer
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Tom Anderson
- Jean-Loup Baer (emeritus)
- Magdalena Balazinska
- Paul Beame
- Ras Bodik
- Alan Borning (emeritus)
- Gaetano Borriello (deceased)
- Luis Ceze
- Brian Curless
- Carl Ebeling (emeritus)
- Susan Eggers (emerita)
- Michael Ernst
- Dieter Fox
- Jeffrey Heer
- Anna Karlin
- Arvind Krishnamurthy
- Richard Ladner (emeritus)
- Ed Lazowska
- Hank Levy (emeritus)
- David Notkin (deceased)
- Shwetak Patel
- David Salesin (now at Google)
- Steve Seitz
- Alan Shaw (emeritus)
- Larry Snyder (emeritus)
- Dan Suciu
- Dan Weld (emeritus)
- David Wetherall (now at Google)
- Paul Young (deceased)
ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
- Shyam Gollakota
- Jeffrey Heer
ACM Prize in Computing
- Shwetak Patel
ACM and Computing Research Association (CRA) Service Awards
- Paul Beame — ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Award, 2021
- Dan Grossman — ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award, 2015
- Richard Ladner (emeritus) — CRA A. Nico Habermann Award, 2008
- Ed Lazowska — ACM Distinguished Service Award, 2009
- Ed Lazowska — ACM Presidential Award, 2005
- Ed Lazowska — CRA Distinguished Service Award, 2005
- Paul Young (deceased) — CRA Distinguished Service Award, 1996
ACM, IEEE, and other field awards
- Richard Anderson — ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics
- Tom Anderson — USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014
- Tom Anderson — USENIX Software Tools Award, 2014
- Tom Anderson — IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, 2013
- Tom Anderson — ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, 2005
- Byron Boots — Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Early Career Award, 2020
- Luis Ceze — IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award, 2013
- Luis Ceze and Karin Strauss (affiliate) — ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award, 2020
- Pedro Domingos (emeritus) — ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award, 2014
- Pedro Domingos (emeritus) — IJCAI John McCarthy Award, 2019
- Susan Eggers (emerita) — ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award, 2018
- Abhishek Gupta — IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Early Academic Career Award, 2025
- Anna Karlin — ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, 2020
- Richard Ladner (emeritus) — SIGCHI Social Impact Award, 2014
- Richard Ladner (emeritus) — SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility
- Richard Ladner (emeritus) — NCWIT Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award, 2019
- Jennifer Mankoff — SIGCHI Social Impact Award, 2022
- Barbara Mones — ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Educator Award, 2021
- Shayan Oveis Gharan — National Academy of Sciences Michael and Sheila Held Prize, 2025
- Shayan Oveis Gharan — EATCS Presburger Award for Young Scientists, 2021
- Emina Torlak (now at Amazon) — ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award, 2021
ACM SIGCHI Academy
- James Fogarty
- Batya Friedman (Adjunct)
- Jeffrey Heer
- Alexis Hiniker (Adjunct)
- Julie Kientz (Adjunct)
- Jennifer Mankoff
- Shwetak Patel
- Kate Starbird (Adjunct)
- Jacob Wobbrock (Adjunct)
CRA-W Anita Borg Early Career Award
- Maya Cakmak
- Yejin Choi
- Adriana Schulz
Fulbright Awards
- Richard Anderson
- Alan Borning
- Gaetano Borriello (deceased)
- Pedro Domingos (emeritus)
- Carl Ebeling (emeritus)
- Richard Ladner (emeritus)
- Hank Levy (emeritus)
- Raj Rao
- Alan Shaw (emeritus)
Guggenheim Fellowships
- Jean-Loup Baer (emeritus)
- Richard Ladner (emeritus)
- Raj Rao
Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Jean-Loup Baer (emeritus)
- Gaetano Borriello (deceased)
- Susan Eggers (emerita)
- Michael Ernst
- Dieter Fox
- Yoshi Kohno
- Richard Ladner (emeritus)
- Ed Lazowska
- Hank Levy (emeritus)
- David Notkin (deceased)
- Rajesh Rao
- Steve Seitz
- Linda Shapiro
- Joshua Smith
- Larry Snyder (emeritus)
- Sidd Srinivasa
- Steve Tanimoto
- Paul Young (deceased)
- David Wetherall (now at Google)
Fellows of the International Association for Pattern Recognition
- Linda Shapiro
- Steve Tanimoto
Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology
- Su-In Lee
MacArthur Fellows
- Yejin Choi
- Tom Daniel (Adjunct)
- Yoky Matsuoka (now at Yohana)
- Shwetak Patel
- Chris Ré (Ph.D. alum, now at Stanford)
- Stefan Savage (Ph.D. alum, now at UCSD)
Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows
- Magdalena Balazinska
- Luis Ceze
- Yin Tat Lee
- Shwetak Patel
Moore Foundation Data-Driven Discovery Investigator Award
- Jeff Heer
Moore Inventor Fellow
- Shyam Gollakota
Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
- Tom Anderson, National Academy of Engineering
- David Baker (Adjunct), National Academy of Sciences
- Phil Bernstein (Affiliate), National Academy of Engineering
- Dave Cutler (Affiliate), National Academy of Engineering
- Susan Eggers (emerita), National Academy of Engineering
- Joe Felsenstein (Adjunct), National Academy of Sciences
- Phil Green (Adjunct), National Academy of Sciences
- Lee Hood (Affiliate), National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine
- Eric Horvitz (Affiliate), National Academy of Engineering
- Anna Karlin, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering
- Ed Lazowska, National Academy of Engineering
- Hank Levy (emeritus), National Academy of Engineering
- Carver Mead (Affiliate), National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering
- Maynard Olson (Adjunct), National Academy of Sciences
- Mari Ostendorf (Adjunct), National Academy of Engineering
- Radia Perlman (Affiliate), National Academy of Engineering
- Rick Szeliski (Affiliate), National Academy of Engineering
NSF CAREER Awards or Presidential/NSF Young Investigator Awards
- Tim Althoff
- Richard Anderson
- Tom Anderson
- Magda Balazinska
- Leilani Battle
- Paul Beame
- Brian Bershad (retired)
- Byron Boots
- Gaetano Borriello (deceased)
- Maya Cakmak
- Luis Ceze
- Craig Chambers (now at Google)
- Alvin Cheung (now at UC Berkeley)
- Brian Curless
- Tony DeRose (now consulting)
- Chris Diorio (now at Impinj)
- Pedro Domingos (emeritus)
- Simon Du
- Carl Ebeling (emeritus)
- Susan Eggers (emerita)
- Michael Ernst
- Oren Etzioni (emeritus)
- Ali Farhadi
- James Fogarty
- Dieter Fox
- Jon Froehlich
- Shayan Oveis Gharan
- Shyam Gollakota
- Steve Gribble (now at Google)
- Dan Grossman
- Carlos Guestrin (now at Apple)
- Venkat Guruswami (now at CMU)
- Hannaneh Hajishirzi
- Alon Halevy (now at Facebook AI)
- Steve Hanks (now at WhitePages)
- Vikram Iyer
- Kevin Jamieson
- René Just
- Yoshi Kohno
- Arvind Krishnamurthy
- James Lee
- Su-In Lee
- Yin Tat Lee
- Rachel Lin
- Yoky Matsuoka (now at Yohana)
- Jamie Morgenstern
- Jeff Nivala
- David Notkin (deceased)
- Sewoong Oh
- Mark Oskin
- Shwetak Patel
- Simon Peter
- Zoran Popovic
- Anup Rao
- Raj Rao
- Katharina Reinecke
- Franziska Roesner
- Thomas Rothvoss
- David Salesin (now at Google)
- Martine Schlag (now at UC Santa Cruz)
- Adriana Schulz
- Georg Seelig
- Steve Seitz
- Dan Suciu
- Ben Taskar (deceased)
- Zachary Tatlock
- Michael Taylor
- Stefano Tessaro
- Chris Thachuk
- Martin Tompa (emeritus)
- Emina Torlak (now at Amazon)
- Yulia Tsvetkov
- Dan Weld (emeritus)
- David Wetherall (now at Google)
- John Zahorjan (emeritus)
- Luke Zettlemoyer
- Amy Zhang
NSF Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM)
- Richard Ladner (emeritus)
- Eve Riskin (Adjunct)
NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow or Presidential Early Career (PECASE) Awards
- Tom Anderson
- Brian Bershad (retired)
- Chris Diorio (now at Impinj)
- Emily Fox (now at Stanford)
- Carlos Guestrin (now at Apple)
- Alon Halevy (now at Facebook AI)
- Yoky Matsuoka (now at Yohana)
- Shwetak Patel
- David Salesin (now at Google)
- Luke Zettlemoyer
Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Awards
- Brian Bershad (retired)
- Chris Diorio (now at Impinj)
- Shayan Oveis Gharan
- Carlos Guestrin (now at Apple)
- Raj Rao
- David Salesin (now at Google)
- Georg Seelig
- Steve Seitz
- Sidd Srinivasa
- Ben Taskar (deceased)
- Dan Weld (emeritus)
Packard Fellowships
- Chris Diorio (now at Impinj)
- Venkat Guruswami (now at CMU)
- Raj Rao
- Thomas Rothvoss
- Yin Tat Lee
Simons Investigator Award
- James Lee
- Shayan Oveis Gharan
Sloan Research Fellowships
- Tom Anderson
- Leilani Battle
- Maya Cakmak
- Luis Ceze
- Alvin Cheung (now at UC Berkeley)
- Brian Curless
- Chris Diorio (now at Impinj)
- Pedro Domingos (emeritus)
- Simon Shaolei Du
- Ali Farhadi
- Emily Fox (now at Stanford)
- Jon Froehlich
- Shyam Gollakota
- Steve Gribble (now at Google)
- Carlos Guestrin (now at Apple)
- Venkat Guruswami (now at CMU)
- Hannaneh Hajishirzi
- Alon Halevy (now at Facebook AI)
- Scott Hauck (Adjunct)
- Jeff Heer
- Yoshi Kohno
- James Lee
- Yin Tat Lee
- Jennifer Mankoff
- William Noble (Adjunct)
- Mark Oskin
- Shayan Oveis Gharan
- Shwetak Patel
- Simon Peter
- Zoran Popovic
- Anup Rao
- Raj Rao
- Eve Riskin (Adjunct)
- Thomas Rothvoss
- David Salesin (now at Google)
- Adriana Schulz
- Georg Seelig
- Steve Seitz
- Dan Suciu
- Ben Taskar (deceased)
- Stefano Tessaro
- Emo Todorov (now Affiliate faculty)
- Emina Torlak (now at Amazon)
- Yulia Tsvetkov
- David Wetherall (now at Google)
- Amy Zhang
Technology Review TR35
- Leilani Battle
- Abie Flaxman (Adjunct)
- Shyam Gollakota
- Jeff Heer
- Kurtis Heimerl
- Julie Kientz (Adjunct)
- Tadayoshi Kohno
- Shwetak Patel
- Nadya Peek (Adjunct)
- Tapan Parikh (Affiliate)
- Franziska Roesner
- Adriana Schulz
Com^2 Teaching Award
The Com^2 Teaching Award (UW ACM Teaching Award before 2023) is given annually to faculty members selected for recognition by the undergraduate majors in the Allen School.
- 2023 Winners: Andrea Coladangelo, Ryan Maas
Past Winners, 1998 – 2022
- 2019: Hunter Schafer, Robbie Weber, Tadayoshi Kohno
- 2019: Justin Hsia
- 2018: Adam Blank
- 2017: Adam Blank
- 2016: Ruth Anderson
- 2015: James Lee
- 2014: Gaetano Borriello
- 2013: Magda Balazinska
- 2012: Hal Perkins
- 2011: Stuart Reges
- 2010: Luis Ceze
- 2009: Marty Stepp
- 2008: Dan Grossman
- 2007: Ed Lazowska
- 2006: Steve Gribble
- 2005: Dan Grossman
- 2004: Brian Curless
- 2003: Carl Ebeling
- 2002: Ben Dugan
- 2001: Steve Gribble
- 2000: Steve Wolfman
- 1999: Martin Tompa
- 1998: Martin Tompa