Honors
2021
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): Craig Knoblock
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): Yolanda Gil
Finalist of AAAS 2021 Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science: Mayank Kejriwal
2020
Institute Achievement Award for 2020: Matt Binkley
Institute Achievement Award for 2020: Rajiv Mayani
Institute Achievement Award for 2020: Ryan Goodfellow
2020 IEEE Harry H. Goode Memorial Award: Carl Kesselman
Senior Member of AAAI: Yigal Arens
Senior Member of IEEE: Terry Benzel
ACM SIGCOMM 2020 Networking Systems Award: John Heidemann, Yuri Pradkin, et al.
Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): Yolanda Gil
Best Student Paper Award: George Papadimitriou
Member of IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors: Terry Benzel
2019
Institute Achievement Award for 2019: Wael AbdAlmageed
Institute Achievement Award for 2019: James Whalen, John Damoulakis
Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): Ewa Deelman
Senior Member of ACM: Emilio Ferrara
Inaugural EarthCube Legacy Award: Yolanda Gil
Best Paper Award, 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings: Yolanda Gil, Shrikanth Narayanan et al.
Distinguished Paper, Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference: Wes Hardaker
Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award, 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC): Connor Imes
Mensa Foundation’s Intellectual Benefits to Society Award: Mayank Kejriwal
Paper selected as one of 15 contributions to the Grand Challenges in the Earth and Space Sciences for the Centennial Collection of the Review of Geophysics Journal of the American Geophysical Union: Deborah Khider, Daniel Garijo, Yolanda Gil et al.
USC Associates Award for Creativity in Research and Scholarship: Shrikanth Narayanan
Distinguished Alumni Award, College of Engineering—Guindy (India): Shrikanth Narayanan
Best Paper Award (co-author), 5th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio- Cultural Computing (BESC2018): Shrikanth Narayanan
Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE): Shrikanth Narayanan
Forbes Asia 30 Under 30: Asia – Healthcare and Science: Xiang Ren
Best Technical Paper, PEARC19 Conference: Mats Rynge, Karan Vahi, Ewa Deelman et al.
Phil Andrews Most Transformative Contribution Award, PEARC19 Conference: Mats Rynge, Karan Vahi, Ewa Deelman et al.
USC Stevens Technology Commercialization Award: Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli
2018
2018 Amazon Research Award: Xiang Ren for a project titled "Model Programming: Model-Level Fusion of Structured Knowledge Priors for Information Extraction."
2018 Amazon Research Award: Greg Ver Steeg for a project titled "Information-theoretic Invariant Representation Learning."
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): Ewa Deelman
Appointment to NSF Directorate for Computer, Information Science and Engineering Advisory Committee: Terry Benzel
ISI Meritorious Service Award: Amir Hashmani, Jerry Li, Ken Johnson
ISI Outstanding Achievement Award: Greg Ver Steeg
2017
Distinguished Service Award from the Digital Government Society: Yigal Arens
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): Yolanda Gil
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): Carl Kesselman
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): Craig Knoblock
Named to ACM’s Future of Computing Academy: Yonatan Bisk
Technology Advancement Grant, USC Stevens Center for Innovation: Young Cho
2016
Leadership Computing Challenge Award, 2015-2016: Itay Hen
President-Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2016: Yolanda Gil
Institute Achievement Award for 2015: Ewa Deelman
Institute Achievement Award for 2015: John Heidemann
Institute Achievement Award for 2016: Pedro Szekely
Junior Scientific Award, Complex Systems Society: Emilio Ferrara
Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): Yolanda Gil
Outstanding Service Award, IEEE Communications Society: Joseph Touch
2015
ISI Institute Achievement Award for 2014: Terry Benzel
ISI Institute Achievement Award for 2014: Kevin Knight
Senior Fellow, UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics: Emilio Ferrara
Top 100 Big Data Experts, selected by Maptive: Emilio Ferrara
Leadership Computing Challenge Award, 2014-2015: Itay Hen
Fellows, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2015 Kevin Knight
Fellows, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2015 Daniel Marcu
2014
Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence: Craig Knoblock
Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence: Kevin Knight
Use-Inspired Research Award, USC Viterbi: Rajiv Maheswaran, Yu-han Chang
Challenge Award, International Speech Communication Association: Matthew Black
2013
Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Computational Linguistics: Jerry Hobbs
Chair, Association for Computing Machinery special interest group on AI, 2013-2016: Yolanda Gil
Innovations in Network Award, Corporation for Educational Network Initiatives: Ewa Deelman
2012
Internet Hall of Fame (Pioneers): Danny Cohen, Steve Crocker, Jonathan Postel
Internet Hall of Fame (Innovator): Paul Mockapetris
Milestone Award, IEEE, 1974-1982: Danny Cohen et al
Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence: Yolanda Gil
Grand Prize, MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference: Rajiv Maheswaren, Yu-Han Chang et al
2011
Challenge Award, International Speech Communication Association: Matthew Black
Best Demonstration Award, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems conference: Yu-Han Chang and Rajiv Maheswaren
2010 and Prior
Honorary Doctorate, University of Uppsala: Jerry Hobbs
Honorary Doctorate, University of Amsterdam: Carl Kesselman
Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence: Craig Knoblock, Paul Rosenbloom, William Swartout, Steven Minton, Robert MacGregor, Ramesh Patil, Robert Balzer
Fellows, Association for Computing Machinery: Robert Braden, Eduard Hovy
Top 10 Technology Innovators, InfoWorld magazine: Clifford Neuman, Carl Kesselman
Fellow and Ada Lovelace Medal, British Computing Society: Carl Kesselman
First Place, Planetary Robotic Contingency Challenge, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society: Benham Salemi et al
Third Place, World Cup Robot Soccer Competition (RoboCup97): ISI Team
Internet2 IDEA Award: Carl Kesselman
Jonathan B. Postel Award, Internet Society: Bob Braden, Joyce K. Reynolds
Endowed center at USC ISI and endowed chair at UCLA named for: Jonathan B. Postel
Internet Award in collaboration with the late Jonathan Postel, IEEE: Paul Mockapetris
Significant Technical Achievement Award, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: W. Lewis Johnson
SIGCOMM Awards, Association for Computing Machinery: Paul Mockapetris, Jonathan Postel
Software Tools User Group Award, USENIX association: Clifford Newman et al
Internet Hall of Fame, Internet Society: Danny Cohen, Steve Crocker, Paul Mockapetris, Jonathan Postel