Honors

2026

  • ASU-Science Prize for Transformational Impact — Mayank Kejriwal

2025

  • Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award — Ewa Deelman
  • Best Paper Honorable Mention — Luca Luceri

2024

  • Embassy of Italy Young Investigator Award for Research in AI — Luca Luceri
  • Board of Trustees — Ewa Deelman
  • Presidential appointment to US National Science Board — Yolanda Gil
  • Best Paper Award — Luca Luceri
  • Best Presentation Award — Luca Luceri
  • Best Paper Award — Luca Luceri
  • ARIS Emerging Broader Impacts Leader Award — Mayank Kejriwal

2023

  • Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society — Yolanda Gil
  • SWSA 10-year award — Jay Pujara
  • New Faculty Highlights — Mohammad Rostami
  • ISI Fellow — Ewa Deelman
  • ISI Fellow — Yolanda Gil
  • Best Paper Award — John Heidemann

2022

  • AI for Critical Mineral Assessment Competition — Craig Knoblock
  • Top Poster Award, Health Equity in Action Annual Workshop of the NIH NIMH — Abigail Horn
  • IEEE Brain Community Best Paper Award — Akhilesh Jaiswal
  • Euro-Par Achievement Award — Ewa Deelman
  • Outstanding Paper Award — Jonathan May
  • Best Paper Award — John Heidemann
  • AAAI Fellow — Kristina Lerman
  • SIAM Science Policy Fellowship — Mayank Kejriwal

2021

  • Senior Member of IEEE — Carl Kesselman
  • HPC Wire Readers' Choice award: Best HPC Collaboration (Academia/Government/Industry) — Ewa Deelman
  • Judge CSAW’21 Cybersecurity and Games Conference, Logic Locking Contest — Matthew French
  • Future Generation Computer Systems Journal Best Paper award — Ewa Deelman
  • William M. Keck Chair in Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering — Carl Kesselman
  • Research gift, Bosch Research North America — Filip Ilievski
  • Special Paper Award — Abdul Qadeer and John Heidemann
  • Special Paper Award — John Heidemann
  • AAIA Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association — Craig Knoblock
  • Best Paper Award, Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence, AI-2021: The Forty-first SGAI International Conference, On the Generalization Abilities of Fine-Tuned Commonsense Language Representation Models — Ke Shen
  • Goldwater Scholar, Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation — Haoda Wang
  • Best Paper Award, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (TrustNLP), AutoTriggER: Named Entity Recognition with Auxiliary Trigger Extraction — Dong-Ho Lee
  • 2021 National Science Foundation CAREER Award — Xiang Ren
  • Finalist of AAAS 2021 Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science — Mayank Kejriwal
  • Award for Excellence in Mentoring (Graduate Student Category), USC — Mayank Kejriwal
  • Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) — Craig Knoblock
  • Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) — Yolanda Gil

2020

  • Member of IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors — Terry Benzel
  • Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — Yolanda Gil
  • Fellow of IEEE — Yolanda Gil
  • IEEE Fellow — Craig Knoblock
  • Best Student Paper Award — George Papadimitriou
  • Senior Member of IEEE — Terry Benzel
  • ACM SIGCOMM 2020 Networking Systems Award — John Heidemann, Yuri Pradkin, et al.
  • Senior Member of AAAI — Yigal Arens
  • 2020 IEEE Harry H. Goode Memorial Award — Carl Kesselman
  • ACM Senior Member — Emilio Ferrara

2019

  • Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — Ewa Deelman
  • Senior Member of ACM — Emilio Ferrara
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award, 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) — Connor Imes
  • Inaugural EarthCube Legacy Award — Yolanda Gil
  • Mensa Foundation’s Intellectual Benefits to Society Award — Mayank Kejriwal
  • USC Stevens Technology Commercialization Award — Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli
  • USC Associates Award for Creativity in Research and Scholarship — Shrikanth Narayanan
  • Distinguished Alumni Award, College of Engineering—Guindy (India) — Shrikanth Narayanan
  • Forbes Asia 30 Under 30: Asia – Healthcare and Science — Xiang Ren
  • Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) — Shrikanth Narayanan

2018

  • 2018 Amazon Research Award — Greg Ver Steeg for a project titled "Information-theoretic Invariant Representation Learning."
  • 2018 Amazon Research Award — Xiang Ren for a project titled "Model Programming: Model-Level Fusion of Structured Knowledge Priors for Information Extraction."
  • Best Paper Award (co-author), 5th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio- Cultural Computing (BESC2018) — Shrikanth Narayanan
  • Appointment to NSF Directorate for Computer, Information Science and Engineering Advisory Committee — Terry Benzel
  • Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award — Craig Knoblock
  • Outstanding Paper — Jonathan May
  • Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) — Ewa Deelman

2017

  • Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) — Carl Kesselman
  • Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) — Craig Knoblock
  • Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) — Yolanda Gil
  • IEEE Fellow — Ewa Deelman
  • Distinguished Service Award from the Digital Government Society — Yigal Arens
  • Technology Advancement Grant, USC Stevens Center for Innovation — Young Cho
  • Named to ACM’s Future of Computing Academy — Yonatan Bisk

2016

  • Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) — Yolanda Gil
  • President-Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) — Yolanda Gil
  • Junior Scientific Award, Complex Systems Society — Emilio Ferrara
  • Outstanding Service Award, IEEE Communications Society — Joseph Touch
  • Young Faculty Award — Emilio Ferrara
  • Leadership Computing Challenge Award, 2015-2016 — Itay Hen

2015

  • Senior Fellow, UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics — Emilio Ferrara
  • Top 100 Big Data Experts, selected by Maptive — Emilio Ferrara
  • HPDC Achievement Award — Ewa Deelman
  • Leadership Computing Challenge Award, 2014-2015 — Itay Hen
  • Fellows, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) — Daniel Marcu
  • Fellows, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) — Kevin Knight

2014

  • ACL Fellow — Premkumar Natarajan
  • Challenge Award, International Speech Communication Association — Matthew Black
  • Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence — Craig Knoblock
  • Use-Inspired Research Award, USC Viterbi — Rajiv Maheswaran, Yu-han Chang
  • Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence — Kevin Knight

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

  • Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence — Yolanda Gil
  • Milestone Award, IEEE, 1974-1982 — Danny Cohen et al
  • Internet Hall of Fame (Innovator) — Paul Mockapetris
  • Internet Hall of Fame (Pioneers) — Danny Cohen, Steve Crocker, Jonathan Postel
  • 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

  • Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery — Eduard Hovy

2008

  • First Place, Planetary Robotic Contingency Challenge, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society — Benham Salemi et al

2007

  • Internet2 IDEA Award — Carl Kesselman

2006

  • Jonathan B. Postel Award, Internet Society — Bob Braden, Joyce K. Reynolds
  • Honorary Doctorate, University of Amsterdam — Carl Kesselman

2005

  • SIGCOMM Awards, Association for Computing Machinery — Paul Mockapetris
  • Significant Technical Achievement Award, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — W. Lewis Johnson

2004

  • Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence — Craig Knoblock

2003

  • Top 10 Technology Innovators, InfoWorld magazine — Carl Kesselman
  • Internet Award in collaboration with the late Jonathan Postel, IEEE — Paul Mockapetris
  • Honorary Doctorate, University of Uppsala — Jerry Hobbs

2002

  • Fellow and Ada Lovelace Medal, British Computer Society — Carl Kesselman
  • Top 10 Technology Innovators, InfoWorld magazine — Clifford Neuman

2001

  • Software Tools User Group Award, USENIX association — Clifford Newman et al

1999

  • Endowed center at USC ISI and endowed chair at UCLA named for — Jonathan B. Postel
  • Fellows, Association for Computing Machinery — Robert Braden

1998

  • Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence — Steven Minton

1997

  • SIGCOMM Awards, Association for Computing Machinery — Jonathan Postel
  • Third Place, World Cup Robot Soccer Competition (RoboCup97) — ISI Team
  • Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence — Robert MacGregor

1994

  • Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence — Paul Rosenbloom

1993

  • Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence — Ramesh Patil
  • Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence — Robert Balzer

1992

  • Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence — William Swartout