The Department of Computer Science at Boston University is widely regarded to be among the top computer science programs in the nation, and this is reflected in the quality and commitment of our faculty. The following list represents both national and international awards and recognitions received by our faculty members.
NSF CAREER Awards or Presidential/NSF Young Investigator Awards?
- Jonathan Appavoo, 2013
- Manos Athanassoulis, 2022
- Azer Bestavros, 1993
- Margrit Betke, 2001
- Mark Bun, 2021
- John Byers, 2001
- Mark Crovella, 1995
- Alina Ene, 2018
- Marco Gaboardi, 2019
- Sharon Goldberg, 2014
- George Kollios, 2002
- Renato Mancuso, 2023
- Abraham Matta, 1997
- Sofya Raskhodnikova, 2008
- Leonid Reyzin, 2006
- Stan Sclaroff, 1996
- Adam Smith, 2008
- Evimaria Terzi, 2013
- Emily Whiting, 2021
- Hongwei Xi, 2001
NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Awards
ONR Young Investigator Awards
DOE Computational Science Teaching Awards
NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow or Presidential Early Career (PECASE) Awards
Sloan Research Fellowships
Senior Members of the ACM
Senior Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the International Association for Pattern Recognition
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Fellows of the International Association for Cryptologic Research
RSA Conference Awards for Excellence in Mathematics
ACM/IEEE Knuth Prize Awards
ACM, IEEE, and USENIX Field Awards
ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Awards
ACM, IEEE, and CRA Service Awards
- Azer Bestavros, 1999 – IEEE CS Society, TCRTS Distinguished Service Award
- Azer Bestavros, 1998 – ACM, LCTES Distinguished Service Award
- Abraham Matta, 2011 – IEEE ICCCN 2011 Leadership Award
Members of the National Academies
- Leonid Levin, 2019 – US National Academy of Sciences
- Peter Gacs – Hungarian Academy of Science
Research Faculty Fellows
- Evimaria Terzi – Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow
- Jonathan Appavoo – IBM Research Faculty Fellow
Industry Awards
- Manos Athanassoulis, 2020, Facebook Faculty Research Award
- Azer Bestavros, 1997 – Compaq Brazil R&D Award
- Margrit Betke, 2017 – Google Research Faculty Award
- Ran Canetti, 2005 – IBM Corporate Award
- Mark Crovella, 1997 – Compaq Brazil R&D Award
- Marco Gaboardi & Kate Saenko, 2020 – Google Faculty Research Award
- Derry Wijaya, 2013 – Google Anita Borg
- Derry Wijaya, 2019 – Google exploreCSR
Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
- Marco Gaboardi & Mark Bun, 2019
IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize
Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology
Test of Time / Influential Paper Awards
International Awards
- Azer Bestavros, 2012 – Qatar Foundation Expatriate Scientists Award