Faculty Honors

Here is a selection of awards received by UW College of Engineering Faculty (emeriti included).

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2017 - Tom Anderson (CSE)

2016 - Anna Karlin (CSE)

2013 - Susan Eggers (CSE)

2004 - Edward D. Lazowska (CSE)

MacArthur Fellows

2011 - Shwetak Patel (CSE, ECE)

2007 - Yoky Matsuoka (CSE)

National Academy of Engineering

2020 - Steven L. Kramer (CEE)

2016 - Tom Anderson (CSE)

2014 - James J. Riley (ME)

2013 - Eric Horvitz (CSE affiliate)

2012 - Rico Malvar (ECE affiliate)

2012 - David Stahl (CEE)

2011 - Hank Levy (CSE)

2010 - Dennis Lettenmeier (CEE)

2009 - David Auth (BioE affiliate)

2009 - Matthew O'Donnell (BioE)

2006 - Susan Eggers (CSE)

2006 - George M. Homsy (ME affiliate)

2005 - Allan Hoffman (BioE)

2003 - Phil Bernstein (CSE affiliate)

2003 - Burton Smith (CSE affiliate)

2002 - Buddy Ratner (BioE)

2001 - Ed Lazowska (CSE)

2000 - James Bassingthwaighte (BioE)

1996 - Akira Ishimaru (ECE)

1994 - Dave Cutler (CSE affiliate)

1994 - Bruce Finlayson (ChemE)

1993 - Irene Peden (ECE)

1987 - Bishnu S. Atal (ECE affiliate)

1986 - Albert Kobayashi (ME)

1976 - Abraham Hertzberg (A&A, deceased)

1972 - Albert Babb (ChemE)

1969 - Edward Wenk Jr. (CEE, deceased)

1968 - Milo Bell (BioE, deceased)

National Academy of Sciences

2013 - Mary Lidstrom (ChemE)

1996 - Richard Karp (CSE)

1993 - Bishnu S. Atal (ECE)

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

2019 - Steve Brunton (ME)

2019 - Alvin Cheung (CSE)

2019 - Elizabeth Nance (ChemE)

2019 - Kevin Schneider (ECE affiliate)

2017 - Emily B. Fox (CSE and ECE adjunct)

2016 - Shwetak Patel (CSE, ECE)

2016 - Luke Zettlemoyer (CSE)

2009 - Bruce J. Hinds (MSE)

2009 - Michael Hochberg (ECE)

2008 - Cecilia Aragon (HCDE)

2007 - Maya Gupta (ECE)

2005 - Suzie Hwang Pun (BioE)

2004 - Wei Li (ME)

2004 - Radha Poovendran (ECE)

2003 - Yoky Matsuoka (CSE)

2000 - Alon Halevy (CSE)

1999 - Chris Diorio (CSE)

1997 - Deirdre Meldrum (ECE)

Sloan Research Fellowships

2020 - Hannaneh Hajishirzi (CSE)

2020 - Yin Tat Lee (CSE)

2019 - Alvin Cheung (CSE)

2019 - Shayan Oveis Gharan (CSE)

2018 - Maya Cakmak (CSE)

2018 - Arka Majumdar (ECE)

2017 - Ali Farhadi (CSE)

2016 - Emina Torlak (CSE)

2015 - Emily B. Fox (CSE and ECE adjunct)

2015 - Shyam Gollakota (CSE)

2015 - Thomas Rothvoss (CSE)

2014 - Jeffrey Heer (CSE)

2014 - Edward Lazowska (CSE)

2014 - Shyam Gollakota (CSE)

2013 - James Carothers (ChemE)

2012 - Shwetak Patel (CSE and ECE)

2011 - Anup Rao (CSE)

2011 - Georg Seelig (CSE and ECE)

2011 - Paul Wiggins (BioE and Physics)

2010 - Luis Ceze (CSE)

2010 - Christine Luscombe (MSE)

2009 - James Lee (CSE)

2008 - Tadayoshi Kohno (CSE)

2005 - Venkatesan Guruswami (CSE)

2005 - Mark Oskin (CSE)

2004 - Steve Gribble (CSE)

2004 - David Wetherall (CSE)

2003 - Pedro Domingos (CSE)

2003 - Zoran Popovic (CSE)

2001 - Scott Hauck (CSE and ECE)

2001 - Raj Rao (CSE)

2001 - Steve Seitz (CSE)

2001 - Dan Suciu (CSE)

2000 - Brian Curless (CSE)

2000 - Chris Diorio (CSE)

1999 - Alon Halevy (CSE)

1995 - David Salesin (CSE)

1994 - Tom Anderson (CSE)

1994 - Eve Riskin (CSE and ECE)

Recent Honors

Adriana Schulz (CSE) and Nadya Peek (HCDE) have have been named as “Innovators Under 35” recognized by MIT Technology Review as part of its 2020 TR35 Awards. 06/18 More »

Arka Majumdar and Lillian Ratliff Arka Majumdar (ECE) and Lillian Ratliff (ECE) are each a recipient of the 2020 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (ONR YIP) award. 04/20 More »

10 UW engineering professors receive Google Faculty Research Awards: Tom Anderson, Jennifer Mankoff, James Fogarty, Jon Froelich, Sewoong Oh and Adriana Schulz of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; Leah Findlater and Sean Munson of the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering; Julian Marshall of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; and Amy Orsborn of both the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Department of Bioengineering. 03/20 More »

Hannaneh Hajishirzi (CSE) and Yin Tat Lee (CSE) were awarded Sloan Research Fellowships. 02/20

Steven L. Kramer (CEE) was elected a memeber of the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to geotechnical earthquake engineering, including liquefaction, seismic stability, and seismic site response. 02/20

Behçet Açıkmeşe (A&A) received the 2019 Award for Technical Excellence in Aerospace Control from the IEEE Control System Society. 12/19

Justin Little (A&A) was a recipient of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program. 10/19

Uri Shumlak (A&A) was elected American Physical Society Fellow. 10/19

Corie L. Cobb (ME) is the recipient of a 2019 DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA). 09/19 More »

Per Reinhall (ME) and Mari Ostendorf (ECE) have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. 07/19 More »

Steve Brunton (ME), Alvin Cheung (CSE), Elizabeth Nance (ChemE), and Kevin Schneider (ECE affilate) are the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 07/19

Corie L. Cobb (ME) is the recipient of a 2019 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (NTFA) 05/19 More »

Shwetak Patel (CSE, ECE) Shwetak Patel will receive the prestigious ACM Prize in Computing for "contributions to creative and practical sensing systems for sustainability and health." 04/19 More: UW News » | CSE News » | ECE News

Mark Zachry (HCDE) was named Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing in honor of his scholarly productivity, leadership, and service to the field. 3/19 More »

Steve Brunton (ME) won the 2019 SIAG/CSE Early Career Prize. 03/19 More »

Mari Ostendorf (ECE) has been elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics. She also won the 2018 IEEE Flanagan Medal. 12/18

Matthew O’Donnell (BioE) received the 2019 IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award "for leadership in biomedical ultrasonics and medical imaging technologies." 12/18 More »

Daniel Schwartz (ChemE, CEI) received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the NSF. 10/18 More »

Yinhai Wang (CEE) received ITE Innovation in Education Award. 07/18 More »

Brett Maurer (CEE) received a CAREER award to investigate long-past earthquakes by studying soil liquefaction.. 06/18 More »

David Castner (ChemE) received the AVS’s highest research honor, the Medard W. Welch Award for leading advances in surface analysis methods applied to organic and biological samples. 6/18 More »

Eve Riskin (EE) received the 2017 Diversity Award of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association. 05/18 More »

Steve Kramer (CEE) was presented with the 2018 H. Bolton Seed Medal by the American Society of Civil Engineers. 03/18 More »

Yin Tat Lee (CSE) has won an NSF CAREER Award to develop new, efficient algorithms for convex optimization. 02/18 More »

Anne Goodchild (CEE) was named 2017 Person of the Year by Transportation Club of Seattle. 02/18 More »

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