Faculty Awards

Michael Papka:

• 2022 ACM Gordon Bell Prize; Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research

ACM Distinguished Lecturers

• 2001-2003, 1991-1996: Ouri Wolfson

Cornelia Caragea

• Guest Editor, MATHEMATICS, 2021
• Editor, Expert Systems, 2019-2020

Deebaleena Chattopadhyay

• Editor, Frontiers in Computer Science, 2018-2020
• Editor, Frontiers in Psych, 2018-2020

Bhaskar DasGupta

• Associate Editor, Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications, 2008–present
• Editorial Board, BioMed Research International, 2019–2022
• Editorial Board, Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biology, 2009-2021
• Editorial Advisory Board, The Open Bioinformatics Journal, 2009–2015,  2021–present
• Editorial Board, Advances in Bioinformatics, 2008–2019
• Area Editor, Encyclopedia of Algorithms, 2nd edition
• Editorial Board Member, New Journal of Science, 2013–2017
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, 2009–2018
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 2009–2010
• Editorial Board Member, Theoretical Biology Insights, 2008–2015
• Guest editor, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2013 and 2014
• Guest editor, Algorithmica, 2007

Barbara Di Eugenio

• Editor in Chief, Journal of Discourse and Dialogue, 2019-present

Mark Grechanik

• Editorial Board Member, Springer Empirical Software Engineering Journal

Andrew Johnson

• Editorial Board Member, IEEE Multimedia, 2000-2003

Chris Kanich

• Area Editor, ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society Newsletter, 2015-present

Andruid Kerne

• Editor, JCSCW Special Issue on Crisis Informatics and Collaboration, 2014

Ajay Kshemkalyani

• Editor, Computer Networks, Elsevier, 2004-2010
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Symptoms, 2010-2014.

G. Elisabeta Marai

• Guest Editor, Computer Graphics Forum, 2021-2022
• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Bioinformatics, 2020-2022
• Editor, Virtual Environments, Frontiers and Robotics in AI, 2018-2019
• Associate Editor, BMC Bioinformatics, 2014
• Guest Editor, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Special Issue on Biomedical Applications: From Data Capture to Modeling, 2012.

Fabio Miranda

• Editor, Computers and Graphics Special Issue, SIBGRAPI, 2022

Michael E. Papka

• Associate Editor, Frontiers in High Performance Computing (Architecture and Systems), 2022
• Editorial Board Member, IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, 2015-2020

Aravida Prasad Sistla

• Associate Editor, Formal Methods in System Design, 1997-Present
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming
• Editorial Board Member, ACM Transaction on Computation Logic, 2008-2016

Robert Sloan

• Editorial Board Member, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2019-Present
• Editorial Board Member, Information and Computation, 2007-Present
• Editorial Board Member, ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2003-2010
• Editorial Board Member, Machine Learning, 2003-2006
• Guest Editor, Journal of Computer Systems and Sciences

Wei Tang

• Associate Editor, Journal of Machine Vision and Applications, 2022-Present
• Editor, Computer Vision, 2022-Present
• Guest Editor, Journal of Machine Vision and Applications, Special Issue on Human Pose Estimation and its Applications, 2022

V. N. Venkatakrishnan

• Editorial Board Member, Encyclopedia on Cybersecurity and Public Policy, 2015
• Editorial Board Member, IEEE Systems Journal, Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Complex Systems, 2013

Ouri Wolfson

• Specialty Chief Editor, Smart Technologies and Cities, Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2020-Present
• Editor in Chief, Future Transportation, 2020-Present
• Editorial Board Member, MDPI Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2020 – Present
• Editorial Board Member, MDPI Sustainability, Sustainable Transportation Section, 2019-Present
• Associate Editor, Springer Journal of Big Data Analytics in Transportation, 2018-Present
• See complete list of editorial appointments here

Philip S. Yu

• Editor in Chief, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
• Editor in Chief, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2001-2004
• Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on the Internet Technology, 2010
• Editor, Knowledge and Information Systems, 1998-2004

Lenore Zuck

• Editor, International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer

AAAI Fellows

• Bing Liu

AAAS Fellows

• Isabel Cruz
• Ouri Wolfson

ACM Fellows

• Bing Liu
• Aravida Prasad Sistla
• Ouri Wolfson
• Philip S. Yu

IEEE Fellows

• Bing Liu
• Ouri Wolfson
• Philip S. Yu

Lu Cheng

• Arizona Governor’s Celebration of Innovation Award, 2018

Peter Nelson

• Federal Highway Administration, National Award for Traveler Information Web Sites for our Gateway System, 2003

2023: Xiaorui Sun

2021: Elena Zheleva

2017: Brian Ziebart

2015: Anastasios Sidiropoulos

2012: Jakob Eriksson

2010: G. Elisabeta Marai

2009: V. N. Venkatakrishnan

2005: Bhaskar DasGupta

2002: Barbara Di Eugenio

2000: Daniel Bernstein

1999: Ajay Kshemkalyani, John Lillis

1997: Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz

Michael E. Papka

• Secretary of Energy, Achievement Award: High Performance Computing Resource Team, 2021

Barbara Di Eugenio

• Association of Women in Science (AWIS) Zenith Award, 2022

• 2022: Philip S. Yu, Very Large Data Bases Endowment Inc. (VLDB)
• 2021: Elisabeta Marai, International Society for Computational Biology
• 2020: Bing Liu, ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
• 2019: Bing Liu, ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

2019: Gonzalo Bello

2017: Barbara Di Eugenio

• 2022: G. Elisabeta Marai, Mark Hallenbeck
• 2021: Shanon Reckinger, Gonzalo Bello, Natalie Parde
• 2019: Deebaleena Chattopadhyay
• 2013: Ugo Buy
• 2012: Bhaskar DasGupta
• 2011: V. N. Venkatakrishnan

• 2021: Elena Zheleva
• 2020: Cornelia Caragea
• 2017: G. Elisabeta Marai (Young Researcher of the Year)
• 2014: Mark Grechanik
• 2011: Leilah Lyons
• 2009: V. N. Venkatakrishnan
• 2006: Ouri Wolfson
• 2002: Aravida Prasad Sistla
• 2001: Ouri Wolfson
• 1999: Tom Defanti, Peter Nelson

The Harold A. Simon award is named for the late Dr. Harold A. Simon, a UIC professor of mechanical engineering. The award was first awarded in 1985 to memorialize Dr. Simon and recognize teaching excellence within the College of Engineering. One award is presented each year to a College of Engineering faculty member who embodies the distinguished service, dedication, and teaching excellence that defined the late Dr. Simon’s career at UIC.

• 2023: Gonzalo Bello
• 2007: Dale Reed
• 2005: Pat Troy
• 1995: Ugo Buy

UIC Awards for Excellence in Teaching

• 2023: Jakob Eriksson
• 2020: Mitchell Theys
• 2019: Barbara Di Eugenio
• 2018: Patrick Troy
• 2017: Dale Reed
• 2015: V. N. Venkatakrishnan
• 2009: Andrew Johnson
• 2006: Robert Sloan
• 2005: Ugo Buy

UIC Distinguished Professors

• 2017: Bing Liu
• 2013: Philip Yu

UIC Graduate Mentoring Awards

2018-2019: Chris Kanich

UIC Inventor of the Year

• 2000: Tom Defanti

UIC Research and Scholarship of the Year Awards

• 2013: Philip S. Yu (Distinguished Researcher)
• 2012: Bing Liu (Distinguished Researcher)

UIC Silver Circle Excellence in Teaching Awards

• 2023: Mark Hallenbeck
• 2022: Gonzalo Bello
• 2019: Joe Hummel
• 2015: Joe Hummel
• 2005: Dale Reed
• 2001: Pat Troy
• 1998: Pat Troy
• 1995: Pat Troy
• 1992: Pat Troy
• 1990: Peter Nelson (Finalist)

UIC Teaching Recognition Program

• 2023: Mark Hallenbeck
• 2013-2014: Jakob Eriksson, Barbara Di Eugenio
• 2012-2013: Dale Reed
• 2009-2010: V. N. Venkatakrishnan
• 2007-2008: Mitchell Theys, John Lillis
• 2006-2007: Andrew Johnson
• 2005-2006: Ugo Buy, Pat Troy, Robert Sloan
• 2004-2005: Dale Reed

University of Illinois Scholars

• 2023: G. Elisabeta Marai
• 2020: Peter Nelson
• 2019: Robert Sloan
• 2018: Barbara Di Eugenio
• 2017: V. N. Venkatakrishnan
• 2014: Philip S. Yu
• 2009: Ouri Wolfson
• 2008: Bing Liu
• 2006: Aravida Prasad Sistla
• 1989: Tom Defanti