Faculty Honors (2016)

Faculty Honors


The below list recognizes faculty working at CDS who have earned awards in 2016:

2016 List of Awards

  • Yann LeCun, Professor of Neural Science, Data Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering: Instituto Politecnico Nacional De Mexico Doctorate Honoris Causa
  • Eero Simoncelli, Professor of Neural Science, Mathematics, Data Science, and Psychology: IEEE Signaling Processing Society Sustained Impact Paper Award for Perceptual image quality assessment: From error visibility to structural similarity (2016)


  • Kyunghyun Cho, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Data Science: National Academy of Engineering of Korea, Associate Member
  • Juliana Freire, Professor of Computer Science, Data Science, and Engineering: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellowship
  • Andrew Gordon Wilson, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Data Science: National Science Foundation CAREER Award
  • Julia Kempe, Professor Computer Science, Mathematics, and Data Science: Silver Professorship
  • Yann LeCun, Professor of Neural Science, Data Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellowship
  • Tal Linzen, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Data Science: National Science Foundation CAREER Award
  • Jonathan Niles-Weed, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science: Institute of Mathematical Statistics Tweedie New Researcher Award
  • Rajesh Ranganath, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science: National Science Foundation CAREER Award