Faculty Honors (2017)

Faculty Honors


The below list recognizes faculty working at CDS who have earned awards in 2017:

2017 List of Awards

  • Kyunghyun Cho, Professor of Computer Science and Data Science: CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
  • Yann LeCun, Professor of Neural Science, Data Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering: National Academy of Engineering
  • Foster Provost, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Data Science, and Information Systems: AIS & CIONET European Research Paper of the Year for a paper in MISQ
  • Eero Simoncelli, Professor of Neural Science, Mathematics, Data Science, and Psychology: Minerva Foundation Golden Brain Award for Fundamental Contributions to Visual Neuroscience


  • 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