Faculty Honors (2018)

Faculty Honors


The below list recognizes faculty working at CDS who have earned awards in 2018:

2018 List of Awards

  • Afonso S. Bandeira, (Former) Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
  • Joan Bruna, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Data Science: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
  • Kyunghyun Cho, Professor of Computer Science and Data Science: International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference Best Paper Award for Transfer Learning for Music Classification and Regression Tasks (2018), NVIDIA Pioneer for Loss Functions for Multiset Prediction, (2018)
  • Juliana Freire, Professor of Computer Science, Engineering, and Data Science: ACM SIGMOD Most Reproducible Paper Award for Data Polygamy: The Many-Many Relationships Between Urban Spatio-Temporal Data Sets (2018)
  • Todd Gureckis, (Associated) Professor of Psychology: Society of Mathematical Psychology Outstanding Paper Award for Do People Ask Good Questions? Computational Brain & Behavior, 1, 69–89 (2018)
  • Julia Kempe, Professor Computer Science, Mathematics, and Data Science: Academia Europaea Membership
  • Brenden Lake, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Data Science: Society of Mathematical Psychology Outstanding Paper Award for Do People Ask Good Questions? Computational Brain & Behavior, 1, 69–89 (2018)
  • Yann LeCun, Professor of Computer Science, Neural Science, Data Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering: Harold Pender Award, Innovative Research Interchange Medal, Turing Award
  • Foster Provost, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Data Science, and Information Systems: Information Systems Research
  • Claudio Silva, Professor of Data Science, Computer Science, and Engineering: Academy of Television Arts & Science Emmy Award, EUROVIS Best Paper Award for Baseball Timeline: Summarizing Baseball Plays Into a Static Visualization (2018)
  • Julia Stoyanovich, Associate Professor of DS, CS, and Engineering: National Science Foundation CAREER Award, NYC Automated Decision Systems Task Force


  • 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