Faculty Honors (2019)

Faculty Honors


The below list recognizes faculty working at CDS who have earned awards in 2019:

2019 List of Awards

  • Joan Bruna, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Data Science: National Science Foundation Career Award
  • Kyunghyun Cho, Professor of Computer Science and Data Science: International Conference on Machine Learning Best Paper Award for Deep Neural Networks Improve Radiologists’ Performance in Breast Cancer Screening, co-authored by Nan Wu, Jason Phang, Jungkyu Park, Yiqiu Shen, Zhe Huang, Thibault Févry, Kyunghyun Cho, Krzysztof Geras, and collaborators (2019)
  • Juliana Freire, Professor of Computer Science, Engineering, and Data Science: ACM SIGSOFT International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Distinguished Paper Award, International Conference ON Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Foss Impact Paper Award
  • Brenden Lake, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Data Science: MIT Technology Review 35 Under 35
  • Claudio Silva, Professor of Data Science, Computer Science, and Engineering: IEEE VAST Best Paper Award for FlowSense: A Natural Language Interface for Visual Data Exploration with a Dataflow System, (2019)
  • Eero Simoncelli, Professor of Neural Science, Mathematics, Data Science, and Psychology: American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elected Member


  • Kyunghyun Cho, 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