Faculty Honors (2020)

Faculty Honors


The below list recognizes faculty working at CDS who have earned awards in 2020:

2020 List of Awards

  • Kyunghyun Cho, Professor of Computer Science and Data Science: Google Faculty Research Award
  • Yann LeCun, Professor of Computer Science, Neural Science, Data Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellowship; Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor
  • Juliana Freire, Professor of Computer Science, Engineering, and Data Science: ACM Sigmod Contributions Award, Workshop on Computational Methods in Online Misbehavior (Cyber Safety) for A proactive fake news domain discovery system using real-time social media feeds (2020)
  • Cristina Savin, Assistant Professor of Neural Science and Data Science, Google Faculty Research Award


  • 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