Faculty Honors (2021)

Faculty Honors


The below list recognizes faculty working at CDS who have earned awards in 2021:

2021 List of Awards

  • Sam Bowman, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Data Science: Google Research Collabs; National Science Foundation CAREER Award
  • Kyunghyun Cho, Professor of Computer Science and Data Science: Samsung-Ho-Am Prize
  • Juliana Freire, Professor of Computer Science, Engineering, and Data Science: Google Research Collabs; International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity (WTMC); IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy for Discovering and Measuring Malicious URL Redirection Campaigns from Fake News Domains
  • He He, Assistant Professor of Computer and Data Science: Google Research Collabs
  • Yann LeCun, Professor of Neural Science, Data Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering: French Academy of Sciences; National Academy of Science
  • Jonathan Niles-Weed, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science: Google Research Collabs; Optimal Transport and Machine Learning Workshop, Best Paper Award for Entropic estimation of optimal transport maps, 2020 (with CDS PhD student Aram-Alexandre Pooladian)
  • Claudio Silva, Professor of Data Science, Computer Science, and Engineering: Institute Professor of Tandon School of Engineering
  • Julia Stoyanovich, Associate Professor of DS, CS, and Engineering: Institute Associate Professor of Tandon School of Engineering, (September 2021 – August 2024)


  • 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