Faculty Accolades

• Prof. William Baggett
  • CAS Award for Advising Excellence, 2023
• Prof. Amy Cook
  • CAS Early Career Research Award, 2022
• Prof. Dipankar Dasgupta
  • IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, 2022-24
  • ACM Distinguished Speaker
  • Arthur C. Graesser Presidential Award for Lifetime Achievement in Research, 2023
  • Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, 2022
  • Hill Professorship in Cybersecurity, 2018
  • IEEE Fellow, 2014
  • ACM SIGEVO Impact Award, 2014
  • Dr. Pat E. Burlison Professorship, 2014
  • Willard R. Sparks Eminent Faculty Award, 2012
  • Dunavant Professorship, 2007-10
  • CAS Distinguished Research Award, 2006
  • CAS Early Career Research Award, 1999
• Prof. Scott Fleming
  • CAS Award for Teaching Excellence, 2021
  • CAS Distinguished Research Award, 2018
  • CAS Early Career Research Award, 2015
• Prof. Stan Franklin
  • Former W. Harry Feinstone Interdisciplinary Research Professor
  • Dunavant Professorship, 2000-03
  • Willard R. Sparks Eminent Faculty Award, 1997
  • CAS Meritorious Faculty Award, 1994
• Prof. Max Garzon
  • CAS Meritorious Faculty Award, 2002
• Prof. Santosh Kumar
  • Lillian & Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Computer Science
  • Alumni Association Distinguished Research Award in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, 2013
  • CAS Distinguished Research Award, 2012
  • Popular Science magazine "Brilliant Ten," 2010
  • First Horizon Entrepreneurship and Innovation Fellow, 2010
  • CAS Early Career Research Award, 2008
• Kriangsiri Malasri
  • Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award, 2017
  • CAS Award for Advising Excellence, 2015
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, National Society of Leadership and Success, 2014
  • CAS Award for Teaching Excellence, 2014
  • Alumni Association Distinguished Advising Award, 2013
  • Thomas W. Briggs Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award, 2012
• Prof. Vinhthuy Phan
  • Pat Burlison Professorship, 2018
  • CAS Distinguished Teaching Award, 2022
• Prof. Vasile Rus
  • Jack and Jane Morris Professorship, 2021
  • Dunavant Professorship, 2016-19
• Prof. Sajjan Shiva
  • IEEE Fellow
  • Alumni Association Distinguished Research Award in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, 2022
  • CAS Distinguished Research Award, 2021
• Prof. Deepak Venugopal
  • CAS Early Career Research Award, 2020
• Prof. Lan Wang
  • Dunavant Professorship, 2021-24
  • Willard R. Sparks Eminent Faculty Award, 2022
  • CAS Distinguished Research Award, 2020
  • Alumni Association Distinguished Research Award in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, 2019
  • CAS Early Career Research Award, 2010
• Prof. Thomas Watson
  
  • UMRF Ventures Professorship, 2020-22
  • CAS Early Career Research Award, 2018