Our CS Faculty Make a Difference
Our faculty are the cornerstone of our department's education and research, preparing students for careers in fields that have tremendous impact on key areas of modern life while also upholding our university's public-service mission. Our faculty members are renowned throughout the state, nation and world for their cutting-edge computer-science discoveries and contributions. Find out about their many well-deserved honors, awards and recognitions.
Lifetime Awards and Recognitions
- AAAS Fellows
- Prasant Mohapatra
- ACM Distinguished Members
- Matt Bishop
Hao Chen
Vladimir Filkov
Sean Peisert - ACM Fellows
- Premkumar Devanbu
Dan Gusfield
Kwan-Liu Ma
Nelson Max - ACM Gordon Bell Prize Winners
- Francois Gygi
- ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award Winners
- Phillip Rogaway
- ACM Senior Members
- David Doty
Matthew Farrens
Mohammad Sadoghi - ACM SIGGRAPH Academy
- Nelson Max
- ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award Winners
- Premkumar Devanbu
- ACM Steven A. Coons Award Winners
- Nelson Max
- American Cancer Society Fellows
- Patrice Koehl
- American Mathematical Society Fellows
- Greg Kuperberg
- American Physical Society Fellows
- Raissa D’Souza
Francois Gygi - Biju Patnaik Lifetime Scientific Excellence Award Winners
- Prasant Mohapatra
- Godel Prize
- Matthew Franklin
- IACR Fellow
- Phillip Rogaway
- IEEE Computer Society Harlan D. Mills Award Winners
- Premkumar Devanbu
- IEEE Fellows
- Hao Chen
Dan Gusfield
Xin Liu
Kwan-Liu Ma
Prasant Mohapatra
Biswanath Mukherjee
Massimo Tornatore - IEEE Optical Networking Outstanding Technical Achievement Award Winners
- Biswanath Mukherjee
- IEEE Senior Members
- Dipak Ghosal
- IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award Winners
- Kwan-Liu Ma
- IFIP Silver Core
- Matt Bishop
- International Society for Computational Biology - Fellow
- Dan Gusfield
- LLNL Computation Directorate Distinguished Achievement Award Winners
- Francois Gygi
- National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellows
- Raissa D’Souza
- Network Science Society Fellows
- Raissa D’Souza
- RSA Award for Mathematics
- Phillip Rogaway
- SIAM Fellows
- Zhaojun Bai
Academic/Conference Awards and Recognitions
- ACM Best Papers
- Matt Bishop
Premkumar Devanbu
Vladimir Filkov
Sam King
Prasant Mohapatra
Michael Neff
Mohammad Sadoghi - ACM Test of Time Award Winners
- Raissa D’Souza
Premkumar Devanbu
Vladimir Filkov
Phillip Rogaway - AiGameDev.com Award Winners
- Josh McCoy
- Bronze Medal from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
- Patrice Koehl
- EATCS Best Papers
- David Doty
- ICACHI Outstanding Chinese Young Leaders in HCI
- Hao-Chuan Wang
- IEEE Best Papers
- Ian Davidson
Premkumar Devanbu
Sam King
Xin Liu
Kwan-Liu Ma
Prasant Mohapatra
Biswanath Mukherjee
Massimo Tornatore - IEEE Charles Kao Award Winners
- Biswanath Mukherjee
- IEEE Editors
- Prasant Mohapatra
- IEEE Visualization Test of Time Award Winners
- Nelson Max
- IFIP Silver Core
- Matt Bishop
- IndieCade Awards Festival Nominees
- Josh McCoy
- International Conference Best Papers
- David Doty
Kwan-Liu Ma
Mohammad Sadoghi
Ilias Tagkopoulos
Zhou Yu - Isadora Duncan Award Winners
- Michael Neff
- Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography Winners
- Phillip Rogaway
- Most Influential Paper Award Winners
- Premkumar Devanbu
Vladimir Filkov - National Tsing Hua University College of EECS Teaching Excellence Award
- Hao-Chuan Wang
- NCISSE Academia Award Winners
- Matt Bishop
- NCISSE Founder's Award Winners
- Matt Bishop
- Network Science Society Euler Award Winners
- Raissa D’Souza
- Network Science Society Presidents
- Raissa D’Souza
- NIT Distinguished Alumnus Award Winners
- Prasant Mohapatra
- PET (Privacy Enhancing Technology) Award Winners
- Phillip Rogaway
- PSU Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award
- Prasant Mohapatra
- Rising Stars in EECS by MIT
- Cindy Rubio González
Zhou Yu - SIAM Best Papers
- Ian Davidson
- SIAM Best Posters
- Josh McCoy
- USENIX Best Papers
- Sam King
- World Class University Visiting Professors
- Prasant Mohapatra
- Ziegel Award Winners
- Norm Matloff
Governmental and NGO Awards and Recognitions
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship
- Nina Amenta
Patrice Koehl
Greg Kuperberg - Army Research Office Young Investigator Award Winners
- Sam King (Navy)
Yong Jae Lee - DOE Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship
- Cindy Rubio González
- DOE Early Career Award
- Cindy Rubio González
Aditya Thakur - DOE Weapons Excellence Award Winners
- Francois Gygi
- Hellman Foundation Fellowship
- Cindy Rubio González
Yong Jae Lee - IGEM Synthetic Biology Grand Prize Winner
- Ilias Tagkopoulos
- LLNL Defense and Nuclear Technologies Award Winners
- Francois Gygi
- LLNL Science and Technology Award Winners
- David Doty
Francois Gygi
Yong Jae Lee - MOST Young Investigator Research Project
- Hao-Chuan Wang
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award Winners
- Nina Amenta
Hao Chen
Ian Davidson
David Doty
Matthew Franklin
Dipak Ghosal
Cindy Rubio González
Bernd Hamann
Isaac Kim
Sam King
Xin Liu
Jason Lowe-Power
Kwan-Liu Ma
Slobodan Mitrovic
Michael Neff
Phillip Rogaway
Ilias Tagkopoulos
Aditya Thakur - National Science Foundation Presidential Early Career Award Winners
- Kwan-Liu Ma
- National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award Winners
- Bernd Hamann
- National Science Foundation Science Visualization Contest Honorable Mention
- Nina Amenta
- National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award Winners
- Matthew Farrens
- Packard Fellowship in Science & Engineering
- Matthew Franklin
- Schlumberger Foundation Technical Award Winners
- Kwan-Liu Ma
- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Award Winners
- Cindy Rubio González
Commercial Organization Awards and Recognitions
- Adobe Data Science Research Award
- Yong Jae Lee
- Amazon Academic Research Award Winners
- Muhao Chen
Zhou Yu - AWS Machine Learning Research Award
- Yong Jae Lee
- CHEST Center Award Recipients
- Setareh Rafatirad
- Facebook Probability and Programming Research Award
- Cindy Rubio González
Aditya Thakur - Facebook Testing and Verification Research Award
- Cindy Rubio González
Aditya Thakur - Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science
- Zhou Yu
- Google Faculty Research Award Winners
- Hao-Chuan Wang
- HP Labs Research Innovation Award Winners
- Kwan-Liu Ma
Prasant Mohapatra - IBM BlueGene/L Core Team Award Winners
- Francois Gygi
- IBM Invention-Plateau Award Winners
- Mohammad Sadoghi
- IBM Master Inventor Rank Nominees
- Mohammad Sadoghi
- Intel Lab Research Gift Award Winners
- Sam King
Zhou Yu - Microsoft Research Gift Award Winners
- Sam King
- Tencent AI Lab Rhino-Bird Gift Award Winners
- Zhou Yu
UC Davis Awards and Recognitions
- ASUCD Excellence in Teaching Award
- Patrice Koehl
- CAMPOS Faculty Scholars
- Cindy Rubio González
- DCSC Faculty Member of the Year Award Winners
- Christopher Nitta
Ronald Olsson
Joël Porquet - Endowed Chairs
- Matthew Farrens
Dipak Ghosal
Biswanath Mukherjee - UC Davis Academic Senate Distinguished Public Service Award
- Norm Matloff
- UC Davis Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
- Patrice Koehl
Norm Matloff
Ronald Olsson - UC Davis Chancellor's Fellow
- Nina Amenta
Xin Liu
Cindy Rubio González
Zubair Shafiq
Zhendong Su - UC Davis Chancellor's Fellowship for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award Winners
- Setareh Rafatirad
- UC Davis College of Engineering Best Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner Advisors
- Prasant Mohapatra
Biswanath Mukherjee - UC Davis College of Engineering Dean’s Collaborative Research (DECOR) Award
- Aditya Thakur
- UC Davis College of Engineering Outstanding Advisor Award Winners
- Ronald Olsson
- UC Davis College of Engineering Outstanding Engineering Faculty Award Winners
- Prasant Mohapatra
- UC Davis College of Engineering Outstanding Engineering Junior Faculty Award Winners
- David Doty
Yong Jae Lee
Xin Liu - UC Davis College of Engineering Outstanding Mid-career Faculty Research Award Winners
- Raissa D’Souza
Patrice Koehl
Kwan-Liu Ma - UC Davis College of Engineering Outstanding Senior Faculty Award Winners
- Dan Gusfield
Kwan-Liu Ma
Biswanath Mukherjee - UC Davis College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher of the Year Nominees
- Kurt Eiselt
- UC Davis College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher of the Year Winners
- Matt Bishop
Patrice Koehl
Joël Porquet
Phillip Rogaway - UC Davis Computer Science Department Best Graduate Researcher Award Winner Advisors
- Prasant Mohapatra
- UC Davis Computer Science Department Instructor of the Year Award
- Norm Matloff
- UC Davis Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award Winners
- Biswanath Mukherjee
- UC Davis Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award Winners
- Norm Matloff
- UC Davis Excellence in Postdoctoral Research Award Winner Mentors
- Prasant Mohapatra
- UC Davis Faculty Development Award Winners
- Ilias Tagkopoulos
- UC Davis International Community Building Award Winners
- Biswanath Mukherjee
- UC Davis Junior Faculty Award
- Hao Chen
- UC Davis Outstanding Adviser Award Winners
- Norm Matloff