Awards and Publications

By the Numbers
- Over 60 awards, including:
- Fourteen NSF career awards
- Fourteen IEEE best paper awards
- Four IEEE fellows and two ACM fellows
- Over 10 teaching awards
- Over 375 academic papers that have received 100+ Google citations
Department Highlights
- Among our faculty:
- Keith W. Ross: author of the most widely adopted international textbook on computer networking; fifth most popular non-introduction computer-science textbook overall.
- Boris Aronov: Fifth most prolific author in Discrete Computational Geometry, the flagship journal in the computational geometry field.
- Rumi Chunara, Phyllis Frankl, Juliana Freire, Rachel Greenstadt, Lisa Hellerstein, and Julia Stoyanovich: Six women among our 23 tenure and tenure-track professors.
- We have been awarded more than $30 million in research since 2009.
- We are a National Security Agency designated Center of Excellence in research, education, and cyber ops—one of the very few schools with all three designations.
Awards
Best Paper Awards
- Two Eurographics Educator Program Best Paper Awards (Juliana Freire [2010] and Claudio Silva [2011])
- Eurographics Best Paper Award (Yi-Jen Chiang [2000])
- Six IEEE Best Paper Awards (Juliana Freire [2007], Claudio Silva [2007 & 2008], Nasir Memon [2012], and Keith Ross [2008 and 2011])
- Six IEEE VIS Awards (Enrico Bertini [2011], Harish Doraiswamy [2016], Juliana Freire [2007], David Koop [2007], Claudio Silva [2007], and Huy T. Vo [2007])
- One IEEE International Conference on Big Data Award (Torsten Suel [2014])
- Two ACM Awards (Boris Aronov and Enrico Bertini [2013 and 2016])
- Two ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards (Justin Cappos [2017 and 2018])
- Digital Forensics Research Workshop Best Paper Award (Nasir Memon [2014])
- SIBGRAPI Best Paper Award (Claudio Silva [2012])
- Infocom Best Paper Award (Keith Ross [2009])
Research Awards
- IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award (Claudio Silva [2014])
- Fourteen NSF CAREER Awards (Yi-Jen Chiang [2001], Rumi Chunara [2019], Juliana Freire [2008], Phyllis Frankl [2006], Lisa Hellerstein [2009], Damon McCoy [2017 and 2018], Nasir Memon [1997], Julia Stoyanovich [2017 and 2018], Torsten Suel [2011], and Paul Torrens [2012, 2014, and 2017])
- Two Utah Innovation Awards (Juliana Freire [2009] and Claudio Silva [2009])
- Emirates ID Best Research in Advanced ID Systems (Nasir Memon [2014])
- Google Faculty Award (Juliana Freire [2013] and Keith Ross [2012])
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (Paul Torrens [2008])
Fellowships
- Two ACM Fellows (Keith Ross [2012] and Juliana Freire [2014])
- Four IEEE Fellows (Guido Gerig, Nasir Memon [2010], Keith Ross [2007], and Claudio Silva [2013])
- One SPIE Fellow (Nasir Memon [2014])
- One Sloan Fellow (Boris Aronov [1995])
Lecture and panel awards
- IEEE Signal Processing Society; Distinguished Lecturer (Nasir Memon [2011-12])
Miscellaneous Awards
- MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 (Rumi Chunara [2014])
- Popular Science magazine's Brilliant 10 (Justin Cappos [2013])
Staff Awards
- Outstanding Customer Service Award (Susana Garcia-Henriquez)
Education Awards:
- Six IBM Faculty Awards (Juliana Freire [2014 and 2008] and Claudio Silva [2005-7; 2013])
- Two Dean's Teaching Commendations (Juliana Freire [2009] and Claudio Silva [2007])
- Distinguished University Teaching Award (Haldun Hadimoglu [2004])
- Three Jacobs Excellence in Education Awards (Justin Cappos [2016], Nasir Memon [2002], and John Sterling)
- Nick Russo Memorial Helping Hands Award (Haldun Hadimoglu [2007])
- Student Activities Faculty of the Year Award (Haldun Hadimoglu [2011])
Google Citations
These citations, through Google Scholar, are an indication of the originality and necessity of a work of scholarly literature. The following papers were contributed to by members of our faculty.
Over 4,000 citations
- J. F. Kurose and K. W. Ross, "Computer networking: a top-down approach featuring the Internet," Pearson Education, 2012
Over 2,000 citations
- Paul A Yushkevich, Joseph Piven, Heather Cody Hazlett, Rachel Gimpel Smith, Sean Ho, James C Gee, and Guido Gerig, "User-guided 3D active contour segmentation of anatomical structures: significantly improved efficiency and reliability," Neuroimage, Vol. 1, Issue 3, 2006
Over 1,000 citations
- KW Ross, "Multiservice loss models for broadband telecommunication networks," Springer Science & Business Media, 2012
- X. Hei, C. Liang, J. Liang, Y. Liu, and K. W. Ross, "A Measurement Study of a Large-Scale P2P IPTV System," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2007
- Fausto Bernardini, Joshua Mittleman, Holly Rushmeier, Cláudio Silva, Gabriel Taubin, "The ball-pivoting algorithm for surface reconstruction," EEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, Volume 5, Issue 4, 1999
- Yoshinobu Sato, Shin Nakajima, Hideki Atsumi, Shigeyuki Yoshida, Thomas Koller, Guido Gerig, Ron Kikinis, and Nobuyuki Shiraga, "Three-dimensional multi-scale line filter for segmentation and visualization of curvilinear structures in medical images," Analysis, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 1998
- X. Wu and N. Memon, "Context-based, adaptive, lossless image coding," IEEE Transactions on Communications, 1997
- Guido Gerig, Olaf Kübler, Ron Kikinis, and Ferenc Jolesz, "Nonlinear anisotropic filtering of MRI data," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 11, Issue 2, 1992
Over 500 citations from over 30 papers (showing papers published since 2005)
- Sarah Meiklejohn, Marjori Pomarole, Grant Jordan, Kirill Levchenko, Damon McCoy, Geoffrey M Voelker, Stefan Savage, "A fistful of bitcoins: characterizing payments among men with no names," Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
- Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, Stefan Savage, Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno, "Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces," USENIX Security Symposium, 2011
- L. Moreau, B. Clifford, J. Freire, Y. Gil, P. Groth, J. Futrelle, N. Kwasnikowska, S. Miles, P. Missier, J. Myers, Y. Simmhan, E. Stephan, and J. Van den Bussche, "The open provenance model core specification (v1. 1)," Future Generation Computer Systems, 2011
- J. F. Kurose, K. W. Ross, and W. L. Zucchi, "Redes de Computadores ea Internet: uma abordagem top-down," Pearson, 2010
- Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, Shwetak Patel, Tadayoshi Kohno, Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, and Stefan Savage, "Experimental security analysis of a modern automobile," IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2010
- Rebecca C. Knickmeyer, Sylvain Gouttard, Chaeryon Kang, Dianne Evans, Kathy Wilber, J. Keith Smith, Robert M. Hamer, Weili Lin, Guido Gerig and John H. Gilmore, "A Structural MRI Study of Human Brain Development from Birth to 2 Years," Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 28, Issue 47, 2008
- Susan B Davidson and Juliana Freire, "Provenance and scientific workflows: challenges and opportunities," Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
- Juliana Freire, David Koop, Emanuele Santos, and Cláudio T Silva, "Provenance for computational tasks: A survey," Computing in Science & Engineering, 2008
- C. Huang, J. Li, and K. W. Ross, "Can internet video-on-demand be profitable?" ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 37 (4), 133-144, 2007
- Steven P Callahan, Juliana Freire, Emanuele Santos, Carlos E Scheidegger, Cláudio T Silva, and Huy T Vo, "VisTrails: visualization meets data management," Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
- S. Wiedenbeck, J. Waters, J. C. Birget, A. Brodskiy, and N. Memon, "PassPoints: Design and longitudinal evaluation of a graphical password system," International journal of human-computer studies 63 (1), 102-127, 2005
- Guido Gerig, et. al, "Magnetic resonance imaging and head circumference study of brain size in autism: birth through age 2 years," Archives of general psychiatry 62 (12), 1366-1376, 2005
- Shachar Fleishman, Daniel Cohen-Or, and Cláudio T Silva, "Robust moving least-squares fitting with sharp features," ACM transactions on graphics (TOG), 2005
- Juan Pablo Bello, Laurent Daudet, Samer Abdallah, Chris Duxbury, Mike Davies, Mark B Sandler, "A tutorial on onset detection in music signals," IEEE Transactions on speech and audio processing, 2005