Awards
ACM A.M. Turing Award
Shafi Goldwasser (2013)
Silvio Micali (2013)
Ron Rivest (2002)
ACM Prize in Computing
Yael Kalai (2023)
ACM Knuth Prize
Nancy Lynch (2007)
NSF Alan T. Waterman Award
Scott Aaronson (2012)
Athena Lecturer by the Association for Computing Machinery's Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W)
Nancy Lynch (2012-2013)
Shafi Goldwasser (2008-2009)
Gödel Prize in Theoretical Computer Science
Ryan Williams (2024)
Vinod Vaikuntanathan (2022)
Nir Shavit (2004)
Shafi Goldwasser (2001)
Madhu Sudan (2001)
Peter Shor (1999)
Silvio Micali (1993)
Shafi Goldwasser (1993)
International Mathematical Union - Rolf Nevanlinna Prize
Konstantinos Daskalakis (2018)
Madhu Sudan (2002)
Peter Shor (1998)
ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
Charles Leiserson and Robert Blumofe (2013)
Piotr Indyk (2012)
Ronald Rivest (1996)
AAAS (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
Charles Leiserson (2013)
Bonnie Berger (2012)
Peter Shor (2011)
Madhu Sudan (2010)
Nancy Lynch (2010)
Ronitt Rubinfeld (2020)
Shafi Goldwasser (2001)
Tom Leighton (2003)
Albert Meyer (1987)
Silvio Micali (2003)
Ron Rivest (1993)
ACM Fellow:
Erik Demaine (2016)
Piotr Indyk (2015)
Ronitt Rubinfeld (2014)
Nir Shavit (2013)
David Karger (2009)
Madhu Sudan (2009)
Michel Goemans (2008)
Bonnie Berger (2003)
Charles Leiserson (2006)
Nancy Lynch (1996)
Albert Meyer (1999)
Ron Rivest (1994)
AMS Fellow:
Bonnie Berger
Michel Goemans (2013)
F. Thomson Leighton (2012)
IEEE Fellow:
Madhu Sudan (2009)
International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM)
Section Speakers
Bonnie Berger (1998)
Michel Goemans (1998)
Shafi Goldwasser (1990)
Tom Leighton (1994)
Albert Meyer (1974)
Ronitt Rubinfeld (2006)
Madhu Sudan (1998)
Plenary Speakers
Shafi Goldwasser (2002)
Peter Shor (1998)
International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) - Fellow
Bonnie Berger (2012)
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - Fellow
Ronitt Rubinfeld (2023)
Erik Demaine (2013)
Michel Goemans (2007)
Madhu Sudan (2005)
MacArthur Foundation - MacArthur Fellows Program
Erik Demaine (2003)
Peter Shor (1998)
Microsoft Faculty Fellowship
Konstantinos Daskalakis (2012)
Vinod Vaikuntanathan (2014)
National Academy of Sciences
Piotr Indyk (2024)
Ronitt Rubinfeld (2022)
Bonnie Berger (2021)
Nancy Lynch (2016)
F. Thomson Leighton (2008)
Silvio Micali (2007)
Shafi Goldwasser (2004)
Ron Rivest (2004)
Peter Shor (2002)
National Academy of Engineering
Silvio Micali (2007)
Shafi Goldwasser (2005)
F. Thomson Leighton (2004)
Nancy Lynch (2001)
Ron Rivest (1990)
NSF Career Award
Aleksander Madry (2015)
Ankur Moitra (2015)
Vinod Vaikuntanathan (2013)
Konstantinos Daskalakis (2010)
Erik Demaine (2004)
Piotr Indyk (2002)
Madhu Sudan (1999)
Ronitt Rubinfeld (1996)
Michel Goemans (1996)
David Karger (1995)
Bonnie Berger (1995)
Packard Foundation - Packard Fellowship
Ankur Moitra (2016)
Piotr Indyk (2003)
David Karger (1997)
Radcliffe Institute Fellow
Nancy Lynch (2012-2013)
Ronitt Rubinfeld (2003-2004)
Madhu Sudan (2003-2004)
Bonnie Berger (1992-1993)
SIAM Research Fellow
Bonnie Berger
Alan Edelman (2012)
Simons Foundation Invesigators
Virginia Vassilevska-Williams (2023)
Vinod Vaikuntanathan (2023)
Konstantinos Daskalakis (2018)
Shafi Goldwasser (2012)
Piotr Indyk (2013)
Sloan Foundation - Research Fellowship
Michel Goemans (1995)
Ronitt Rubinfeld (1996)
Piotr Indyk (2003)
Erik Demaine (2006)
Konstantinos Daskalakis (2010)
Vinod Vaikuntanathan (2013)
Alek Madry (2016)
Ankur Moitra (2016)
Virginia V. Williams (2017)
Teaching Awards
MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Vinod Vaikuntanathan (2024)
Erik Demaine (2019)
Mike Sipser (2016)
Charles Leiserson (2007)
MIT Harold E. Edgerton Award
Vinod Vaikuntanathan (2018)
Erik Demaine (2005)
MIT EECS Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching
Vinod Vaikuntanathan (2016)
Konstantinos Daskalakis (2011)
Erik Demaine (2004)
MIT School of Science - Dean's Educational and Student Advising Award
Michel Goemans (2004)
MIT EECS - Adler Scholar
Charles Leiserson (1991)
Cornell College of Engineering Teaching Award
Ronitt Rubinfeld (1996)
Cornell Association for Computer Science Undergraduates Faculty of the Year
Ronitt Rubinfeld (1995)
Dissertation Awards (Faculty):
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
Constantinos Daskalakis (2008)
David Karger (1994)
Madhu Sudan (1993)
Charles Leiserson (1982)
MIT EECS - George M. Sprowls Doctoral Dissertation Award
Bonnie Berger (1990)
Jon Kelner (2007)
Vinod Vaikuntanathan (2009)
NSERC - Doctoral Prize
Erik Demaine (2003)
Sakrison Memorial Award (Ph.D Thesis, EECS, UC Berkeley)
Scott Aaronson (2005)
Madhu Sudan (1993)
UC Berkeley - C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award
Scott Aaronson (2002)
Mathematical Programming Society - A.W. Tucker Prize
Michel Goemans (1991)
David Karger (1997)
Dissertation Awards (Students)
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award:
Ben-Zion Chor (Series Winner) (1985)
Venkatesan Guruswami (2002)
Johan Hastad (1986)
Joe Kilian (Series Winner)(1989)
Robert Schapire (1991)
Dan Spielman (1995)
Salil Vadhan (2000)
George M. Sprowls Doctoral Dissertation Award
Yang Cai (2013)
Bernhard Hauepler (2013)
Eric Price (2013)
Aleksandr Madry (2011)
Ben Rossman (2010)
Mihai Patrascu (2009)
Rui Fan (2008)
Sergey Yekhanin (2007)
Mathematical Programming Society - A.W. Tucker Prize
David Williamson (1994)
Dissertation Award in Distributed Computing
Bernhard Haeupler (2014)
Other Awards
ACM - Recognition of Service Award
Charles Leiserson (1995)
Charles Leiserson (1996)
Charles Leiserson (1997)
ACM SIGACT - Distinguished Service Prize
Tom Leighton (2006)
ACM - Grace Murray Hopper Award
Shafi Goldwasser (1996)
ACM-IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award
Charles Leiserson (2014)
ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming - 1st Prize in the ICPF Programming Contest
Charles Leiserson (1998)
Association of American Publishers - Best 1990 Professional and Scholarly Book in Computer Science and Data Processing
Charles Leiserson (1990)
Biophysical Society - Dayoff Award
Bonnie Berger (1998)
Barnard College Medal of Distinction
Shafi Goldwasser (2016)
Caltech Distinguished Alumnus Award
Peter Shor (2007)
CWI Van Wijngaarden Award
Nancy Lynch (2006)
AMS - Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize
Michel Goemans (2000)
Dickson Prize in Science
Peter Shor (1999)
Edsger Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing
Nir Shavit (2012)
Nancy Lynch (2007)
Nancy Lynch (2001)
Farkis Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society for Mid-Career Researchers
Michel Goemans (2012)
Franklin Institute Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science
Shafi Goldwasser (2010)
Game Theory and Computer Science Prize
Konstantinos Daskalakis (2008)
Google - Research Award
Charles Leiserson (2005)
IACR - Fellow
Shafi Goldwasser (2007)
Silvio Micali (2007)
Ron Rivest (2004)
IBM - IBM University Partnership Faculty Award
Michel Goemans (1999)
IEEE Computer Society - Distinguished Visitor for the Asia-Pacific Region
Charles Leiserson (1996)
IEEE - Kobayashi Award
Ronald Rivest (2000)
IEEE Piore Award
Shafi Goldwasser (2011)
Nancy Lynch (2010)
IEEE Taylor L. Booth Award
Charles Leiserson (2014)
Infosys Prize for Mathematical Sciences
Madhu Sudan (2014)
Indian Institute of Technology at New Delhi - Distinguished Alumnus Award
Madhu Sudan (2004)
International Computer Chess Assocation - 2nd Prize in the World Computer Chess Championship
Charles Leiserson (1995)
International Symposium on Information Theory Plenary talk
Shafi Goldwasser (2002)
Peter Shor (2000)
International Quantum Communications Award
Peter Shor (1998)
ISE New England - Rising Star Award
Silvio Micali (2006)
Israeli National Academy of Science
Shafi Goldwasser (2016)
John and Fannie Hertz Foundation - Hertz Fellowship
Charles Leiserson (1977)
King Faisal International Prize in Science
Peter Shor (2002)
London Royal Mathematical Society Honorary Members
Shafi Goldwasser (2015)
Marconi Prize
Rivest (2007)
Mass - High Tech Award
Tom Leighton (2000)
Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange - Lifetime member
Ronald Rivest (2005)
MIT/50K - 1K Preliminary Award
Alan Edelman (2004)
MIT - Entrepreneurship Award
Tom Leighton (2001)
Mathematical Association of America: Lester R. Ford Award
Alan Edelman (2005)
Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship
Konstantinos Daskalakis (2007)
National Academy of Sciences - Award for Initiatives in Research
David Karger (2003)
David Karger (2002)
National Science Foundation - Presidential Young Investigator Award
Charles Leiserson (1985)
ONR - Young Investigator Award
Ronitt Rubinfeld (1993)
RSA - Mathematics Award
Shafi Goldwasser (1998)
Silvio Micali (2004)
Russian National Academy of Science
Shafi Goldwasser (2016)
SIAM - Activity Group on Optimization Prize
Michel Goemans (1996)
Michel Goemans (1999)
University of California Berkeley, Distinguished Alumni Award
Shafi Goldwasser (2006)
Silvio Micali (2006)
Madhu Sudan (2003)
University of Haifa Honorary Doctorate
Shafi Goldwasser (2016)
University of Pennsylvania - Grace Hopper Lecturer
Nancy Lynch (2003)
University of Pennsylvania - Rademacher Lecture Series
Silvio Micali (2005)
Best paper awards (Faculty):
ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS - PODC 2004 Best Student Paper:
(with Rui Fan) Nancy Lynch (2004)
ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS - PODC 2006 Best Student Paper:
(with Rui Fan) Nancy Lynch (2006)
ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce - Best Student Paper Award:
Konstantinos Daskalakis (2006)
ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce - Best Paper Award:
Konstantinos Daskalakis (2013)
Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award of ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing:
Scott Aaronson (2004)
Jon Kelner (2004)
IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity - Best Student Paper Award:
Scott Aaronson (2004)
Scott Aaronson (2003)
Bonnie Berger (1990)
IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA) Best Paper Award:
Nancy Lynch (2014) (2009)
IEEE - William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award:
David Karger (2004)
IEEE - Info Theory Society - Best Paper Award:
Madhu Sudan (2002)
INFORMS Computing Society Prize for Best Paper:
Peter Shor (2007)
International Conference on Radiation Effects in Insulators - Best Paper Award (Image and Multimedimensional Signal):
Bonnie Berger (with Hobbs, Sreeram, Jesurum) (1995)
Machtey Award - IEEE Foundations on Computer Science Best Student Paper:
Piotr Indyk (2000)
Tom Leighton (1991)
SIAGLA Prize for Best Paper:
Alan Edelman (2001)
SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize:
Konstantinos Daskalakis (2011)
Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) Best Paper Award:
Mohsen Ghaffari (co-winner) (2016)
Michael Goemans (2014)
Jon Kelner (2014)
Jon Kelner (2011)
Michel Goemans (2010)
Best paper awards (Students):
18th Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching:
Oren Weimann (2007)
ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) Best Student Presentation Award:
Gautam Kamath
ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing Best Paper Award:
Aleksandr Madry (2011)
John Rompel (1990)
Dan Spielman (1994)
Dan Spielman (1995)
ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce - Best Paper (and Best Student Paper) Award:
Alan Decklebaum (2013)
Christos Tzamos (2013)
Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award of ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC):
Bernhard Hauepler (2011)
Sergey Yekhanin (2007)
IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC) Best Student Paper:
Andrew Drucker (2011)
Ryan O'Donnell (2002)
IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC) Best Paper:
Ryan O'Donnell (2003)
IEEE - William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award:
David Liben-Nowell (2004)
Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS)
(w/Amir Abboud) Arturs Backurs (2017)
International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP) Best Student Paper:
Mohsen Ghaffari (2014)
Mihai Patrascu (2005)
International Conference on Machine Learning
(w/ Chinmay Hegde, Piotr Indyk) Ludwig Schmidt (2015)
International Symposium on DIStributed Computing (DISC) Best Student Paper:
Mohsen Ghaffari (2013)
Kleene Best Student Paper Award at LICS:
Ben Rossman (2003)
Ben Rossman (2005)
Machtey Award: IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) Best Student Paper:
Aleksander Madry (2011)
Mihai Patrascu (2008)
Tim Abbott (2005)
Ravi Boppana (1985)
Andras Benczur (1995)
Nick Harvey (2006)
Jon Kleinberg (1996)
Daniele Micciancio (1998)
Paul Valiant (2005)
Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) Best Student Paper Award:
Mohsen Ghaffari (2015), (2014)
Rui Fan (2006), (2004)
Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) Best Paper Award:
Mohsen Ghaffari (2016)
Aaron Sidford (2014)
Bernhard Hauepler (2013)
Aleksander Madry (2010)
Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) Best Student Paper Award:
Eric Price (2014)
Ronald V. Book Prize for Best Student Paper:
Andrew Drucker (2012)
Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Best Student Paper Award:
Andrew Drucker (2012)
Other Student Awards
CRA Best Undergraduate Award
Mihai Patrascu (2005)