The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

Faculty Awards and Honors

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American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAA&S)

  • Eugene H. Spafford

Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)

  • Daisuke Kihara

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

  • Elisa Bertino
  • Ananth Y. Grama
  • Eugene H. Spafford

Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)

  • Eugene H. Spafford
  • Wojciech Szpankowski

Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

  • Mikhail J. Atallah
  • Elisa Bertino
  • Ninghui Li
  • Eugene H. Spafford

2020 ACM CODASPY Research Award

  • Chris Clifton

ACM Athena Lecturer Award

  • Elisa Bertino

ACM Distinguished Member

  • Ninghui Li
  • Chris Clifton

ACM President’s Award

  • Eugene H. Spafford

ACM SIGMICRO MICRO Hall of Fame

  • Changhee Jung

ACM SIGPLAN “Doctoral Dissertation Award”

  • Xiangyu Zhang

ACM SIGPLAN “Programming Languages Software Award (Scala team)”

  • Tiark Rompf

ACM SIGSAC “Outstanding Contribution Award”

  • Ninghui Li
  • Eugene H. Spafford

Applied Computer Security Associates (ACSA) Artifacts Competition and Impact Award

  • Eugene H. Spafford

Applied Computer Security Associates (ACSA) Distinguished Practitioner Award

  • Eugene H. Spafford

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Humboldt Research Award

  • Wojciech M. Szpankowski

Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE) Founder’s Award

  • Eugene H. Spafford

Computing Research Association (CRA) Distinguished Service Award

  • Eugene H. Spafford

Flajolet Prize

  • Wojciech M. Szpankowski

Information Security Executive (ISE) Luminary Leadership Award

  • Eugene H. Spafford

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

  • Sonia Fahmy
  • Ninghui Li
  • Chris Clifton
  • Walid G. Aref
  • Mikhail J. Atallah
  • Elisa Bertino
  • Bharat Bhargava
  • Eugene H. Spafford
  • Wojciech M. Szpankowski

IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award

  • Elisa Bertino
  • Bharat Bhargava
  • Eugene H. Spafford

IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Award

  • Bharat Bhargava
  • Eugene H. Spafford

IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award

  • Chris Clifton

Taylor Booth Award

  • Eugene H. Spafford

Tsutomu Kanai Award

  • Elisa Bertino

Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (India) (IETE)

  • Bharat Bhargava

International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Kristian Beckman Award

  • Elisa Bertino
  • Eugene H. Spafford

Fellow of Information Security Certification (ISC)2

  • Eugene H. Spafford

(ISC)2 Harold F. Tipton Lifetime Achievement Award

  • Eugene H. Spafford

Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) Hall of Fame

  • Elisa Bertino
  • Eugene H. Spafford

ISSA Distinguished Fellow

  • Eugene H. Spafford

ISACA Wasserman Award

  • Eugene H. Spafford

ITERA Outstanding Research Award

  • Eugene H. Spafford

J.P Morgan AI Research Faculty AI for Fairness Award

  • Lin Tan

National Computer/Information System Security Award

  • Eugene H. Spafford

National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards

  • Walid G. Aref
  • Jeremiah Blocki
  • Z. Berkay Celik
  • Sonia Fahmy
  • Pedro Fonseca
  • Christina Garman
  • David Gleich
  • Dan Goldwasser
  • Ananth Y. Grama
  • Changhee Jung
  • Aniket Kate
  • Ninghui Li
  • Jennifer Neville
  • Kihong Park
  • Chunyi Peng
  • Sunil Prabhakar
  • Bruno Ribeiro
  • Tiark Rompf
  • Roopsha Samanta
  • Dave (Jing) Tian
  • Dongyan Xu
  • Xiangyu Zhang

NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award

  • Mikhail J. Atallah

NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative Award

  • Jeremiah Blocki
  • Ben Delaware
  • Hemanta Maji
  • Mathias Payer

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

  • Daniel Aliaga

Fellow of Ponemon Institute

  • Eugene H. Spafford

SANS Institute Lifetime Achievement Award

  • Eugene H. Spafford

Search Security Magazine Security 7 Award

  • Eugene H. Spafford

Upsilon Pi Epsilon Abacus Award

  • Eugene H. Spafford

U.S. Air Force Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service

  • Eugene H. Spafford

WORLDCOMP Outstanding Achievement Award

  • Eugene H. Spafford

Distinguished Alumni

  • Eugene H. Spafford

Honorary Doctorates

  • Elisa Bertino (PhD from Aalborg University)
  • Eugene H. Spafford (DSc from SUNY)

INITA/TechPoint Mira Award

  • Chris Clifton
  • Sunil Prabhakar

Sagamore of the Wabash Award

  • Eugene H. Spafford

University of Canterbury, New Zealand Erskine Fellowship

  • Wojciech M. Szpankowski

Book of Great Teachers

  • Mikhail J. Atallah
  • Bharat Bhargava
  • Eugene H. Spafford

Courtesy Appointments

  • Mikhail J. Atallah (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
  • Elisa Bertino (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
  • Bharat Bhargava (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
  • Suresh Jagannathan (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
  • Eugene H. Spafford (Departments of Communication, Political Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
  • Samuel Wagstaff (Department of Mathematics)
  • Wojciech M. Szpankowski (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
  • Dongyan Xu (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Distinguished and Named University Professors

  • Mikhail J. Atallah (Distinguished Professor of Computer Science)
  • Elisa Bertino (Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science)
  • David Gleich (Jyoti and Aditya Mathur Associate Professor of Computer Science)
  • Ananth Y. Grama (Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science)
  • Suresh Jagannathan (Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science)
  • Ninghui Li (Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science)
  • Jennifer Neville (Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science)
  • Wojciech M. Szpankowski (Saul Rosen Distinguished Professor of Computer Science)
  • Dongyan Xu (Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science)
  • Xiangyu Zhang (Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science)
  • Tiark Rompf (Kevin C. and Suanne L. Kahn New Frontiers Associate Professor)
  • Lin Tan (Mary J. Elmore New Frontiers Associate Professor)

Fellows of the Purdue Teaching Academy

  • Mikhail J. Atallah
  • Eugene H. Spafford

Morrill Award

  • Eugene H. Spafford

Outstanding Commercialization Award

  • Mikhail J. Atallah

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in Memory of Charles B. Murphy

  • Eugene H. Spafford

Purdue Innovators Hall of Fame

  • Elisa Bertino

Purdue Research Foundation Inventors Recognition

  • Bharat Bhargava
  • Mikhail J. Atallah

Purdue University Engagement Award

  • Daniel Aliaga

Purdue University Undergraduate Advising Award

  • Daniel Aliaga

Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award

  • Mikhail J. Atallah

Teaching for Tomorrow Award

  • Chris Clifton

University Faculty Scholar

  • Walid G. Aref
  • Sonia Fahmy
  • Ananth Y. Grama
  • Suresh Jagannathan
  • Jennifer Neville
  • Sunil Prabhakar
  • Dongyan Xu

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