Accomplishments, Awards, and Accolades in AI by URCS

International/National Leadership
Henry Kautz: AAAI President (2009-2014), NSF CISE IIS Program Director (2018-2022)

AAAI, ACM, ACL and National Academy Fellowship
James Allen: founding fellow of AAAI, ACL Fellow (2023)
Henry Kautz: AAAI Fellow (1997), ACM Fellow (2014)
Lenhart Schubert: AAAI Fellow (1993)
Jiebo Luo: AAAI Fellow (2018), ACM Fellow (2018), NAI Fellow (2023), Academia Europaea (2023)

AAAI and ACM Distinguished Scientist
Ehsan Hoque: ACM Distinguished Scientist (2022), AAAI Senior Member (2022)
Christopher Kanan: AAAI Senior Member (2024)

General/Program Chair of Top AI Conferences
Lenhart Schubert: ACL (1993)
Jiebo Luo: CVPR (2012), ACM Multimedia (2010/2018)

Editor-in-Chief of Top AI Journals
James Allen: Computational Linguistics (1983-1993)
Jiebo Luo: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2020-2022)

Major AAAI/ACM/IEEE Awards
Henry Kautz: 2018 ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award, 2020 AAAI Distinguished Service Award, 2020 AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award
Jiebo Luo: 2021 ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award

Best Paper Awards at Top AI Conferences and Journals
James Allen: 2007 AAAI Best Paper
Dana Ballard: 1989 IJCAI Best Paper, 2003 Marr Prize for Best Student Paper (senior author), 2013 ICCV Test of Time Award
Henry Kautz: 1996 &2004 AAAI Best Paper, 2012 WSDM Best Paper, 2024 ICTAST Test of Time Paper
Jiebo Luo: 2010 IEEE CVPR Best Student Paper (senior author), 2014 IEEE Multimedia Prize Paper, 2021 NAACL Best Long Paper
Ehsan Hoque: 2023 ACM Ubicomp 10-year Impact Award

Books (non-edited)
Ballard, D.H. An Introduction to Natural Computation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (A Bradford Book), 1997.
Ballard, D.H. and C.M. Brown. Computer Vision. Prentice-Hall, 1982. (Translated into Japanese, 1987.) Also see: https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/BOOKS/BANDB/bandb.htm The first book of in the field.
Ballard, D.H. Hierarchic Recognition of Tumors in Chest Radiographs. Birkhauser-Verlag, 1976.
Allen, J.F. Natural Language Understanding, Benjamin Cummings, 1987, Second Edition, 1994.
Liao, H., K.S. Zhou and J. Luo. Deep Neural Network for Medical Image Computing: Principles and Applications. Elsevier, 2022.

Major University Awards & Recognition
Jiebo Luo: Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering (2022-), 2024 Edmund A. Hajim Outstanding Faculty Award, 2024 William H. Riker University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
Chenliang Xu: James P. Wilmot Distinguished Professorship (2021-)

Notable Alumni in AI
Amanda Stent: ACL Fellow, founding director of the Davis Institute for AI at Colby College.
Diane Litman: ACL Fellow, past chair of the NAACL.
Andrew McCallum: 2011 ICML Test of Time award, AAAI Fellow, ACM Fellow, past president of the IMLS.
Yiannis Aloimonos: past chair of CVPR; co-author of four books, including an AI textbook.
Corinna Cortes: ACM Fellow, long-time head of Google NYC