About The Sanghani Center

25 Academic Faculty 5 Research Faculty 3 Staff Members 150 Students
4 Locations 11 Active Grants $14.9 M Grants in Force  37 Sponsors

Awards

  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award: Naren Ramakrishnan, Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh, and Aditya Prakash
  •  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Scientist: Chang-Tien Lu and Naren Ramakrishnan
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow: Edward Fox
  • IEE Intelligence Systems “AI’s 10 to Watch” list: Aditya Prakash
  • Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award: Edward Fox
  • Fragile Familes Challenge Innovation Award: Brian Goode
  • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Computer Science: Devi Parikh
  • Facebook Faculty Award: Aditya Prakash
  • Marr Prize: Devi Parikh
  • Allen Distinguished Investigator in Artificial Intelligence: Devi Parikh
  • Google Faculty Research Award: Devi Parikh and Dhruv Batra
  • NSA Science of Security “Lablet” Award: Aditya Prakash
  • Army Research Office Young Investigator Award: Devi Parikh and Dhruv Batra
  • Windows Azure Research Award: Dhruv Batra
  • Amazon Web Services in Education Grant: Dhruv Batra
  • U.S. Census Bureau, Director’s Award for Innovation: Chris North
  • Round One Winners of the Yelp Dataset Challenge: Ph.D. student Ji Wang and DAC alumnus Sheng Guo
  • Leadership and Service Award, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems: Chang-Tien Lu
  • Outstanding Service Award, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM): Chang-Tien Lu

Best Paper Awards:

  • Best Paper Award, 2017 IEEE/Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Advances in Social Network Anlaysis and Mining (ASONAM): Ph.D. student Eleheh Raisi and Bert Huang
  •  Best Paper Award, 2017 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS): Ph.D. student Elaheh Raisi and Bert Huang
  • Best Student Paper Award, 2017 IEEE Conference on Data Mining: Chandan Reddy
  • Best Paper Award, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) CIKM: Aditya Prakash
  • Best Poster Award, Workshop on Object Understanding for Interaction, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV): Devi Parikh and Dhruv Batra
  • Best Paper Award, SIAM Data Mining 2015: Ph.D. student Saurav Ghosh
  • Deployed Application Award at Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI): Ph.D. student Sathappan Muthiah
  • VAST Challenge 2014 Grand Challenge Award: Ph.D. student Parang Saraf
  • IEEE VGTC Best Doctoral Dissertation Award: Ph.D. graduate Alex Endert
  • Best Student Paper Award in the Computational Sustainability Track at AAAI’13: Ph.D. student Huijuan Shao
  • Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management (GISTAM): Manu Shukla
  • 2nd Prize in Poster Contest, “Efficient Mining of Massive Data and its Applications,” Paul E. Torgersen Graduate Research Excellence Award: Arnold Boedihardjo
  • 2nd Prize in Poster Contest, “HOMES: Highway Operation Monitoring and Evaluation System,” Security Category, National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges: Jing Dai