Awards & Leadership

Updated May 2026

Major Awards

2025 IEEE/IFIP Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing (for the Flikker paper)
2025 IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor (one of 20 worldwide)
2025 Elected Vice-Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance (TCFT); Chair-elect 2027
2025 SVCE Alumni Award — Professional Excellence in Academia/Research
2022 IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor
2021 ACM Distinguished Member
2020 Inaugural IEEE Rising Star in Dependability Award, DSN'20
2018 UIUC CS Department Early Career Distinguished Alumni Award
2015 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS)
2008 William C. Carter PhD Dissertation Award in Dependability

2026 Thinking Inside the Box — Best Paper Award, DSN'26
2024 Ranger (DSN'21) chosen as IEEE Top Picks in Test & Reliability
2023 SC'17 paper chosen as IEEE Top Picks in Test & Reliability
2023 EdgeSys'23 Best Paper Award
2023 Best of SELSE'23 (1 of 3 papers)
2021 PID-Piper — Best Paper Award, DSN'21
2021 Ranger — Best Paper Runner-Up, DSN'21
2021 OneOS — Best Demo Award, SEC'21
2021 QRS'21 Best Paper Award
2021 AISafety'21 Best Paper Candidate
2020 ACM TECS Best Paper Award (all papers published 2018–2020)
2019 Top 10 Cybersecurity Innovations in Canada (SERENE-RISC) — for ACSAC'19 paper
2019 SC'19 Reproducibility Challenge Finalist (1 of 3 papers)
2019 Highlights of ISSRE — for ISSRE'14 paper (1 of 26 from 1074 over 30 years)
2018 DSN'18 Best Paper Runner-Up
2016 EDCC'16 Best Paper Award
2015 EDCC'15 Best Paper Award
2014 ICSE'14 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
2013 ICST'13 Best Paper Runner-Up
2012 ICST'12 Best Paper Nominee

2026 Pritam Dash — William C. Carter PhD Dissertation Award in Dependability
2025 Rui Xi — IBM PhD Fellowship (one of ~20 worldwide)
2024 Pritam Dash — Rising Star in Cyber-Physical Systems
2024 Gargi Mitra — Distinguished Reviewer, CCS'24
2024 Guanpeng Li (alumnus) — IEEE TCHPC Early Career Award
2024 Zitao Chen — DaaD AINet PhD Fellowship
2021 Arpan Gujarati (former visiting student) — ACM SIGBED Distinguished Dissertation Award
2020 Bo Fang — William C. Carter PhD Dissertation Award in Dependability
2020 Bo Fang — ACM SIGHPC Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention)
2019 Guanpeng Li — SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award

2022 Program Co-chair, IEEE SRDS 2022
2019 Program Co-chair, IEEE/IFIP DSN 2019
2017 Program Co-chair, IEEE ISSRE 2017
2013 General Chair, IEEE PRDC 2013
2024 Inaugural Artifact Evaluation Co-chair, IEEE/IFIP DSN 2024
2023 Disrupt Track Co-chair, IEEE/IFIP DSN 2023
2021–23 Dependability Track Co-chair, DATE 2021, 2022, 2023
2018–20 Co-founder & PC Co-chair, DSML Workshop at DSN (largest DSN workshop 2019–2021)

2025– Vice-Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance (TCFT); Chair-elect 2027
2021–27 Steering Committee, IEEE/IFIP DSN (three consecutive terms)
2015–25 Steering Committee, IEEE PRDC
2015–25 Vice-Chair, IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing (2019–2025)

2022– Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
2018 Guest Co-editor, Special Issue, IEEE Trans. on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
2019 Guest Co-editor, Special Issue, IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TR)