Awards to the PI
- KAUST Rising Star in AI, 2025
- National AI Research Resource Pilot Award, 2025
- AAAI New Faculty Highlights, 2024
- ICLR Spotlight Paper, 2024
- Cisco Faculty Research Award, 2023
- The Office of Research Innovation and Economic Impact (ORIEI) Award, George Mason University, 2023
- Stearns Center Award: Thank-A-Teacher Program, George Mason University, 2023
- NeurIPS Spotlight Papers (3 times), 2020 and 2022
- Award Finalist of Facebook (Meta) Mathematical Modeling & Optimization for Large-Scale Distributed Systems Award Competition, 2021
- Top Reviewer Award, NeurIPS 2019
Awards to the Group
- Michael Crawshaw, Outstanding Dissertation Award, Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, 2026