Honors/Awards
2023
Provost's Kenan Senior Faculty Research and Scholarly Leave Award
IIT Kanpur Young Alumnus Award
Bloomberg Data Science PhD Fellowship: Jaemin Cho
2022
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award 2023: Zineng Tang
Google NLP PhD Fellowship: Swarnadeep Saha
Apple AI/ML PhD Fellowship: Yichen Jiang
2021
Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (ECASE), Army Research Office
Bloomberg PhD Fellowship: Shiyue Zhang
CoNLL 2021 Best Paper Runner-Up Award
Google PhD Fellowship: Peter Hase
NSF funding for our ENGAGE NSF-AI Institute
CVPR 2021 Best Student Paper Honorable Mention
EACL Best Long Paper Award Honorable Mention
Adobe Research Fellowship: Jie Lei
2020
UNC Phillip & Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement
IJCAI Early Career Spotlight (previous years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
John R. & Louise S. Parker Faculty Fellow (Named Asst. Professorship)
2019
Amazon Machine Learning Research Award
Microsoft Investigator Fellowship (MSR blog post)
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award: Sweta Karlekar (Runner-Up), Han Guo (Finalist), (link)
ACL Best Short Paper Nomination
Royster Society PhD Fellowship: Peter Hase
Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship: Hao Tan
Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship: Ramakanth Pasunuru
Facebook PhD Fellowship Finalist: Ramakanth Pasunuru
NSF PhD Fellowship: Darryl Hannan
2018
Salesforce Research Deep Learning Grant
Facebook Faculty Research Award
Army Research Office Young Investigator Award (ARO-YIP)
COLING 'Area Chair Favorites' Paper Award
Verisk AI Faculty Research Award
NSF PhD Fellowship: Lisa Bauer
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Honorable Mention: Han Guo
2017
DARPA Young Faculty Award (DARPA-YFA)
Facebook ParlAI Faculty Research Award
2016
Best Paper Award, ACL Representation Learning for NLP Workshop