Category: Awards and Honors

Zachary Brown and Liam Redmond

Two Notre Dame seniors, four alumni named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list

Six students and alumni of the University of Notre Dame have earned spots on the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2025. The annual list, launched in 2011, honors trailblazing entrepreneurs, innovators, and creators under the age of 30. The list includes Notre Dame seniors Zachary Brown …

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Gang Liu receives IBM Fellowship

Gang Liu, a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received an IBM PhD Fellowship Award for the 2024-2025 academic year. The award will support Liu’s research, which uses graph machine learning to discover new …

Simret Gebreegziabher

Simret Gebreegziabher receives IBM PhD Fellowship Award

Simret Gebreegziabher, a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received an IBM PhD Fellowship Award for the 2024-2025 academic year. The prestigious award recognizes Gebreegziabher’s work to date within the realm of …

Joanna Santos

Santos wins Google Research Award

Joanna Cecilia da Silva Santos, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received a Google Research Scholar Award for her project “Leveraging the Power of LLMs to Generate Security Tests for Mobile Apps.” The project’s goal is to make …

Sharon Hu

Sharon Hu named Leo E. and Patti Ruth Linbeck Professor of Engineering

Xiaobo Sharon Hu, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded an endowed chair—the highest honor a university can bestow upon faculty. Hu was named Notre Dame’s Leo E. and Patti Ruth Linbeck Professor of Engineering, effective July 1, …

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Keeping an even keel: Notre Dame engineers take first place in AI-controlled boat competition

A team of seven Notre Dame Engineering students clinched the 2024 Overall Grand Champions title and took first place in the Course Challenge at the inaugural Artificial Intelligence Maritime Maneuver Indiana Collegiate Challenge (AIMM ICC). The event, a collaboration between Trine University …

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Celebrating undergraduate excellence: 2024 awards from the Notre Dame College of Engineering

Notre Dame Engineering is pleased to announce the recipients of its annual college-wide awards to undergraduate students. Reverend Thomas A. Steiner, C.S.C. Award The Reverend Thomas A. Steiner, C.S.C. Award “for all around excellence as a graduating senior in the College of …

Taeho Jung

Taeho Jung receives NSF CAREER award to improve cybersecurity

Taeho Jung, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. The award recognizes early career excellence in STEM research and education. Jung’s research focuses on enhancing data security …

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Cheers to Recipients of the College of Engineering Staff Excellence Awards (Spring 2024)

The Notre Dame College of Engineering is pleased to announce the Spring 2024 recipients of the Staff Excellence Awards, which recognize staff members’ exemplary contributions above and beyond the scope of their standard job responsibilities. Award recipients are honored for having a …

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Nitesh Chawla elected as fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Nitesh Chawla, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and director of the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, has been elected as a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The AAAS is …