Honors & Awards

2010
	Karsten Steinhaeuser selected for presentation at (and awarded a travel grant to) the NSF-sponsored Doctoral Consortium held with the International Conference on Computational Sustainability.
	James Notwell receives the outstanding CS undergraduate award.
	Darcy Davis receives the fellowship for SIAM Data Mining Dissertation Forum. She presented her work on prospective healthcare.
	Karsten Steinhaeuser received the CRC Award for Computational Sciences and Visualization for work work titled "High-Performance Computing & Visualization for Descriptive Analysis and Predictive Modeling in Climate."
	Jim Notwell awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for the 2010-2013 academic years.
	Jake Lussier awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for the 2010/2011 academic year.
	Karsten Steinhaeuser received the Runner-Up Poster Award at the Notre Dame Graduate Research Symposium for work titled "Descriptive and Predictive Analysis of Climate Data Using Complex Networks."

2009
	Darcy Davis awarded the Genomics and Bioinformatics Fellowship from the Eck Institute for Global Health for the 2009/10 academic year.
	Jake Lussier recognized as Ateyeh Undergraduate Research Scholar.
	"An Exploration of Climate Data Using Complex Networks," authored by Karsten Steinhaeuser, Nitesh Chawla and Auroop Ganguly, selected as Best Student Paper of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data.
	"Mining in a Mobile Environment," authored by Sean McRoskey, Jim Notwell, Nitesh Chawla and Christian Poellabauer selected as Best Undergraduate Student Paper at the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data.
	Karsten Steinhaeuser received the Best Poster Award at the SIAM Data Mining Doctoral Student Forum for work titled "Descriptive and Predictive Analysis of Climate Data."
	Karsten Steinhaeuser awarded a travel grant for the SIAM Data Mining Conference.
	Karsten Steinhaeuser received an ORNL Significant Event Award (SEA) for "Science Support for a Climate Change War Game and Follow-Up Support to the U.S. Department of Defense."
	Karsten Steinhaeuser awarded a travel grant for the International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction.

2008
	David Cieslak received the Graduate Research Excellence Award.
	Nitesh Chawla received the Outstanding CSE Faculty Teaching Award.
	Ryan Hoens awarded the Richard and Peggy Notebaert Premier Fellowship.
	Karsten Steinhaeuser awarded a travel grant from the US Military Academies for the International Conference on Network Science.

2007
	"Detecting Fracture Points in Classifier Performance," authored by David Cieslak and Nitesh Chawla, selected in the Best of IEEE ICDM'07.
	David Cieslak awarded a student travel grant for the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.
	Karsten Steinhaeuser received the Best Poster Award at the Notre Dame CSE Student Research Symposium for work titled "Using Node Attributes to Improve Community Detection in Networks."
	David Cieslak received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.

2006
	"Estimating Query Result Sizes for Proxy Caching in Scientific Database Federations," authored by Tanu Malik, Randal Burns, Nitesh Chawla and Alexander Szalay, was a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at the ACM/IEEE SuperComputing Conference.
	Karsten Steinhaeuser received Best Poster Award at the Notre Dame CSE Student Research Symposium for work titled "Exploiting Thread-Level Parallelism to Build Decision Trees."
	"Anomaly Detection in a Mobile Communication Network," authored by Alec Pawling, Nitesh Chawla and Gregory Madey, selected as Best Student Paper at the Annual Conference of the North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science.
	Karsten Steinhaeuser received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.

2005
	Nitesh Chawla awarded the National Academy of Engineers New Faculty Fellowship.

2004
	Nitesh Chawla won the NIPS Challenge Classification Problem on Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty.

2003
	Nitesh Chawla received a Notable Mention at the NIPS Challenge on Feature Selection.
	Nitesh Chawla received the Outstanding Disseration Award.