The Cornell Bowers community celebrated four faculty recognized for their excellence in research and five faculty recognized for excellence in teaching and advising in a ceremony held Sept. 26 in Gates Hall.
"It is a way to recognize what our faculty and staff do, and the excellence they bring," said Thorsten Joachims, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science and interim dean. "I think the awards that we get from our own community and that reflect our own values are special."
Provost Kavita Bala initiated the awards in 2022 while she was dean of the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.
During the ceremony, Joachims introduced seven new Bowers faculty members who joined the college this fall – three from the 2025 hiring season and four from the 2024 hiring season. He also announced new faculty promotions and tenure decisions.
Four staff members who received excellence awards in a spring ceremony for their contributions to Cornell Bowers were also recognized during the ceremony.
Claire Cardie, John C. Ford Professor of Engineering in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science and associate dean for education, announced the faculty selected for the Teaching and Advising Excellence Awards. She also led the selection committee, which included Sumanta Basu, associate professor of statistics and data science, Karen Levy, associate professor of information science, and Robbert van Renesse, professor of computer science.
Teaching and Advising Excellence Awards
- Matthew Eichhorn, lecturer of computer science
- Adrian Sampson, associate professor of computer science
- Daniel Susser, associate professor of information science
- Gili Vidan, assistant professor of information science
- Y. Samuel Wang, assistant professor of statistics and data science
Nate Foster, professor of computer science and associate dean for research, led the selection committee for the Research Excellence Awards, which included Rene Kizilcec, associate professor of information science, Wen Sun, assistant professor of computer science, and Florentina Bunea, professor of statistics and data science. Foster announced the following awards to faculty for research excellence.
Ann S. Bowers '59 Research Excellence Awards
- Vitaly Shmatikov, professor of computer science
- Yang Ning, associate professor of statistics and data science
- Cheng Zhang, associate professor of information science
- Claire Cardie, John C. Ford Professor of Engineering in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science
Patricia Waldron is a writer for the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.