Atanasoff Today 2023-2024: Faculty and Staff Awards

PAVAN ADURI was invited to join the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Program on Meta Complexity. His paper “Model Counting
Meets Distinct Elements” was invited to the CACM Research highlights and appeared in the September 2023 issue of CACM.

ABRAHAM ALDACO received the 2022-2023 Departmental Excellence Award in Teaching.

MYRA COHEN was selected as a 2023 Better Scientific Software Fellow. She also became a member of the Center for Wireless Communication.

DEB HOLMES received the 2023 ISU Award for Academic Advising Impact.

ALI JANNESARI received the 2023 Dean’s Emerging Faculty Leaders Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University. He also received an Intel Research Award.

QI LI received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the highest honor awarded to junior faculty.

JACK LUTZ was invited to present at the NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conference at Drake University, where he will give a series of ten lectures on algorithmic fractal dimensions.

ROBYN LUTZ was awarded the 2023 Best Industrial Innovation Paper Award at the 31st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference for her research in variability constraints. She also received the Departmental Excellence Award in Teaching.

HRIDESH RAJAN gave an invited talk at the SEMLA Symposium. He was also awarded the ACM Distinguished Paper Award.
MATTHEW TAN CRETI was invited to join the Provost’s term faculty learning community. He also received the 2022-2023 Departmental Excellence Award in Teaching.

KATE SHARMA received an ISU Spot Award.

JEREMY SHEAFFER received the 2022-2023 Departmental Excellence Award in Teaching.

JIN TIAN was promoted to Full Professor. He also became an editor to the Journal for Causal Inference.

LIESE VANDERBROEK received the 2022-2023 Departmental Excellence Award in Support.