Awards & Service

Faculty Awards

• Okawa Foundation Award, 2022
• Best Paper Award, IEEE TPS 2022
• Google Research Scholar Award, 2021
• Meta (Facebook) Faculty Award, 2021
• NSF CAREER Award, 2020
• NSF CRII Award, 2019
• Amazon AI Faculty Fellowship, 2019

Student & Postdoc Awards

Peiran Wang (PhD Student)

• CCS Distinguished Paper Award, 2024
• National Scholarship, China

Ying Li (PhD Student)

• Distinguished Artifact Reviewer, USENIX Security 2025
• Student Travel Grant, USENIX Security 2025
• Student Travel Grant, NDSS 2024
• OpenAI Researcher Access Program, 2024
• Student Mentee, ACM CCS 2023
• Outstanding Undergraduate Award, Sichuan Province, 2021
• Good Future Scholarship, Sichuan University (ranked 1st/126), 2020
• Cybersecurity Merit Student Scholarship, 2018

Kunlin Cai (PhD Student)

• Best Reviewer Award, AISTATS 2025
• Honorable Mention, CHI 2025

Jinghuai Zhang (PhD Student)

• UCLA Graduate Student Fellowship, 2024–2025
• HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund Academic Award, 2018–2019, 2019–2020
• Hong Kong–Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Scholarship
• Hong Kong Computer Society Student Sponsorship
• Department of Computer Science Outstanding Student Scholarship, CityU HK
• First-class Honor, City University of Hong Kong

Zihang Xiang (Postdoctoral Researcher)

• CSAW'24 Applied Research Competition Finalist

Faysal Hossain Shezan (PhD Alumni, now Assistant Professor at UT Arlington)

• Microsoft Research Award, 2025
• Roots of Dedication-Service Award, UT Arlington, 2025
• NSF Grant, 2025
• Sub-Star Award, College of Engineering, UTA, 2024
• UT System Rising Stars Award, 2023
• CPS Rising Stars
• UVA Endowed Graduate Fellowship Award
• Link Lab Outstanding Graduate Research Award

Tamjid Al Rahat (PhD Alumni, now Applied Scientist at AWS)

• Best Paper Award, IEEE TPS 2022
• Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2023 Finalist
• Google Vulnerability Research Grant, 2022
• Google Research Paper Rewards, 2023

Fnu Suya (PhD Alumni, now Assistant Professor at UMD)

• Best Paper Award, VISxAI 2022
• MC2 Postdoctoral Fellow, Maryland Cybersecurity Center, 2023–2024

Jianfeng Chi (PhD Alumni, now at Meta AI)

• ICLR 2025 Oral Presentation

Organizing Committee

Selected Program Committee Service