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Van Leer Fellowship

Van Leer Foundation

• Jina Suh

Best Paper Honorable Mention

ACM CSCW

• Galen Weld
• Tim Althoff
• Perceptions of Moderators as a Large-Scale Measure of Online Community Governance

Best Paper Award

AAAI ICWSM

• Galen Weld
• Tim Althoff
• Reddit Rules and Rulers: Quantifying the Link Between Rules and Perceptions of Governance Across Thousands of Communities

ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award — Honorable Mention

Association for Computational Linguistics

• Ashish Sharma

UW Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

University of Washington

• Galen Weld

ICWSM Best Reviewer

AAAI ICWSM

• Galen Weld

Chinese Academy of Sciences President Award

Chinese Academy of Sciences

• Yige Yuan

ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

ACM

• Ashish Sharma

William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award

University of Washington, Allen School

• Ashish Sharma

NeurIPS Scholar Award

NeurIPS

• Cheng Li

ICML Travel Award

ICML

• Cheng Li

Allen School First-Year PhD Fellowship

University of Washington, Allen School

• Deniz Nazar

Allen School CSE Fellowship

University of Washington, Allen School

• Mickel Liu

UW Digital Accessibility Team Award — CREATE Accessible Data Science and STEM Lecture Team

University of Washington

CREATE Accessible Data Science and STEM Lecture Team, including Tim Althoff

• Tim Althoff

China National Scholarship (PhD)

China National Scholarship

• Yige Yuan

UCAS First-Class Scholarship

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

• Yige Yuan

Outstanding Paper Award

ACL

• Ashish Sharma
• Inna Lin
• Tim Althoff
• Cognitive Reframing of Negative Thoughts through Human-Language Model Interaction

Distinguished Paper Award

ACM UbiComp / IMWUT

• Yasaman Sefidgar
• Tim Althoff
• GLOBEM: Cross-Dataset Generalization of Longitudinal Human Behavior Modeling

Gary Marsden Travel Award

ACM SIGCHI

• Advait Bhat

J.P. Morgan AI Research PhD Fellowship

J.P. Morgan

• Ashish Sharma

Best Thesis Award, American University of Central Asia

American University of Central Asia

• Deniz Nazar

NeurIPS Scholar Award

NeurIPS

• Mickel Liu

ICT President Award

Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• Yige Yuan

Most Highly Rated Instructors, Allen School

University of Washington, Allen School

• Tim Althoff

CAREER Award

National Science Foundation

• Tim Althoff

ICWSM Best Reviewer

AAAI ICWSM

• Galen Weld

UCAS First-Class Scholarship

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

• Yige Yuan

UCAS Outstanding Student Award

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

• Yige Yuan

Rackham Conference Travel Grant

University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School

• Ge Zhang

Most Highly Rated Instructors, Allen School

University of Washington, Allen School

• Tim Althoff

Outstanding Paper (Analysis)

AAAI ICWSM

• Galen Weld
• Tim Althoff
• Political Bias and Factualness in News Sharing across more than 100,000 Online Communities

Outstanding Paper (Study Design)

AAAI ICWSM

• Tim Althoff
• The Effect of Moderation on Online Mental Health Conversations

Best Paper Award

NLP4IF at NAACL

• Galen Weld
• Tim Althoff
• Leveraging Community and Author Context to Explain the Performance and Bias of Text-Based Deception Detection Models

Best Paper Award

The Web Conference (WWW)

• Ashish Sharma
• Inna Lin
• Tim Althoff
• Towards Facilitating Empathic Conversations in Online Mental Health Support: A Reinforcement Learning Approach

ICLR Outstanding Reviewer

ICLR

• Antonia Saravanou

Best Internship Award, American University of Central Asia

American University of Central Asia

• Deniz Nazar

Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium invited participant

Kavli Frontiers of Science

• Jina Suh

Rising Stars in EECS participant

Rising Stars in EECS

• Jina Suh

Meta/Facebook PhD Fellowship

Facebook

• Yasaman Sefidgar

UMSI Conference Travel Grant

University of Michigan School of Information

• Ge Zhang

Allen School First-Year PhD Fellowship

University of Washington, Allen School

• Melih Yilmaz

Most Highly Rated Instructors, Allen School

University of Washington, Allen School

• Tim Althoff

Doctoral Dissertation Award

ACM SIGKDD

• Tim Althoff

Student Par-Excellence Award, IIT Kharagpur CSE

IIT Kharagpur

• Ashish Sharma

SIGIR travel grant for CIKM

ACM SIGIR

• Ashish Sharma

Corin Anderson Endowed Fellowship

University of Washington, Allen School

• Mike Merrill

Kavli Fellow

Kavli Frontiers of Science

• Tim Althoff

UW eScience Fellow

University of Washington eScience Institute

• Tim Althoff

National College Students Information Security Contest — First Prize

National College Students Information Security Contest

• Yige Yuan

Google Girls Hackathon People’s Choice

Google Girls Hackathon

• Ge Zhang

NeurIPS Top Reviewer

NeurIPS

• Antonia Saravanou

Golden Certificate Scholarship, Kyrgyz Republic

Kyrgyz Republic

• Deniz Nazar

Gaetano Borriello Endowed Fellowship

University of Washington, Allen School

• Galen Weld

S.N. Bose Scholarship

S.N. Bose Scholars Program

• Ashish Sharma

COMSNETS travel grant

COMSNETS

• Ashish Sharma

Cornell Information Science Excellence in Research

Cornell University

• Mike Merrill

Challenge Cup — First Prize

Challenge Cup

• Yige Yuan

Peking University ACM Competition — Second Prize

Peking University

• Ge Zhang

Goralal Syngal Memorial Scholarship

Goralal Syngal Memorial Scholarship

• Ashish Sharma

MEXT Scholarship in Science

MEXT, Japan

• Melih Yilmaz

Turkish Government High Honour Scholarship

Turkish Government

• Melih Yilmaz

Koç University Suna Kıraç Scholarship

Koç University

• Melih Yilmaz

Big Red Idea, CU Tonight

Cornell University, CU Tonight

• Mike Merrill

RECESS Pitch Festival Finalist Travel Grant

RECESS Pitch Festival

• Mike Merrill

Digital Ecologies Research Partnership Fellow

Digital Ecologies Research Partnership

• Tim Althoff

UBC Student Service Award

University of British Columbia

• Yasaman Sefidgar

UBC Merit Scholarship

University of British Columbia

• Yasaman Sefidgar

Sharif Exceptional Talent Award

Sharif University of Technology

• Yasaman Sefidgar

Sharif badminton competition champion

Sharif University of Technology

• Yasaman Sefidgar