Awards

Faculty Awards and Honors

• 2025CMU Philip and Marsha Dowd Faculty Fellowship
• 2025IEEE Information Theory Society Goldsmith Lecturer Award
• 2023Google Research Scholar Award
• 2022Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award
• 2022CIT Dean’s Early Career Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University
• 2022Named one of MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators under 35
• 2021NSF CAREER Award
• 2019ICML Outstanding Reviewer Award (top 5%)

Paper, Poster and Thesis Awards

Won by members of the OPAL lab; the student who led the work is named.

• 2026AG Milnes Outstanding Thesis Award, CMU ECE Divyansh Jhunjhunwala
• 2023FedExP selected for a Spotlight talk (top 25% of accepted papers) at ICLR
• 2022ACM MobiHoc Best Paper Award Tuhinangshu Choudhury
• 2022ACM SIGMETRICS Best Poster Award Samarth Gupta
• 2021CEDO Workshop Outstanding Poster Award Jianyu Wang
• 2020ACM SIGMETRICS Best Paper Award Ankur Mallick
• 2019Distinguished Student Paper Award, NeurIPS FedML workshop Jianyu Wang

Student Fellowships

• 2026William Messner Endowed Fellowship Shivam Patel
• 2025Prabhu and Poonam Goel Graduate Fellowship Arian Raje
• 2024Ben Cook Presidential Graduate Fellowship Baris Askin
• 2024Benjamin Garver Lamme/Westinghouse Fellowship Divyansh Jhunjhunwala
• 2024Benjamin Garver Lamme/Westinghouse Fellowship Neharika Jali
• 2024Navneet Foundation Endowed Fellowship Neharika Jali
• 2023David and LaVerne Barakat Fellowship Divyansh Jhunjhunwala
• 2023Hsu Chang Memorial Fellowship Jiin Woo
• 2023Jack and Mildred Bowers Scholarship in Engineering Tuhinangshu Choudhury
• 2022David and LaVerne Barakat Presidential Fellowship Divyansh Jhunjhunwala
• 2020David and LaVerne Barakat Presidential Fellowship Samarth Gupta
• 2020Korean Government PhD Fellowship Yae Jee Cho
• 2019Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Jianyu Wang and Ankur Mallick
• 2019Benjamin Garver Lamme/Westinghouse Fellowship Jianyu Wang
• 2018CyLab Presidential Fellowship Samarth Gupta

Research Funding

Our work has been generously supported by the agencies, foundations and industry partners below. We truly appreciate their support and collaboration.

• National Science Foundation
• Office of Naval Research
• Army Research Office
• US Army Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C)
• US Department of Energy, via Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
• Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance
• Google
• IBM
• Meta
• Amazon
• Bosch Research and the Carnegie Bosch Institute
• CyLab at Carnegie Mellon
• Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
• Siebel Energy Institute
• CMU Manufacturing Futures Initiative
• Berkman Faculty Development Fund

Earlier Awards and Fellowships

• 2015–16Claude E. Shannon Research Assistantship, MIT
• 2015Invited to the Rising Stars in EECS workshop for women pursuing academic careers
• 2013Graduate Women of Excellence Award, MIT
• 2012William Martin Memorial Award for Best Masters Thesis in Computer Science, MIT
• 2012Morris Joseph Levin Award for Outstanding Oral Thesis Presentation, MIT
• 2011–15Schlumberger Faculty for the Future Fellowship
• 2011HP Fellowship, MIT
• 2010–11Irwin and Joan Jacobs Presidential Fellowship, MIT
• 2010Institute Gold Medal for the highest GPA in the undergraduate class, IIT Bombay
• 2010Institute Silver Medal for the highest GPA in the masters class, IIT Bombay
• 2010Boeing Scholarship for academic excellence, IIT Bombay
• 2009Best Student in Communications and Signal Processing, IIT Bombay
• 2009WorldQuant Scholarship for academic excellence, IIT Bombay