The competence of professors in the IC Graduate Program can also be evidenced by several awards received by them. Some of these are noteworthy, as they highlight the quality of teaching and research carried out.
2024
The Prof. João Meidanis (IC/Unicamp) is one of the co-authors of the article “The genome and population genomics of allopolyploid Coffea arabica reveal the diversification history of modern coffee cultivars” published on 15/04/2024 by the magazine Nature.
2022
Prof. Breno de França (IC/Unicamp) was awarded the Distinguished PC Member Award of the “XVI Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse (SBCARS 2022)” for his competent performance in the evaluation and selection of the articles participating in the event.
2021
Professors Alexandre Falcão, Anderson Rocha and Jacques Wainer were at the top of the ranking of researchers in Computer Science in Brazil according to Guide2Research (https://guide2research.com/scientists/BR) according to data from 16/05 / 2020. This ranking is based on h-index, citations and number of DBLP documents. This ranking listed 33 scientists.
The prof. Maria Cecília Calani Baranaukas is honored by SIGCHI with the SIGCHI Social Impact Award. This selection is a recognition of their contributions to science and their promotion.
The prof. Esther Colombini coordinates a project that was selected by BRICS Covid-19.
2020
Prof. Dr. Nelson Luis S. da Fonseca received the “IEEE Communications Society Harold Sobol” award, granted by the IEEE Communications Society in 2020, for his exemplary role in organizing events, conferences and contributions to IEEE.
Professor Claudia Maria Bauzer Medeiros was elected “Fellow” in the “engineering sciences" from The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), whose publication of 15/12/2020 brings the election of its 35 new members, among which are 4 Brazilians. The results are effective as of January 1, 2021.
Professors Alexandre Xavier Falcão, Anderson de Rezende Rocha, Leandro Aparecido Villas and Luiz Fernando Bittencourt are among the 150.000 most influential scientists in the world, considering the impact in 2019 according to research conducted by a team from Stanford University (USA) ), led by John Ioannidis and entitled: “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”, published by the Journal Plos Biology on October 16, 2020.
Professor Alexandre Xavier Falcão is among the 100.000 most influential scientists in the world, considering the impact on his career (over the years) according to the research conducted by a team from Stanford University (USA), led by John Ioannidis and entitled: “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”, published by the Journal Plos Biology on October 16, 2020.
The professor at the Computing Institute Sandra Eliza Fontes de Avila was selected in the selection process of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovations (MCTI), having been nominated by the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, to represent Brazil in the category of young researcher in the “5th BRICS Young Scientist Forum ”, to be held in September 2020, as part of the BRICS Summit (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).”
Profa. Cecília Rubira (IC / Unicamp) was the researcher honored in 2020 by Special Commission on Software Engineering (CEES) of SBC. Annually CEES honors researchers who had an active participation in the history of SBES, with a relevant contribution to Software Engineering in Brazil.
2019
Prof. Breno França (IC / Unicamp) together with students Karine Birnfeld, Diogo Campos da Silva and prof. Weverton Cordeiro from INF / UFRGS, received the award for best article for the work entitled “P4 Switch Code Data Flow Analysis: Towards Stronger Verification of Forwarding Plane Software”, at the IEEE / IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2020). It is noteworthy that the conference had 241 articles submitted and 72 articles were accepted (acceptance rate ~ 29.8%)
2018
Profª. Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas was invited to serve as a “member of the Governing Board” of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE).
Profª. Claudia Maria Bauzer Medeiros was nominated as “People of ACM” on September 4, 2018
Profª. Claudia Maria Bauzer Medeiros was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. [inauguration in May 2019]
Profa. Sandra Eliza Fontes de Avila together with student Fábio Perez (FEEC), and professors Cristina N. Vasconcelos (UFF) and Eduardo Valle (FEEC), received the “Best Paper Award” for the work entitled “Data Augmentation for Skin Lesion Analysis ”, at the ISIC Skin Image Analysis Workshop, at the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2018.
2017
Profa. Sandra Eliza Fontes de Avila together with students Afonso Menegola (FEEC) and Michel Fornaciali (FEEC), and with teachers Flávia V. Bittencourt (UFMG) and Eduardo Valle (FEEC), received “Honorable Mention” for the work entitled “Knowledge Transfer for Melanoma Screening with Deep Learning ”, at the 12th Brazilian Conference on Melanoma, 2017.
2016
Prof. Dr. Nelson Luis S. da Fonseca received the Distinguished Service Award - IEEE ComSoc Systems Integration and Modeling, granted by the IEEE Communications Society, 2016.
Prof. Dr. Nelson Luis S. da Fonseca received the Distinguished Service Award - IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communications Technical Committee, granted by the IEEE Communications Society, 2016.
Prof. Dr. Nelson Luis S. da Fonseca received the SBRC 2016 Outstanding Award, SBC.
Prof. Dr. Leandro Aparecido Villas received the “Latin America Region Young Professional Award” from the IEEE Comunication Society.
Prof. Dr. Lucas Francisco Wanner received the “Best Community Paper Award” at the “International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)” event. [Published 28/03/2016]
Prof. Dr. Lucas Francisco Wanner received the “Best Paper Award” at the “International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)” event. [Published 28/03/2016]
Prof. Dr. Leandro Aparecido Villas received the “Best Paper Award” at the “15th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology”. [Published 28/03/2016]
Profª. Drª. Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas received the “Best Poster Award” at the “17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction”. [Published 28/03/2016]
Prof. Dr. Julio César López Hernández received a CNPq Research Productivity Scholarship (Level 2). [Published 28/03/2016]
The Master's thesis “Survival in Optical Networks” by Helder May Nunes da Silva Oliveira was ranked among the top 10 from CTD / SBC. [Published 28/03/2016]
Prof. Dr. Diego de Freitas Aranha received the “Google Research Awards in Latin America - Privacy” award. [Published 28/03/2016]
2015
Profª. Dr. Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas received the XNUMXst Prize "Career in Untied in IHC" from the Special Commission on Human-Computer Interaction, Brazilian Computer Society.
Prof. Dr. Anderson de Rezende Rocha received an “IEEE Senior Member” award from the IEEE, Institute of Electrical end Electronics Engineers.
Prof. Dr. Hélio Pedrini received an “IEEE Senior Member” award from the IEEE, Institute of Electrical end Electronics Engineers.
Prof. Dr. Diego de Freitas Aranha received the award “Innovators with less than 35 years old Brazil”, by MIT Technology Review.
Prof. Dr. Anderson de Rezende Rocha was awarded for the “Best Doctoral Thesis” guiding the student Tiago José de Carvalho, by the Brazilian Computer Society (CTD-SBC).
Profª. Drª. Maria Cecília Baranauskas was awarded an Honorable Mention for the article “Oppression of gender identity and sexual orientation perceived in user interfaces of digital systems: an exploratory study”, IHC 2015.
Prof. Dr. Flávio Keidi Miyazawa was awarded as an advisor for the 1st place in the SBC 2015 Doctoral Thesis Competition, student: Lehilton Pedrosa.
Prof. Dr. Luiz Fernando Bittencourt received the “Outstanding contribution in reviewing” award by Computers and Electrical Engineering, Elsevier.
Prof. Dr. Luiz Fernando Bittencourt received the “Outstanding contribution in reviewing” award by the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier.
Prof. Dr. Pedro Jussieu de Rezende received 1st place award for “Best Ph.D. Thesis” at the event “28th Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI).
Prof. Dr. Pedro Jussieu de Rezende received the 1st Prize of the XXII Latin American Contest of Master's Thesis obtained by the master student Davi Colli Tozzoni, being Co-supervisor, in the XLI Conferencia Latinoamericana en Informática (CLEI) event.
Prof. Dr. Alexandre Xavier Falcão received the 1st prize at the SIBGRAPI 2015 Thesis and Dissertation Workshop, CEGRAPI-SBC.
Prof. Dr. Cid Carvalho de Souza received the 1st Prize of the XXII Latin American Contest of Mastery Thesis obtained by the master student Davi Colli Tozzoni, being an Advisor, in the XLI Conferencia Latinoamericana en Informática (CLEI) event.
Prof. Dr. Diego de Freitas Aranha received the award for best article at the Scientific Initiation and Undergraduate Workshops (WTICG), at the 2015th Brazilian Symposium on Information Security and Computer Systems (SBSEG) XNUMX, SBC.
Prof. Dr. Pedro Jussieu de Rezende received the “Teacher Recognition for Dedication to Undergraduate Teaching” Award by UNICAMP 2015.
Prof. Dr. Diego de Freitas Aranha received the second best article award at the XV Brazilian Symposium on Information Security and Computer Systems, by the Brazilian Computer Society - SBC.
Prof. Dr. Diego de Freitas Aranha received the third best article award at the XV Brazilian Symposium on Information Security and Computer Systems, by the Brazilian Computer Society - SBC.
Profª. Drª. Claudia Bauzer Medeiros receives the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from Université Paris. Read in full. [Published 10/06/2015]
2014
Prof. Dr. Pedro Jussieu de Rezende received 1st place award for “Best Master's Dissertation” obtained by the master student Davi Colli Tozzoni, being Co-supervisor, by the Instituto de Computação / UNICAMP.
Prof. Dr. Pedro Jussieu de Rezende received 1st place award for “Best Doctoral Dissertation” obtained by doctoral student Priscila Tiemi Maeda Saito, being Co-supervisor, by the Instituto de Computação / UNICAMP.
Prof. Dr. Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca was recently named “Distinguished Lecturer” by the IEEE Communications Society. [Posted on 22/12/2014]
The article “An automatic testbench generation tool for a SystemC functional verification methodology”. Karina RG da Silva, Elmar UK Melcher, Guido Araujo. SBCCI 2004. won the Test of Time award from the Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design (SBCCI) 2014. The Test of Time 2014 award was given to the article with the highest number of citations in the 2004 edition (10 years old) of the event.
Prof. Dr. Alexandre Xavier Falcão received the award at the ICPR 2014 event (Stockholm, Sweden) for the publication of the article “Efficient supervised optimum-path forest classification for large datasets” published in the 45th edition of the Pattern Recognition journal. This work was considered the best article published in the journal in 2012. The work was co-authored by professors João Paulo Papa (UNESP), Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque (UNIFOR) and João Manuel RS Tavares (University of Porto) .
2013
Prof. Dr. Luiz Bittencourt was awarded the Young Professional Award from the IEEE Communications Society Latin America Region.
Prof. Dr. Ricardo de Oliveira Anido, received, in July 2013, from the Brazilian Computer Society, the Newton Faller Award for his important activities of the National Computer Community, especially the Brazilian Computer Olympics (OBI) and Programming Marathon .
Prof. Dr. Julio César Lopez Hernández received the Best Article Award from the CHES Workshop (Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems), with the article entitled: “Lambda coordinates for binary curves”. Co-authors of the article are: Thomaz Oliveira, Diego Aranha, and Francisco Rodriguez.
2012
The former doctoral student of IC supervising Prof. Dr. Ricardo Dahab and, currently a postdoctoral fellow at the IC, Roberto Alves Gallo Filho, received the Casimiro Montenegro Filho Award for his doctoral thesis entitled “A Framework for the Development and Implementation of Hardware-Based Safe Systems”, in the Cyber Theme. More information about the award at: http://www.esaf.fazenda.gov.br/esafsite/premios/Premio_Marechal_Casimiro/Index_Mal_Casimiro.html
Prof. Dr. Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca was awarded the “IEEE Communications SocietyJoseph LoCicero Award for Exemplary Service to Publications”
For outstanding service to IEEE Communications Society publications as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Society Electronic Newsletter and Editor of Global Communications Newsletter.
Prof. Dr. Nelson Luís Saldanha da Fonseca received the Best Paper Award “A Robust WiMAX Scheduler for EPON-WiMAX Networks” at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE Globecom) 2012 in partnership with IC Master student Mariana Piquet Dias.
Prof. Dr. Alexandre Xavier Falcão won the 2011 Inventores Unicamp Award and the 2012 edition of the award.
2010
Prof. Dr. Anderson de Rezende Rocha from IC received the prize for best doctoral thesis at the CAPES Grand Prize for Thesis 2010, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Siome Klein Goldenstein.
Profª. Drª. Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas received the Rigo Award at the ACM SIGDOC'2010 Conference. This award is given to researchers who stand out in their careers for their significant contribution in the area of communication design.
2009
Distinguished Innovators Award given by the Business Software Alliance in 2009 to Professors João Meidanis and João Carlos Setubal for their work on Genome Projects.
2008
Profª. Drª. Claudia Bauzer Medeiros receives the National Order of Scientific Merit Award, in the Commander class.
José Mauro de Castilho Award (JMC) for best article at the XXIII Brazilian Symposium on Database - SBBD 2008.
Authors: Cristiano Ferreira (UNICAMP), Ricardo Torres (UNICAMP), Marcos Gonçalves (UFMG), Weiguo Fan (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
Article title: Image Retrieval with Relevance Feedback based on Genetic Programming
Best article award at the conference “International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing - SBAC-PAD 2008”
Authors: Felipe Portavales Goldstein, Alexandro Baldassin, Paulo Centoducatte, Rodofo Azevedo and Leonardo Garcia
Article title: A Software Transactional Memory System for an Asymmetric Processor Architecture
Best article award at the “Constraint Programming” conference, 2008
Authors: André Ciré, Tony Lopes, Cid Souza and Arnaldo Moura
Article title: Planning and Scheduling the Operation of a Very Large Oil Pipeline Network
Newton Faller Award from the Brazilian Computer Society at the XXVIII SBC Congress for Tomasz Kowaltowski (2008).
2007
Title Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego, Trujillo, Peru, for Cláudia Bauzer Medeiros (2007).
Scientific Merit Award from the Brazilian Computer Society, to Cláudio Lucchesi (2007).
Diploma of Educational Merit “Prof. Darcy Ribeiro ”, Campinas City Council, for Jorge Stolfi (2007).
Honorable mention in SBES 2007 - Second best article
Authors: Jó Ueyama, Francois Taiani, Geoff Coulson, Edmundo RM Madeira and Paul Grace
Title of the article “Component-based System Software: A Generic Approach”
Commander of the Order of Scientific Merit
Cláudio Leonardo Lucchesi in 2007. For his contributions to Science and Technology.
2006
The IP-cores developed by Brazil-IP, received the Best IP / SoC 2006 Design Award, at the IPSoC 2006 Conference, held in Grenoble, France.
Brazil-IP was an innovative initiative proposed by Prof. Guido Araujo in 2001.
Intel 2006 Award - which includes UNICAMP as one of its most important partners.
Award received by Guido Araujo.
Anita Borg Institute for women and technology award, 2006
Cláudia Bauzer Medeiros, one of three international researchers awarded in 2006 for her academic contribution.
Strong Cynthesizer Design Contest 2006.
Contest winners: Felipe Portavales Goldstein and Rodolfo Azevedo.
Diploma of Educational Merit “Prof. Darcy Ribeiro ”, Campinas City Council, for Maria Cecilia Baranauskas.
Intel Multicore Curriculum Award 2006 - Intel Corporation.
Winner: Guido Araújo.
2005
First place in the SBC Thesis and Dissertation Competition, 2005
Ricardo Torres - Doctorate Category.
First Place at the Second University Olympics Altera 2005
PI Components, Paulo C. Centoducatte and Sandro Rigo.
Best article award at the XI Iberchip Worskhop 2005.
Authors: Julio Lopez, J. Velasco and V. Trujillo.
2004
Best article award at SBAC-PAD 2004.
Authors: Sandro Rigo, Guido Araújo, Marcus Bartholomeu and Rodolfo Azevedo.
2003
First place in the SBC Thesis and Dissertation Competition, 2003
Zanoni Dias - Doctorate Category.
Professor Emeritus at Unicamp
Claudio Leonardo Lucchesi in 2003, for the academic contribution.
Microsoft Research Award, Microsoft Corporation, 2003
Guido Araújo and Rodolfo Azevedo.
2002
Excellence in EaD'2002 Award.
Heloisa V. Rocha, First place in the ABED / Embratel research category.
2001
MindSpeed Research Award, MindSpeed Technologies, California (USA) 2001
Guido Araujo.
Commander of the Order of Scientific Merit
Tomasz Kowaltowski, 2001. For his contributions to Science and Technology.
Editor of the Year Award, Elsevier Science
Nelson Fonseca, 2001.
2000
Conexant Research Award, Conexant Semiconductor Systems Inc, California (USA), 2000
Guido Araujo.
SBC Newton Faller Award
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, 2000. For services rendered to SBC, mainly as editor of the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society.
São Paulo State Scientific and Technological Merit Award
João Meidanis, 2000. For his contribution to the Genoma / Fapesp project.
São Paulo State Scientific and Technological Merit Award
João Setubal, 2000. For his contribution to the Genoma / Fapesp project.
São Paulo State Scientific and Technological Merit Award
Zanoni Dias, 2000. For his contribution to the Genoma / Fapesp project.
1999 and previous years
Santista Informatics Award '1999
Claudio Leonardo Lucchesi
For the scientific contribution; one of the most prestigious national academic awards.
First place in the SBC Thesis and Dissertation Competition, 1998
Flavio K. Miyazawa - Doctorate Category.
Second place in the SBC Thesis and Dissertation Competition, 1988
Nelson Fonseca - Master's Category.
Best article award at the 33rd ACM / IEEE Design Automation Conference, 1996
Guido Araujo.
I COMPAQ Award for Stimulating Research and Development in Informatics, 1996
Cláudio L. Lucchesi, Jorge Stolfi and Tomasz Kowaltowski.
International Book Award, Office of International Students and Scholars
University of Southern of California, 1994, for Nelson Fonseca.
Jabuti Award for Exact Sciences granted by the Brazilian Book Chamber for the text: “Implementation of Programming Languages” by Tomasz Kowaltowski. 1983
Jabuti Exact Sciences Award granted by the Chamber. Brazilian Book for the text: “Theoretical Aspects of Computing” by Cláudio L. Lucchesi, Imre Simon, István Simon, János Simon and Tomasz Kowaltowski. 1979