2025: Included in the AI 2000 Global Artificial Intelligence Scholars List and received Honorable Mention for Most Influential Scholar Award in AAAI/IJCAI (based on papers published 2015–2024).
2024: Finalist for Outstanding Certification in TMLR for collaborative benchmark paper 'Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models'.
2023: EMNLP Outstanding Paper Award (26 out of 1,047 accepted papers) for 'SODA: Million-scale Dialogue Distillation with Social Commonsense Contextualization'.
2023: ACL Outstanding Paper Award (39 out of 1,074 accepted papers) for 'NLPositionality: Characterizing Design Biases of Datasets and Models'.
2022: NAACL Best New Method Paper Award (1 out of 442 accepted papers) for 'NeuroLogic A*esque Decoding: Constrained Text Generation with Lookahead Heuristics'.
2020: AAAI Outstanding Paper Award (1 out of 1,591 accepted papers) for 'WinoGrande: An Adversarial Winograd Schema Challenge at Scale'.
2017: IAAI Innovative Application Paper Award for 'Phase-mapper: An AI platform to accelerate high throughput materials discovery'.
2013: VLDB Best Paper Award; invited to special issue of VLDBJ for 'Cloudia: a deployment advisor for public clouds'.
2010: Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship from NSERC for doctoral studies.
2010: Teaching Award of Excellence as TA for 'Foundations of Artificial Intelligence' at Cornell University.