2024
- Alexey Gorshkov, Amazon Scholar, receives IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award
- Alexey Gorshkov, Amazon Scholar, named Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists finalist
- Cristina Lara, research scientist, receives INFORMS Early Career Practitioner Award
- Dylan Glas, senior applied scientist, and William D. Smart, Amazon Scholar, receive UBTECH Best Industry Application Award – Gold
- Erhan Sezerer, Antonio Uva, Chiara Rubagotti, research scientists, and Davide Bernardi, manager of research science, receive ACL Outstanding Paper Award
- Jean-Baptiste Tristan, principal applied scientist, receives JMCP Award of Excellence
- Tiffany Deng, manager of applied science, Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth, Amazon Scholars, receive FORC Best Paper Award
- Yixin Chen, Shuai Zhang, Boran Han, and Tong He receive ACL Area Chair Award
2023
- Aaditya Ramdas, Amazon Visiting Academic, receives Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize
- Aaron Roth, Amazon Scholar, named CyLab Distinguished Alumni Award winner
- Alexandre Belloni, Amazon Scholar, receives Bank of America Faculty Award
- Alexandros Potamianos, Amazon Scholar, elevated to ISCA Fellow
- Antal van den Bosch, Amazon Scholar, selected as Francqui Chair
- Anton van den Hengel, director of applied science, named a Royal Society of South Australia Fellow
- Christos Faloutsos, Amazon Scholar, receives Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award
- Gérard Medioni, VP and distinguished scientist, elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Hugo Krawczyk, senior principal scientist, named IACR Distinguished Speaker
- Jean-Baptiste Tristan, principal applied scientist, receives ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award
- Jin Joo Lee and Dylan Glas, senior applied scientists, and Hanxiao Fu, software development manager, receive AAAI Spring Symposium Best Paper
- Kai-Wei Chang, Amazon Scholar; Matthew Lease, Amazon Scholar; Bo Liu, applied scientist; and William Wang, Amazon Visiting Academic, receive AAAI Senior Member status
- Lihong Li, senior principal scientist, receives Seoul Test of Time Award
- Mario Berges, Amazon Scholar, receives Best Journal Paper Award from the ASME Structural Health Monitoring & NDE Technical Committee
- Mike Hicks, senior principal scientist, named ACM Fellow
- Ming Lin, Amazon Scholar, named National Academy of Inventors Fellow
- Mingyi Hong, Amazon Scholar, receives two awards from IEEE Signal Processing Society
- Nicholas Kullman, research scientist, receives Transportation Science Journal Paper of the Year
- Niklas Karlsson, senior principal scientist; and Joan Feigenbaum, Amazon Scholar, named IEEE Fellows
- Pooyan Amir-Ahmadi, principal economist, receives QE Best Paper Prize
- Rahul Urgaonkar, principal applied scientist, receives IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize
- René Vidal, Amazon Scholar, named ACM Fellow
- Rohit Prasad, senior VP and head scientist, receives TiE Boston Achievement in Corporate Excellence Award
- Ruomeng Cui, Amazon Visiting Academic, receives Management Science Best Paper Award
- Ryan Tibshirani, Amazon Scholar, receives Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Presidents’ Award
- Ruhi Sarikaya, VP of applied science, named IEEE Signal Distinguished Industry Speaker
- Yash Kanoria, Amazon Scholar, receives SIGecom Test of Time Award
- Yizhou Sun, Amazon Scholar, named on IEEE Intelligent System’s “AI’s 10 to Watch” list
- Yizhou Sun, Amazon Scholar, receives SIAM International Conference on Data Mining Early Career Data Mining Research Award
- Yizhou Sun, Amazon Scholar, receives The Web Conference Best Student Paper Award
2022
- Alberto Abadie, Amazon academic research consultant, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Anwar Walid, applied science manager, receives IEEE INFOCOM Test of Time Paper Award
- Anton van den Hengel, director of applied science, receives Pattern Recognition Journal's Best Paper Award
- Aravind Srinivasan, Amazon Scholar receives International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Best Student Paper Award
- Babak Parviz, VP, appointed to AAAS Board of Directors
- Daniela Witten, Amazon Scholar, receives Statistical Society Award
- Di Jin, applied scientist; Dilek Hakkani-Tür, senior principal scientist; Seokhwan Kim, principal applied scientist; Shuyang Gao, applied scientist; Yang Liu, principal applied scientist receive NeurIPS Workshop Best Paper Award
- Erran Li, manager of applied science, receives SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award
- Gérard Medioni, VP and distinguished scientist, elected as NAI fellow
- Guido Imbens, economist, elected to National Academy of Sciences
- Huseyin Topaloglu, Amazon Scholar, receives endowed faculty chair at Cornell
- Jaco Geldenhuys, principal applied scientist, and Willem Visser, senior principal scientist, receive ISSTA Impact Paper Award
- James Robins, Amazon Core AI team consultant, and Thomas Richardson and Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Amazon Scholars, receive the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
- Jens Lehmann, principal applied scientist, receives Semantic Web Journal 10-year Award
- Joris Kinable, applied scientist, receives IISE Transactions Best Application Award
- John Preskill, Amazon Scholar, named to White House National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee
- Karsten Roth, Amazon intern, receives EMVA Young Professional Award
- Kathleen McKeown, Amazon Scholar, receives IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award and named American Philosophical Society Member
- Kostas Bimpikis, Amazon Scholar, receives the Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize
- Matthew Lease, Amazon Scholar, named ACM Distinguished Member
- Michael I. Jordan, Amazon Scholar, receives Inaugural WLA Prize
- Mike Hicks, senior principal scientist, wins ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award
- Prem Natarajan, VP, and Sherief Reda, Amazon Scholar, named IEEE fellows
- René Vidal, Amazon Scholar, receives IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award
- Richard Zhang, Amazon Scholar, receives Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society Achievement Award
- Ranjit Jhala, Amazon Scholar, named ACM Fellow
- Rupak Majumdar, Amazon Scholar, receives CONCUR Test-of-Time Award
- Rustan Leino, senior principal scientist, named IFIP Fellow
- Sergei Kalinin, principal research scientist, named Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association Fellow and winner of Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Experiment
- Steve Flammia, principal research scientist, named American Physical Society Fellow
- Stefano Soatto, VP of applied science, named ACM Fellow
- Swami Sivasubramanian, VP, named to National AI Advisory Committee
- Vinícius Loti de Lima, applied scientist, receives Brazil's Best PhD Thesis Award
- Xiuli (Zack) Chao, Amazon Scholar, named Ralph L. Disney Collegiate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering
- Yizhou Sun, Amazon Scholar, receives VLDB test of time award
2021
- Aaron Roth and Michael Kearns, Amazon Scholars, receive PROSE Award for "The Ethical Algorithm"
- Alexandros Papangelis and Seokhwan Kim, senior applied scientists, elected to SIGDIAL Board of Members
- Andrew Goldberg, senior principal scientist, receives SIGecom Test of Time Award
- Aston Zhang, senior applied scientist, receives ICLR Outstanding Paper Award
- David Card, Amazon Scholar, receives half of Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Prize
- Dilek Hakkani-Tür, senior principal scientist, receives NeurIPS Workshop Best Paper Award
- Dirk Bergemann, Amazon Scholar, elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- Di Jin, applied scientist; Dilek Hakkani-Tür, senior principal scientist; Seokhwan Kim, principal applied scientist; Shuyang Gao, applied scientist; Yang Liu, principal applied scientist receive NeurIPS Workshop Best Paper Award
- Gah-Yi Ban, Amazon Visiting Academic, receives Best Operations Management Paper Award
- George Karypis, senior principal scientist, receives SC21 Test of Time Award
- Gérard Medioni, VP and distinguished scientist, named Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association Fellow
- Helmut Katzgraber, senior manager of research science, named American Physical Society Fellow
- Liang Jiang, Amazon Scholar, receives American Physical Society's Rolf Landauer and Charles H. Bennett Award in Quantum Computing
- Li Zhang, head of product of machine learning, receives IEEE INFOCOM Test of Time Paper Award
- Michael J. Black, Amazon Scholar, elected to Germany's National Academy of Sciences
- Michael Kearns, Amazon Scholar, elected to National Academy of Sciences
- Michael Wagner, Amazon Scholar, receives INFORMS Urban Transportation Outstanding Paper Award
- Özalp Özer, senior principal scientist, receives INFORMS Behavioral Operations Management Best Working Paper Honorable Mention
- René Vidal, Amazon Scholar, receives Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award
- Russell Allgor, VP and chief scientist, named INFORMS Fellow
- Russell Allgor, VP and chief scientist, and Yoelle Maarek, VP of research and science, elected National Academy of Engineering Members
- Serguei Netessine, Amazon Scholar, receives INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award
- Yang Liu, senior principal scientist, named ISCA Fellow
2020
- Bernhard Schölkopf, distinguished scientist, receives German AI Innovation Award
- Christos Faloutsos, Amazon Scholar, receives PAKDD Most Influential Paper Award
- Dean Foster, senior principal scientist, receives ACM Conference on Economics and Computation Test of Time Award
- George Karypis, Amazon Scholar, receives ICDM 10-Year-Highest-Impact Award
- Matthias Seeger, principal applied scientist, receives ICML Test of Time Award
- Michael J. Black, Amazon Scholar, receives CVPR Longuet-Higgins Prize Award
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