Award Announcements
About IEEE Big Data Security Award
Starting from 2019, we set up the following awards:
1. IEEE Big Data Security Pioneer Award: Awarded to an individual who has conducted breakthrough research and pioneered concepts and technologies in Big Data Security and Privacy.
2. IEEE Big Data Security Leadership Award: Awarded to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to managing programs, developing standards, implementing products or similar achievements in Big Data Security and Privacy.
3. IEEE Big Data Security Woman of Achievement Award: Awarded to a woman who has made significant technical contributions as well as served as a mentor and role model in Big Data Security and Privacy.
4. IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award: Awarded to an individual who has made outstanding and sustained research contributions in Big Data Security and Privacy for over 10 years.
5. IEEE Big Data Security Junior Research Award: Awarded to an individual who has made outstanding and sustained research contributions in Big Data Security and Privacy for 5-10 years.
1. IEEE Big Data Security Pioneer Award 2025:
Dr. Ram Sriram, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
2. IEEE Big Data Security Leadership Award 2025:
Prof. Wei Ding, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
3. IEEE Big Data Security Woman of Achievement Award 2025:
Prof. Wendy Hui Wang, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
4. IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award 2025:
Prof. Hongxin Hu, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA
5. IEEE Big Data Security Junior Research Award 2025:
Prof. Hadi Amini, Florida International University, USA
The list of awardees of previous years:
1. IEEE Big Data Security Pioneer Award 2024:
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
2. IEEE Big Data Security Leadership Award 2024:
Dr. ChunSheng (Sam) Xin, National Science Foundation and Old Dominion University, USA
3. IEEE Big Data Security Woman of Achievement Award 2024:
Dr. Le Gruenwald, University of Oklahoma, USA
4. IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award 2024:
Dr. Dan (Linda) Lin, Vanderbilt University, USA
5. IEEE Big Data Security Junior Research Award 2024:
Dr. Zhou Li, University of California at Irvine, USA
1. IEEE Big Data Security Pioneer Award 2023:
Dr. Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, USA.
2. IEEE Big Data Security Leadership Award 2023:
Dr. Mashrur (Ronnie) Chowdhury, Clemson University, USA.
3. IEEE Big Data Security Woman of Achievement Award 2023:
Dr. Xiuzhen Cheng, Shandong University, China.
4. IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award 2023:
Dr. Charles Kamhoua, Army Research, USA.
5. IEEE Big Data Security Junior Research Award 2023:
Dr. Sagar Samtani, Indiana University, USA.
1. IEEE Big Data Security Pioneer Award 2022:
Dr. Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, USA.
2. IEEE Big Data Security Leadership Award 2022:
Dr. Gerard Memmi, Telecom Paris Tech, France.
3. IEEE Big Data Security Woman of Achievement Award 2022:
Dr. My Thai, University of Florida, USA.
4. IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award 2022:
Dr. Mukesh Singhal, University of California Merced, USA.
5. IEEE Big Data Security Junior Research Award 2022:
Dr. Han Qiu, Tsinghua University, China.
1. IEEE Big Data Security Pioneer Award 2021:
Dr. Meikang Qiu, Texas A&M University Commerce, USA.
2. IEEE Big Data Security Leadership Award 2021:
Prof. Li Yang, National Science Foundation, USA.
3. IEEE Big Data Security Woman of Achievement Award 2021:
Prof. Heng Xu, American University, USA.
4. IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award 2021:
Prof. Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA.
5. IEEE Big Data Security Junior Research Award 2021:
Prof. Jiliang Tang, Michigan State University, USA.
1. IEEE Big Data Security Pioneer Award 2020:
Dr. Xiaogang Wang, U.S. Army Research Office, USA.
2. IEEE Big Data Security Leadership Award 2020:
Prof. Sylvia Spengler, National Science Foundation, USA.
3. IEEE Big Data Security Woman of Achievement Award 2020:
Prof. Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA.
4. IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award 2020:
Prof. Maribel Fernandez, King's College London, UK.
5. IEEE Big Data Security Junior Research Award 2020:
Prof. Kangkook Jee, University of Texas at Dallas, USA.
1. IEEE Big Data Security Pioneer Award 2019:
Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA.
2. IEEE Big Data Security Leadership Award 2019:
Dr. Wo Chang, NIST, USA.
3. IEEE Big Data Security Woman of Achievement Award 2019:
Prof. Eunice Santos, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA.
4. IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award 2019:
Prof. Latifur Khan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA.
5. IEEE Big Data Security Junior Research Award 2019:
Prof. Karuna Pande Joshi, Unversity of Maryland Baltimore, USA.
Best Paper Award Announcements
IEEE BigDataSecurity Best Paper Award 2025
Relationship Sharing-based Trustworthy Verifiable Multi-Party Verification in Decentralized Identity
Yuqing Zhang, Keke Gai, Jing Yu and Kai Ding
IEEE HPSC Best Paper Award 2025
TaskFlare: A Heterogeneity-aware Unified Scheduling Framework for Diverse Domain-Specific Applications in Supercomputing Environments
Tianyufei Zhou, Yifei Yang, Chengrun Yang, Linchang Xiao, Xuezheng Liu and Miao Hu
IEEE IDS Best Paper Award 2025
Robust Subgraph Learning by Monitoring Early Training Representations
Sepideh Neshatfar and Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh
IEEE SmartCloud Best Paper Award 2025
Privacy-Preserving Prompt Injection Detection for Smart Cloud-Deployed Large Language Models
Guozhi Hao, Qianqian Pan, Yang Hong, Jun Wu
The list of Best Paper awardees of previous years:
IEEE BigDataSecurity Best Paper Award 2024:
AI-Finger: From Physical Unclonable Function to AI-Hardware Fingerprint
Qianqian Pan and Jun Wu
IEEE HPSC Best Paper Award 2024:
High-Performance Virtual Reality Services via Multi-network Interface
Su Yao, Mu Wang, Peng Guo and Zihan Gao
RCW-Pruner: Row-Column Wise Pruning Framework on Systolic Array
Xiaohui Wei, Fengyi Li, Chenyang Wang, Xinyang Zheng, Shiyu Tong, Xin Yuan, Qi Wu and Hengshan Yue
IEEE IDS Best Paper Award 2024:
FairFix: Enhancing Fairness of Pre-trained Deep Neural Networks with Scarce Data Resources
Zhixin Li, Rui Zhu, Zihao Wang, Jiale Li, Yongming Fan, Zhihui Lu, Jie Wu, Hongfeng Chai, Xiaofeng Wang and Haixu Tang
IEEE SmartCloud Best Paper Award 2024:
Toward Privacy-Aware Efficient Federated Graph Attention Network in Smart Cloud
Jinhao Zhou, Zhou Su, Yuntao Wang, Yanghe Pan, Qianqian Pan, Lizheng Liu and Jun Wu
Escape Attacks on Transwarp Data Cloud Container
Wanggen Liu, Ren Yi, Yisheng Gu, Zhaowu Chu, Chenyun Liu and Hongshan Yang
IEEE BigDataSecurity/HPSC/IDS Best Paper Award 2023:
PriFR: Privacy-preserving Large-scale File Retrieval System via Blockchain for Encrypted Cloud Data
Hao Ren, Guowen Xu, Han Qiu, and Tianwei Zhang
IEEE BigDataSecurity/HPSC/IDS Best Paper Award 2022:
SentMod: Hidden Backdoor Attack on Unstructured Textual Data
Saquib Irtiza, Latifur Khan, and Kevin W. Hamlen
Semantically Rich Access Control in Cloud EHR Systems Based on MA-ABE
Sharad Dixit, Karuna Joshi, Seung Goel Choi, and Lavanya Elluri
