awards

Social Justice Best Paper Award

A paper co-authored by Heng Xu and Nan Zhang, “Fairness of Ratemaking for Catastrophe Insurance: Lessons from Machine Learning,” published at Information Systems Research, has been honored with the INFORMS...

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20 Oct 2024

Teaching Innovation Award

In Oct 2023, Professor Heng Xu received the INFORMS Information Systems Society Haim Mendelson Teaching Innovation Award at the Conference on Information Systems and Technology in recognition of her outstanding pedagogical contributions to cybersecurity education in the information systems (IS)...

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20 Oct 2023

University Faculty Award

Professor Heng Xu was awarded the 2021-2022 American University Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, Creative Activity, and other Professional Contributions. The annual award is given to a faculty member who has achieved distinction as a scholar as documented through...

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24 Apr 2022

MISQ Impact Award

Professor Heng Xu received the inaugural Impact Award from MIS Quarterly for her article “Information Privacy Research: An Interdisciplinary Review” (joint work with Tamara Dinev and the late H. Jeff Smith).

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01 Dec 2021

Woman of Achievement Award

Heng Xu received The Woman of Achievement Award from the IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud, for her “substantial contributions either in research, product development or mentoring”...

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01 May 2021

CACM Research Highlight

In the research highlights section of the February 2021 issue, Communications of the ACM (CACM) published an article co-authored by Nan Zhang, “Scalable Signal Reconstruction for a Broad Range of Applications”.

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15 Jan 2021

ITSS Leadership Award in Intelligence and Security Informatics

Heng Xu was awarded the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) Leadership Award in Intelligence and Security Informatics for 2021 for her “recognized sustained leadership in fields such as cybersecurity...

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01 Nov 2020

AMA Best Paper Award

Heng Xu and Nan Zhang recently received a Best Paper Award from the Consumer 360° Track of the 2019 American Marketing Association (AMA) Summer Academic Conference for paper “How Much Choice is Too Much? A Machine Learning Based Meta-Analysis of...

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12 Aug 2019

SIGMOD Research Highlight Award

Nan Zhang and coauthors (A. Asudeh, J. Augustine, A. Nazi, S. Thirumuruganathan, G. Das and D. Srivastava) recently received a Research Highlight Award from ACM SIGMOD for their paper “Efficient...

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11 Aug 2019

How your friends affect your privacy on Twitter

Among the existing solutions for protecting privacy on social media, a popular doctrine is privacy self-management, which asks users to directly control the sharing of their personal information through privacy...

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10 Jan 2019

Heng Xu won the Operational Research Society’s Stafford Beer Medal for 2018

Heng Xu was recently awarded The Operational Research Society’s Stafford Beer Medal for 2018 for her paper:

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19 Oct 2018