Awards | Shaanan Cohney PhD

Excellence Award in Mid-Career Research Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology 2024
Distinguished Paper Award ICSE, ACM SIGSOFT 2024
Winner Top Tech Trends, State Government of Victoria Digital Innovation Festival 2022
Geller Fellow Wharton Public Policy Initiative 2019
Pwnie Award Best Cryptographic Attack, Black Hat 2016
Best Paper ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2016
Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), IETF 99 Juniper Dual EC incident paper; principal awardee Stephen Checkoway 2017
Finalist Facebook Internet Defense Prize, USENIX Security 2016
Computer Science Research Prize University of Melbourne 2013

CORE Early Career Teaching Award Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE) 2024
Edward Brown Award for Teaching Excellence University of Melbourne 2024
Teacher of the Year Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology 2024
Kelvin Medal for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology 2023
Award for Excellence in Teaching (Early Career Researcher) School of Computing and Information Systems 2022
Dean's Award for Excellence in Tutoring School of Computing and Information Systems 2014

ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) $518,000 AUD 2026
CSA, Research Contract for 2x Masters Projects $110,000 AUD 2024
Defense Science Technology Group, Research Contract for PhD Supervision $30,000 AUD 2024
ACM SIGCSE Henry Walker Travel Grant ~$2,000 AUD 2023
Feedback-Guided Security Testing for Embedded Systems University CIS Competitive Grant $35,000 AUD 2023
University of Melbourne Teaching and Learning Grant Automated Feedback Tools for CS ~$35,000 AUD 2022
Atomos Inc. Teaching Equipment ~$1,000 AUD 2022
Algorand Foundation RFF Grant x2 ~$400,000 AUD (lead) 2021
Enabling Internet-Scale Measurement of Digital Platform Competition University Competitive Early Career Grant $39,494 AUD 2021
Ripple Fund Research Grant $10,000 USD 2019
NSF Travel Award for Real World Crypto ~$700 USD 2019
Wharton Public Policy Institute Summer Fellowship (×2) $20,000 USD 2018--2019

Shaanan Cohney