Life Time Achievement Award - Dr. John Salerno
Service Award - Tuja Khaund and Katrin Galeano
Best paper Award - Lucas Overbey, Bryan Ek, Kevin Pinzhoffer and Bryan Williams, Using Common Enemy Graphs to Identify Communities of Coordinated Social Media Activity
Best Student Paper Award - Nicolas Harder and Matthew Brashears, A Hybrid Cellular Model for Predicting Organizational Recruitment in a k-Dimensional Space
Best Working Paper Award - Iain Cruickshank, Kathleen Carley, Matthew Elder, Anthony Johnson and Timothy Davison, Detecting Malware Communities Using Socio-cultural Cognitive Mapping
Challenge Winner - Alina Vereshchaka, Wen Dong and Seth Cosimini, Novel Approaches to Analyzing and Distinguishing Fake and Real News to Mitigate the Problem of Disinformation
Life Time Achievement Award - Dr. Frank Ritter
Exceptional Service Award - Dr. Robert Thomson
Best paper Award - Mark Orr, Christian Lebiere, Andrea Stocco, Peter Pirolli, Bianica Pires, and William Kennedy, Multi-Scale Resolution of Cognitive Architectures: A Paradigm for Simulating Minds and Society
Best Student Paper Award - David Beskow and Kathleen M. Carley, Using Random String Classification to Filter and Annotate Automated Accounts
Disinformation Challenge Winner - Kai Shu, Deepak Mahudeswaran and Huan Liu, FakeNewsTracker: Towards Fake News Collection, Detection, and Visualization
Disinformation Challenge Runner Up I – Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Kiran Kumar Bandeli, Samer Al-Khateeb, Serpil Tokdemir, and Nitin Agarwal, Examining Strategic Integration of Social Media Platforms in Tracking Disinformation Campaign Coordination
Disinformation Challenge Runner Up II – Matthew Babcock, Ramon Alfonso Villa Cox and Sumeet Kumar, Which fake fits? How the diffusion of disinformation varies by campaign type and community in the Black Panther Twitter discussion
Opioid Challenge Winner - Savannah Bates, Vasiliy Leonenko, James Rineer and Georgiy Bobashev, Using Synthetic Populations to Understand Geospatial Patterns in Opioid Related Overdose and Predicted Opioid Misuse
Opioid Challenge Runner Up – Usha Lokala, Francois Lamy, Raminta Daniulatyate, Amit Sheth, Ramzi Nahhas, Jason Roden, Robert Carlson and Shweta Yadav, Global trends, local harms: Availability of Fentanyl-Type Drugs on the Dark Web and Accidental Overdoses in Ohio
Life Time Achievement Award - Huan Liu
Exceptional Service Award I - Yu Ru Lin, for dedication, serving as a program chair and inauguration of the graduate student consortium
Exceptional Service Award II - Nathan Osgood, for dedication, serving as a program chair and support for the challenge video taping
Best paper Award - Juan Fernandez-Gracia, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Michael Barnett, Victor M. Eguiluz and Nicholas Christakis, Spread of pathogens in the patient transfer network of US hospitals
Best Student Paper Award - Fan Yang and Wen Dong, Integrating Simulation and Signal Processing with Stochastic Social Kinetic Model
Challenge Award Winner - Armineh Nourbakhsh, Xiaomo Liu, Quanzhi Li, Sameena Shah, Mapping the Echo-chamber: Detecting and Characterizing Partisan Networks on Twitter
Exceptional Service Award - Kevin Xu
Best paper Award - Kimberly Glasgow, Jessika Vitak, Yla Tausczik, and Clay Fink, With your help... we begin to heal
: Social Media Expressions of Gratitude in the Aftermath of Disaster
Best Student Paper Award - Teague Henry, Sabina B. Gesell, and Edward Ip, Social Position Predicting Physical Activity Level in Youth: An Application of Hidden Markov Modeling on Network Statistics
Data Challenge Winner - Lucas A. Overbey, Scott C. Batson, Jamie Lyle, Christopher Williams, Robert Regal, Lakeisha Williams, Correlating Twitter Sentiment and Event Data to Monitor Social and Political Unrest
Data Challenge Runner Up – Quanzhi Li, Armineh Nourbakhsh, Rui Fang, Xiaomo Liu, Sameena Shah, Sentiment Analysis of Political Figures across News and Social Media