Awards and Honors

A list of awards and honors received by Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo.

Awards

Sep 2024: TIME 100 AI: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2024
April 2024: Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) Class of 2024 Global Top 100 Futurists and Innovators
July 2023: Trailblazers in Engineering, Purdue University
May 2023: Rising Stars in Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University
January 2023: Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Scholar, Cornell University
November 2022: Distinguished Leadership in Service Award, Cornell Bowers CIS
May 2022: Community Outreach Award, Cornell Graduate School
December 2021: 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™
October 2021: NextGen Professors Fellow, Cornell Graduate School
May 2021: Grad Student of the Year, Cornell Diversity Programs in Engineering
March 2020: blackcomputeHER Fellow, blackcomputeHER.org
May 2019: Graduate Dean’s Scholar, Cornell University
August 2018: LEAP Fellow, Diversifying LEAdership in the Professoriate Alliance
May 2018: Bernard Charnwut Chan ‘88 Service Award, Pomona College
May 2018: Bessie Reiner Dill Graduate Fellowship Award, Pomona College
May 2018: Outstanding Senior in Leadership Award, The Claremont Colleges
January 2016: EXROP Award, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
April 2015: First Year Student Award, The Claremont Colleges