NeurIPS 2022 Scholar Award (as advisor) Dr. Aybat's Ph.D. student, Xuan Zhang, received the award to present “SAPD+: An Accelerated Stochastic Method for Nonconvex-Concave Minimax Problems”
The IEEE INFOCOM 2017 “Best-in-Session-Presentation” award, IEEE INFOCOM, May 2017.
INFORMS Data Mining Best Student Paper Prize Finalist, 2015 (as advisor) Dr. Aybat's Ph.D. student, Sam Dawanloo Tajbakhsh, was selected as one of the 4 finalists with the paper “Sparse Precision Matrix Selection for Fitting Gaussian Random Field Models to Large Data Sets”
SIAM Student Paper Prize for “Unified Approach for Minimizing Composite Norms”, 2011
2010 INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Award Runner-Up with the paper “A First-Order Augmented Lagrangian Method for Compressed Sensing.”
The Presidential Distinguished Fellowship, Columbia University, 2006-2010.
Graduated ranking 1st among 371 Bogazici University Engineering School students in 2003.
Graduated with High Honors degree, ranking 1st among 67 Bogazici University Industrial Engineering students in 2003.
Dana Meadows Best Student Paper Prize, Honorable Mention (second rank) in 22nd International System Dynamics Conference, Oxford, 2004 with the paper “Decision Making Tests with Different Variations of the Stock Management Game.”
Graduated from Uskudar Science High School ranking 1st among 137 graduates.
TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council) National Chemistry Olympiad Finalist by ranking 3rd among examinees of Marmara Region.