Tulip awards:
- The 2010 award winner (DNA 16): Milan N. Stojanovic (Univ. of New Mexico)
- The 2009 award winner (DNA 15): Bernard Yurke (Bell Labs)
- The 2008 award winner (DNA 14): Masami Hagiya (Univ. of Tokyo)
- The 2007 award winner (DNA 13): Natasha Jonoska (Univ. of South Florida)
- The 2006 award winner (DNA 12): John H. Reif (Duke Univ.)
- The 2005 award winner (DNA 11): Anne Condon (Univ. of British Columbia)
- The 2004 award winner (DNA 10): Nadrian C. Seeman (New York Univ.)
- The 2003 award winner (DNA 9): Erik Winfree (Caltech)
- The 2002 award winner (DNA 8): Tom Head (Binghamton Univ.)
- The 2001 award winner (DNA 7): Laura Landweber (Princeton Univ.)
Student awards:
- The 2010 award winners (DNA 16):
- Winner of the best paper award: Niall Murphy (NUI Maynooth)
- Winner of the ISNSCE award: Ibuki Kawamata (Univ. of Tokyo)
- The 2009 award winners (DNA 15):
- Winner of the best paper award: Chunhua Liu (New York Univ.)
- Winner of the ISNSCE award: Aaron Sterling (Iowa State Univ.)
- The 2008 award winners (DNA 14):
- Winner of the best paper award: David Soloveichik (Caltech)
- Winner of the ISNSCE award: David Zhang (Caltech)
- The 2007 award winners (DNA 13):
- Winner of the best paper award: David Spetzler (Arizona State Univ.) and co-authors Holin Chen & Chris Luhrs (Stanford Univ.)
- Winner of the ISNSCE award: Vikram Vijayan (Princeton Univ.)