Major Awards and Honors Earned by Current Faculty [1]
- IEEE Fellows:13
- ACM Fellows: 1
- NSF CAREER Awards: 12
- DARPA Young Faculty Awards: 2
- ONR YIP: 1
- Army Research Office Young Investigators: 1
- Alfred P. Sloan Awards: 1
List of Honors by Individual Faculty Member
Zlatan Aksamija [2]
- EMPD Postdoctoral Travel Award from the American Vacuum Society Electronic Materials and Processing Division, 2012
- "Transformative Computational Science using Cyber Infrastructure" (CI TraCS) Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2011
- Computing Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Computing Research Association, 2009
- Gregory Stillman Graduate Research Award, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, 2008
- First Place Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Electro/Information Conference, 2007;
- Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF), 2005
- Micron Technology Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 2003-2005
- Edmund C. James Honors Scholar in Engineering, 1999-2003
Neal G. Anderson [3]
- Best Oral Conference Paper Award (First Place), IEEE NANO, 2012
- Best Paper Award, IEEE NANO, 2011
- UMass Distinguished Teaching Award, 2006
- College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award, 1993
Joseph Bardin [4]
- DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2011
- NSF CAREER Award, 2014
- ONR Young Investigator Program, 2015
Wayne P. Burleson [5]
- IEEE Fellow, 2011
- Ben Dasher Award for Best Paper at the Frontiers in Education Conference, 1999
- Outstanding Junior Faculty Member, College of Engineering
- Outstanding Faculty Contribution to IEEE Student Branch, College of Engineering
Keith R. Carver [6]
- IEEE Fellow Award, 1986
- IEEE GRS-S Outstanding Service Award, 1984
- IEEE Centennial Award, 1984
- Public Service Medal
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1983
- Distinguished Lecturer
- IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, 1981-1982
- NTU Outstanding Instructor, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
Maciej J. Ciesielski [7]
- Doctorat Honoris Causa, Université de Bretagne Sud, Lorient, France, 2008
Theodore E. Djaferis [8]
- IEEE Fellow, 2003
- College Outstanding Teacher Award, 2001
- Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Professor Award, 1982, 1988, 1990
Stephen J. Frasier [9]
- NRL Alan Berman Research Publication Award, 2003, 2005
- ARO Young Investigator Program Award, 1998
Aura Ganz [10]
- Best Paper Contender at the International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, 2010
- Finalist in Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project, 2010
- IEEE Fellow, 2008
- Best paper award IEEE Broadnets Wireless Symposium, 2007.
- Best paper award (Systems track) ACM Multimedia conference, 2004
- Best paper award, FIE Conference 1999
- Women in Engineering Service Award from UMASS Women in Engineering Program, 1998
- Israeli Communication Ministry Award, 1985
- Landau's Award, 1982
Lixin Gao [11]
- ACM Fellow, 2013
- SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award, 2011
- Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity at the Sixth Annual Faculty Convocation, UMass, Amherst, 2011
- Best Paper Award, 2010 INFOCOM
- IEEE Fellow, 2010
- NSF CAREER Award, 1999
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 2003
Dennis L. Goeckel [12]
- IEEE Fellow, 2011
- College of Engineering Outstanding Senior Faculty Member, 2010
- University of Massachusetts Distinguished Teaching Award, 2007
- College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Member, 2001
- Lilly Teaching Fellow, 2000-2001
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1999
Weibo Gong [13]
- Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property (CVIP) Technology Development Fund Award 2010
- Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, University of Massachusetts, 2008-2009
- Chancellor’s Medal, University of Massachusetts, 2009
- Engineering College Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, 2002
- IEEE Fellow, 1999
- IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control George Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, 1997
Christopher V. Hollot [14]
- Ben Dasher Award for Best Paper at the 2009 Frontiers in Education Conference, 2009
- Nominee for University's Distinguished Teaching Award, 1987, 2003-2005
- IEEE Fellow, 2004
- College of Engineering Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, 2004
- ECE Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award,1987, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004
- NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1988
- Edward P. Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student, 1984
David Irwin [15]
- NSF CAREER Award, 2014
- IEEE Sustainable Computing Register's Pick of the Month, June 2012
- Best Papers Session at PerCom, 2012
- Best Paper Award at GreenNets, 2011
Robert W. Jackson [16]
- IEEE Fellow, 2004
- Sigma Xi
- Tau Beta Pi
- Phi Kappa Phi
- Eta Kappa Nu
Ramakrishna Janaswamy [17]
- College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher Award, 2013-2014
- IEEE Fellow, 2003
- IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000
- 1995 R. W. P. King Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
- Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, 1991
Patrick A. Kelly [18]
- Prize Paper Award (co-author)
- IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1987
- Outstanding ECE Teacher Award, IEEE/HKN student branches, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1989 and 1993
- Honorable Mention Award (co-author), SPIE Conference on Medical Imaging: Image Processing, 1995
Israel Koren [19]
- Master, Beijing DeTao Masters Academy, 2013
- Best Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing,1995
- IEEE Fellow, 1991
- Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
C. Mani Krishna [20]
- IEEE Fellow, 2009
Sandip Kundu [21]
- Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2010
- Best Paper Award, DATE Conference, 2009
- IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor, 2006-2008
- IEEE Fellow, 2007
- The Best of ICCAD – 20 Years of Excellence in Computer Aided Design Award, 2002
- Best Presented Paper in International Conference on Computer Design, 1989
William Leonard [22]
- UMass IEEE Student Branch Outstanding Faculty; 2006-09, 2011-14
- Nominee for the UMass Distinguished Teaching Award; 2002-03, 2006-08, 2010-13
- Nominee for the UMass Honors Teaching Excellence Award; 2012
- IEEE/ASEE Frontiers in Education Benjamin J. Dasher Award for Best Paper, 2009
- MERLOT Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources, 2009
- UMass College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher Award, 2009
- Finalist for the UMass Distinguished Teaching Award, 2008, 2013
- UMass Distinguished Teaching Award (graduate student category), 1995
David J. McLaughlin [23]
- UMass Amherst Distinguished Teaching Award, 2016
- UMass Boston Engineering Program Advisory Board, 2015 - present
- University of Oklahoma Distinguished Radar Lecturer, 2014
- Director, NSF Engineering Research Center for CASA, 2003 - 2013
- UMass Amherst Distinguished Lecturer, 2012
- UMass Amherst Chancellor's Medal, 2012
- UMass Amherst Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creativity Award, 2006
- UMass Amherst Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award, 2006
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Distinguished Lecturer, 2005-2008
- AIAA New England Section Engineer of the Year, 2004
- UMass Amherst Armstrong Career Development Professorship, 2003 - 2006
Csaba Andras Moritz [24]
- Eight issued patents
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, Best Paper Award, 2014
- Best 20 Last 25 Years Paper Award at IEEE International Symposium on Custom Computing Machines, 2013
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, Best Paper Award, 2013
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, Best Paper Award, 2011
- IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Best Paper Award, 2011
- IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Best Paper Award, 2010
- IEEE Symposium on Nanoscale Architecture, Finalist Best Paper, 2009
- IEEE Symposium on VLSI Best Paper Award, 2008
- FENA FCRP Review Best Poster Award, 2008
Hossein Pishro-Nik [25]
- College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 2009
- NSF CAREER Award, 2009
- ECE Graduate Excellence Award, Georgia Institute of technology, 2005
- CSIP Outstanding Research Award Georgia Institute of technology, 2005
Eric Polizzi [26]
- College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 2011
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2009
David M. Pozar [27]
- S. A. Schelkunoff Transactions Prize Paper Award, 2003
- IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
- Chancellor’s Medal, University of Massachusetts, 2003
- Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, University of Massachusetts, 2003-2004
- IEEE Third Millenium Medal, 2000
- "H. A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award", 1998
- IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society; "College Outstanding Teacher Award", 1997
- College of Engineering; "Outstanding Senior Faculty Award", 1995
- IEEE Fellow, for "contributions to the electromagnetic analysis, development, and design of microstrip antennas and phased arrays", 1990
- United Technologies Corporation Outstanding Teaching Award
- R.W.P. King Best Paper Award, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, 1988
- Issac Koga Gold Medal Award by URSI for "remarkable contributions to the analytical, numerical, and experimental study of printed antennas and phased arrays, and related problems in applied electromagnetics", 1987
- R.W.P. King Best Paper Award, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, 1986
- "Outstanding Junior Faculty Award", Engineering Alumni Association, 1984-1985
- "Outstanding Young Professor for 1984-85 Award", HKN
- IEEE Centennial "Keys to the Future Award", IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (Most Promising Young Engineer in IEEE AP-S)
- "Presidential Young Investigator Award", National Science Foundation, 1984
- "Outstanding Professor for 1981" teaching award, HKN
Daniel H. Schaubert [28]
- University of Illinois ECE Distinguished Alumni Award, 2010
- Fellow of IEEE, 1989
- IEEE John Kraus Antenna Award
- H. A. Wheeler Prize Applications Paper Award
- IEEE Third Millennium Medal
- University of Massachusetts Samuel F. Conti Fellowship Award
- College of Engineering Senior Faculty Award
- Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu Honor Societies
- Reid Memorial Award
- Sustained Superior Performance Award
- Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teaching Award
Ting-wei Tang [29]
- IEEE Fellow, 1999
- Corinna Borden Keen Fellow, Brown University, 1964
- NSF Faculty Fellowship, Summer Institute of Plasma Physics, Princeton University, 1964
- NSF Faculty Fellowship, Conference on Plasma Dynamics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1965
- AEC Faculty Fellowship, Summer Laboratory Workshop in Plasma Properties, University of Maryland, 1967
- Outstanding Professor Award, Delta Eta Chapter, Eta Kappa Nu Association, 1979
- Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, College of Engineering, University of Massachusetts, 1989
- General Electric Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Engineering, University of Massachusetts, 1991
- Chancellor's Medal, University of Massachusetts, 2000
- Sigma Xi. Eta Kappa Nu. Tau Beta Pi. American Men and Women of Science
- Who's Who in Technology Today
Russell Tessier [30]
- Chancellor's Leadership Fellow Award, 2015-2016
- NSF Information Technology Research Grant Awardee
- Lilly teaching Fellow, 2002-2003
- College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 2002-2003
- College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award, 2002-2003
Donald F. Towsley [31]
- Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and Journal of Dynamic Discrete Event Systems
- On the Editorial boards of Networks and Performance Evaluation
- Program Co-chair of the joint ACM SIGMETRICS and PERFORMANCE '92 conference
- Two-time recipient of the Best paper Award of the ACM Sigmetrics Conference
- Fellow of the IEEE and of the ACM
- Member of ORSA and is active in the IFIP Working Groups 6.3 on Performance Modeling of Networks and 7.3 on Performance Modeling
- IEEE’s most prestigious honors, the 2007 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
- UMass Amherst Distinguished Faculty Lecturer award in 2002 and a UMass Amherst College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Faculty Research Award, 2003
Marinos N. Vouvakis [32]
- Student Contest Finalist, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, 2015
- Best Paper Award (second place), IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology, 2013
- College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award, 2011
- Best Paper award, Antennas and Application Symposium, 2009
- IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium Best Student Paper Award (3rd Place), 2005
- The Ohio State University ECE Department Teaching Fellow
- ANSOFT Corp. Fellow
- Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society
Tilman Wolf [33]
- Best Paper Award, IEEE HPSR Conference, 2011
- ECE Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, 2010
- College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher Award, 2008
- College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 2006
- NSF CAREER Award, 2005
- Lilly Teaching Fellowship, 2004
- Fulbright Scholarship, 1996
K. Sigfrid Yngvesson [34]
- Wallin Medal, Royal Society for Science, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1970
- IEEE Fellow, 1998
Qiangfei Xia [35]
- NSF Career Award, 2013
- DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2012
- UMass Distinguished Teadhing Award Nominee, 2011
Michael Zink [36]
- NSF CAREER Award, 2014
- Best Paper at Multimedia Computing and Networking, 2008