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

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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