Faculty honors and awards
| Fellows | Young Faculty Awards | Other awards |
Name |
Society |
Year |
| Eyad Abed | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 2001 |
| Michael Ball | INFORMS (Insitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) | 2004 |
| John Baras | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 1984 |
| Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science | 2006 | |
| Alexander Barg | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 2007 |
| Roger W. Brockett | National Academy of Engineering | 1991 |
| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 1974 | |
| Kyu-Yong Choi | Korean Academy of Science and Technology | 2001 |
| National Academy of Engineering of Korea | 2000 | |
| Robert Dooling | Acoustical Society of America | |
| American Psychological Association | ||
| Anthony Ephremides | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 1984 |
| Carol Espy-Wilson | Acoustical Society of America | 2005 |
| Michael Fu | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 2007 |
| Nariman Farvardin | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 1998 |
| James Hendler | American Association for Artificial Intelligence | 2000 |
| Jospeh JaJa | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 1996 |
| Association for Computing Machinery | 2001 | |
| Ben Kedem | American Statistical Association | 1999 |
| P.S. Krishnaprasad | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Enginners | 1990 |
| Chi Lee | Intstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 1991 |
| Optical Society of America | ||
| William Levine | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 1986 |
| K.J. Ray Liu | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 2002 |
| Armand Makowski | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 2006 |
| Steven Marcus | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 1986 |
| Thomas McAvoy | American Institute of Chemical Engineers | 1989 |
| Cynthia Moss | Acoustical Society of America | 2001 |
| Prakash Narayan | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 2001 |
| Dana Nau | American Association for Artificial Intelligence | 1996 |
| Nicholas Roussopoulos | Association for Computing Machinery | 2001 |
| Gary Rubloff | American Physical Society | |
| American Vacuum Society | ||
| Paul Schonfeld | Institute of Transportation Engineers | 1998 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers | ||
| Shihab Shamma | Acoustical Society of America | 2004 |
| Ben Shneiderman | Association for Computing Machinery | 1997 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | 2001 | |
| Andre Tits | Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | 1997 |
| Name | Award | Year |
| Eyad Abed | NSF PYI for "Nonlinear Control and Order Reduction" | 1987 |
| Pamela Abshire | NSF CAREER for "Physical Information Efficiency for Sensing, Communicating, and Computing" | 2003 |
| Raymond A. Adomaitis | NSF Engineering Education Scholar | 1995 |
| Elias Balaras | NSF CAREER for "Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flows with Dynamically Moving Boundaries" | 2004 |
| Rajeev Barua | NSF CAREER
for "Synthesis-Assistance and Compilation Software for Embedded Systems" |
2001 |
| Michel Cukier | NSF CAREER for "Probabilistic Evaluation of Computer Security based on Experimental Data" | 2003 |
| Don DeVoe | NSF CAREER | 1999 |
| PECASE | 1999 | |
| Allison Druin | NSF CAREER for "A Classroom of the Future: Developing and Infusing New Technologies in Early Childhood Education" | 2000 |
| Ralph Etienne-Cummings | NSF CAREER | 1996 |
| ONR Young Investigators Award | 2000 | |
| Nariman Farvardin | NSF PYI for "Design and Analysis of Data Compression Schemes for Nonstationary Sources" | 1987 |
| Reza Ghodssi | NSF CAREER | 2002 |
| S.K. Gupta | ONR Young Investigator | 2000 |
| Society of Manufacturing Engineers' Robert W. Galvin Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award | 2000 | |
| NSF CAREER for "Automated Design of Multi-Piece Molds -- A Step towards Manufacturing of Geometrically Complex Heterogeneous Objects" | 2001 | |
| PECASE | 2001 | |
| Jeffrey Herrmann | SME Jiri Tlusty Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award | 2003 |
| Timothy Horiuchi | NSF CAREER for "Adaptive Neuromorphic VLSI for Improving Accuracy and Precision: Modeling Attention for Bat Echolocation" | 2004 |
| Miroslav Kristic | NSF CAREER | 1996 |
| Richard La | NSF CAREER for "Networking Modeling and Resource Allocation" | 2003 |
| K.J. Ray Liu | NSF Young Investigator | 1994 |
| Armand Makowski | NSF PYI | 1984 |
| Nuno Martins | NSF CAREER for "Distributed control of dynamic systems using a wireless communcation medium: two new paradigms" | 2007 |
| Dana Nau | NSF PYI | 1984 |
| Harhalabos Papadopolous | NSF CAREER for Efficient Encoding and Data Fusion Strategies for Wireless Networks of Sensors and Actuators | 2001 |
| Linda Schmidt | NSF Young Investigator | 1999 |
| Benjamin Shapiro | NSF CAREER for "Feedback Control of Micro-Fluidic Packets and the Bio-Particles within Them" | 2004 |
| David B. Stewart | NSF CAREER | 1998 |
| V.S. Subrahamanian | Maryland Distinguished Young Scientist Award | 1997 |
| NSF Young Investigator | 1993 | |
| Leandros Tassiulas | ONR Young Investigator | 1997 |
| Andre Tits | NSF PYI | 1985 |
| Sennur Ulukus | NSF CAREER for "A Network Information Theoretic Approach to Wireless Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks" | 2005 |
| Gregory C. Walsh | NSF CAREER and GOALI | 1997 |
| Min Wu | NSF CAREER for "Signal Processing Approaches for Multimedia Security and Information Protection" | 2001 |
| ONR Young Investigator for "Digital Fingerprinting for Multimedia Security and Forensics " | 2005 | |
| Miao Yu | AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award for fly ear-inspired sensors for micro-air vehicles | 2007 |
| NSF CAREER for "Biology-Inspired Miniature Optical Directional Microphones: Bridging Biological Systems and Sensor Technology" | 2007 | |
| Name | Award | Year |
| Pamela Abshire | ISR Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award | 2006 |
| Eyad Abed | American Automatic Control Council's O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper award | |
| Senior Fulbright Scholar Award from the Council for
the International Exchange of Scholars |
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| ISR Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award | 1990 | |
| Naval Research Laboratory's Alan Berman Research Publication Award | ||
| Raymond A. Adomaitis | ISR Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award | 2005 |
| Professor of the Year | 1997 | |
| Teacher of the Year | 1996 | |
| David L. Akin | AIAA “Broken Propeller” Award | 1999 |
| Stuart Antman | SIAM Theodore von Karman Prize | 1999 |
| John S. Baras | Mancur Olson Research Achievement Award | 1998 |
| Kaye Brubaker | E. Robert Kent Outstanding Teaching Award for Junior Faculty | 2003 |
| Christopher Davis | University of Maryland Invention of the Year | 2000 |
| Robert Dooling | Irma T. Hirschl Career Development Award |
1980 |
| NIMH Research Scientist Award (not activated) | 1981 | |
| NIH Research Career Development Award | 1982 | |
| Washington Academy of Sciences Behavioral Research | 1983 | |
| Alexander v. Humboldt Senior Scientist Award | 1990 | |
| NIMH Research Scientist Award | 1992 | |
| Anthony Ephremides | IEEE Third Millennium Medal | 1999 |
| ACM/SIGMOBILE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing | 1996 | |
| Fred W. Ellersick Milcom Award for the "Best Paper in the Unclassified Technology Program" (IEEE) | 2000 | |
| University of Maryland E. Kirwan Award | 2001 | |
| ISR Oustanding Faculty Award | 2000 | |
Fellow, inaugrual class of the University of Maryland's Academy of Excellence in Teaching and Learning |
2002 | |
| Cynthia Kim Professor in Information Technology | 2003 | |
| Carol Espy-Wilson | NIH Independent Scientist Award | |
| Nariman Farvardin | Invention of the Year | 1999 |
| Michael Fu | Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award | 2004-2005 |
| IIE Operations Research Division Award | 1999 | |
| Outstanding Simulation Publication Award for research monograph Conditional Monte Carlo: Gradient Estimation and Optimization Applications | 1998 | |
| Best Paper Award for “Optimization of Discrete Event Systems via Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation" | 1999 | |
| Allen J. Krowe Award for Teaching Excellence | 1995 | |
| Operations Research Meritorious Service Award | 1999 | |
| ISR Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award | 2002 | |
| Reza Ghodssi | ISR Oustanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award | 2003 |
| S.K. Gupta | Best Paper Award for “Manufacturability Analysis for Solid Freeform Fabrication” | 1999 |
| Literati Club's Highly Commended Award for "Intelligent Assembly Modeling and Simulation," published in Assembly Automation | 2002 | |
| Invention of the Year (Physical Science) | 2008 | |
| James Hendler | University of Maryland Invention of the Year for PARKA-DB | 1998 |
| Timothy Horiuchi | ISR Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award | 2004 |
| Eric Justh | Achievement
Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) scholarship |
1997 |
| Institute for Systems Research Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 1995/96 school year | 1995 | |
| Ben Kedem | Goddard Exceptional Achievement Award | 1997 |
| P.S. Krishnaprasad | IEEE Bode Prize | 2006 |
| Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow | 1998 | |
| Miroslav Kristic | O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award of the American Automatic Control Council for "Asymptotic Properties of Adaptive Nonlinear Stabilizers | 1995 |
| William S. Levine | IEEE Third Millennium Medal | 1999 |
| Schroers Award for Outstanding Rotorcraft Research | 1998 | |
| K.J. Ray Liu | Distinguished Scholar-Teacher | 2007 |
| Best Paper Award for “Downlink Beamforming for DS-CDMA Mobile Radio with Multimedia Services” | 1999 | |
| IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer | 2003 | |
| Member-at-Large of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors | 2004 | |
| IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award | 2005 | |
| EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing Best Paper Award | 2004 | |
| Steven I. Marcus | Distinguished Scholar-Teacher | 2000 |
| Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award | 1998 | |
| Thomas McAvoy | Distinguished Scholar-Teacher | 1997 |
| Harry C. Bigglestone Award for Excellence in Communications of Fire Protection Concepts | 1996 | |
| Dana Nau | Winner, Baron Barclay World Bridge Computer Challenge | 1997 |
| Michael Pecht | American Society for Quality Control Reliability Division's Austin Bonis Award for the Advancement of Reliability Education | 1996 |
| Raadhakrishan Poovendran | National Security Agency Rising Star Award | 1999 |
| S. Raghavan | George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award | 1996 |
| INFORMS Junior Faculty paper competition, "Long-Distance Access Network Design." Second place prize | 2003 | |
| Glover/Klingman Prize: Best paper published in the journal Networks in 2005 | 2006 | |
| Ramamoorthy Ramesh | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist Award | 2000 |
| Clark School of Engineering Faculty Outstanding Research Award | 2001 | |
| Nicholas Roussopoulos | Best Paper Award for “DCM-SIGMOND” | 1999 |
| Gary Rubloff | American Vacuum Society Gaede-Langmuir Award | 2000 |
| Shihab Shamma | ISR Oustanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award | 2007 |
| Benjamin Shapiro | Invention of the Year Award finalist for "Arbitrary and Simultaneous Control of Multiple Particles in Micro-Fluidic Systems" | 2004 |
| Ben Shneiderman | Invention of the Year Award Finalist for "Direct Annotation for Digital Images" | 2000 |
| Jospeh Rigo Award for book "Designing the User Interface" | 1996 | |
| V.S. Subrahmanian | Invention of the Year Award Finalist for "IMPACT Agent Development System" | 2000 |
| Andre Tits | Faculty Service Award | 2000 |
| Sennur Ulukus | IEEE Marconi Paper Prize Award in Wireless Communications for the paper, "Wireless Systems and Interference Avoidance | 2003 |
| Min Wu | Technology Review's top 100 young innovators in the world | 2004 |
| George Corcoran Education Award, University of Maryland | 2003 | |
| IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award | 2005 | |
| EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing Best Paper Award | 2004 | |
| Guangming Zhang | ENPM Outstanding Teaching Award (inaugural recipient) | 2006 |
| Clark School of Engineering Keystone Professor | 2006 | |
| 2004 Poole and Kent Outstanding Teaching Award for Senior Faculty | 2004 | |
| Member of the Year Award, Region 3 (East Coast), Society of Manufacturing Engineers | 1999 | |
| Certificate of Award for Outstanding Achievement in Service offered to the International Society of Agile Manufacturing | 1998 | |
