Faculty Awards
Internal Awards
winners
College of Engineering Teaching Awards
- 2024: Vahe Caliskan, Jim Kosmach, Mesrob Ohannessian, Igor Paprotny, Wenjing Rao
- 2020-21: Vahe Caliskan
- 2018: Igor Paptrotny, Hulya Seferoglu, Besma Smida
- 2017: Wenjing Rao, Renata Revelo Alonso
- 2016: Danilo Erricolo, Vitali Metlushko
- 2014: Kim Fitzgerald, Igor Paprotny
- 2013: Wenjing Rao, Natasha Devroye
- 2012: Vahe Caliskan, Vitali Metlushko
winners
The Harold A. Simon award is named for the late Dr. Harold A. Simon, a UIC professor of mechanical engineering. The award was first awarded in 1985 to memorialize Dr. Simon and recognize teaching excellence within the College of Engineering. One award is presented each year to a College of Engineering faculty member who embodies the distinguished service, dedication, and teaching excellence that defined the late Dr. Simon’s career at UIC.
- 2017: Wenjing Rao
winners
- 2023: Sudip Mazumder
- 2014: Michael Stroscio
- 2009: George Uslenghi
- 2004: Mitra Dutta
winners
UIC Silver Circle Excellence in Teaching Awards
- 2012: Vahe Caliskan
- 2009: Vladimir Goncharoff
- 2006: Vladimir Goncharoff
- 2003: Vladimir Goncharoff
- 2000: Vladimir Goncharoff
- 1988: Vladimir Goncharoff
winners
University of Illinois Scholars
- 2024: Pai-Yen Chen
- 2023: Natasha Devroye
- 2020: Rashid Ansari
- 2017: Danilo Erricolo
- 2015: Daniela Tuninetti
- 2016: Sudip Mazumder
- 2007: Gyungho Lee
- 2004: Michael Stroscio
- 2001: Arye Nehorai
- 1988: Daniel Graupe
External Awards
winners
American Physical Society, Division of Laser Science Traveling Lecturer
- 2024: Thomas Searles
IEEE Information Theory Society
- 2020-2022: Daniela Tuninetti
- 2019-2020: Natasha Devroye
IEEE Computer Information Society
- 2012-2014: Derong Liu
- 2016-2018: Derong Liu
IEEE Power Electronics Society
- 2016: Sudip Mazumder
winners
Ahmet Enis Cetin
- Editor-in-Chief, Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer, SCI Impact Factor, 2013-present
Pai-Yen Chen
- Associate Editor, IEEE Sensors Journal
- Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification
- Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology
Natasha Devroye
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2018-present
Danilo Erricolo
- Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2016 – present
Lina He
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2020 – 2023
- Associate Editor, IEEE Power Engineering Letters, 2020 – 2023
- Associate Editor, IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, 2019 – present
- Associate Editor, Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 2020 – present
Derong Liu
- Editor-in-Chief, Artificial Intelligence Review, 2014-present
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2010-2015
Sudip Mazumder
- Editor-in-Chief at Large, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2019
- First Editor-in-Chief, Advances in Power Electronics, 2006-2009
Thomas Searles
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, 2024
Dan Schonfeld
- Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Image & Video Storage, Retrieval & Analysis, 2007-Present.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Video Analysis, 2006-Present
- Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Multidimensional Signal Processing & Multimedia Signal Processing, 1999-2000
- Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Filtering and Enhancement, 1994-1996
Besma Smida
- Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Letters
Daniela Tuninetti
- Past Editor, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
winners
AAAS
- 2021: Sudip K. Mazumder
- 2006: Gyungho Lee
- 2002: Mitra Dutta
- 1999: Michael Stroscio
- 1989: James Lin
American Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering
- 1992: James Lin (founding member)
American Physical Society
- 2004: Michael Stroscio
Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association
- 2021: Danilo Erricolo
IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers)
- 2021: Daniela Tuninetti
- 2016: Danilo Erricolo
- 2015: Sudip Mazumder
- 2010: Dan Schonfeld
- 2005: Derong Liu
- 2000 Hung-Yu David Yang
- 1999: Rashid Ansari
- 1998: Mitra Dutta
- 1992: Michael Stroscio
- 1990: Piergiorgio Uslenghi
- 1986 James Lin
- 1985: Daniel Graupe
IEEE Power Electronics Society
- 2020: Sudip Mazumder
Optical Society of America
- 1998: Mitra Dutta
Society of Women Engineers
- 2003: Mitra Dutta
International Union of Radio Science
- 2017: James Lin
- 2017: Piergiorgio Uslenghi
International Neural Network Society (INNS)
- 2013: Derong Liu
International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
- 2016: Derong Liu
winners
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award: Sudip Mazumder, 2005
winners
- 2025: Ryan Corey
- 2025: Arman Roohi
- 2025: Benjamin Sanchez Terrones
- 2023: Inna Partin-Vaisband
- 2022: Mesrob I. Ohannessian
- 2021: Thomas Searles, Amit R. Tried
- 2020: Hulya Seferoglu
- 2018: Pai-Yen Chen
- 2015: Besma Smida
- 2012: Wenjing Rao
- 2011: Natasha Devroye
- 2010: Zhichun Zhu
- 2006: Daniela Tuninetti
- 2003: Sudip Mazumder
- 2001: Milos Zefran
- 1999: Derong Liu