College of Engineering Teaching Awards

• 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

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

UIC Award for Excellence in Teaching

• 2020: Vahe Caliskan
• 2016: Michael Stroscio

UIC Distinguished Professors

• 2023: Sudip Mazumder
• 2014: Michael Stroscio
• 2009: George Uslenghi
• 2004: Mitra Dutta

UIC Inventor of the Year

• 2023: Igor Paprotny
• 2014: Sudip Mazumder
• 2011: Alan Feinerman

UIC Researcher of the Year: Rising Star

• 2012: Natasha Devroye

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

University of Illinois Scholars

• 2023-2024: Natasha Devroye
• 2020 to 2023: Rashid Ansari
• 2017 to 2020: Danilo Erricolo
• 2015 to 2018: Daniela Tuninetti
• 2013 to 2016: Sudip Mazumder
• 2004 to 2007: Michael Stroscio
• 2001 to 2004: Arye Nehorai
• 1988 to 1991: Daniel Graupe

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

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

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

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

AAAS

• 2021: Sudip K. Mazumder
• 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

• Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award: Sudip Mazumder, 2005

• 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