Senior Award, 2013 Raj Mittra Travel Grant, 3 April 2013, USA.

The award is USD 1000 cash.

Appointed Associate Editor, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Letters, 1 Jan – 31 Dec 2013.

Appointed Associate Editor of Science China for a two-year term starting from 1 Jan 2013.

Best Paper Award, IASTED International Conference on Engineering and Applied Science (EAS 2012), Colombo, Sri Lanka, 27-29 Dec 2012.

The winning paper is entitled "A Mixed Time-/Condition-Based Precognitive Maintenance Framework Using Support Vectors”.

The prize comprises a certificate.

Winner, TRECVID 2012 Surveillance Event Detection Evaluation (retrospective task), TRECVID Workshop at National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) 26-28 Nov 2012, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.

The joint team with Carnegie Mellon University and IBM T.J Watson achieved 1st place in 4 out of 7 retrospective event detection tasks.

The top performance entry is titled as "CMU-IBM-NUS@TRECVID 2012: Surveillance Event Detection (SED) ".

TRECVID is the flagship annual competition in multimedia area.

Winner, 2012 Human activities recognition and localization competition, ICPR 2012 Contest, 11 Nov 2012, Japan.

The winning entry is entitled “Integrating Multi-Stage Depth Contextual Information for Action Detection ”.

The prize is a certificate.

2nd Prize, 2012 Kitchen Scene Context based Gesture Recognition, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2012 Contest, 11 Nov 2012, Japan.

The winning entry is entitled "Context-aware Action Recognition in Kitchen Environment".

The prize comprises a certificate and two Japanese gifts.

Best Technical Demonstration Award, the 20th ACM Multimedia 2012, 29 Oct – 2 Nov 2012, Nara, Japan.

The winning paper is entitled “Hi, magic closet, tell me what to wear!”.

The prize includes a certificate and cash of 20,000 Yen.

The demo video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eog_Yblt4E and this work has been featured online at:

• TechNewsDaily, 'Magic Closet' Keeps You Work-Appropriate (26 Dec 2012)
• Newscientist.com, OK, app, what should I wear to this wedding? (10 Nov 2012)

and also many other websites reported or cited the work.

Dr Cabibihan’s work on "handshake for prosthetics" has been featured in "The Why Factor" program on BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/whyfactor on 2 November 2012.

Certificate of appreciation, 38th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2012), 25-28 Oct 2012, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The team is honored in recognition of their effort for their paper in the IEEE IECON 2012 Conference Special Session, and Assoc Prof Sanjib Kumar Panda for the best oral presentation in the “Power Converters and Control for Distribution Generation IV” special session of this conference.

Winner (Object Segmentation Challenge), Pascal Visual Object Challenge (VOC), 12th European Conference of Computer Vision (ECCV), 7 Oct 2012, Firenze, Italy.

This is the second time the team participated in this competition, but the first time to win the segmentation challenge. The team achieved 1st place for the 12 classes from all the 21 object classes.

The prize comprises t-shirts and certificate.

Winner (Object Classification Challenge), Pascal Visual Object Challenge, 12th European Conference of Computer Vision (ECCV), 2012. Oct 7th, 2012, Firenze, Italy.

This is the third time the team participated in this competition. It has won the classification challenge for three consecutive years of 2010 -2012. The team achieved 1st place for all the 20 object classes.

The prize comprises t-shirts and certificate.

Image and Vision Computing 2012 Outstanding Young Researcher Honorable Mention, 25th Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 16 – 21 June 2012, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Dr Tan is honored for his continued outstanding contributions to the computer vision community.

The prize comprises USD 250 and a certificate.

Dr Yeo and his team’s work on "Gold-free Gallium Nitride devices" has been featured online in "Semiconductor Today" on 7 June 2012.

Best Paper Award, Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM), 20-22 Dec 2011, Sydney, Australia.

The winning paper is entitled "Image Re-emotionalizing".

The prize is a certificate.

The team’s research on "Seeing Your Weight – An application in targeted advertisement" has been featured in the following :

• a) Discovery.news on 2 Dec 2011.
• b) Shown at 13th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2011, 7 Nov 2011, Barcelona, Spain as a demo.

The article was further cited / re-reported in more than 20 other websites.

The team’s work on "Web Image and Video Mining towards Universal and Robust Age Estimator" (published in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 2011) has been featured in Physorg.com on 5 Dec 2011.

Fellow, International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) 2012, USA, 16 Dec 2011.

Assoc Prof Hong is honored for his contributions to laser microprocessing and nanoengineering.

2011 IEEE Frederik Philips Award, IEEE, USA, 6 Dec 2011.

The prestigious award recognizes Professor Kwong for leadership in silicon technology and excellence in the management of microelectronics R&D. The award was presented at the 2011 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by Philips Electronics NV, the award comprises a bronze medal, certificate and an honorarium.

This award was featured in the following media :

1. IEEE News on 23 Nov 2011
   
2. IME Highlights on 6 Dec 2010.
   

The team's research on “A single gradientless light beam drags particles as tractor beam”, published in Physical Review Letters in Nov 2011, has been featured in the following media:

1. The Straits Times on 3 Dec 2011.
   
2. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/11/not-pulling-your-leg-tractor-bea.html
   
3. http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.203602
   
4. http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/tractors-on-full-the-first-steps-towards-light-based-tractor-beams.ars
   

Winner (Object Classification Challenge), Pascal Visual Object Classes Challenge (VOC), 13th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2011, 7 Nov 2011, Barcelona, Spain.

The prize comprises t-shirts and certificate.

This is the second time that the team clinches the top place in the Object Classification Challenge, and this time it wins 12 out of 20 object classes.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow (2012), USA.

Awarded for his contributions to motion control systems, effective 1 Jan 2012.

Fellow, Optical Society of America 2012, 4 Nov 2011.

Assoc Prof Hong is honored for his outstanding contributions to laser interactions with materials for the applications in microprocessing and nanofabrication.

2012 George E. Pake Prize, American Physical Society (APS), 17 Oct 2011, USA.

Prof Venkatesan is honored for his exemplary scientific career in research, industrial leadership, and guidance of new generations of physicists in the creation of new ventures by innovation. He has outstanding work in the invention of pulsed laser deposition process, development in the field of oxide electronics, successful conversion of academic research into commercializable products, and having more than 10 students and researchers setup commercial enterprises. He is the first Asian outside USA to be awarded, and is also one of the most highly cited physicists in the world today, being ranked 66 globally (as at end of year 2000).

This annual award (established since 1984 and sponsored by Xerox Corporation) is in recognition and encouragement to physicists internationally for their outstanding work combining original research accomplishments with leadership in the management of research or development in industry.

The prize consists of US $5,000, a certificate and a travel allowance to 2012 APS meeting / award ceremony in Boston, Massachusetts, 27 Feb – 2 Mar 2012.

Prof Venkatesan’s achievement will also be featured in Knowledge Enterprise and NUS Buzz, in Jan 2012 and March 2012 issues respectively.

6th IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Best Young Researcher Award 2010, IEEE Asia Pacific Board, 4 Oct 2011.

The prize comprises a certificate and an honorarium of USD 500. The award will be given at IEEE Globecom 2011, 5-9 Dec 2011, Houston, Texas, USA.

Appointed Senior Editor, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, effective August 2011 for a period of 3 years.

Appointed Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II for a two-year term starting from 1 Jan 2010.

This appointment is now extended for another 2 years starting from Jan 2012

This is the first time in the transaction's 57 years history that someone in Asia has been given this prestigious position.

Best Paper, Wireless Communication Symposium, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2011, Kyoto, Japan, June 2011.

The winning paper is entitled "ARQ with Packet-Error-Outage-Probability QoS Measure."
The prize is a certificate.

2012 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Outstanding Early Career Award, 8 June 2011, USA.

The award recognizes an outstanding young scientist or engineer who contributed to the advancement of theory, technologies, and/or applications of computational intelligence through inventions, new technologies, innovative technical developments, new product implementations, or the management of innovative product design or production processes.

The prize includes USD1000 and a certificate. The award ceremony will be held at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), 10-15 June 2012, Brisbane, Australia.

Best Paper, Cognitive Radio and Cooperative Communications Track, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Spring 2011, Budapest, Hungary, May 2011.

The winning paper is entitled "Bayesian Spectrum Sensing for Digitally Modulated Primary User SIgnals in Cognitive Radio."
The prize is a certificate.

The team's research on “Optical virtual imaging at 50 nm lateral resolution with a white light nanoscope” has been featured in the following media :

1. a) Nature Communications journal on 1 Mar 2011
2. b) BBC science news on 1 Mar 2011
3. c) FoE’s news highlights on 16 Mar 2011
4. d) The Straits Times on 26 Mar 2011.

IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award, IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES), 24 Nov 2010, USA.

Assoc Prof Dipti was honored for outstanding professional and technical contributions to the power engineering profession and education. The prize is a plaque.

2^nd Prize, 2010 Digital Signal Processing Creative Design Contest, 19 November 2010, Taiwan.

The winning entry is entitled “Intelligent Pole for Hornbill Conservation Studies”. The prize comprises NTD 20,000 cash, a plaque and a certificate.

Best Poster Award, 55th Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) Conference, 14 – 18 Nov 2010, Atlanta, USA.

The winning entry is entitled “Enhancement of Perpendicular Exchange bias in {Pd/Co}/FeMn Thin Films by Tailoring the Magnetoelastically-induced Perpendicular Anisotropy”. The prize comprises a certificate and USD 50.

Best Paper, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Multimedia 2010 (MM’10), 29 Oct 2010, Firenze, Italy.

The winning entry is entitled “Dynamic Captioning: Video Accessibility Enhancement for Hearing Impairment”. The prize comprises a certificate and USD 1000.

His work on “A nanomedicine approach for ocular neuroprotection in glaucoma” with his team and collaborator (Prof Park Ki Ho and team, Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University) has been featured in Spotlight section, Nanowerk (http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=18646.php), USA on 25 Oct 2010.

Nanowerk is a leading nanotechnology and nanosciences online portal in USA. Its spotlight section features daily exclusive article on the hottest and newest discovery around the globe.

Winner (Object Classification Challenge) and Honorable Mention Prize (Object Detection Challenge), Pascal Visual Object Classes Challenge (VOC), 11 Sep 2010, Crete, Greece. The prize comprises t-shirts and certificates.

The team clinched the top place in the Object Classification Challenge for 12 out of 20 object classes from a total of 22 international teams. For the Object Detection Challenge, there were 15 teams worldwide.

PASCAL VOC is a benchmark in visual object category recognition and detection, providing the vision and machine learning communities with a standard dataset of images, annotation and standard evaluation procedures. Organized annually from year 2005 to present, the challenge and its associated dataset have become accepted as the benchmark for object detection. More importantly, VOC has been flag of the state-of-the-art algorithms for object classification, detection, and segmentation. Almost all the top universities in the world (eg. MIT, UIUC, CMU, Berkeley) and some well-known companies (eg. NEC) have participated in this competition.

IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Fellow 2010, 27 Sep 2010, Laxenburg, Austria.

Honored for his fundamental contributions to adaptive neural network applications in robotics. The fellowship is given to individuals who have made outstanding and extraordinary contributions in the field of interest of IFAC, in the role as an engineer, scientist, technical leader or educator. The first fellows were elected in the IFAC World Congress in Prague in July 2005.

Best Application Paper Award, 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Jinan, China, 6-9 July 2010.

The winning paper is entitled “A Robust Vision System on an Unmanned Helicopter for Ground Target Seeking and Following”.

The prize comprises USD 1000 and a certificate.

Changjiang Guest Professorship, Nanjing University of Science & Technology (NUST), China, Sep 2010.

This is one of the highest honor from China.

Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2010).

The winning entry is entitled “Automated assembly of shredded pieces from multiple photos”. The award comprises a certificate and USD $1000. The award ceremony will be held in Singapore, July 19-23, 2010.

1st Prize (Information and Communication Technologies Track), "Innovation Circus", Milan, Italy, 22 April 2010.

The winning entry is A/Prof Adrian team's "Petimo" project (a social networking robot for children).

The international competition is a six-day showcase on innovation and research hosted by the city of Milan. The prize is termed "InventiON: Competition of ideas for inventors". The prize facilitates the professional business and technical evaluation of the invention, and provides related support in the preparation of the business plan, with potential of product commercialization.

The competition is sponsored by the Municipality of Milan and the Chamber of Commerce, and is co-organized by service company Alintec, together with "Nova-Sole 24 ore" (Italian financial times). The main sponsor of the competition is 3M.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow (2010), USA.

Awarded for his contributions to receiver design and performance analysis for wireless communications, effective 1 Jan 2010.

Best Paper, International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS'09), 23-25 Nov 2009, Kunming, Yunnan, China.

The winning paper is entitled "Hidden-Concept Driven Image Decomposition Towards Semi-Supervised Multi-Label Image Annotation". The prize is a certificate.

1st Prize, 2009 International Digital Signal Processing Creative Design Contest, 19 Nov 2009, Tainan, Taiwan.

The contest was sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan and the IEEE chapter on Signal Processing. A nationwide domestic contest was held in Taiwan in preliminary competitions and 12 Taiwanese teams were selected out of about 100 for the final along with 8 international teams from overseas universities. There were 20 teams in the final.

The winning work is on "Automated Ex-Utero Harvesting of Stem Cells from Placenta". The award comprises of a trophy and NT $30,000.

Best Poster Paper Prize at the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA 2009), 6-10 July 09, Suzhou, China.

IPFA 2009 is devoted to the fundamental understanding of the physical mechanisms of semiconductor device failures and issues related to semiconductor device reliability and yield, especially those related to advanced process technologies.The winning paper is titled "Advanced Dynamic Failure Analysis on Interconnects by Vectorized Scanning Joule Expansion Microscopy". The paper is a result of the research collaboration between Wuppertal University, Germany, and NUS.

2009 Asian Control Conference (ASCC) Best Application Paper Award, 7th ASCC, 27 – 29 Aug 2009, Hong Kong.

The winning paper is entitled “Design and implementation of a robust automatic flight control system for a small-scale UAV helicopter”. The prize carries USD 500 and certificates for each author.

The Asian Control Conference (ASCC) is a biennial event and a major international control systems event held in Asia. The history of ASCC dates back to 1994 when the first ASCC was held in Tokyo. The subsequent conferences then were held in Seoul (1997), Shanghai (2000), Singapore (2002), Melbourne (2004), Bali (2006), and Hong Kong (2009). All of them had several hundreds of participants coming from around the world. The winning work features the successful utilization of advanced modeling and control techniques to a real UAV platform, which has achieved a top level performance in accordance with the military standard set by the US Army Aviation for military rotorcraft. The work is part of the research activities conducted by the UAV Research team in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. The team has currently expanded its research horizon in the directions related to the cooperative control and coordination of multiple UAVs, and vision-based indoor and urban navigation.

Best Paper Award, Symposium P (Fiber Optical Devices and Applications), 5th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT) 2009, 28 June - 3 July 2009, Singapore.

The winning paper is titled "Polarization Insensitivity Optic Distributed Strain Sensing System Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering". The prize consists of SGD500 and a certificate.

Best Paper Award in Automation, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics & Automation (ICMA 2009), 9 -12 Aug 2009, Changchun, Jilin, China.

The winning paper is titled "Automated Haematopoletic Stem Cells Harvesting Machine". There were more than 2000 delegates in this conference, & the team clinched this prestigious top award.

His work on "Photorealistic Rendering of Metamaterials Devices" with his collaborator (Prof Ulf Leonhardt of St. Andrews University, Scotland, UK) has gained international visibility. Metamaterials can be used to design devices that have very unique properties, such as invisibility cloaks, universal mirrors, perfect lenses, or devices that bend light in ways that are impossible with ordinary materials. His research is related to photorealistically depicting such devices in action in order to study their performance, to "experience the devices" as they would actually appear if built, and to study the construction of such materials.

The work was reported in the following online media in July 2009 :

• MSNBC
• CNET Asia
• Discovery Channels
• Happy New.Com
• CoolThings.Com
• eQuark.Sk (Solvenia news)
• Growth Consulting
• Hypescience (Portugal news)

In addition, a CBS news reporter conducted a personal interview with Dr Danner in August 2009.

Dr Danner's work is also featured in the April 2010 issue of Laser Focus World, and 2 online versions in April 2010:

• CLOAKING AND INVISIBILITY OPTICS: Ray-tracing software reveals imperfect invisible sphere
• How to see yourself in a new way

2008 IEEE Paul Rappaport Award from the IEEE Electron Devices Society (IEEE EDS), USA, 13 May 2009.

The team comprises Dr Yeo Yee Chia and team comprising Dr Ang Kah Wee (PhD graduate, NUS Graduate School), Mr Lin Jianqiang (previously UROP Student), Mr Tung Chih-Hang (previously Member of Technical Team, IME), Dr Narayanan Balasubramaniam (previously Manager, IME), and Assoc Prof Samudra Ganesh Shankar (Collaborator).

This prestigious award was established in 1984 to honor the author(s) of the best paper that appeared in an IEEE EDS publication in the preceding calendar year. It is presented annually and the recipient(s) is awarded a certificate and a cheque for $2,500. IEEE EDS consistently publishes top tier journals. In year 2008, it published more than 400 papers in the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, and more than 300 papers in the IEEE Electron Device Letters. The winning paper from NUS is titled "Strained n-MOSFET With Embedded Source/Drain Stressors and Strain-Transfer Structure (STS) for Enhanced Transistor Performance" published in the March 2008 issue of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. It is the 2nd time Dr Yeo is receiving this award. He first received it in 2002 for a paper he wrote as a PhD student.

Appointed by IEEE Awards Board as one of nine members of 2010 IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology Committee to select the receipt(s) for this newly created Institute Awards.

The Medal is one of the 18 Medals presented by the IEEE Board of Directors to recognize & identify the outstanding achievement & contributions for the work of engineers in the field of medicine and biology.

ETRI Journal 2008 Best Editor Award, 24 Feb 2009.

This award has been newly instituted, & Prof Ko is the first winner. He is awarded in recognition for his responsiveness and dedication as an editor. The prize is a plaque and an honorarium of USD 1,000.

The ex-utero haematopoietic stem cells extraction apparatus developed by the team has been licensed to SG Meditech Pte Limited, which will develop this technology for introduction into the market in the near future.

Elected by IEEE, USA to be the IEEE Region 10 Director, with effect from 1 Jan 2011 - 31 Dec 2012.

Prof Wong will be the Director-Elect from 1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2010.

Excellent Paper Award in the international section of the Digital Signal Processing Creative Design Contest 2008, on 29 Nov 2008, Tainan, Taiwan.

The winning work on intelligent physiotherapy arm has attracted Mitsui Sumitomo Research Grant 2008/2009.

Region 10 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow (2009), USA, 12 Nov 2008.

Awarded for his contributions to silicon technology and leadership in directing microelectronics research.

Best Paper, IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuit (EDSSC) 2008, 8-10 Dec 2008, Kowloon, Hongkong.

The winning paper is entitled "A 1-V, 81-dB, 780-KS/s Sigma Delta Modulator in 0.13-µm Digital CMOS Technology".

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow (2009), USA, 12 Nov 2008.

Awarded for his contributions to the design of low-power and high-performance digital filters.

Appointed Deputy Editor-in-Chief, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Mechatronics Journal, effective 1 October 2008.

This is a prestigious appointment in a major international journal.

2008 Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) Distinguished Contribution Award. The award was given at the 2008 INSIC Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, USA on 13 Aug 2008.

Prof Bhatia was awarded in recognition of his dedicated, long-term leadership and outstanding level of contribution to tribology and head-disk interface research for the INSIC EHDR (Extremely High Density Recording) Research Program in advanced hard disk storage technology. Prof Bhatia is the only individual to have twice been awarded the INSIC Leadership Award (in 1998 & 2003), and he was honored for nearly a decade and a half of leadership in tribology research, for his recent efforts in leading a working group to define approaches to the head-disk interface for 10 terabit per square inch recording, and for his pioneering efforts to include the entire nation of Singapore (through the involvement of the Data Storage Institute, the National University of Singapore &, most recently, the Institute for Materials Research & Engineering) in INSIC's research programs.

2008 iNEER (International Network for Engineering Education and Research) Recognition Award, 29 July 2008, Hungary.

Prof Tan was awarded for his outstanding contributions to engineering education and research.

Changjiang Guest Professorship, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ministry of Education, China, 2008-2010.

This is one of the highest honor from China.

IBM Faculty Award 2008, for his project on "Fabrication, Characterisation and Performance of Thin Film Si Photovoltaic (PV) Cells.

This award is based on a worldwide competition, with the objective of fostering collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and service organisations. This award is a 1st for NUS faculty member.

2008 Multimedia Communications Best Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society for the paper "Joint source-channel-authentication resource allocation and unequal authenticity protection for multimedia over wireless networks" in the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol.9, No.4, June 2007, pp.837-850.

The award recognizes outstanding work in the field of Multimedia Communications. The best paper is selected from any publication in an IEEE Communications Society's journal/magazine or in the proceedings of an IEEE ComSoc sponsored conference/ workshop/symposium in the two years preceding the award.

Young Global Leader Award 2008 .

This award, from World Economic Forum (WEF), recognises 200 to 300 young leaders for their professional accomplishment, commitment to society and potential to shape the future.

2008 Young Scientist Award from International Union of Radio Science.

This award is given to Ph.D holders below 35 years old. The award ceremony will be held in Chicago, USA in Aug 2008.

IEEE Fellow (2007).

Awarded for contributions to linear systems theory, robust control theory, and industrial control applications.

Best Poster Presentation Award, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2006), 16-21 Jul 2006, Vancouver, Canada.

The top 2nd most downloaded papers, in the top 25 list of hottest articles downloaded in period Apr - Jun 2006, for Medical Image Analysis Journal.

IEEE Fellow (2006) for contributions to theory and analysis of stable adaptive neural networks for intelligent control systems.

2nd Prize, 2005 Industrial Power Converter Committee (IPCC) Best Paper Award, IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), USA.

Best Industrial Control Application Prize.

Awarded for the winning paper titled "Friction and nonlinearity compensation in hard disk drive servo systems using robust composite nonlinear feedback control", Proceedings of the 5th Asian Control Conference, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 58-63, July 2004.

2nd prize, FIRA Robot World Cup 2004, Busan, Korea.

Best Paper Award, VTC 2004, Los Angeles, USA.

1st prize, FIRA Humanoid Robot Competition 2003, Vienna, Austria.

Best Paper Award (2003), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, USA.

"Chevalier" (2003) in the order of the "Palmes Academiques", France.

Telcom Italia Mobile Award, SIMagine 2003, Cannes, France.

Bronze Medal, SIMagine 2002, Cannes, France.

Best Paper Award (2003), IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, USA.

TR100 Young Innovators Award, MIT's Technology Review, 2002, Boston, USA.

Best Poster Award, MRS Fall Meeting 2002, Boston, USA.

IEEE Fellow (2002) for research in electromagnetic scattering.

Best Theoretical Paper Award, WCICA, 2002, Shanghai, PR China.

Second Best Poster Presentation, IADR General Session 2001, Chiba, Japan.

Best in Session Paper Award, ISTFA 2001, Santa Clara, USA.

Best Presentation Award, IECON 2001, Denver, USA.

IET Fellow (2001).

IEEE Fellow (2001) for research in development of technology for magnetic data storage.

IEEE Fellow (2000) for research in design of FIR digital filters.

Best Paper Award, ISTFA 2000, Phoenix, USA.

Best Paper Award, MAMA 2000, Woolongong, Australia.

International Laser Prize (2000), Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis, Germany.

Outstanding Paper Award (2000), IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, USA.

Best Poster Paper Award, Asian Control Conference (2000).

IEEE Fellow (1998) for research in Control Engineering in Singapore.

Best Poster Award, Asian Control Conference (1997).

Best Paper Award (1996), Acoustical Society of America, USA.

1996 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society's Guillemin-Cauer Award for the Best Paper published in IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, Vol.41, No.8, pp.518-525, 1994.

The Guillemin-Cauer Award is to recognize the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems during the 2 calendar years preceding the award.

Most Meritorious Paper Award (1990), IREE Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Australia.

Ambrose Fleming Premium (1989), IEE Proceedings on Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, UK.

Marconi Premium (1989), IEE Proceedings on Communications, Radar & Signal Processing, UK.

IET Fellow (1989) for Microelectronics.

IEE Electronics Letters Premium (1985), Electronic Letters, UK.

IET / IEE Fellow (1979-current) for Microwave, Antennas & Propagation.