2022
- Inducted to the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to robust adaptive control and intelligent transportation systems for improved traffic flow and driver safety.
- Foreign member of the Academia Europaea
- Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
- Keynote Speaker Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Macau, China, October 11, 2022
- Keynote Speaker, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Workshop on Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Oct. 27, 2022, Tysons, VA22102
- Distinguished Lecture KIOS Center at University of Cyprus, Cyprus , March 11, 2022
2021
- Keynote Speaker 2021 2nd International Conference on Control Theory and Applications, ICoCTA 2021, Nov. 4, 2021
- Keynote Speaker, Australian and New Zealand Control Conference, 25 November 2021 (ANZCC2021)
2020
- Keynote Speaker 2020 4th International Conference om Smart Rail, Traffic and Transportation Engineering (ICSTTE 2020) Madrid, Spain, October 19-21,
- Plenary Speaker EWGT 2020: The 23rd Euro Working Group on Transportation Cyprus, September 16-18 2020.
2019
- User-Inspired Research Award In recognition and Appreciation of Excellence, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, April 24, 2019
- S. Tsien International Distinguished Scientists Lecture Series Speaker, ‘Self Driving Cars, Connectivity and Traffic Flow Control, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 09/19/2019
- Keynote Speaker at the NSF Workshop on Control for Networked Transportation Systems “Traffic Flow Control in a Connected Environment”, July 8-9, 2019, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Keynote Speaker, 2019 International Forum on Innovation and Emerging Industries Development, Shanghai, China, Sept. 17-19, 2019
- Invited Speaker at University of Minnesota, Department of Mechanical Engineering on Wednesday, November 20, 2019
- Invited Speaker KIOS Research Center, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, April 8, 2019
- Invited Speaker , Department of Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA, April 26, 2019
2018
- Keynote Speaker at IET Innovation Conference 2018, 3, 2018, Nicosia Cyprus
- Plenary Speaker at 2018 European Control Conference, Limassol Cyprus, June 15, 2018
- IEEE Lifetime Fellow
2017
- Fellow of AAAS
- Transition to Practice Award by IEEE Control System Society,
- Plenary speaker at ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, October 11, 2017, Title: ‘Connectivity and Feedback Control and Optimization in Transportation’
- Plenary Speaker at the 1st IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications Connected Vehicles: Closing the loop with the highway, August 27-30, 2017, Hawaii, US
- Keynote Speaker at 29th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (2017 CCDC), May 29, 2017, Chongqing, China, Title: Traffic Flow Control: Closing the loop
- Keynote Speaker at the 6th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation, (hEART 2017), Sept. 12-14, 2017, Haifa, Israel, Title: Connected Vehicles and Control of Traffic
- Distinguished Lecture (ECE & TASI) at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Oct. 27, 2018, Title: Traffic Flow Control: Closing the loop
- Distinguished lecture at UC Riverside , May 8, 2017, Title: Combined Variable Speed Limit and Lane Change Control for Highway Traffic
2016
- A.V. ‘Bal’ Balakrishnan Endowed Chair
- The 2016 IEEE Transportation Technologies Field Award presented at the IEEE ITS conference in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 2016
- Senior Research Award, by the Viterbi School of Engineering
- Keynote Speaker at the 1st Symposium on Management of Future Motorway and Urban Traffic Systems, Chania (Greece), June 2-3, 2016.
2015
- Invited panelist for the session ‘ECE as an Interdisciplinary Science’ University of Illinois, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Nov. 6, 2015
- Invited Speaker for IPAM Traffic Long Program Opening Day Temescal Gateway Park Retreat , Sept. 8, 2015
- Invited Speaker for IPAM program on Traffic Modeling, October 26-27, 2015
- Invited Speaker University of California San Diego, October 9, 2015
- Invited Speaker University of California Santa Barbara, January 30, 2015
- Invited Speaker Traffic Flow Management Culminating Workshop, IPAM, Lake Arrowhead, 12/6-12/11/2015
2013
- Keynote speaker in the 10th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (IEEE ICCA 2013) June 12-14, 2013, in Hangzhou, China
- Plenary Speaker for the 21st IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Chania, Crete, June 2013
- Invited speaker for the TRAMAN21 Workshop 2013, Chania, Crete, Nov. 1st, 2013
- Invited Speaker, 3rd KIOS Workshop, University of Cyprus, June 25, 2013
Prior to 2013
- 2012 IEEE ITSS Outstanding Research Award
- Invited to be a Keynote speaker in the “Indo-US Conference, On Preventing Road Crash Injury Through Vehicle Safety Design” to be held in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on March 6 and 7, 2012.
- Invited to be a Plenary speaker for the Chinese Control Conference, Hafei, China, July 25-27, 2012
- Rated as the 2nd most productive author and the 6th most cited author in the IEEE Transactions on ITS (see study in, L. Li et.al. ‘A Bibliographic Analysis of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems Literature’ IEEE Trans. on ITS vol.11, no.2, June 2010 pp 251-255)
- 2008 IEEE ITSS Outstanding ITS Application Award, June 2009
- 2009 IET Heaviside Medal for Achievement in Control, November 2009
- Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2009
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) since 1992
- Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control since 2006
- Outstanding Teacher of the Year, The Latter-day Saint Student Association, March 2007
- Plenary Speaker at the 17th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, June 24-26, 2009, Makedonia Palace, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Semi-Plenary Speaker at the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 9-11, 2008 Cancun, Mexico
- Invited to be a Keynote Speaker at the 2nd IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics & Applications, 23-25 May, 2007
- Plenary Speaker at the 11th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, August 28-September 1st, 2006, Delft, Netherlands
- Plenary Speaker IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety, Oct. 14-16, 2005, Xi’an, China
- 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award, The White House, February 14, 1985. A five-year award.
- Outstanding Transactions Paper Award for the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control during 1982, 1983.
- Best Paper Presentation at the Session on “Numerical Methods in Analysis and Design of Control Systems” at the 1991 American Control Conference.
- Best Paper Presentation at the Session TA1 on “Robust Adaptive Control” at the 1989 American Control Conference.
- Best Paper Presentation for the paper “Identification and Control of Aircraft Dynamics Using Radial Basis Function Neural Networks” in the 1992 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference.