Awards
Research Awards
Paper “What is the Lagragian for Nonlinear Filtering?" with graduate student, Jin Won Kim, awarded Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Conference of Decision and Control, Nice, December 2019
Plenary lecture, 3rd IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Santa Barbara, September 2012.
Paper “Multivariable Feedback Particle Filter” with graduate student, Tao Yang, finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Hawaii, December 2012
Paper “Synchronization of coupled oscillators is a game” with graduate student, Huibing Yin, finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at the American Control Conference, Baltimore, June 2010
General Chairs recognition award for interactive papers, IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Shanghai, December 2009
Paper “A simulation-based method for aggregating Markov chains” with graduate student, Kun Deng, awarded Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Conference of Decision and Control, Shanghai, December 2009
Paper “Fundamental performance limitations via entropy estimates with HMMs” with graduate student, Yu Sun, awarded Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Conference of Decision and Control, New Orleans, December 2007
Outstanding Achievement Award, United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, 2005
Teaching awards
MechSE Alumni Effective Teaching Award, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, April 7, 2017
Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Award, College of Engineering, University of Illinois (2008 and 2010)
Incomplete list of teachers rated as excellent, University of Illinois (Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Spring 2013, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2019)
Other awards
Senior member of IEEE
NSF IGERT Fellowship, Cornell University, 2001
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1994