Awards & Patents

Awards and Recognition

2023 ASME Fellow
2023 Engineering Council Outstanding Advising Award, UIUC
2023 Keynote speaker, International Conference on Advanced Control, Automation and Robotics, Beijing, China
2022 Keynote Speaker, 4^th Asia Conference on Automation Engineering, Hangzhou, China
2022 Invited Speaker in KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
2021 Keynote speaker at 3^rd IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence
2021 TEDxYerevan Speaker, Yerevan, Armenia
2021 Keynote Speaker at 3^rd International Conference on Computing and Data Science, Stanford, CA
2021 Invited Speaker in Professional Development Conference “Shifting Gears Thriving through Transitions” of the Coalition of Minority Professional Engineering Societies
2021 Official Nominator for the 2021 VinFuture Prize
2021 Panel fellow, NSF CMMI’s Game Changer Academies for Advancing Research Innovation
2021 Invited speaker, Google Machine Learning and Robot Safety Workshop, Mountain View, CA
2021 Distinguished Lecturer, Decision and Control Laboratory, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
2021 Invited speaker, KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
2020 Invited speaker, DoD Human-Machine Interactive Control Workshop, JHU, Baltimore, MD
2020 Science Talk, Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology, Yerevan, Armenia
2019 Distinguished Speaker for Facebook Feed and Story (FAST) seminars, Palo Alto, CA
2019 Keynote speaker at MathWorks Annual Research Summit, Boston, MA
2019 Keynote speaker, Skolkovo Robotics Forum, Skolkovo Technopark, Moscow, Russia
2019 Plenary speaker, 3^rd International Conference on Control Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Plenary Speaker, AIAA SciTech Forum, San Diego, CA
2019 AIAA Pendray Aerospace Literature award
2018 IEEE Fellow
2017 IEEE CSS Award for Technical Excellence in Aerospace Controls
2017 AIAA Fellow
2016 Keynote speaker, Aging^2.0Optimize, San Francisco, CA
2016 Technical Achievement Award, ICNPAA World Congress, 11^th International Conference on Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Aerospace and Sciences, La Rochelle, France
2015 W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering
2015 Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award
2015 Engineering Council Outstanding Advising Award, UIUC
2015 Plenary speaker, 55th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2014 Listed among the year’s five best drone movies by ArtSlant
2014 TUM-IAS honorary Hans Fischer senior fellow, Technical University of Munich, Germany
2014 Humboldt prize for lifetime achievements, Alexander von Humboldt foundation, Germany
2014 TUM-IAS honorary Hans Fischer senior fellow, Technical University of Munich, Germany
2014 Keynote speaker, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Orlando, FL
2013 Plenary speaker, II Midwest Control and Game Workshop, University of Notre Dame, IN
2012 Technical Achievement Award, ICNPAA, Vienna, Austria
2011 Engineering Faculty Leadership Forum, UIUC
2011 University scholar
2011 AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight award
2011 Semiplenary Speaker in 23rd CCDC, Mianyang, China
2010 Keynote speaker in ICNPAA 2010 World Congress, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
2010 Plenary speaker in 3rd ISSCAA, Harbin, China
2009 Outstanding reviewer for AIAA Journal of Guidance, control and Dynamics
2009 Pleanry speaker in IASTED Conference on Identification and Control
2008 Outstanding reviewer for AIAA Journal of Guidance, control and Dynamics
2008 Golden Screw Award, bestowed by Virginia Tech aerospace and ocean engineering outgoing seniors
2008 Dean’s Award for Research Excellence, Virginia Tech
2008 Certificate for Distinguished Service to AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Technical Committee (2004-2008)
2007 Pride@Boeing Award Recipient
2007 Plenary speaker in VII SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications
2006 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow
2005 Pride@Boeing Award Recipient
2004 Pride@Boeing Award Recipient
2000, 2006, 2007 Best Presentation Award, American Control Conference
1996 Best paper, SICE International Award, VII International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications, Japan
1998 Travel grant of ISF (International Science Foundation of George Soros), VIII International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications, Maastricht, the Netherlands
1994 Principal Investigator, 2^nd long-term grant of ISF
1993 1^st grant of ISF for three papers in selected journals

Graduate Student Awards

Alex Ormiga Galvao Barbosa’s paper listed among 13 must-read papers in AI, https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/05/13-must-read-papers-ai-experts.html
Alexandre Ormiga Galvao Barbosa recognized with the ME Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2020
Javier Puig Navarro recognized with the Aerospace Engineering Department’s Alumni Advisory Board Fellowship, 2019
Hyung-Jin Yoon recognized as outstanding reviewer of AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics in 2018
Hamidreza Jafarnejadsani awarded “Video of the Month” contest of CSL, UIUC, March of 2018
Hanmin Lee recognized as outstanding graduate student for scholarly work in 2017
Gabriel Barsi Haberfeld awarded “Video of the Month” contest of CSL, UIUC, February of 2017
Ronald Choe and Venanzio Cichella recognized as outstanding graduate students for their scholarly work in 2015 and 2016
Arun Lakshmanan twice awarded “Video of the Month” contest of CSL, UIUC, January, February of 2016
Robert Mitchell Jones awarded MechSE Outstanding ME TA title, 2015 fall
Thiago Marinho awarded Focal Point grant as PI from Graduate College of UIUC, 2015
Venanzio Cichella awarded CoE Ross Martin award for outstanding research achievement by a graduate student, 2015 (one award per year)
Venanzio Cichella’s drone movie listed among the year’s five best drone movies by ArtSlant, 2014
Venanzio Cichella announced “Winner of online audience vote” in competition of Science magazine “Dance your Ph.D.”, 2014
Venanzio Cichella awarded a travel grant from NSF to attend the CPS week in Berlin, Germany, 2014 (only two awards made from a pool of 85 candidates)
Venanzio Cichella among the five EURAXESS Science SLAM finalists of 2013
Evgeny Kharisov awarded best presentation in session in American Control Conference 2011
Enric Xargay awarded best presentation in session in American Control Conference 2010
Enric Xargay awarded Roger A. Strehlow Memorial Award for outstanding research contributions, 2011
Amanda Young awarded William Preston Society MS Thesis award, 2006

Patents

2021 Provisional patent application #63151141 “Nutrient Deficiency Detection and Forecasting System” (with S. Dadsetan, J. Hobbs, G. Rose)
2020 Provisional patent application #63121694 “Residue Analysis and Management System” (with J. Hobbs, I. Dozier)
2020 Provisional patent application #63030034 “Specialty Crop Analysis and Management System” (with J. Hobbs, R. Paull, G. Rose, B. Markowicz)
2019 Provisional patent application #16692779 “Agricultural Pattern Analysis System” (with H. Khachatryan, K. Ghandilyan, H. Shi, M. Chiu, X. Xu)
2017 Provisional patent application #16245743 “Change Detection System” (with A. Nefian, H. Khachatryan, H. Karapetyan)
2017 Provisional patent application #16245743 “Change Detection System” (with A. Nefian, H. Khachatryan, H. Karapetyan)
2017 Provisional patent application #16245758 “Row Detection System” (with A. Nefian, H. Khachatryan, H. Karapetyan)
2014, April 29 Patent #8,712,559 “Adaptive Control for Uncertain Nonlinear Multi-Input Multi-output Systems” (with C. Cao, E. Xargay)
2008, Aug. 26 Patent #7,418,432, 7418432, “Adaptive Control System Having Direct Output Feedback and Related Apparatuses and Methods” (with A. Calise, M. Idan)
2007, Oct. 2 Patent #7,277,764, “An Improved Method for Adding Adaptation to an Existing Control System Applicable to Non-Minimum Phase Nonlinear Systems” (with A. Calise, B.-J. Yang)
2011, May 17 Patent #7,945,353 “Adaptive Control in the Presence of Input Constraints” (with E. Lavretsky)
2005, June 23 Patent #0137724 “Adaptive Observer and Related Methods” (with A. Calise, V. Madyastha)