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, 4th 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 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence
- 2021 TEDxYerevan Speaker, Yerevan, Armenia
- 2021 Keynote Speaker at 3rd 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, 3rd 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, Aging2.0 Optimize, San Francisco, CA
- 2016 Technical Achievement Award, ICNPAA World Congress, 11th 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, 2nd long-term grant of ISF
- 1993 1st 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)