Honors and Awards

• Elaihu I. Jury Award of Columbia University for best doctoral thesis in Signal Processing, Communications and Systems (1993).
  
  
• NSF Research Initiation Award (1994).
  
  
• IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Senior Paper Award for 1996 (for paper co-authored with Martin Vetterli of EPFL, Switzerland -see Journal ref. 2).
  
  
• Army Research Office Young Investigator Award (1996).
  
  
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1997).
  
  
• Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (1997).
  
  
• Selected as one of the two inaugural Henry Magnusky Scholars in the ECE Department at the University of Illinois chosen to recognize "excellent junior faculty" in the department.