Honors and Awards

1. 1965, Chrisovergis Prize, awarded to highest ranking student by the National Technical University of Athens.
2. 1966, Condulis Prize, highest award for academic distinction by the National Technical University of Athens.
3. 1967, Chrisovergis Prize as above.
4. 1968-1969, Charles Grosvenor Osgood Fellow - Princeton University.
5. 1969-1970, Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellow - Princeton University.
6. 1977, George Corcoran Memorial Award in Recognition of Significant Contributions to Electrical Engineering Education, awarded by the College of Engineering of the University of Maryland.
7. 1979, Computer Sciences Corporation Best Paper Award for "Analysis of a Hybrid Scheme for Multiple Access with Buffered Terminals" (with O. Mowafi).
8. 1981, Research Publication Award at NRL for the report titled "Survey of Problems in the Design of an HF Intra Task Force Communication Network" (with D.~Baker and J. Wieselthier).
9. 1982, Maryland Association of Higher Education Distinguished Program Award for the Fairchild Scholars Program (with L. Davisson and E. Fthenakis).
10. 1983, Research Publication Award at NRL for report titled "Preliminary System Concept for an HF Intra Task Force Communication Network" (with D.~Baker, J. Wieselthier, D. McGregor).
11. 1987, Research Publication Award at NRL for report and paper "A Design Concept for Reliable Mobile Radio Networks with Frequency Hopping Signalling" (with J. Wieselthier and D. Baker).
12. 1990-1991, Distinguished Faculty Research Award for Project on Wideband Networks, University of Maryland.
13. 1991, IEEE Donald Fink Paper Award for Best Tutorial Paper published anywhere in the IEEE publications (for paper No. 34)).
14. 1993, Permanent Joint Appointment with the Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland.
15. 1995, Invention of the Year Award from Office of Technology Liaison of the University of Maryland.
16. 1996, Sigmobile Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computers. (First Recipient of this Annual Award that was initiated in 1996 by the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM)).
17. 1996, Alan Berman Research Publication Award at NRL.
18. 1999, IEEE Third-Millenium Medal.
19. 2000, Fred Ellersick Award for Best Paper at the 2000 IEEE MILCOM.
20. 2000, Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland.
21. 2000, Alan Berman Research Publication Award at NRL.
22. 2001, KIRWAN FACULTY RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP PRIZE.
23. 2001, Nominated for the National Academy of Engineering.
24. 2002, Best Research Publication Award by the Naval Research Laboratory.
25. 2002, Nominated for National Academy of Engineering.
26. 2002, Nominated for Distinguished University Professor.
27. 2003, CYNTHIA KIM EMINENT PROFESSORSHIP IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.
28. 2004, Alan Berman Research Publication Award of the Naval Research Laboratory for paper entitled "Energy-Aware Wireless Networking with Directional Antennas".
29. 2006, Aaron Wyner Distinguished Award for Service and Leadership in Information Theory.
30. 2006, Designated IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer.