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Six National Academy of Engineering Members
One Academia Europaea Member
Two National Academy of Inventors Fellows
Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Twenty IEEE Fellows
NSF Career Awards
National and International Awards
Paper Awards
Teaching Awards
Editorship for Journals
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More than 100 Patents from Faculty Within the Department
More than 40 Books/Book Chapters Published by Faculty Members

Six National Academy of Engineering Members

• David Goodman
• Leslie Greengard
• Yann LeCun
• Thomas Marzetta
• Theodore Rappaport
• Dante Youla

One Academia Europaea Member

• Zhong-Ping Jiang

Two National Academy of Inventors Fellows

• Jonathan Chao
• Theodore Rappaport

Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

• Zhong-Ping Jiang

Twenty IEEE Fellows

• Henry Bertoni
• Joseph Bongiorno
• Robert R. Boorstyn
• David C. Chang
• Jonathan Chao
• Elza Erkip
• David Goodman
• Zhong-Ping Jiang
• Ramesh Karri
• Spencer Kuo
• Francisco de Leon
• Yong Liu
• Shivendra Panwar
• Unnikrishna Pillai
• Sundeep Rangan
• Theodore S. Rappaport
• Philip Sarachik
• Ivan W. Selesnick
• Yao Wang
• Dante Youla

NSF Career Awards

• Brandon Reagen, 2024
• Giuseppe Loianno, 2022
• Anna Choromanska, 2021
• Quanyan Zhu, 2019
• Chinmay Hegde, 2018
• Siddharth Garg, 2016
• Yong Liu, 2010
• Elza Erkip, 2001
• Zhong-Ping Jiang, 2001
• Ivan Selesnick, 1999
• Ramesh Karri, 1997

National and International Awards

• Theodore Rappaport, Gold Award, On-Camera Talent, AVA Digital Awards, 2022
• Elza Erkip, Padovani Lecturer, IEEE Information Theory Society, 2022
• Elza Erkip, Padovani Lecturer, IEEE Information Theory Society, 2022
• Elza Erkip, IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, Winner, 2021
• Matthew Campisi, Best Product Design, 2018
• Elza Erkip, Information Theory Society President, 2018
• Elza Erkip, IEEE Communications Society Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) Technical Achievement Award, 2018
• Yong Liu, Outstanding Junior Alumni Award, School of Engineering University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2017
• Thomas Marzetta,  IEEE Communications Society Industrial Innovation Award 2017
• Matthew Campisi, Top Innovator Award, Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge Lexus Design Award 2017
• Elza Erkip, IEEE Communication Society WICE Outstanding Achievement Award, 2016
• Siddharth Garg, Popular Science Magazine's "Brilliant 10" of 2016
• David J. Goodman, The IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication 2015
• Theodore S. Rappaport, Shu Sun, Rimma Mayzus, Hang Zhao, Yaniv Azar, Kevin Wang, George N. Wong, Jocelyn K. Schulz, Mathew Samimi, and Feliz Gutierrez,  2015 IEEE Donald G. Fink Award
• Elza Erkip, The IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication 2013
• Zhong-Ping Jiang, coauthor, Shimemura Young Author Prize of the 2013 Asian Control Conference
• Zhong-Ping Jiang, Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 2013
• Elza Erkip, Information Theory Society Board of Governors, 2012
• Elza Erkip, Finalist in The New York Academy of Science's Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, 2010
• Frank Cassara, the 2007 IEEE Athanasios Papoulis Education Award
• Spencer Kuo, 2005 Asian-American Engineer of the Year
• Shivendra S. Panwar and Prof. Yao Wang, 2004 IEEE Communication Society's Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper in the field of Communications Systems
• David Goodman, 2003 Avant Garde award from the Vehicular Technology Society of the IEEE
• Jonathan Chao, elected to be Speaker of the Year by IEEE New Jersey Coast Section, 2003
• Ramesh Karri and Ivan Selesnick, Alexander Humboldt Fellowship, 200
• Yao Wang, New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, Young Investigator Category, Year 1999-2000
• I-Tai Lu, NSF Engineering Initiation Award
• Zhong-Ping Jiang, ARC Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellowship, 1998
• David Goodman, 1997 ACM/SIGMOBILE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research on Mobility of Systems Users, Data, and Computing

Paper Awards

• Thomas Marzetta, Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award from IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2023
• Ruth G. Gebremedhin and Thomas L. Marzetta, IEEE Globecom Best Paper Award, 2022
• Elza Erkip, IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award, 2019
• Tom Marzetta, IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize, 2019
• Ramesh Karri, Best Paper Award, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2018
• E. G. Larsson, O. Edfors, and F. Tufvesson, Thomas Marzetta, IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award 2018
• Siddharth Garg, Best Attack Paper Award​ at NIPS Machine Learning for Cyber-Security Workshop for work on Backdoored Neural Networks (BadNets) 2017
• Ulugbek S. Kamilov, Vivek K Goyal, and Sundeep Rangan, Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society 2017
• Theodore S. Rappaport, Neal Shepard Memorial Propagation Prize Paper award from IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2017
• Siddharth Garg, Distinguished Student Paper Award, IEEE Symp. on Security & Privacy (Oakland) 2016
• Shivendra Panwar, Best Paper Award, IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), 2016
• K. Xiao, D. Forte, Y. Jin, R. Karri, S. Bhunia, M. Tehranipoor, Best paper of ACM Transactions on Design of Automation of Electronics Systems 2016
• Zhong-Ping Jiang, Steve and Rosalind Hsia Biomedical Paper Award, 2016 World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA)
• Zhong-Ping Jiang, Best Conference Paper Award, 2015 IEEE Conf. on Information and Automation, Lijiang, China
• Quanyan Zhu, Best Paper Award, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  (CCS) Workshop on Managing Insider Security Threats (MIST), 2015;
• Yang Xu, Chenguang Yu, Jingjiang Li, and Yong Liu, Best Paper Award of ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2012
• Z. Liu, Y. Shen, K. W. Ross, S. Panwar, and Y. Wang, Best Paper 
  Award of Multimedia Communications (awarded by the IEEE Communications 
  Society), 2011.
• Kang Xi, H. Jonathan Chao and Chaoyi Guo, Best Paper Award in IEEE 
  International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN), 2010
• Zhong-Ping Jiang, coauthor, Guan Zhao Zhi Best Paper Award of Chinese Control Conference, 2011
• Jeyavijayan Rajendran, Harika Manem, Ramesh Karri and Garrett S Rose, Best Student Paper Award of IEEE International Symposium on VLSI Design, 2010.
• Yong Liu, Best Paper Award of of IEEE Conference on Computer and Communications (INFOCOM) 2009
• Yong Liu, Best Paper in Multimedia Communications of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) in 2008
• Zhong-Ping Jiang, Best Theoretical Paper Award of the 2008 World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation
• Elza Erkip, Co-author, Student Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium of Information Theory (ISIT) 2007
• Elza Erkip, Best Paper of the Communication Theory Symposium of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2007
• Elza Erkip, 2004 IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Paper Prize in the Field of Communications Theory
• Jonathan Chao, 2001 Best Paper Award from the IEEE’s Circuits and Systems Society
• Nirod Das, 1993 RWP King Paper Award from IEEE AP Society
• Henry Bertoni, 1993 Neal Shepherd Best Propagation Paper Award of the IEEE VT Society

Teaching Awards

• Sundeep Rangan, NYU Tandon Distinguished Teacher Award, 2021
• Xiao-Kang Chen, Dean’s Award for Excellence in Online Education, 2020
• Ramesh Karri, Jacobs Excellence in Education Award, 2019
• Michael Knox, NYU University Distinguished Teaching Awards, 2018
• Yao Wang, NYU Tandon Distinguished Teacher Award, 2016
• Matthew Campisi, NYU Tandon Distinguished Teacher Award, 2014
• Michael Knox, NYU Tandon Distinguished Teacher Award, 2011
• Ivan Selesnick, Jacobs Excellence in Education Award, 2003
• Peter Voltz, NYU Tandon Distinguished Teacher Award, 1997
• Zivan Zabar, NYU Tandon Distinguished Teacher Award, 1995

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