Ouri Wolfson authored over 180 publications, and holds seven patents. He is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a University of Illinois Scholar for 2009. He co-authored three awards winning papers, and is the 2001 recipient of the UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award. Wolfson served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Association of Computing Machinery during 2001-2003, and was the keynote speaker at the Mobilware 2010 Conference, the 2008 Geosensor Networks Workshop, the 5th International Workshop on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS 2005), the IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC 2004), the Second International Workshop On Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P 2004), and the Second International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2001), and a Distinguished Speaker at Iowa State University and at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County.
Ouri Wolfson served on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, the Springer's Wireless Networks Journal, the Hindawi Journal of Computer Networks and Communications , J. Ross Publishing Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research, Journal of Spatial Information Science, the International Journal of Next Generation Computing, and served as a guest editor for journal issues dedicated to special topics. He was the program committee co-chair of the Third International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2002), the Second ACM International Workshop on Mobile Commerce (2002), the Sixth International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2005), the program committee vice-chair of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2006), program committee chair of the First International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science, and general chair of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2009) . His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NATO, US Army, NASA, the New York State Science and Technology Foundation, Hughes Research Laboratories, Informix Co., Accenture Co., and Hitachi Co. He is currently the Principal Investigator on a $3.1M NSF grant to establish a Ph.D. program in the new discipline of Computational Transportation Science.