ACM Fellow (1997)

IEEE Fellow (1993)

ACM SIGKDD 2016 Innovation Award

"for influential research and scientific contributions on mining, fusion and anonymization of big data"

IEEE Computer Society 2013 Technical Achievement Award

"for pioneering and fundamentally innovative contributions to the scalable indexing, querying, searching, mining and anonymization of big data ."

IEEE ICDM Conference: Research Contributions Award (2003)

EDBT 2014 Test of Time Award

IEEE ICDM 2013 10-Year Highest-Impact Paper Award

Best Paper Award: SIAM Data Mining Conference (2008), DASFAA (2010), ACM ASONAM (2015)

Best Paper Runner Up Award: PAKDD (2014)

Best Student Paper Award: IEEE Data Engineering Conference (2007), PAKDD(2007), and ACM KDD Conference (2012)

Best Student Paper Runner Up Award: ACM ASONAM (2016)

IEEE Region 1 Award (1999)

"for promoting and perpetuating numerous new Electrical Engineering Concepts"

UIC Distinguished Professor (2013)

UIC Researcher of the Year (2013)

Univeristy of Illinois Faculty Scholar (2014)

IBM Master Inventor (1998-)

IBM Research Division Award (1997)

"Web Usage Mining Tool"

IBM Outstanding Innovation Award (1994)

"Parallel Transaction Processing Design and Development"

IBM Research Division Award (1994)

"Parallel Query Processing Design and Development"

IBM Corporate Blue Chip Award (1993)

IBM Outstanding Innovation Award (1992)

"Analytical Performance Modeling of Data Sharing Systems"

IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (1986)

"Analysis of Multi-system IMS Performance"

Ninety-third Plateau of IBM Invention Achievement Awards

Twenty-five IBM Supplemental Patent Issue Awards

IBM Graduate Fellowship, 1977-1978