Honors & Awards
  • 2009 Certificate of Recognition by USF Computer Science & Engineering
    Department, "For his leadership and outstanding service as Graduate Program
    Director," for service from May 2006 to April 2009.

  • 2008 Elevation to Senior Member Status, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).

  • 2007 Certificate of Appreciation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, "In appreciation for
    your commitment to advancing under-represented minority students in
    mathematics, science and engineering and for your leadership in the
    Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Minority Ph.D. Program."

  • 2007-2008 USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award.

  • Recognition of IEEECS student chapter with "2003 Outstanding Chapter Award,"
    under Dr. Katkoori's Advisorship.

  • 2005 National-level IEEE-USA Professional Achievement Award.
    Nominated by IEEE Florida West Coast Section.

  • 2005 Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, IEEE Florida Council Award
    (Region 3), Nominated by the IEEE Florida West Coast Section (FWCS).

  • Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 2004 (By Invitation).

  • 2004 Elevation to Senior Member Status, IEEE.

  • Best Paper Nomination at 2003 International Conference on Asian and
    South-Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC).

  • 2003 University of South Florida Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award.

  • 2001 Faculty Early Career Development Grant (CAREER), National
    Science Foundation, Design Automation Program, to conduct research for
    five years on "Interconnect centric High Level Synthesis in Deep-Sub-Micron Regime."

  • 1997-98 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, Honorable Mention, Department
    of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Cincinnati.

  • Awarded sponsorship to attend NATO Advanced Study Institute Workshop
    entitled "Low Power in Deep Submicron Electronics", Italy, August 20-30, 1996.

  • Research Assistantship, Digital Design Environments Laboratory,
    University of Cincinnati, June 1993-95, 1996-97

  • University Graduate Scholarship, University Of Cincinnati, Fall 1992 - 1997

  • Third Place at Under-Graduate level AP State Mathematics Olympiad, India, 1990.
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