Honours & Awards
| Year | Title | Awarding Body |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Fellow IS & T | International Society for Imaging Science & Technology (IS&T) |
| 2022 | Fellow AAIA | Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) |
| 2021 | International Fellow Inductee, The Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) | The Royal Academy of Engineering (UK’s National Academy of Engineering, London) |
| 2021 | Fellow Institute of Physics (FInstP) | IoP: Institute of Physics (London) |
| – | – | – |
| 2020 | Inducted as Elected Member Royal Irish Academy (MRIA) | RIA: Royal Irish Academy (Dublin) |
| 2019 | OSA & IS&T Edwin H. Land Medal | OSA(Optica): The International Optical Society and IS&T: The International Society for Imaging Science and Technology |
| 2018 | IET Achievement Medal for Photonics | IET: Institution of Engineering & Technology (Former IEE: Institution of Electrical Engineers) |
| 2018 | Game Changer International Technology Award Finalist | AutoSens – International Conference on Vehicle Vision and Perception Technologies -Brussels |
| 2017-22 | Advisory Committee Member | USA National Academy of Inventors (NAI) |
| 2016 | Inductee Fellow Award (FNAI) | USA National Academy of Inventors (NAI) |
| 2016-2022 | Member | Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Engineering & Computer Science Committee |
| 2015 | Honorary Fellow Award | Engineers Ireland Society (by Special Presidential Invitation to Honorary Fellow Status) |
| 2015 | Chartered Engineer (CEng) | Engineers Ireland Society (by Special Presidential Invitation to Chartered Engineer Status) |
| 2012 | European Optical Society Fellow Award | European Optical Society (EOS), Germany |
| 2011 | ASEE USA Senior Faculty Fellow Award | American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) |
| 2011 | Fellow Award of the IET | IET: Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK) (Former IEE) |
| 2009 & 2010 | IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer Award | IEEE |
| 2008 | Illinois Institute of Tech. Distinguished Alumni Professional Achievement Award | Illinois Institute of Technology |
| 2008 | German Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize Nominee Distinction Award | Berthold Leibinger Foundation, Germany |
| 2007 | EU Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar Professorship | European Union (EU) |
| 2007 | IEEE: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers Fellow Award | Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) |
| 2001 | International Commission for Optics (ICO) International Prize in Optics | International Commission for Optics (ICO) |
| 2001 | Ernst Abbe Medal | Carl Zeiss Foundation, Germany |
| 1998 | OSA: The International Optical Society Fellow Award | The International Optical Society OSA |
| 1998 | SPIE: International Society for Optical Engineering Fellow Award | International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE |
Awards to Group Members
1997 New Focus Optics Essay Prize (N. Madamopoulos) 1998 OSA-New Focus Prize (N. Madamopoulos) 1997 SPIE Scholarship (N. Madamopoulos) 2000 IEEE LEOS Student Fellow Award (Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn) 2000 OSA-New Focus Prize (Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn) 2000 SPIE D.J Lovell Prize (Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn for Highest graduate research honor from SPIE) 2000 Best Thai Citizen Ph.D. Dissertation Award 2003 SPIE Scholarship (Zahid Yaqoob) 2003 Best CREOL Ph.D. Dissertation Award (Z. Yaqoob) 2004 IEEE LEOS Student Fellow Award (Muzammil Arain) 2004 SPIE Scholarship (Muzammil Arain) 2004 Best Young Scientist Award Thailand (Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn) 2005 Abdus Salam ICTP/ICO Young Scientist Award (Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn) 2005 OSA-New Focus/Bookham Prize (Sajjad Khan) 2005 IEEE Orlando Section Best Graduate Student Research Award (Sajjad Khan) 2009 SPIE Scholarship (Mumtaz Sheikh) 2010 SPIE Scholarship (Syed Azer Reza) 2014 SPIE Fellow Award (Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn) 2016 OSA Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award (M. Arain as Part of the Advanced LIGO Team) 2016 USA Fulbright Scholar Award (Dr. Mumtaz Sheikh) 2016 OSA Fellow Award (Dr. Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn) 2016 Special Breakthrough Prize in Physics (M. Arain as Part of the Advanced LIGO Team)
Educational Activity Awards
1997 and 1998 IEEE LEOS Educational Grants
1999 IEEE LEOS Chapter of the Year award
1998 IEEE LEOS Most Innovative Chapter award
1997 IEEE LEOS Most Innovative Chapter award
1996 IEEE LEOS Highest Membership Increase Chapter award
1999 Optical Society of America (OSA) International Traveling Professor Award
2008 EU Eramus Mundus OptSc Program Germany Optics Summer School Carl Zeiss Student Project Prize
2009 Optical Society of America (OSA) International Traveling Professor Award
2016 The International Optical Society (OSA) International Traveling Professor Award