Winner of Student Paper Contest for the paper (co-authored with Alejandro Ribeiro) that was published in the Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 15-19, 2006.
	First Place Winner of Student Paper Contest for the paper (co-authored with Renqiu Wang) that was published in the IEEE Radio Wireless Symposium, San Diego, CA, January 2006.
	Second Place Winner of Student Paper Contest for the paper (co-authored with Renqiu Wang) that was published in the Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2005.
	Winner of Student Paper Contest for the paper (co-authored with Alejandro Ribeiro) that was published in the Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, PA, USA, March 19-23, 2005; also Ph.D. student Xiliang Luo was among the top 10 finalists.
	Best Dissertation Award won by former Ph.D. student Liuqing Yang for her Ph.D. Thesis on ``Ultra-Wideband Wireless Communications: From Concept to Reality".
	Technical Achievement Award The European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP), 2005. This is the highest award given to an individual by EURASIP in recognition of fundamental contributions to the advancement of science.
	G. W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Research, Information Technology, University of Minnesota, 2004; ``For outstanding contributions to telecommunications, including wireless systems and networks''.
	IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Achievement Award, 2000, ``For fundamental contributions to non-Gaussian and non-stationary signal analysis, system identification, and equalization of single- and multi-user communication systems.''
	IEEE Communications Society's Gugliermo Marconi Prize Paper Award, 2004; for the paper (co-authored with Y. Xin and Z. Wang) that was published in the March 2003 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
	2004 George Taylor Distinguished Research Award, Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota.
	IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2003 Best Paper Award for the paper (co-authored with Z. Wang) that was published in the May 2000 issue of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
	IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2001 Best Paper Award for the paper (co-authored with N. Sidiropoulos and R. Bro) that was published in the August 2000 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
	IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Achievement Award, 2000, ``For fundamental contributions to non-Gaussian and non-stationary signal analysis, system identification, and equalization of single- and multi-user communication systems.''
	IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2000 Best Paper Award for the paper (co-authored with S. Barbarossa and A. Scaglione) that was published in the July 1999 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
	Asilomar Conference Appreciation Plaque for Technical Service, 2000.
	IEEE Signal Processing Society's 1998 Best Paper Award for an author under 30 years old (awarded to co-author M. K. Tsatsanis) published in the August 1995 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
	IEEE Fellow, 1996, ``For contributions to System Identification and Statistical Signal Processing.''
	IEEE Signal Processing Society's 1992 Best Paper Award (Statistical Signal and Array Processing Area) published in the March 1989 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.
	Outstanding Young Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, 1992.
	Institutional Junior Faculty Research Award (50% support through the Associate Provost for Research), School of Engineering, University of Virginia, 1988.
	Best paper award in Identification Session, American Control Conference, 1986 and 1988.
	City of Corinth excellence award for top grade in 1976 Entrance Examination of Greek Universities.
	Award in Panhellenic Mathematical Contest, Mathematical Society of Greece, 1976.