Awards

Professor Joos Vandewalle has been awarded the "2011 Outstanding IEEE Student Branch Counselor Award" and is the counselor of the KU Leuven branch

For more information on the Benelux Section and its activities, please have a look at http://www.ieee.be.

Student Best Paper Award of the IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS’11)

Carmela Troncoso

Best Student Paper Gold award of the IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS’11) for the paper "Fingerprinting Tor’s Hidden Service Log Files Using a Timing Channel".

Best free communication award at ISUOG in 2011

Ben Van Calster

Best free communication in the domain of ovarian pathology:

Van Calster B, Bourne T, Husicka R, Valentin L, Testa A, Van Holsbeke C, Vergote I, Van Huffel S, Timmerman D. Selection of women with an ovarian tumor for surgery in specialist centers: a comparison of two triaging protocols. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2011, 38(Suppl. 1):39.

the Britton Chance award from the International Society of Oxygen Transport in Tissue (ISOTT)

Alexander Caicedo Dorado

Sabine Van Huffel has been nominated president of ISOTT as of July 27 2011 until August 24 2012

Sabine Van Huffel

Nominated President (2011-2012) of the BoD of EURASIP

2010

Best poster award (december 2010)

Nico Verbeeck

Title: Proteomics and the world of tomorrow
Koninklijke Vlaamse Chemische Vereniging - Proteomics conferentie
Abstract

Honorary Degree from Université de Liège

Jan Willems

Top-12 finalist European ERCIM Cor Baayen Award 2010

Paschalis Tsiaflakis

The Cor Baayen award is awarded each year to a promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics. The award was created in 1995 to honour Cor Baayen, the first president of ERCIM and the ERCIM 'president d'honneur'.

Postdoctoral BAEF fellowship 2010-2011

Belgian American Educational Foundation

the Dietrich W. Lubbers award from the International Society of Oxygen Transport in Tissue (ISOTT)

Alexander Caicedo Dorado

Excellentieprijs FWO

Dagkrant

Postdoctoral Fulbright scholarship 2010-2011

Raf Van de Plas

Fulbright scholarship (commission for educational exchange between the United States, Belgium and Luxembourg.
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Paschalis Tsiaflakis won the YOUNG ICT PERSONALITY 2010 AWARD

Paschalis Tsiaflakis

with his research work on Green DSL in the context of the theme "Internet Past & Future". The price is awarded by FITCE.be, the forum for European ICT professionals.

Outstanding Self-financed Students Studying Abroad

Shi Yu

China Scholarship Council, Ministry of Education, China

BAEF fellowship

Henri Benedictus Fellow of the King Boudauin Foundation and the Belgian American Educational Fund

Fulbright fellowship

Honorary Fulbright Scholar of the Commission for Educational Exchange between the United States of America, Belgium and Luxembourg

Martin Black award 2010 for best article published in Physiological Measurement

Sabine Van Huffel

Paper entitled: 'Automatic screening of obstructive sleep apnea from the ECG based on empirical mode decomposition and wavelet analysis' by Martin Mendez, Jeroen Corthout, Sabine Van Huffel, Matteo Matteucci, Thomas Penzel, Sergio Cerutti and Anna Maria Bianchi.

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2009

Maarten Breckpot won the EOS AWARD 2009 and the AGORIA AWARD 2009

Maarten Breckpot

for his master thesis "Overstromingsbeheersing van de Demer met Model Predictieve Controle".

Maarten Breckpot was nominated for the VLAAMSE SCRIPTIEPRIJS 2009

Maarten Breckpot

He belonged to the short list of five students who graduated in 2009.

Top 5 Abstract Award at ISUOG in 2009

Ben Van Calster

Top 5 Abstract Award at ISUOG2009 (Hamburg, Germany)

Van Calster B, Condous G, Kirk E, Van Huffel S, Bourne T, Timmerman D. What measurements are needed to classify pregnancies of unknown location? Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 34(Suppl.1):1, 2009.

Best free communication award at ISUOG in 2009

Ben Van Calster

Best presentation award at ISUOG2009 (Hamburg, Germany) in the category "ovarian pathology"

De Clercq L, Van Calster B (presenting author), Van Holsbeke C, Czekierdowski A, Guerriero S, Savelli L, Franchi D, Fischerova D, Jingzhang, Epstein E, Valentin L, Testa AC, Van Huffel S, Timmerman D. Adjusting prediction models for ovarian tumor classification to new clinical settings. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 34(Suppl.1): 49-50, 2009.

Top abstract award

Lieveke Ameye

T BOURNE, D. TIMMERMAN, JINGZHANG, L VALENTIN, D PALADINI, C VAN HOLSBEKE, AA LISSONI, L SAVELLI, J VELDMAN, AC TESTA, F AMANT, S VAN HUFFEL, L AMEYE. A practical approach to preoperatively assess ovarian pathology: combining pattern recognition and mathematical models. Abstracts 19th World Congress of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology organised by the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG), Hamburg, Germany, September 13-17, 2009. Abstract classified as top 5 abstract and also received the top abstract award.

Best Student Paper Award IJCBS 2009

Hong Sun

Best Student Paper Award at the 2009 International Joint Conferences on Bioinformatics, System Biology and Intelligent Computing IJCBS 2009 for the paper "Layout and Post-Processing of Transcriptional Modules".
(Sun H, Lemmens K, Van den Bulcke T, Engelen K, De Moor B, Marchal K.)

Maarten Breckpot won the BESIX AWARD

Maarten Breckpot

for the Best Master Thesis at the Promotion/Graduation session of Engineering 2009.

Click here to download the thesis entitled: "Overstromingsbeheersing van de Demer met Model Predictieve Controle (Praktische uitwerking met de INCA software van IPCOS).

IJCNN 2009 Best Student Paper Award

Carlos Alzate

Carlos Alzate has received the Best Student Paper Award at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN 2009 (Atlanta US, June 2009) for his paper "A Regularized Formulation for Spectral Clustering with Pairwise Constraints"
(C. Alzate, J.A.K. Suykens).
Conference link: http://www.ijcnn2009.com/

ISMB 2009 travel fellowship

Travel fellowship to attend the 17th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2009) & the 8th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) in Stockholm, Sweden for the amount of 450EURO.

PSB 2009 travel fellowship

Travel fellowship to attend the 14th Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 2009) in Big Island, Hawaii, USA for the amount of $1250USD.

IEEE Signal Processing Society 2008 Best Paper Award

for the paper: Jingdong Chen, Jacob Benesty, Yiteng (Arden) Huang, and Simon Doclo, "New Insights Into the Noise Reduction Wiener Filter", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 1218-1234, Jul. 2006.

IEEE fellow since January 1 2009

Sabine Van Huffel

2008

Jos Schepens Memorial Fund 2008

Jens Hermans

Rewarded for master thesis 'Optimization of Inland Shipping'

Best student paper award

Sebastiaan Indesteege

Best student paper award (Europe region) of the 11th Information Security Conference (ISC 2008) for the paper "Collisions for RC4-Hash".

KES 2008 Best Student Paper Award

Best Student Research Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Zagreb, Croatia, 3-5 September 2008, for the paper "Classification of Sporadic and BRCA1 Ovarian Cancer Based on a Genome-wide Study of Copy Number Variations".

Best student paper award

Mina Deng

"Best student paper" of the IEEE International Symposium on Electronic Commerce and Security 2008, for the paper "Attacks on two buyer-seller watermarking protocols and an improvement for revocable anonymity".

Best Oral - Poster Presentation

Anca Croitor Sava

Young Scientists Award to Anca Croitor Sava for Best Oral-Poster Presentation of the work entitled Data Fusion of HR-MAS and in vivo information with application in brain tumor recognition.
Presented at the 6th European Symposium on Biomedical Engineering
Held at the Center for Mediterranean Architecture, Chania, Ellas
19-21 june 2008

Alston S Householder Award 2008

Ivan Markovsky

Best Dissertation in Numerical Linear Algebra

Awarded at the Householder XVII Symposium
held in Zeuthen, Germany, June 1-6, 2008

Selection Commitee: James Demmel (university of California), Howard Elman (University of Maryland), Volker Mehrmann (TU Berlin), Sabine Van Huffel (K.U. Leuven), Charles Van Loan (Cornell University) Committee Chair

Outstanding achievement award for student research paper

Mina Deng

"Towards cross-context identity management framework in e-health" won the prize of "outstanding achievement award for student research paper", granted by the New Zealand State Services Commission. (Joint work with Danny De Cock)

IEEE Travel Grants

Rodrigo Moraes

Financial assistance for attending ICC 2008, in Beijing, China.

Celtic Excellence Award 2008

ESAT-SCD participated in the EU/Celtic project BANITS ('Broadband Access Networks Integrated Telecommunication System'), which received the 'Celtic Excellence Award 2008'. Six Celtic projects of Call 1 and Call 2 have been granted the 'Celtic Excellence Award' for their outstanding achievements.
The BANITS Project was led by Javier Hurtado and Luis Perez Roldan of Telefónica I+D (Madrid, Spain). Project Participants were Telefónica I+D (Spain), Alcatel-Lucent Bell (Belgium), Ericsson AB (Sweden), Inelcom (Spain), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Optibase (Israel), RAD Data Communications (Israel), Fundacion Robotiker (Spain) and UpZide Labs (Sweden). The award was granted "because of a number of new products, patents, and standard contributions (generated by the project), which are expected to generate new income, new jobs, and to assure better competitiveness of the companies involved".

http://www.celtic-initiative.org/Publications/Press_releases/PR-award.pdf

PSB 2008 travel fellowship

Travel fellowship to attend the 13th Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 2008) in Big Island, Hawaii, USA for the amount of $1000USD.

2007

Duane F. Bruley Award (ISOTT)

Dominique De Smet

The Duane F. Bruley Awards was established were first presented by ISOTT at the 2004 annual meeting in Bari, Italy. They were established to support travel funds for student researchers in all areas of oxygen transport to tissue. The Awards signify Dr. Bruley's interest in seeking young scientists and engineers to maintain the image and quality of research associated with the society. As a co-founder of ISOTT in 1973, Dr. Bruley emphasizes cross-disciplinary research among basic scientists, engineers, medical scientists, and clinicians. His pioneering work constructing mathematical models for oxygen and other anabolite/metabolite transport in the microcirculation, employing computer solutions, were the first to consider system non-linearities, time dependence, including multi-dimensional diffusion, convection, and reaction kinetics. It is hoped that receiving the Duane F. Bruley Award will inspire students to excel in their research and will assist in securing future leadership for ISOTT.

Oustanding Poster Award at ISMB/ECCB 2007 Conference.

Fabian Ojeda

A large scale spectral clustering algorithm with out of sample extension: application to gene expression data. F. Ojeda, C. Alzate, J. Suykens, B. De Moor. ISMB2007

ISMB 2007 travel fellowship

Travel fellowship to attend the 15th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2007) & the 6th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) in Vienna, Austria for the amount of 300EURO.

Fellow IEEE (2007)

2006

Interactive paper prize

Bart Vanluyten

Rewarded to the paper "Matrix Factorization and Stochastic State Representations" by Bart Vanluyten, Jan C. Willems and Bart L.R. De Moor for outstanding technical quality, originality, importance and presentation at an interactive session at the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2006).

ACNS Travel Fellowship Award

Anneleen Vergult

Travel fellowship award to attend the Annual Meeting of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (ACNS) in Chicago, Nov. 2006.

UBIZEN prize for master thesis 2006

Sebastiaan Indesteege

ASL travel fellowship

Travel fellowship from the Academische Stichting Leuven to attend the 14th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2006) conference in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil for the amount of 1000 euro

ISMB 2006 travel fellowship

Travel fellowship to attend the 14th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2006) conference in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil for the amount of $1000USD.

laureate KVIV engineering prices 2006

Maarten De Vos

TechArt 2005

Gert Thijs

Tech-Art 2005 award of the VIK for the Silicos' Virtual Screening Factory.

2005

ASL-Prijs voor Exacte Wetenschappen

Frank Verstraete

Met de ASL-Prijs voor Exacte Wetenschappen bekroont de Academische Stichting Leuven een doctoraatsproefschrift dat zich situeert in het domein van de exacte wetenschappen en dat aan de K.U.Leuven behaald werd. Het bekroonde werk moet uitmunten door de originaliteit van het onderwerp, de wetenschappelijke uitwerking en/of de innoverende conclusies.

IEEE student paper contest, 2nd price

Elke De Mulder

2nd price in the IEEE student paper contest region 8 (Europe, Middle East, Africa) with the following paper: Electromagnetic Analysis Attack on an FPGA Implementation of an Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem. The oral finals were held in Belgrado on the EUROCON 2005 conference on November 23, 2005.

Diabetes Technology Peterson Student Research Bronze Prize

Tom Van Herpe

Diabetes Technology Peterson Student Research Bronze Prize at the Fifth Annual Diabetes Technology Meeting (2005).

Student Best Paper Award of the American Control Conference 2005

Bert Pluymers

The American Control Conference is a leading conference in the field of automatic control theory and is organized yearly. Based on the quality of the submitted manuscripts, 5 student papers are selected as finalists for the Student Best Paper Award. The final winner is selected based on the quality of the oral presentation.

SITEL price for master thesis

Elke De Mulder

1st price in the national contest of SITEL for the best master thesis of 2004 in the field of telecommunications together with Pieter Buysschaert.

Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2005), Philadelphia, PA, USA, March 2005

Ann Spriet

France Telecom R&D Thesis Distinction 2005

Vincent Le Nir

2004

Alcatel Bell (Belgium) Award 2004 (with Raphael Cendrillon)

Mathematica Award

Ivan Markovsky

This award is given by Wolfram Research at the International Conference on Computational Statistics (COMPSTAT 2004) held in Prague, 22-27 August 2004, for the poster "Consistent estimation of an ellipsoid with known center" by I. Markovsky, A. Kukush, and S. Van Huffel.

2003

Barco/VIK-Prize 2003

Mina Deng

"labview supervised FPGA-microcontroller based RGB CCD Alignment Platform" (joint work with Tanja STESSENS)

Best Paper (Bioengineering).

Bart Vanrumste

Can ICA be used as a pre-processing step in EEG spike detection? At New Zealand Physics and Engineering in Medicine conference 2003, Dunedin, New Zealand, 11-13 November 2003.

European Information Security Award for academic research

Bart Preneel

Best Student Paper Award, International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC 2003), Kyoto, Japan, Sept. 2003

Ann Spriet

EURASIP Signal Processing Best Paper Award 2003

for the paper: S. Doclo and M. Moonen, "Design of far-field and near-field broadband beamformers using eigenfilters", Signal Processing, vol. 83, no. 12, pp. 2641-2673, Dec. 2003.

David Tuma Laboratory Project Award

Thomas Klasen

To the student team creating the most outstanding undergraduate laboratory project. Received by Thomas Klasen and Naseer Siddique for their project “Shoot the Moon.” Where a computer controlled and won the game “Shoot the Moon.”

Honorary Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

Bart Preneel

awarded by ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association)

2002

FWO Siemens Prize

Yves Moreau

Moreau Y., Marchal K., Mathys J., Computational biomedicine : a multidisciplinary crossroads, Siemens Prize, FWO (Flanders, Belgium), 2002, 89 p.

Best Student Paper Competition Finalist

Ivan Markovsky

awarded from IEEE SMC for the paper Multi-model system parameter estimation by Ivan Markovsky, Sabine Van Huffel, and Bart De Moor, presented at the 2002 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Hammamet, Tunisia, 6-9 October 2002.

Second prize in the Young Investigators Poster Competition

Bart Vanrumste

“ A multigrid solver in EEG source analysis applying the finite difference method”, at the joint 29th International Congress on Electrocardiology and the 4th International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism, Montreal, Canada, 2-5 July 2002.

AAAI Student Award at ACM SIGKDD 2002 - coauthorship with Peter Antal

Patrick Glenisson

IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award 2002

Geert Leus

IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award 2002 for the paper: G. Leus, P. Vandaele, and M. Moonen, Deterministic Blind Modulation-Induced Source Separation for Digital Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 219-227, January 2001.

2001-2002 : Francqui Chair at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on "Advanced data processing developments building upon linear algebraic and neural network concepts".

2001

Best poster award.

Leentje Vanhamme

PRORISC, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, November 29- November 30 2001

Best Student Paper Award International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, 2001

for the paper: S. Doclo and M. Moonen, "Combined frequency-domain dereverberation and noise reduction technique for multi-microphone speech enhancement"

Audio Engineering Society Educational Foundation

Bert Schiettecatt

A grant for supporting education in the field of audio and acoustics, and my education in the Master of Arts at Stanford University.

Best paper neural networks nomination at SCI 2001, Orlando, Florida (2001-08-21)

Tony Van Gestel

A fellowship for obtaining the degree 'Master of Arts in Music, Science and Technology' at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, USA.

Outstanding teacher award for the year 2000 in Tel-Aviv university

2000

CaStaR of the year 2000

Vincent Rijmen

The CaStaR award is given to Flemish persons who did something special during the last year.

co-designer of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Vincent Rijmen

International Neural Networks Society INNS 2000 Young Investigator Award

Johan Suykens

Kanunnik J. Desmet

Ivan Goethals

Award for most distinguished physics student in the graduating year 2000

IEEE Signal Processing Society 1999 Best Paper Award (Senior award)

Johan Suykens

2000 : IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (1999) (joint with Johan Suykens, Bart DeMoor) http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/bestpaper.html

Awarded at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, June 2000, Istanbul, Turkey http://icassp2000.sdsu.edu for the paper: NLq theory: checking and imposing stability of recurrent neural networks for nonlinear modelling, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (special issue on neural networks for signal processing), Vol.45, No.11, pp. 2682-2691, Nov. 1997. http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/bestpaper.html

1999

Young scientist award for the best oral presentation.

Bart Vanrumste

"The influence of the ventricular system in EEG dipole source analysis" at the 10th world congress of the international society for brain electromagnetic topography, Adelaide, Australia, 11- 13/10/99

IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award

IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (1999) (joint with Johan Suykens, Joos Vandewalle), awarded at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, June 2000, Istanbul, Turkey http://icassp2000.sdsu.edu for the paper: NLq theory: checking and imposing stability of recurrent neural networks for nonlinear modelling, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (special issue on neural networks for signal processing), Vol.45, No.11, pp. 2682-2691, Nov. 1997.

1999 : in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) golden Jubilee Medal (IEEE Third Millennium Medal in recognition and appreciation of valued services and outstanding contributions).

1999 member of Academiae Europaea.

1998

1st prize KVIV-Studentenprijzen 1997

for the MSc thesis "Enhancement of speech intelligibility in hearing aids by adaptive noise suppression in real time" (with Erik De Clippel)

1997-8 Intel-Dean award for excellency

1998 elected IEE Fellow

1997

Alcatel Bell (Belgium) Award 1997 (with Piet Vandaele)

EURASIP Student Paper Prize

Lieven De Lathauwer

Best Student Paper IEEE Signal Processing Society Workshop on Higher-Order Statistics, July 21-23, 1997, Banff, Alberta, Canada

Best Junior Presentation Award

Lieven De Lathauwer

Best Student Presentation 16th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, March 5-7, 1997, Houffalize, Belgium

Laureate of the Belgium Royal Academy of Science 1997

1996

Tri-annual best paper award of Automatica

Tri-annual best paper award of Automatica (1996), a journal of the International Federation of Automatic Control (joint with Peter Van Overschee) for the paper: Subspace algorithms for the identification of combined deterministic-stochastic systems, Automatica 30 (1), pp.75-94, January 1994; The award citation reads: With deep insight, this paper develops a most useful and efficient method for multivariable system identification. The presentation covers numerical, statistical and implementation issues, and has had an immediate impact on best practice in identification applications. Published in Automatica

1995

The IDF General Staff Head of Intelligence Branch Creativity award for 1995

Student Award

Lieven De Lathauwer

Best Student Paper IEEE Signal Processing / ATHOS Workshop on Higher-Order Statistics, June 12-14, 1995, Girona, Spain

1994

K.U. Leuven Research Council Award 1994

Bi-annual Siemens prize

Bi-annual Siemens prize (1994), joint with Peter Van Overschee, for the paper: Graphical User Interface Software for System Identification (Available as ESAT/SISTA TR 1994-06, Department of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteite Leuven, Belgium, awarded at a Prize Ceremony, October 17 1994, NFWO/FNRS, Brussels

1992

Promotor for an honorary degree awarded to Prof. Dr. Gene Golub

Promotor for an honorary degree awarded to Prof. Dr. Gene Golub, Stanford University, at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, December 1992

Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences

Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences (1992), first prize, with the paper: Numerical Algorithms for State Space Subspace System Identification, Published in Academia Analecta, Klasse der Wetenschappen, Koninklijke Akademie voor Wetenschappen, Jaargang 55, nr.5, 1993

1991-1992 : Francqui Chair at the University of Liège on "Artificial Neural Networks".

1992 elected fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) for contributions to nonlinear circuits and systems

1990

Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award

Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award (1990) of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, joint with Lieven Vandenberghe en Joos Vandewalle for the paper:The Generalized Linear Complementarity Problem Applied to the Complete Analysis of Resistive Piecewise Linear Circuits. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, November 1989, Volume 36, Number 11, pp.1382-1391

1990 : Guillemin Cauer Best paper award IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 1989.(joint with L. Vandenberghe and B. De Moor).

1989

The Leslie Fox Prize

The Leslie Fox Prize (1989), first prize, (17 international candidates, 7 finalists) for the paper presentation: The restricted singular value decomposition: Properties and applications. Cambridge University, England, September 5, 1989; Published as: De Moor B., Golub G.H. The restricted singular value decomposition: properties and applications. Siam Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Vol.12, no.3, July 1991, pp.401-425.

1989 : Best paper award at the Design Automation Conference 1989, Las Vegas (joint with G. Goossens and H. De Man).

1986

Leybold-Heraeus Prize

Leybold-Heraeus Prize (1986) for a report on the 1986 position of Belgium in comparison with Japan and the United States with respect to scientific research and technological innovation

1986 : Best paper award on computer aided design at the IEEE ICCD Conference, Port Chester New York (joint with L. Claesen, F. Catthoor, H. De Man, S. Note and K. Mertens).

1985

President of the Technion annual award for excellency for 1985

1985 : SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication S.C.) award (joint with R. Govaerts and Y. Desmedt).

1984

President of the Technion annual award for excellency for 1984

1983

President of the Technion annual award for excellency for 1983

1983 : Award of 100 Year Bell Telephone (BTMC) (joint with Y. Desmedt and R. Govaerts).

1977

1977-78 : Rotary Foundation grant.

1976

1976-77 : Fullbright/Hays travel grant. NATO Fellowship.