Recipient of the Big Data and Cognitive Computing 2023 Best Paper Award for the paper entitled 6G Cognitive Information Theory: A Mailbox Perspective

Recipient of the Washington Academy of Science (WAS) Distinguished Career in Science Award for 2017

Recipient of the NIST: ITL 2002 Outstanding Authorship Award

IEEE FELLOWSHIP: 1992 IEEE Fellow award for contributions to low bit-rate video coding and research in subband coding for image and video applications.

IEEE BEST PAPER: Recipient of 1989 IEEE Darlington Award for the best paper, "Sub-band coding of Monochrome and Color Images", published in IEEE CAS Transactions, February 1988.

IERE BEST PAPER: Recipient of 1987 IERE Charles Babbage Premium Award for the best paper "Conditional Entropy Coding of Digital Pictures", published in Journal of the IERE, May 1986.

Distinguished MTS: Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award, Bellcore, 1990.

Patent: First Patent Award, Bell Communications Research, 1984, for the patent, "Quantization of Gray Level and Color Images", Patent no. 4,613,948.