Cited for "One of the most influential papers of 1st ACM Conf. on Multimedia", 2003

IBM Technical Achievement Award, 1995

Texas A & M Faculty Fellow 1999, Ford Fellow 2004, TAMU

Outstanding Professor, IEEE Student branch, Texas A & M, 1997-98

Outstanding Professor, Dept. of Elec. Engg., 2003

Distinguihsed Achievement Award for teaching from Former Students Association, College of Engineering, TAMU, 2005.

IBM Graduate Fellowship, 1988-1990.

Presidential Silver Medal, Indian Inst. of Tech., 1985.