Awards and Recognition




Plenary Talks

Plenary Talk: S. K. Jayaweera, "Radiobots: Towards Self-learning Autonomous Cognitive Radioss", Plenary talk at the 6th IEEE International Conference in Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS'2011, Kandy, Sri Lanka, Aug. 16-19th, 2011.

♦ Plenary Talk: S. K. Jayaweera, "Cognitive Radios: What are they Really?", Plenary talk at the 2011 IEEE Radio and Wireless Week, Phoenix, AZ, 16-19, January. 01/18/2011.


Best Paper Awards

♦ IEEE PACRIM 2011 Gold Award for Best Communications Paper:
Gold Award for Best Communications Paper at the IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, Victoria, Canada, Aug. 2011.
Paper: S. Chen, C. Ghosh, A. M. Alexander and S. K. Jayaweera, "The Impact of Group Cooperation over Competitive Secondary Subnetworks".

♦ IEEE AVSS '06 Best Paper Award:
Best Paper Award at the IEEE Advanced Video and Signal Based-based Surveillance Conference (AVSS '06), Sydney, Australia, November 2006.
Paper: S. K. Jayaweera, and K. A. Al Tarazi , "Large System Decision Fusion Performance in Inhomogeneous Sensor Networks
".

♦ WPMC ' 03 Excellent Paper Award:
Outstanding Technical Paper Award at the 6th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC '03), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, October 2003.
Paper: S. K. Jayaweera, and H. V. Poor, "Performance Analysis of Decorrelating Decision Feedback Detection for MIMO Systems in Rician Fadin
g".


Fellowships

♦ National Research Council (NRC) Senior Fellow at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, National Academy of Sciences, July-Sep. 2013.

♦ ASEE Air Force Summer Faculty Fellow, Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque NM, 2009-2011.

♦ Faculty Fellow, National Institute of Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University (2004-2006).


Academic Awards

John Crowford Scholarship for Higher Education in Australia (Full Scholarship for 4 years), Government of Australia, 1993.

IEE Institution Prizeby the Council of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), for distinction in Electrical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia December 1997.

Rowden White Prize in Engineeringfor academic excellence, University of Melbourne, Australia December 1997.

Dixon Scholarship in Electrical Engineering for Best Results in Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia, 1997.

Siemens Class Prizefor outstanding performance in Electrical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia December 1996.

Deans List, 1997, 1996, 1995 and 1994, University of Melbourne, Australia.