♦ 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 Fading".

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.