Awards and Recognitions

	Faculty Award for Supervising the Outstanding Master's Thesis of 1983 (C. Baru), Electrical Engineering Department, 1983.
	Certificate of Appreciation, awarded by George Washington University for teaching short courses, 1983-86.
	Certificate of Appreciation, awarded by the IEEE Computer Society for serving as Editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1981-88.
	Commends and Acknowledges, certificates of appreciation, awarded by the Florida High Technology and Industry Council for serving as the Program Co-Chairman of the PROCIM '88 and PROCIEM '89 conferences.
	Acknowledgement, Top 100 Researchers of the University of Florida, 1986-91.
	Keynote Speaker, "Technological Integration: The Future of Data Engineering Research," Fifth International Conference on Data Engineering (COMPDEC 89), Los Angeles, CA., Feb. 9, 1989.
	Governor's Award for Outstanding Contribution in Technology and Science, State of Florida, March 1989.
	Recognition of Contribution for serving as the Program Chairman of the 1989 International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC89), IEEE Computer Society, 1989.
	Research Achievement Award, University of Florida, March 1991.
	Keynote Speaker, First International Computer Conference in Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran, Dec. 26 – 28, 1991.
	Best Paper Award, "An Association Algebra for Processing Object-oriented Databases," in Proceedings of the IEEE 7th International Conference on Data Engineering, Kobe, Japan, April 10-12, 1991, pp. 23-32.
	Faculty Award for Supervising the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation (M. S. Guo), Electrical Engineering Department, 1991.
	Keynote Speaker, 5th International Hong Kong Computer Society Database Workshop, Next Generation Database Systems, Kowloon Shangri-La, Feb. 26, 1994.
	Keynote Speaker, "An Object-oriented Knowledge Base Management System for Supporting Advanced Applications," 4th International Hong Kong Computer Society Database Workshop, Hong Kong, Dec. 12-13, 1992.
	Keynote Speaker, "An Extensible Knowledge Base Management System for Supporting Rule-based Interoperability among Heterogeneous Systems," ACM's Fourth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’95), Nov. 28 - Dec. 2, 1995, Baltimore, MD.
	Professorial Excellence Program Award, College of Engineering, Dec. 1996.
	Special Recognition by the VLDB Endowment for serving as a Trustee and Treasurer of the VLDB Endowment during the period of 1991-99.
	IEEE Fellow, for contributions in Parallel Database Systems and Knowledge Base Management System in Support of Integrated Manufacturing, 2000.
	University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) Professorship Award, May 2000.
	Appreciation for Outstanding Service as Editor-in-Chief of the VLDB Journal, 1994-2001.
	Keynote Speaker, “Web-services-based, Dynamic and Collaborative E-learning” Partnership in Global Learning’s Database Research Conference, April 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
	Best paper award, “Learning Object Models, Languages, Authoring Tools, and Registry Service for Achieving Dynamic and Collaborative E-learning,” Proceedings of the 7th IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education - CATE 2004, August 16-18, 2004, Kauai, Hawaii, USA. pp. 321-327.