Awards and Honors

2026

Best Paper Award  — ISCAS 2026 (BioCAS Track) — Suprio Bhattacharya

2025

Copenhaver Charitable Trust Bicentennial Fellowship — Akiyoshi Tanaka
ECE Poster Contest 1st Prize — Anjali Agrawal

2023

IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award — Xinjian Liu
Link Lab Distinguished Research Award — Xinjian Liu
Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors — Ben Calhoun

2022

Thornton Society Invention Award — Ben Calhoun

2021

IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award — Anjana Dissanayake

2020

IEEE ISCAS Best Paper Award — Shuo Li, Jacob Breiholz, Sumanth Kamineni, Jaeho Im, David Wentzloff, Benton Calhoun

2017

Virginia Engineering Foundation Graduate Fellowship — Divya Akella
William L. Ballard Jr Endowed Graduate Fellowship — Farah B. Yahya

2016

Louis T. Rader Graduate Research Award — Farah B. Yahya

2015

Outstanding Young Engineering Graduate Award, SEAS UVA — Ben Calhoun
Edlich-Henderson Innovator of the Year, UVA — Ben Calhoun
Startup of the Year Award (CBIC) — PsiKick, Inc.
Commonwealth Associate Professor of ECE (Chaired Professorship) — Ben Calhoun

2014

Breakthrough Award (CBIC) — PsiKick, Inc.
Tom Tom CVille Founder Award — Ben Calhoun
Commonwealth Associate Professor of ECE (Chaired Professorship) — Ben Calhoun

2013

Distinguished Research Career Development Award — Ben Calhoun
Best Student Paper, S3S Conference — Yanqing Zhang
ARCS Fellowship — Alicia Klinefelter
Charles L. Brown Graduate Student Fellowship — Aatmesh Shrivastava
SEAS Teaching Fellowship — Aatmesh Shrivastava
Louis T. Rader Graduate Research Award — Aatmesh Shrivastava
Commonwealth Associate Professor of ECE (Chaired Professorship) — Ben Calhoun

2012

SAIC Scholars Research Stipend — Peter Beshay
L. William Ballard Fellowship — Kyle Craig
Sture G. Olsson Graduate Fellowship — Alicia Klinefelter
Charles L. Brown Graduate Student Fellowship — Yanqing Zhang
UVA Presidential Poster Competition Winner — Yanqing Zhang
VSGC Graduate STEM Research Fellowship — Yousef Shakhsheer
GOMACTech-11 Best Poster Paper Award — Benton H. Calhoun, Yanqing Zhang, Sudhanshu Khanna, Kyle Craig, Yousef Shakhsheer, John Lach
Virginia Council of Graduate Schools Research Forum — Yanqing Zhang
CS Cakeoff Presentation Winner — Team VLSIcing (Alicia, Kyle, Yanqing)

2011

Intel/Helic/CICC Student Scholarship Award — Yousef Shakhsheer
VSGC Graduate STEM Research Fellowship — W. Craig Eberhardt
UVA Fellowship Enhancement for Outstanding Doctoral Candidates — Sudhanshu Khanna

2010

DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Winner — Saad Arrabi, Yousef Shakhsheer, Sudhanshu Khanna, Kyle Craig, John Lach, Ben Calhoun
All-University Teaching Award — Ben Calhoun
Sheldon L. Cooper Award — Yanqing Zhang
Sheldon L. Cooper Award — Yousef Shakhsheer
Louis T. Rader Graduate Research Award — Randy Mann
Charles L. Brown Fellowship — Alicia Klinefelter
VSGC Graduate STEM Research Fellowship — W. Craig Eberhardt
UVA Fellowship Enhancement for Outstanding Doctoral Candidates — Sudhanshu Khanna

2009

Low Power Design Contest (First Place, ISLPED) — Steve Jocke, Jonathan Bolus, Stuart Wooters, Travis Blalock, Ben Calhoun
UVA Engineering Research Symposium Finalist — Satya Nalam
VSGC Graduate STEM Research Fellowship — W. Craig Eberhardt
UVA Fellowship Enhancement for Outstanding Doctoral Candidates — Sudhanshu Khanna

2008

Charles L. Brown ECE New Faculty Teaching Award — Ben Calhoun
Best Student Paper Award, Intl. Conf. on VLSI Design — Jiajing Wang & Ben Calhoun (with Amit Singhee & Rob Rutenbar)
VSGC Graduate STEM Research Fellowship — W. Craig Eberhardt
UVA Fellowship Enhancement for Outstanding Doctoral Candidates — Sudhanshu Khanna
Technology+Teaching Initiative Fellow — Ben Calhoun

2007

University of Virginia Teaching Fellow — Ben Calhoun
DARPA Young Faculty Award — Ben Calhoun

2006

FEST Distinguished Young Investigator Grant — Ben Calhoun