Emerging Female Scientist Award
Presented by the Carnegie Science Center (2009).

Eta Kappa Nu Excellence in Teaching Award
Presented by Eta Kappa Nu (Sigma Chapter, Carnegie Mellon) to an ECE faculty member to recognize teaching excellence (2008).

Sloan Research Fellowship Award
One of 16 Sloan awards in the area of Computer Science (2007).

Best Paper Award
For the paper "MEAD: Middleware for Embedded Adaptive Dependability" presented at the Joint Systems and Software Symposium, (April 2003).

National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award
For proposed research on adaptive resource-aware fault tolerance support for middleware applications (January 2003). [ Abstract and Details]

IBM Faculty Partnership Award (2005)
For ongoing research on coordinated non-intrusive upgrades of distributed software systems, in collaboration with IBM Research's Autonomic Service Oriented Computing group in Hawthorne, N.Y.

IBM Faculty Partnership Award (2002)
For ongoing research on developing dependable Web Services, in collaboration with IBM Research's Advanced Enterprise Middleware research group in Hawthorne, N.Y.

Winifred & Louis Lancaster Graduate Dissertation Award
For the best doctoral dissertation in the fields of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UCSB. (June 2000)

Delco Defense Systems Operations Graduate Fellowship
For outstanding achievement in the research and development of the Eternal system (June 1997)