ad:tech Innovation Award (2011)
Presented at the ad:tech 2011 conference for the best startup company (YinzCam, Inc.) in next-generation mobile advertising.

CIT's Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award (2009)
Presented by the College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.

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

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

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

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 (2003)
For proposed research on adaptive resource-aware fault tolerance support for middleware applications. [ Abstract and Details]

Marquis' Who's Who in America (2009, 2010)

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 (2000)
For the best doctoral dissertation in the fields of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UC Santa Barbara

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