Honors and Awards

1973-1977

Notre Dame Scholar, University of Notre Dame.

1977

General Electric Mathematics Major Award.

1977

Graduated with highest honors, University of Notre Dame.

1977-present

Phi Beta Kappa.

1977-1980

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, Stanford University.

1983-present

Sigma Xi.

1984-1988

IBM Faculty Development Award.

1985-1991

National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award.

1986-present

Listed in several national and international Who's Who publications.

1986

Honorary A.M. degree, Brown University.

1986-present

Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

1993-present

Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), for contributions to the theory of sorting and searching and to the design and analysis of computer algorithms.

1996-present

Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), for contributions to the theory of information storage and retrieval and to the design and mathematical analysis of computer algorithms.

1997

Recognition of Service Award, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

1998

Fulbright Scholar.

1999

Medal of the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

2001

Recognition of Service Award, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

2002

Graduated as Fuqua Scholar, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.

2009

SIGMOD Test of Time Award, awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group for Management of Data (SIGMOD) to the authors of the most impactful SIGMOD paper from 10 years earlier, ``Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets,'' by J. S. Vitter and M. Wang.