Honors and Awards

Received Graduate Student Teaching Award, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1975, and 1977.

Selected: An Outstanding Young Man of America, 1983.

Appointed: E.A. Logan Research Professor, College of Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, September 1987 - August 1990, September 1990 - Present.

Awarded K.S. Fu Certificate of Appreciation for Distinguished Service to NAFIPS, 1991.

Received Burns and McDonnell Foundation Outstanding Researcher Award, March, 1993.

Awarded “Best Paper” in the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems for 1993-1994 for "A Possibilistic Approach to Clustering", (with Raghu Krishnapuram) Vol. 1, No. 2, 1993, pp. 98-110.

Awarded "Senior Faculty Research Award", College of Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, March, 1998.

Selected ACM National Lecturer, 1993- present.

Selected IEEE Neural Networks Council Distinguished Lecturer, 1997 – present.

Elected Fellow of the IEEE, 2000, (Senior Member, 1992).