- Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Elected Fellow of the IEEE
- NASA Director’s Award for support of the F-22 Raptor Life Support Independent Design Team
- Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Elected Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
- 2012 NASA Honor Award for Outstanding Leadership
- 2012 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award, University of Colorado at Boulder
- 2012 NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Associate Administrator Award for Technology and Innovation (Vehicle Level Reasoning System Group Award).
- 2011 NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Associate Administrator Award for Technology and Innovation. (Integrated Vehicle Health Management Data Mining Group Award).
- IEEE International Conference on Data Mining: Top 10 Data Mining Case Studies for our work in Discovering Precursors to Aviation Safety Incidents using Data Mining. The award was given at the IEEE ICDM Conference in Sydney Australia in December 2010.
- IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for “pioneering contributions to Intelligent Information Systems”. Here is a link with a video and other information.
- NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal: one of NASA’s highest technical honors
- Elected as Senior Member of IEEE.
- NASA Distinguished Performance Awards for multiple years
- Numerous NASA Group Achievement Awards
- Outstanding Technical Achievement in Liquid Propulsion Systems, Joint Army Navy NASA Air Force Conference on Propulsion (joint award with collaborators).
- Research Institute of Advanced Computer Science Performance Award
- Blue Martini Software Professional Services Star Employee
- IBM Golden Circle Award, for outstanding sales and service in Data Mining Analytical Services. Awarded to the top 0.5% of performers at IBM.
- Received Department of Education Merit Fellowship for full support of MS and Ph.D. graduate education
- University of Colorado Fellowships for Outstanding Achievement