Awards and Honors
Honors
IEEE Computer Society President-Elect Nominee
2020
Elected to the IEEE Computer Society’s Golden Core
February 2018
Elected to the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors (BoG)
2017 to 2019
Fellowships
IET Fellow
Elevated to the rank of Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, in March 2019
IEEE Fellow
Elevated to the Fellow rank, January 2015
University of Bologna Senior Visiting Fellowship
Institute of Advanced Studies, January to February 2014
David Ross Fellowship Recipient
Purdue University, 1989 to 1991
Purdue Foundation Fellowship Recipient
1987 to 1989
Awards
ACM Recognition of Outstanding Service Award
for contributions to ACM as chair of the 19th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2013
IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award
for outstanding leadership and services to the IEEE Ubiquitous and Intelligent Computing Conference, 2012
Finland Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro)
Only a handful of international scholars from all fields of science and engineering are awarded FiDiPro annually, 2011 to 2013
University of Florida Technology Innovator of the Year award
recognizing faculty with successfully licensed IP, 2011
Best Paper Award to C. Chen, Y. Xu, K. Li, and A. Helal
"Reactive Programming Optimizations in Pervasive Systems," Proceedings of the IEEE/IPSJ Symposium on Applications and the Internet, 2010
Information Processing Society of Japan Certificate of Appreciation
for distinguished service to the IPSJ/IEEE Symposium on Applications and the Internet, 2010
Best Paper Award to C. Chen and A. Helal
"Device Integration in SODA Using the Device Description Language," Proceedings of the IEEE/IPSJ Symposium on Applications and the Internet, 2009
ACM Recognition of Outstanding Service Award
for contributions to ACM as chair of the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), 2009
IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation
for outstanding service and contributions to the COMPSAC, 2009 Conference
Best of SensorExpo Silver Award
to Pervasa Inc., founded by Dr. Helal, for the Atlas Sensor Integration Platform, 2007
Best of SensorExpo Silver Award
to Pervasa Inc., founded by Dr. Helal, for the Atlas Sensor Integration Platform, 2007
IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation
for achievements as general chair of IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communication Conference (IPCCC), 2002
Alexandria University Model Student Award
May 1982