Selected Awards and Recognition

• Rebecca Szarkowski - Awarded a National Astronaut Foundation Scholarship, 2009.
• Han Yuan - Awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2009.
• Yunfeng Lu - Awarded an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship of the University of Minnesota, 2009.
• Alexander Doud - Selected as a Frank Louk IT Merit Scholar, 2009.
• Bin He - Named Distinguished McKnight University Professor, 2009.
• Rebecca Szarkowski - Selected as Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, 2009.
• Christopher Wilke - NIH Integrative Neuroimaging Graduate Training Fellowship, 2008-2009.
• Audrey Royer - NIH Integrative Neuroimaging Graduate Training Fellowship, 2008-2009.
• Keith Jamison - NIH Neuro-physical-computational Sciences (NPCS) Graduate Training Fellowship, 2008-2009.
• Bin He - Elected President of the International Society for Functional Source Imaging.
• Chengzong Han - Awarded the American Heart Association Fellowship from 2008-2009.
• Chengzong Han - Lillehei Heart Institute Poster Award, Life Sciences Alley the 6th Annual Conference, 2007.
• Han Yuan - Awarded the First Prize in Student Paper Competition of NFSI&ICFBI Conference, 2007.
• Bin He - Elected the President-elect of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society for 2008.
• Christopher Wilke - Awarded the Neuroengineering Fellowship at the University of Minnesota for 2007-2008.
• Lei Ding - Awarded Scholarship from The China Scholarship Council, 2007.
• Chenguang Liu - Awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2007-2008.
• Xu Li - Scientific Poster Session Award, Design of Medical Device Conference, 2007.
• Bin He - Elected VP for Publications of IEEE-EMBS for 2007-2008.
• Bin He - Appointed Conference Chair of the 2009 Annual International Conference of IEEE - EMBS.
• Han Yuan - Institute of Technology poster award, Life Science Alley the 5th Annual Conference, 2006.
• Zhongming Liu - Finalist, Student Paper Competition, Annual Int. Conference of IEEE-EMBS, 2006.
• Lea M Lehtola - Scholarship Awards from the Tauno Tonning Foundation and Seppo Saynajakangas Foundation, 2006.
• Chenguang Liu - 2nd place of the Best Poster Award at the Design of Medical Device Conference, 2006.
• Xiaoxiao Bai - Awarded a Research Scholarship from the Supercomputing Institute of the University of Minnesota, 2006-2007.
• Zhongming Liu - Awarded American Heart Association Fellowship, 2006-2007.
• Han Yuan - NIH Neuro-physical-computational Sciences (NPCS) Graduate Training Fellowship, 2006-2007.
• Lei Ding - Finalist, Student Paper Competition, Annual Int. Conference of IEEE-EMBS, 2005.
• Yuan Lai - Boston Scientific poster award, Medical Alley the 4th Annual Conference, 2005.
• Chenguang Liu - Guidant poster award, Medical Alley the 4th Annual Conference, 2005.
• Chenguang Liu - Awarded American Heart Association Fellowship, 2005-2007.
• Lei Ding - Awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2005-2006.
• Zhongming Liu - Awarded the 2nd Prize of Young Investigator Award in BEM & NFSI conference, 2005.
• Xu Li - NIH Neuro-physical-computational Sciences (NPCS) Gradiate Training Fellowship, 2005-2006.
• Chang-Hua Im - Awarded Postdoctoral fellowship from the Korean Research Foundation, 2005-2006.
• Bin He - Elected and inducted AIMBE Fellow, 2005.
• Xin Zhang - Awarded Scholarship from The China Scholarship Council, 2005.
• Bin He - Elected to VP for Publications and Technical Activities of IEEE EMBS for 2005-2006.
• Yuan Lai - BMEI poster award, Medical Alley the 3rd Annual Conference, 2004.
• Xin Zhang - The Rosanna Degani Young Investigator Award at Computers in Cardiology, 2004.
• Bin He - Elected to IEEE Fellow, 2004.
• Masafumi Nakagawa - Selected to chair The 15th Congress of the International Society of Brain Electromagnetic Topography.
• Bobby Xu - Finalist, Siemens Westinghouse Science Regional Competition, 2003.
• Xin Zhang - UIC Graduate College Travel Fellowship, 2003.
• Bin He - Elected to President of International Society of Bioelectromagnetism, 2002.
• Bin He - UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award, 2002.
• Xin Zhang - UIC Graduate College Travel Fellowship, 2002.
• Lei Ding - UIC Graduate College Travel Fellowship, 2002.
• Bobby Xu - NATO Network of Excellence Fellowship, 2002.
• Bin He - American Heart Association Established Investigator Award, 2001.
• Jie Lian - Finalist, Student Paper Competition, Annual Int. Conference of IEEE-EMBS, 2001.
• Lei Ding - University Fellowship, 2001.
• Jie Lian - University Fellowship, 2001.
• Xin Zhang - International Student Service Award, 2001.
• Masao Sumiya- Japanese Government Research Fellowship, 2001.
• Jie Lian - Student Paper Competition Award (3rd Prize), IEEE-EMBS Asia-Pacific Conference on Biomedical Engineering, 2000.
• Siddharth Ramakrishnan - University Fellowship, 2000.
• Bin He - University of Illinois University Scholar Award, 1999.
• Bin He - National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1999.
• Bin He - Listed in Who's Who in the World, 2000, 2002, 2004.
• Bin He - Listed in Who's Who in America, 2000, 2002, 2004.
• Bin He - Listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1999, 2001, 2003.
• Junichi Hori - Japanese Government Research Fellowship, 1999.
• Hiroshi Sasaki - Japanese Government Research Fellowship, 1999.
• Masafumi Nakagawa - The Okazaki Award, The Sixth international Symposium on Evoked Potentials, 1998.
• Dongsheng Wu - Young Scientist Paper Prizer (2nd Place ), The URSI-IEEE International Scientific Meeting on Electromagnetics in Medicine, 1997.
• Ken Umetani - Postdoctoral Paper Award (2nd Place ), The 15th Southern Conference on Biomedical Enigneering, 1997.