• ERC Advanced Grant “Back to the roots“ 2021
  • Commander in the Order of King Leopold I, granted by King Filip of Belgium 2021
  • Leading computer scientist in Belgium, 136th worldwide (Research.com 2021)
  • Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (top 1%) in 2014
  • Winner of the five annual FWO Excellence Prize Dr. De Leeuw – Damry – Bourlart 2010

Click on each year to see the fellowships, awards or honors won in that year.

Fellow at IFAC, International Federation of Automatic Control

Bart De Moor ranked 136th among leading computer scientists worldwide (nr 1 for Belgium) by Research.com (The ranking contains h-index, publications and citations values collected on June 25th 2021).

Alamire Foundation, presided by Bart De Moor awarded twice in April 2021

Society Award 2021 of KU Leuven Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Selected as one of eight creative ambassadors of the City of Leuven

Honoured as Commander in the Order of Leopold I by King Filip
The order of Leopold I is the oldest and highest order of Belgium and rewards meritorius services to the Kingdom of Belgium based on the career path of the recipient.

  • Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (top 1%)
  • World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014

The paper co-authored with Bart Vanluyten en Bart De Moor, and presented by Bart Vanluyten, received a paper prize for outstanding technical quality, originality, importance, and presentation at an interactive session at the 45th IEEE conference on Decision and Control.
paper : Bart Vanluyten, Jan C. Willems, Bart De Moor “Matrix factorization and stochastic state represenations” Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, Dec. 2006, pg. 4188-4193

Promotor Eredoctoraat: Prof. Dr. Lennart Ljung, Linköping University, Sweden, aan de KU Leuven, October 2004 (programma en foto’s)

Fellow of the IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers) voor ‘contributions to algebraic and numerical methods in systems and control’ sinds januari 2004

IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (samen met Johan Suykens, Joos Vandewalle), uitgereikt op de 25ste IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, June 2000, Istanbul, Turkye ; IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (1999), voor de paper : NLq theory: checking and imposing stability of recurrent neural networks for nonlinear modelling, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (special issue on neural networks for signal processing), Vol.45, No.11, pp. 2682-2691, Nov. 1997

Tri-annual best paper award of Automatica (1996), a journal of the International Federation of Automatic Control (samen with Peter Van Overschee) voor de paper: Subspace algorithms for the identification of combined deterministic-stochastic systems , Automatica 30 (1), pp.75-94, January 1994; Het toekenningscitaat leest: Met diep inzicht, ontwikkelt dit document een zeer nuttige en efficiënte methode voor multivariable systeemidentificatie. De presentatie behandelt numerieke, statistische en implementatiekwesties, die een directe invloed op beste praktijken in identificatietoepassingen gehad hebben.

Tweejaarlijkse Siemens prijs (1994), samen met Peter Van Overschee, voor de paper : Graphical User Interface Software for System Identification, Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium

Laureaat van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten (1992), eerste prijs voor de paper : “Numerical Algorithms for State Space Subspace System Identification”, gepubliceerd in  Academia Analecta, Klasse der Wetenschappen, Koninklijke Akademie voor Wetenschappen, Jaargang 55, nr. 5, 1993

Promotor van het ere-doctoraat voor Prof. Dr. Gene Golub, Stanford University, at the KU Leuven, December 1992

Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award (1990) of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, samen met Lieven Vandenberghe en Joos Vandewalle voor de paper : The Generalized Linear Complementarity Problem Applied to the Complete Analysis of Resistive Piecewise Linear Circuits. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, November 1989, Volume 36, Number 11, pp.1382-1391

De Leslie Fox Prijs (1989), eerste prijs, (17 internationale kandidaten, 7 finalists) voor de paper : The restricted singular value decomposition: Properties and applications. Cambridge University, England, September 5, 1989; Published as: De Moor B., Golub G.H. The restricted singular value decomposition: properties and applications. Siam Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Vol.12, no.3, July 1991, pp.401-425.

Leybold-Heraeus Prize (1986) voor het rapport over de positie van België in vergelijking met Japan en de USA, betreffende het wetenschappelijk onderzoek en de technologische innovative.