Awards

2024

• Johan Suykens : 2024 IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award
• Johan Suykens : The 2024 IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award

2023

• Lyse Naomi Wamba Momo : Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Health - 2023
• Vincent Scheltjens : Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Health - 2023
• Bart De Moor : Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Health - 2023
• Angeliki-Ilektra Karaiskou : Best Conference Paper Award at the IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023 Conference
• Alexander Bertrand : EURASIP Early Career Award
• Sabine Van Huffel : EURASIP Group Technical Achievement Award

2022

• Lieven De Lathauwer : 2022 IEEE SPS Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award
• Bart De Moor : IFAC Fellow Award
• Nicolas Heintz : SITB2022 Best Presentation Award
• Joos Vandewalle : 2022 IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award for Joos Vandewalle

2021

• Charles Hovine : Best Student Paper Award at EUSIPCO 2021
• Nicolas Heintz : Best Presentation Award
• Sabine Van Huffel : 2020 Annual National Award of the Cuban Academy of Sciences
• Sabine Van Huffel : CITMA Award
• Panagiotis Patrinos : IJCTA Best Paper Award 2020

2020

• Sabine Van Huffel : Senior author of the Best paper award of the Neureka-challenge
• Johan Suykens : Johan Suykens has been elected ELLIS Fellow
• Sabine Van Huffel : First prize winner of the Neureka 2020 Epilepsy Challenge
• Johan Suykens : 2019 Entropy Best Paper Award
• Zahra Karevan : 2019 Entropy Best Paper Award
• Marc Moonen : EURASIP Meritorious Service Award

2019

• Johan Suykens : "Gouden krijtje" award "Best Prof" in Mathematical Engineering 2018-2019
• Sabine Van Huffel : "Gouden krijtje" award "Proffencrush" in Biomedical Engineering 2018-2019
• Sabine Van Huffel : Outstanding Reviewer Award 2018: Best reviewer in 2018 for the Journal Physiological Measurement
• Lieven De Lathauwer : Fellow EURASIP
• Alexander Bertrand : ERC Starting Grant
• Nico Vervliet : Nokia Bell Scientific Award 2019
• Simon Geirnaert : Best Paper Award WIC-IEEE Symposium 2019
• Nico Vervliet : IBM Innovation Award 2019

2018

• Lieven De Lathauwer : 2018 IEEE SPS Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award
• Johan Suykens : ERC Advanced Grant 2017 E-DUALITY
• Sabine Van Huffel : "Gouden krijtje" award "Beste Prof" in Biomedical Engineering 2017-2018
• Toon van Waterschoot : ERC Consolidator Grant SONORA (2017), European Research Council (ERC)
• Yves Moreau : 2018 ISCB Fellow
• Marc Moonen : EURASIP Fellow 2018

2017

• Ofelie De Wel : Woody scientific Sleep award at the BASS
• Margot Deviaene : 3rd award for best poster during the 16th National Day on Biomedical Engineering
• Sabine Van Huffel : Co-author of Best poster award 3rd Prize, 16th National Day on Biomedical Engineering, Royal Academies for Science and The Arts of Belgium, Brussels, December 1 2017
• Simon Van Eyndhoven : PhD Award
• Sabine Van Huffel : Co-author of the Brain Products MoBI Award 1st Prize, Annual symposium of SPR (Society for Psychophysiological Research), Vienna, October 11-15, 2017
• Rob Zink : MoBI award
• Sabine Van Huffel : Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts since October 2017
• Ofelie De Wel : Best Poster Award
• Sabine Van Huffel : Co-author of Best poster award 2nd Prize, 10th International Conference on Brain Monitoring and Neuroprotection in the Newborn, Killarney, Ireland, Oct. 5-7, 2017
• Sabine Van Huffel : Co-author of Best Oral Presentation award 3rd Prize, 10th International Conference on Brain Monitoring and Neuroprotection in the Newborn, Killarney, Ireland, Oct. 5-7, 2017
• Toon van Waterschoot : Board of Governors Award (2017), Audio Engineering Society (AES)
• Sabine Van Huffel : "Gouden krijtje" award "Beste Prof" in Biomedical Engineering 2016-2017
• Lieven De Lathauwer : Fellow SIAM (2017)
• Bart De Moor : Fellow SIAM (2017)
• Joos Vandewalle : 2017 EURASIP the Group Technical Achievement Society Award
• Toon van Waterschoot : AES Board of Governors Award 2017

2016

• Toon van Waterschoot : EUSIPCO Best Paper Award
• Mina Mounir Abdelmessih Shehata : EUSIPCO Best Paper Award
• Sabine Van Huffel : Nominated for the 2016 Inspirational Women Engineers award
• Sabine Van Huffel : Nominated for the 2016 Inspirational Women Engineers award at the Department of Engineering in Cambridge, UK
• Joos Vandewalle : 2016 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award
• Sabine Van Huffel : SIAM Fellow since Jan. 2016.

2015

• Alexander Caicedo Dorado : The Melvin H. Knisely Award from the ISOTT Society
• Griet Laenen : Best Presentation Award at the Student Council Meeting of ISMB
• Amin Ardeshirdavani : Best Presentation Award at 15th Annual BeSHG Meeting
• Johan Suykens : Fellow IEEE (2015)
• Lieven De Lathauwer : Fellow IEEE (2015)

2014

• Laure Wynants : '2014 Lusted Student Prize' at SMDM in Miami, FL, USA
• Sabine Van Huffel : Winner of phase II and 3rd place in phase III of the Physionet-Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2014
• Ryo Sakai : Ryo Sakai, awardwinner of Data visualization challenge at ISMB/biovis
• Sabine Van Huffel : Prof. dr. ir. Sabine Van Huffel has been granted an ERC Advanced Grant
• Marko Seslija : DISC PhD Thesis Award
• Siamak Mehrkanoon : Siamak Mehrkanoon was among the nominees for the best presentation award
• Toon van Waterschoot : Best Master Thesis Prize (2014)
• Sabine Van Huffel : Best Reviewer 2014 award of IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

2013

• Rob Zink : Best Poster Award during summerschool on Neural Engineering (Shanghai, China) July 7-14, 2013
• Borbála Hunyadi : Borbála Hunyadi has been awarded one of the 3 student travel awards (700 USD) during the PRNI 2013 meeting in Philadelphia, US, June 2013
• Rodrigo Moraes : Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2013
• Devy Widjaja : Devy Widjaja (group ESAT -STADIUS-iMinds FH / group prof. Sabine Van Huffel ) was nominated as one of the finalists for the EMBS Student Paper Award Competition
• Griet Laenen : Griet Laenen won one of 5 best poster awards at ISMB/ECCB 2013
• Paschalis Tsiaflakis : Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2013, Communication Software and Services Symposium
• Paschalis Tsiaflakis : Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2013, Selected Areas in Communications Symposium
• Alexander Bertrand : KU Leuven Research Council Award (Science & Technology)
• Sabine Van Huffel : Recipient of an honorary doctorate from Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, on 25 April 2013
• Jiqiu Cheng : Award for outstanding self-financed Chinese students abroad
• Jan Willems : Nominated as fellow of the American Mathematical Society for 2013

2012

• Griet Laenen : BBC2012 Best Presentation
• Alejandro Sifrim : BBC2012 Best Flash presentation
• Nico Verbeeck : Best poster prize in the category "Translational Research" during the Scientific Meeting
• Alexander Bertrand : FWO-IBM Award
• Rien Quirynen : Masterproefprijzen 2011-2012: de laureaten
• Johan Suykens : VUB Leerstoel for the academic year 2012-2013 granted to Prof. Johan Suykens (KU Leuven, ESAT-SCD-SISTA-SMC/IBBT Future Health Department)
• Tom Van Herpe : L(euvense) da Vinci Prijs - Prijs voor de creatie en het verzilveren van valoriseerbaar onderzoek
• Nico Verbeeck : Best poster award during NVMS - BSMS International Congress on Mass Spectrometry Rolduc, March 28-30, 2012
• Sabine Van Huffel : EAMBES Fellow, European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering And Science, since Jan. 2012
• Maarten De Vos : SmartCare interdisciplinary project - BIR&D award
• Sabine Van Huffel : SmartCare interdisciplinary project - BIR&D award
• Alejandro Sifrim : Best presentation award @ Belgian Sociey of Human Genetics
• Johan Suykens : ERC Advanced Grant 2011
• Geert Leus : IEEE Fellow as of January 2012

2011

• Arnaud Installé : BBC11 Best Poster Award
• Georgios Pavlopoulos : BBC11 Best Poster Award
• Joos Vandewalle : December 2011 - Outstanding student branch counselor award for Joos Vandewalle
• Ryo Sakai : Biologists' favorite award
• Ben Van Calster : Best free communication award at ISUOG in 2011
• Alexander Caicedo Dorado : the Britton Chance award from the International Society of Oxygen Transport in Tissue (ISOTT)
• Sabine Van Huffel : Sabine Van Huffel has been nominated president of ISOTT as of July 27 2011 until August 24 2012
• Anca Croitor Sava : PDM KULeuven grant
• Marc Moonen : Nominated President (2011-2012) of the BoD of EURASIP

2010

• Nico Verbeeck : Best poster award (december 2010)
• Jan Willems : Honorary Degree from Université de Liège
• Paschalis Tsiaflakis : Top-12 finalist European ERCIM Cor Baayen Award 2010
• Anneleen Daemen : Postdoctoral BAEF fellowship 2010-2011
• Alexander Caicedo Dorado : the Dietrich W. Lubbers award from the International Society of Oxygen Transport in Tissue (ISOTT)
• Bart De Moor : Excellentieprijs FWO
• Raf Van de Plas : Postdoctoral Fulbright scholarship 2010-2011
• Paschalis Tsiaflakis : Paschalis Tsiaflakis won the BELGIUM YOUNG ICT PERSONALITY 2010 AWARD
• Shi Yu : Outstanding Self-financed Students Studying Abroad
• Olivier Gevaert : BAEF fellowship
• Olivier Gevaert : Fulbright fellowship
• Sabine Van Huffel : Martin Black award 2010 for best article published in Physiological Measurement

2009

• Maarten Breckpot : Maarten Breckpot won the EOS AWARD 2009 and the AGORIA AWARD 2009
• Maarten Breckpot : Maarten Breckpot was nominated for the VLAAMSE SCRIPTIEPRIJS 2009
• Ben Van Calster : Top 5 Abstract Award at ISUOG in 2009
• Ben Van Calster : Best free communication award at ISUOG in 2009
• Lieveke Ameye : Top abstract award
• Hong Sun : Best Student Paper Award IJCBS 2009
• Maarten Breckpot : Maarten Breckpot won the BESIX AWARD
• Carlos Andres Alzate Perez : IJCNN 2009 Best Student Paper Award
• Anneleen Daemen : ISMB 2009 travel fellowship
• Anneleen Daemen : PSB 2009 travel fellowship
• Simon Doclo : IEEE Signal Processing Society 2008 Best Paper Award
• Sabine Van Huffel : IEEE Fellow since Jan 2009

2008

• Anneleen Daemen : KES 2008 Best Student Paper Award
• Anca Croitor Sava : Best Oral - Poster Presentation
• Ivan Markovsky : Alston S Householder Award 2008
• Rodrigo Moraes : IEEE Travel Grants
• Marc Moonen : Celtic Excellence Award 2008
• Anneleen Daemen : PSB 2008 travel fellowship

2007

• Dominique De Smet : Duane F. Bruley Award (ISOTT)
• Fabian Ojeda : Oustanding Poster Award at ISMB/ECCB 2007 Conference.
• Anneleen Daemen : ISMB 2007 travel fellowship
• Marc Moonen : Nominated President (2007-2009) of the BoD of EURASIP
• Marc Moonen : Fellow IEEE (2007)

2006

• Bart Vanluyten : Interactive paper prize
• Anneleen Vergult : ACNS Travel Fellowship Award
• Olivier Gevaert : ASL travel fellowship
• Olivier Gevaert : ISMB 2006 travel fellowship
• Maarten De Vos : laureate KVIV engineering prices 2006
• Gert Thijs : TechArt 2005

2005

• Frank Verstraete : ASL-Prijs voor Exacte Wetenschappen
• Tom Van Herpe : Diabetes Technology Peterson Student Research Bronze Prize
• Bert Pluymers : Student Best Paper Award of the American Control Conference 2005
• Ann Spriet : Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2005), Philadelphia, PA, USA, March 2005
• Vincent Le Nir : France Telecom R&D Thesis Distinction 2005

2004

• Marc Moonen : Alcatel Bell (Belgium) Award 2004 (with Raphael Cendrillon)
• Bart De Moor : Promotor for an honorary degree awarded to Prof. Dr. Lennart Ljung
• Ivan Markovsky : Mathematica Award

2003

• Bart Vanrumste : Best Paper (Bioengineering).
• Ann Spriet : Best Student Paper Award, International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC 2003), Kyoto, Japan, Sept. 2003
• Simon Doclo : EURASIP Signal Processing Best Paper Award 2003
• Thomas Klasen : David Tuma Laboratory Project Award

2002

• Yves Moreau : FWO Siemens Prize
• Ivan Markovsky : Best Student Paper Competition Finalist
• Bart Vanrumste : Second prize in the Young Investigators Poster Competition
• Patrick Glenisson : AAAI Student Award at ACM SIGKDD 2002 - coauthorship with Peter Antal
• Geert Leus : IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award 2002
• Joos Vandewalle : 2001-2002 : Francqui Chair at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on "Advanced data processing developments building upon linear algebraic and neural network concepts".

2001

• Leentje Vanhamme : Best poster award.
• Simon Doclo : Best Student Paper Award International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, 2001
• Bert Schiettecatt : Audio Engineering Society Educational Foundation
• Tony Van Gestel : Best paper neural networks nomination at SCI 2001, Orlando, Florida (2001-08-21)
• Yves Moreau : Fulbright grant
• Ann Spriet : Lapperre Award 2001
• Bert Schiettecatt : Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellowship
• Sharon Gannot : Outstanding teacher award for the year 2000 in Tel-Aviv university

2000

• Johan Suykens : International Neural Networks Society INNS 2000 Young Investigator Award
• Ivan Goethals : Kanunnik J. Desmet
• Johan Suykens : IEEE Signal Processing Society 1999 Best Paper Award (Senior award)
• Joos Vandewalle : 2000 : IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (1999) (joint with Johan Suykens, Bart DeMoor) http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/bestpaper.html

1999

• Bart Vanrumste : Young scientist award for the best oral presentation.
• Bart De Moor : IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
• Joos Vandewalle : 1999 : in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) golden Jubilee Medal (IEEE Third Millennium Medal in recognition and appreciation of valued services and outstanding contributions).
• Joos Vandewalle : 1999 member of Academiae Europaea.

1998

• Simon Doclo : 1st prize KVIV-Studentenprijzen 1997
• Sharon Gannot : 1997-8 Intel-Dean award for excellency
• Joos Vandewalle : 1998 elected IEE Fellow

1997

• Marc Moonen : Alcatel Bell (Belgium) Award 1997 (with Piet Vandaele)
• Lieven De Lathauwer : EURASIP Student Paper Prize
• Lieven De Lathauwer : Best Junior Presentation Award
• Marc Moonen : Laureate of the Belgium Royal Academy of Science 1997

1996

• Bart De Moor : Tri-annual best paper award of Automatica

1995

• Sharon Gannot : The IDF General Staff Head of Intelligence Branch Creativity award for 1995
• Lieven De Lathauwer : Student Award

1994

• Marc Moonen : K.U. Leuven Research Council Award 1994
• Bart De Moor : Bi-annual Siemens prize

1992

• Bart De Moor : Promotor for an honorary degree awarded to Prof. Dr. Gene Golub
• Bart De Moor : Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences
• Joos Vandewalle : 1991-1992 : Francqui Chair at the University of Liège on "Artificial Neural Networks".
• Joos Vandewalle : 1992 elected fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) for contributions to nonlinear circuits and systems

1990

• Bart De Moor : Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award
• Joos Vandewalle : 1990 : Guillemin Cauer Best paper award IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 1989.(joint with L. Vandenberghe and B. De Moor).

1989

• Bart De Moor : The Leslie Fox Prize
• Joos Vandewalle : 1989 : Best paper award at the Design Automation Conference 1989, Las Vegas (joint with G. Goossens and H. De Man).

1986

• Bart De Moor : Leybold-Heraeus Prize
• Joos Vandewalle : 1986 : Best paper award on computer aided design at the IEEE ICCD Conference, Port Chester New York (joint with L. Claesen, F. Catthoor, H. De Man, S. Note and K. Mertens).

1985

• Sharon Gannot : President of the Technion annual award for excellency for 1985
• Joos Vandewalle : 1985 : SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication S.C.) award (joint with R. Govaerts and Y. Desmedt).

1984

• Sharon Gannot : President of the Technion annual award for excellency for 1984

1983

• Sharon Gannot : President of the Technion annual award for excellency for 1983
• Joos Vandewalle : 1983 : Award of 100 Year Bell Telephone (BTMC) (joint with Y. Desmedt and R. Govaerts).

1977

• Joos Vandewalle : 1977-78 : Rotary Foundation grant.

1976

• Joos Vandewalle : 1976-77 : Fullbright/Hays travel grant. NATO Fellowship.