Awards and Honors Received

AWARDS

·        Won  second prize in the Essay category in the Vanguri Foundation’s Creative Writing Contest, July 2005

·        Gopichand Award, Vamsee Art Theatres International, (Cash award and a Citation, July. 2004)

·        Won the coveted FIRST PRIZE in the Essay category in the First Telugu Creative Writing Contest for Telugu Residents of North America & NRI Telugu Writers Worldwide conducted by ATA, July 2004

·        Distinguished Public Service Award, University of California, Davis (Cash award and a Citation, Feb. 1997)

·        Outstanding Paper Award, for the paper "An investigation of DNA mapping with genetic algorithms" co-authored with Ph. D student Walter Cedeño, at WNN/FNN'93, November 7-10, 1993, San Francisco, CA. (Recd. the award in March 95)

·        Outstanding Paper Award, for the paper "Exploring phase space concepts in the forecasting of time series using artificial neural networks" co-authored with R. D. Rogers, at WNN/FNN'93, November 7-10, 1993, San Francisco, CA. (Recd. the award in March 95)

·        Best Research Project of the Undergraduate Summer Institute on Contemporary Topics in Applied Science, "Role of artificial neural networks in making short-range predictions of chaotic time series," Citation and cash award, by Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, Aug. 92. (Project jointly supervised with Dr. R. D. Rogers).

·        Certificate of Merit in Neural Networks Paradigm Comparison Student Paper Competition at WNN'92, November 4-6, 1992, South Shore Harbor, Texas for the paper "Performance comparison of some neural network paradigms for solving the seismic phase identification problem" co-authored by my Ph. D student G. S. Jang and Dr. F. D. Dowla

·        Meritorious Service Award for service as Editor-in-Chief of CS Press of IEEE, 1993.

·        Cited for Best Review of 1989, ACM Computing Reviews

·        Certificate of Appreciation for dedicated service as a member of the CS Press of IEEE Editorial Board, February 25, 1991

HONORS

·        Keynote Speaker, First Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India, Dec. 18-20, 2003

·        Keynote Speaker, Sixth International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Expert Systems, Crema, Italy, Sep. 16-19, 2002.

·        Visiting Professor, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. November 2002.

·        Associate Editor, Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, 2001-

·        Distinguished Visitor, IEEE Computer Society, 1996-1999

·        Associate Editor, International Journal of Knowledge-based Intelligent Engineering Systems, 1996-

·        Distinguished Visiting Professor, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, San Luis, Argentina, November 1994.

·        Chair, IEEE Working Group on Evolutionary Computation Standards

·        Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, 1993-1996

·        ACM National Lecturer (Outreach program), Jan 94 thru June 96

·        Keynote Speaker, First New Zealand International Two-Stream Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems, Nov. 24-26, 1993.

·        Editor-in-Chief, CS Press of IEEE, 1990-91, 1991-92.

·        Associate Editor-in-Chief, CS Press of IEEE, 1989-90.

·        Listed in American Men and Women of Science

·        Who's Who in Computer and Information Sciences

 

rvemuri@ucdavis.edu

Saturday  3 August 2005