2010 Innovation Award, Academy of Science, St. Louis, USA.
2010 IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Member Award.
2009 Missouri S&T Faculty Research Award
2009 IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Educator Award Runner Up.
Fellow of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers – effective Feb. 18, 2009.
Elected to Board of Governors, International Neural Network Society – 2009 to 2011.
Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (British equivalent of the IEEE) – effective Sept. 15, 2008.
2008 IEEE St. Louis Outstanding Educator Award.
2008 Missouri S & T Faculty Excellence Award (recognizing excellence in teaching, research and service contributions to the Missouri S & T).
Second Prize for the paper titled “Hardware Implementation of a PSO based Online Design of an Optimal Excitation Controller” presented at the 2008 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Third Prize for the paper titled “Empirical Study of a Hybrid Algorithm Based on Clonal Selection and Small Population Based PSO” presented at the 2008 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, St. Louis, MO, USA.
IEEE PES Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award – Working Group on Multi-Agent Systems – 2008.
Listed in the Who’s Who in the World, 2008 Edition.
Listed in the Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 2008 Edition.
Listed in the Who’s Who in America, 2007-2009 Editions.
2007 Missouri University of Science and Technology Faculty Excellence Award (recognizing excellence in teaching, research and service contributions to the UMR).
2007 Missouri University of Science and Technology Commendation for Teaching Excellence.
2007 IEEE IAS Small Outstanding Chapter – Chair of the St. Louis IEEE IAS Chapter.
2007 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award.
Listed in the Who’s Who in America, 2007, 2008 & 2009 Edition.
2006 IEEE St. Louis Section Outstanding Section Member.
2006 Missouri University of Science and Technology School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award.
2006 IEEE PES Walter Fee Outstanding Young Engineer.
2005 Missouri University of Science and Technology Faculty Excellence Award (recognizing excellence in teaching, research and service contributions to the UMR).
2005 South African Institute of Electrical Engineers Young Achiever’s Award presented by ABB PowerTech Transformers.
2005 IEEE Industry Application Society’s Outstanding Young Member Award.
2004 IEEE St. Louis Section Young Outstanding Engineer.
2004 NSF CAREER Award: Faculty Early Career Development Program.
Nominated by the Missouri University of Science and Technology for the Microsoft Faculty Fellowship Award in 2004.
2003 International Neural Network Society Young Investigator Award Recipient for the Outstanding Contributions in Applications of Neural Networks, Particularly in Power Systems.
Recognized by Professor James Momoh on behalf of the National Science Foundation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Howard University for participation and contribution to the US-Africa research and education collaboration (promoting research and education in power, information technology, and environment), Howard University, Washington DC, November 6, 2003.
Second Best Prize Paper Award for the paper entitled “Adaptive Critic Based Optimal Neurocontrol for Synchronous Generator in Power System Using MLP/RBF Neural Networks” presented by the Industrial Automation and Control Committee of the IEEE IAS at the 2003 IAS Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Third Best Poster Paper Award of the Conference for the paper entitled “Evolving Digital Circuits Usiing Particle Swarm” at the IEEE-INNS IJCNN 2003.
Recognized by Professor James Momoh on behalf of the Howard University, Washington DC, USA with the leadership award at the International Conference on Power Systems Operation and Planning, Abuja, Nigeria, December 19, 2002.
2001 Walter Karplus Summer Research Support Awardee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society – One out of four to be awarded internationally.
Best Poster Paper Award in the Implementation Category for the paper entitled “Experimental Studies with Continually Online Trained Artificial Neural Network Identifiers for Multiple Turbogenerators on the Electric Power Grid” at the IEEE-INNS IJCNN 2001.
Best of Session Poster Paper Award at the IEEE-INNS IJCNN 2001 for the paper entitled “Experimental Studies with Continually Online Trained Artificial Neural Network Identifiers for Multiple Turbogenerators on the Electric Power Grid”.
Best of Session Poster Paper Award at the IEEE-INNS IJCNN 2001 for the paper entitled “A Committee of Neural Networks for Automatic Speaker Recognition”.
Best Poster Paper Award of the Conference for the paper entitled “Experimental Studies with a Continually Online Trained Artificial Neural Network Controller for a Turbogenerator” at the IEEE-INNS IJCNN 1999.
Best of Session Presentation Award at the IEEE-INNS IJCNN 1999 for the paper entitled “TD Methods Applied to Mixture of Experts for Learning 9´9 Go Evaluation Function”.
Best of Session Poster Paper Award at the IEEE-INNS IJCNN 1999 for the paper entitled “Experimental Studies with a Continually Online Trained Artificial Neural Network Controller for a Turbogenerator”.
Best of Session Poster Paper Award at the IEEE-INNS IJCNN 1999 for the paper entitled “Fed-Batch Dynamic Fermentor Using Adaptive Critic Designs”(Received during Undergraduate Education between 1989 and 1994).
Award for the Best Student in Character and Learning at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in the academic year 1992/1993.
Award for the Best Student in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in the academic year 1992/1993.
Award for the Best Final Year Project in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in the academic year 1992/1993.
Award for the Best Student in the Electrical Engineering Programme at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in the academic year 1992/1993.
Ashaka Cement Co. Award for the Best Final Year Project in the Electrical Engineering Programme at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in the academic year 1992/1993.
Award for the Best Student in the Telecommunications in the Electrical Engineering Programme at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in the academic year 1992/1993.
Award for the Best Student in the Electronics in the Electrical Engineering Programme at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in the academic year 1992/1993.
Award for the Best 500 Level Project in the Electrical Engineering Programme at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in the academic year 1991/1992.
Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship for the academic years 1990/1991, 1991/1992 & 1992/1993.
