November 2007: My PhD student Marwan Batayneh, myself, and our research collaborators
Dr. Andreas Kirstädter, Dr. Dominic A. Schupke, and Dr. Marco Hoffman from Nokia
Siemens Networks, Germany, won the IEEE Globecom 2007 Optical Networking Symposium
Best Paper Award for the paper "Lightpath-Level Protection versus Connection-Level
Protection for Carrier-Grade Ethernet in a Mixed-Line-Rate Telecom Network".
December 2006: B. Mukherjee elevated to IEEE Fellow.
February 2006: B. Mukherjee named to Child Family Professorship at UC Davis.
Winner, 2004 Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award, University of California, Davis.
PhD Dissertation Award Supervisor, UC Davis College of Engineering 2004 Zuhair Munir
Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, for Dr. Keyao Zhu's PhD Dissertation:
Design and Analysis of Traffic-Groomable Optical WDM Networks.
PhD Dissertation Award Supervisor, UC Davis College of Engineering 2000
Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, for Dr. Laxman Sahasrabuddhe's PhD Dissertation:
Multicasting and Fault Tolerance in WDM Optical Networks.
1992: My papers "WDM-Based Local Lightwave Networks -- Part I: Single-Hop Networks;
Part II: Multihop Networks," in IEEE Network were nominated for IEEE
and IEEE Communications Society Prize Paper Awards.
1994: Co-winner, Paper Award, 17th National Computer Security Conference, for the paper
"Testing Intrusion Detection Systems: Design Methodologies and Results from an Early Prototype."
1991: Co-winner, Best Paper Award, 14th National Computer Security Conference,
for the paper "DIDS (Distributed Intrusion Detection System -- Motivation, Architecture,
and an Early Prototype."
1986-87: General Electric Foundation Fellowship, University of Washington.
1984-85: GTE Teaching Fellowship, University of Washington.