Best Presentation Paper Award from the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, “Optimal Tuning of Saturation Limiter of a Series FACTS device”, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics.

Best Presentation Paper Award from the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, “Nonlinear Parameter Neuro-Estimation for Optimal Tuning of Power System Stabilizers”, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics.

Recorded in 2007-2008 Edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World (World leading biographical profile), USA.

Named as TOP 100 SCIENTISTS 2007 in IBC (International Biographical center), Cambridge, England.

Recorded in 2007 Edition of Outstanding Scientists of the 21ST Century Award [Inaugural Edition], IBC (International Biographical center), Cambridge, England.

Recorded in 2006-2007 Edition of Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering (World leading biographical profile), USA.

Technical Co-Chair, Power Systems and Power Electronic Circuits Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Kobe, Japan, May 2005 - IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

Second Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), Industrial Automation and Control Committee, 2003 (paper: “Adaptive Critic Based Optimal Neurocontrol for Synchronous Generator in Power System Using MLP/RBF Neural Networks”, IEEE Transaction on Industry Applications, Vol. 39, pp. 1529-1540, September/October).

IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Zucker Grant Award for IEEE IAS Annual Meeting 2003 Conference.

2nd 2003 Studying Abroad Scholarship Award of KwanJeong LeeJongHwan Scholarship Foundation (관정 이종환 장학재단), (the largest scholarship foundation in Korea), Korea: (selected as Post-Doctoral Research Associate).