Awards & Honors
DEAN’S AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT 2024 (opens in new tab), School of Engineering and Applied Science, University at Buffalo
The Dean’s Award for Achievement is the highest honor presented by the school. It is awarded annually to someone who has made a substantial contribution to the practice of engineering or applied sciences and/or has had an exceptional professional career. The recipient is an honored speaker at commencement, where he/she shares advice and words of wisdom to students, families and friends.
“Become a Lifelong Learner” (opens in new tab), COMMENCEMENT SPEACH 2024
School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo, Amherst, New York.
Graduate Ceremony, Saturday May 18, 2024, Amherst Arena, North Campus (Commencement Program (opens in new tab), Video, 15 mins. begin at the 24:34 mark (opens in new tab))
ACM SIGMOBILE TEST OF TIME AWARD 2022 for “The Case for VM-based Cloudlets in Mobile Computing”, IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2009
What is known as edge computing today can be traced back to this Cloudlets paper, which proposed the need to support localized data and computation, thus avoiding the high latency and bandwidth limitations associated with traditional cloud computing.
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD 2021, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Recipients of this honor are considered Visionary leaders in their field. They have reached exceptional levels of professional and personal achievement. This award recognizes distinguished leadership, service, teaching, innovation, and other exemplary accomplishments that positively impact society and the engineering profession.
IEEE INFOCOM ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2019 (opens in new tab)
The IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award is the highest honor that is bestowed on a researcher in the INFOCOM community. The recipient has a body of work that has had a significant impact on the networking community in general, and INFOCOM in particular.
ACM DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD 2019 (opens in new tab)
This award is based on the value and degree of services provided to the computing community. The contribution is not limited to service to the Association, but includes activities in other computer organizations and emphasizes contributions to the computing community at large.
ACM Web Page (opens in new tab)
”Become the force of good. Become the force of positive change,” (opens in new tab)
COMMENCEMENT SPEACH 2018, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo, Amherst, New York
IEEE KOJI KOBAYASHI COMPUTERS & COMMUNICATIONS AWARD 2018 (opens in new tab) (top award in networking)
Is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE established in 1986. It is given for outstanding contributions to the integration of computers and communications. The following criteria are considered: developments, inventions, systems, or methods of significance in the field of computer and communications for which the candidate deserves principal credit. The award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
ACM SIGMOBILE TEST OF TIME AWARD 2018 for “Wake on Wireless: An Event Driven Energy Saving Strategy for Battery Operated Devices,” ACM MobiCom 2002)
This paper pioneered the systematic use of low- and high-power radios in a battery-constrained device, by separating data and control channels, to minimize overall energy consumption. The approach is now used commonly in today’s mobile devices. Additionally, the rigorous experimental approach had a significant impact on the research methodology in mobile computing community.
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD 2018 (opens in new tab), University of Buffalo (presented at CSE dept. 50th anniversary)
The Distinguished Alumni Award is the highest honor bestowed upon notable UB Computer Systems Engineering alumni. These outstanding members of our community have brought honor, credit, and acclaim to the university by personal accomplishment, professional achievement, reputation, and community service.
ACM SIGMOBILE TEST OF TIME AWARD 2016 for “RADAR: An in-building RF-based user location and tracking system.” INFOCOM 2000.
RADAR was a pioneering system for locating and tracking mobile devices using wireless LAN technology. It anticipated not only the Wi-Fi-based indoor localization solutions widely used by our mobile devices today, but also the growing interest in exploiting wireless infrastructure for goals beyond communications.
SIGMOBILE (LIFETIME) OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS AWARD 2013 (opens in new tab) (top award in mobile systems)
The award is given for significant and lasting contributions to the research on mobile computing and communications and wireless networking. Citation: “For pioneering contributions to wireless Internet broadband technologies, and for inspirational leadership of the mobile computing community.”
IEEE OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AWARD 2013, IEEE REGION 6 (US WEST, 50K+ members)
UNIVVERSITY DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD 2012 (opens in new tab), University of Massachusetts (presented at Boston City Hall)
The award is presented annually to those who have built on their university experience to attain notable achievements in the business, public, or community-service realms. Bahl, earned the recognition with a superlative career that has featured a series of firsts in networking research.
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U.S. MAYORS’ CHALLENGE AWARD 2016 for Pedestrian & Bicycle Safety (Safer People, Safer Streets Summit, Washington, D.C.) |
IEEE OUTSTANDING ENGINEER AWARD 2010, IEEE REGION 6 (Western US, 50,000+ members)
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SIGMOBILE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD (opens in new tab) 2001, Association of Computing Machinery
The SIGMOBILE Distinguished Service Award is given for exceptional contributions to ACM SIGMOBILE, its conferences, publications, or its local activities. Citation: “In recognition of his passion about and effectiveness in advancing the interests of ACM SIGMOBILE and MobiCom.”
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FEATURED in People of Association of Computing Machinery (opens in new tab) (Feb. 19, 2015)
ACM DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER (2007-11)
IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY DISTINGUISHED LECTURER (2007-10)
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Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award, Digital Equipment Corporation (now Hewlett Packard) 1994-96
Graduate Engineering Education Program (awarded 2-yyears of salary plus tuition with unencumbered freedom for the recipient to complete his or her PhD dissertation. Only one person selected per year in the company with over 120,000 employees)
Fellow, University of Buffalo Research Foundation, 1986-88