Best Paper Award, the 21st International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA-2006) Seattle, WA, March 2006. Paper - vHand: A Human Hand Simulation System, by Beifang Yi, Fred Harris, and Sergiu Dascalu.
Recognition and Appreciation Award for contribution to the conference organization, 18th Intl. Conference on Computers Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-2005), Honolulu, HI, November, 2005.
Lemelson Award for innovation and entrepreneurship, College of Engineering, UNR, April 2005.
Certificate of contribution to ITE-2005 Symposium (Information Technology and Entrepreneurship), Langston University, Oklahoma City, OK, April 2005.
Achievement Award for research contributions to the field, Intl. Conf. on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP-2004), Las Vegas, NV, June 2004.
Recognition Award for contribution to the conference organization, 12th Intl. Conf. on Intelligent and Adaptive Systems and Software Engineering (IASSE-2003), San Francisco, CA, July 2003.
Achievement Award for research contributions to the field, Intl. Conf. on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP-2003), Las Vegas, NV, June 2003.
Best Paper Award at the 11th Workshop for Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2001), New Orleans, LA, Dec. 2001.
Scholarship for PhD studies, School of Computer Science, Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada, 1993/1994 to 1996/1997.
Bruce and Dorothy Rosetti Award, Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada, 1994/1995 and 1995/1996.
Honorary mention, Analog Input Processor, Students Scientific Communications Session, Polytechnic of Bucharest, Romania, 1981.
Honorary mention for an original solution, Final phase of the national competition (High Schools) Olympiad of Mathematics, Brasov, Romania, 1976.
Nominated for UNR Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, 2007 (there were 5 nominees for this but, similar to Peter O'Toole, Will Smith, Ryan Gosling, and Leonardo DeCaprio at the Oscars the same month and year, I didn't win).