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Awards & Achievements
IEEE Fellow
from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. The total number of IEEE senior members elevated to Fellow in any one year may not exceed one-10th of 1 percent of the total IEEE voting membership on record as of 31 December of the preceding year.
ACM Distinguished Member 2018
from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Also featured in SMU News , “Rajesh Balan named ACM Distinguished Member”.
Highly Commended Full Paper Award
Best Paper Award
at the ACM International Joint Conference and International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2018)/Wearable Computers (ISWC 2018), for the paper, “Exploiting the Inter-dependency of Land Use and Mobility for Applications in Urban Planning”