Early in his career, he received the National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation in 1991 and the Packard Fellowship from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in 1992. For the impact of his research, he has been honored with the NTT Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from NTT Corporation in 1994, the Appreciation Honor from Sony Corporation in 2014, the 2016 Invention Award[1] from Popular Science magazine, the PAMI Distinguished Award[22] from IEEE in 2019, and the Funai Achievement Award[23] from the Information Processing Society of Japan in 2021. He has been recognized for his talents as a teacher with the Keck Engineering Teaching Excellence Award from the W. M. Keck Foundation in 1995, the Columbia Great Teacher Award[24] from the Society of Columbia Graduates[25] in 2006, and the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award from the Columbia Engineering Alumni Association in 2015.