Recognition, Outstanding Achievements & Honorary Appointments

1. IEEE Fellow, elected on November 13, 2005 by IEEE Board of Directors with citation "for contributions to information integration and workflow management," Class of 2006.
2. Sheth-Larson 1990 is all-time most cited paper in information integration; second most cited paper in distributed databases and one of the top five cited papers in entire field of databases. At least 12 papers with 100+ and 33 papers with 50+ citations (Sources: Citeseer and Google Scholar; see: http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/%7Eamit/publications/)
3. International Scientific Advisory Committee, BISCSE 2005: Forging New Frontiers, 40th of Fuzzy Pioneers (1965-2005), Berkeley CA, November 2-6, 2005.
4. 2004 IBM Faculty Award, March 2004.
5. UGA Career Center Recognition/Award for "greatly contributing to the career development of UGA students," (based on post-graduation student surveys), September 2002.
6. Patent co-inventor (Sheth, Avant and Bertram), "System and Method for Creating Semantic Web and Its Applications in Browsing, Searching, Profiling, Personalization and Advertisement" (# 6,311,194), October 30, 2001. Patent co-inventor (Georgeakopoulos, Rusinkiewicz, Sheth) (# 5,241,675), August 31, 1993.
7. Advisory Board, Coco-Cola Center for Marketing Studies, Terry college of Business, 2002- present.
8. International Advisory Board, Internet Information Retrieval Research Center (IRC), Hankuk Aviation University, Korea, 2001 - '02.
9. Board of Directors, Healthcare Open Systems & Trials (HOST) consortium, 1995-1999.
10. Member of the two-person International Advisory Board, TARA Project, University of Tsukuba, Japan. 1994-'96.
11. Selected and served as an ACM Lecturer, 1991-'92. Again for 1992-'93.
12. Outstanding Paper Award, (co-author) the 7th International Conference on Data Engineering, Kobe, Japan, April 1991.
13. Citation for contributions to Bellcore for conceiving, developing, and prototyping the flexible transactional workflow technology, and business opportunity development, 1993. Also a recipient of Bellcore's Vice President team award for outstanding contribution, November 1993. Bellcore Achievement Award, 1989.
14. Six Recognition of Service Awards/Certificates of Appreciation from the IEEE TC on Data Engineering and the IEEE Computer Society– 1989, ‘90, ‘91, ’92; from IEEE Technical Community on Services Computing– 2004; from the ACM– 1993.
15. Board of Advisors, Indiana Center for Database Systems, 1991-'93.
16. Award from the Federal Computer Conference in recognition of contributions, April, 1989.
17. Best Paper Award, (co-author) Computer Networking Symposium, 1984.
18. National Merit Scholar, Government of India, 1975.