Science Award, Parlar Foundation (Parlar Vakfı Bilim Ödülü), 2012
Young Scientist Award, TÜBİTAK - Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK Teşvik Ödülü), 2002
Young Scientist Award, Parlar Foundation (Parlar Vakfı Araştırma Teşvik Ödülü), 1994
Best Paper Award for the work "Multi-resolution Social Network Community Identification and Maintenance on Big Data Platform", IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData), 2013
10+ Year Best Paper Award Runner-Up for the work “An Efficient Method for Generating Location Updates for Processing of Location-Dependent Continuous Queries”, International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2011
Best Poster Award for the work “A Practitioner’s Guide for Static Index Pruning”, 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2009