- Turk Telekom Research Collaboration Award, 2012 [Picture]
- IBM Faculty Award, 2009 [AA News] [Picture]
- European Commission (EC) FP7-People Marie Curie Award
- EC FP7 HPC-Europa2 Transnational Access Programme Grant
- European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC) Paper Award, 2009
- Tubitak (Turkish NSF) Award for European Union FP7 Marie Curie IRG project acceptance, 2009.
- The most popular paper from ACM's refereed journals and conference proceedings downloaded, October 2006 (Communications of the ACM, January 2007/Vol. 50, No. 1).
- Best Paper Award from the Twelfth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'06), Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2006.
- Nominated for Best Paper Award in DAC-2006 and DAC-2004.
- Selected for Marquis Who's Who in America, 2006-2013.
- Selected by SIGDA to present at the PhD Forum of DAC-2005, Anaheim, CA, June 2005.
- Selected by European Design Automation Association (EDAA) to present at the PhD Forum of DATE-2005, Munich, Germany, March 2005.
- Young Student Support Program Award in Design Automation Conference, San Diego, June, 2004.
- Scholarship from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), July 2003.