Plenary Talk: S. K. Jayaweera, “Radiobots: Towards Self-learning Autonomous Cognitive Radioss", Plenary talk at the 6th IEEE International Conference in Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS'2011, Kandy, Sri Lanka, Aug. 16-19th,  2011.

IEEE PACRIM 2011 Gold Award for Best Communications Paper: S. Chen, C. Ghosh, A. M. Alexander  and S. K. Jayaweera,  “The Impact of Group Cooperation over Competitive Secondary Subnetworks  ”, IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, Victoria, Canada, Aug. 2011.

Plenary Talk: S. K. Jayaweera, “Cognitive Radios: What are they Really?", Plenary talk at the 2011 IEEE Radio and Wireless Week, Phoenix, AZ, 16-19, January. 01/18/2011.

Nominated for University of New Mexico Regents' Lectureship by the ECe Department, 2011.

Nominated for School of Engineering Faculty Research Excellence (Junior Level) Award, 2010.

ASEE Air Force Summer Faculty Fellow, Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque NM, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

IEEE AVSS '06 Best Paper Award:
Best Paper Award at the IEEE Advanced Video and Signal Based-based Surveillance Conference (AVSS '06), Sydney, Australia, November 2006.
Paper: S. K. Jayaweera, and K. A. Al Tarazi , Large System Decision Fusion Performance in Inhomogeneous Sensor Networks.

WPMC ' 03 Excellent Paper Award:
Outstanding Technical Paper Award at the 6th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC '03), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, October 2003.
Paper: S. K. Jayaweera, and H. V. Poor, Performance Analysis of Decorrelating Decision Feedback Detection for MIMO Systems in Rician Fading

Faculty Fellowship of National Institute of Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University (2004-2006)

John Crowford Scholarship for Higher Education in Australia (Full Scholarship for 4 years), Government  of Australia, 1993.