Awards

CU Boulder campus-wide Outstanding Mentor Award for Faculty Mentoring, 2024
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award, 2024
CU Boulder campus-wide Outstanding Postdoc Mentor of the Year Award, 2022
Elected as a Corresponding Member Abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2021
IFAC Pawel J. Nowacki Distinguished Lecturer (2020 - 2026)
IFAC Triennial World Congress Application Paper Prize Finalist, 2020
ASME Nyquist Lecturer Award, 2019
Was a Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany and a Visiting Scholar at the ForWind Center for Wind Energy Research, Oldenburg University, Germany, October 2016 - July 2017, June - August 2019, May - December 2023, and May - August 2025
Received the Control Engineering Practice Award from the American Automatic Control Council (May 2017)
Was a Resident Scholar at the Center for Information and Systems Engineering, Boston University, September 2016 - October 2016
Plenary on "Combined Feedforward/Feedback Control of Flexible Structures: Recurring Themes across Diverse Applications" at the 2016 American Control Conference (Friday, July 8, 2016)
Clean Energy Education & Empowerment Awards Finalist, 2015
Elevated to IEEE Fellow (January 2012).
Ph.D. Student Brian Rigney was one of four finalists in the 2009 American Control Conference Student Best Paper Competition
Visiting Miller Professor Fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley, August 2008 - December 2008
CDC Plenary on "Control of Flexible Structures: From Large Space Structures to Disk Drive Read/Write Arms (Thursday, December 14, 2006).
University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship, 2001-2002
2001 American Control Conference Best Student Paper Award for paper
- M. A. Lau and L. Y. Pao. "Comparison of Input Shaping and Time-Optimal Control of Flexible Structures," Proc. American Control Conf., Arlington, VA, pp. 1485-1490, June 2001.
Colorado Advanced Software Institute Exemplary Project Award, October 2000
University of Colorado Junior Faculty Development Award, July 1997
1996 IFAC World Congress Young Author Prize for paper
- L. Y. Pao. "Input Shaping Design for Flexible Systems with Multiple Actuators," Proc. IFAC World Congress, Vol. P (Aerospace and Transportation Systems), San Francisco, CA, pp. 267-272, July 1996.
NSF Early Faculty CAREER Award, 1996-2001

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