Honors, Contributions, Awards, and Grants

Academic Honors

• Awarded David Ross Fellowship, Purdue University, 1988
• Recipient of Addison and Wesley Award for best academic performance at Univ ersity of Cincinnati, 1984
• Distinction in Actuarial Exam, part-2, 1984
• Merit Scholarship at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, 1977-1982

Research Awards, Patents and Copyrights

• Best Paper award in the algorithms and applications area at International C onference on High Performance Computing, 1996.
  Paper entitled "Adaptive Integration Using Evolutionary Strategies" by Ajay Gupta, Elise deDoncker and Garrison Greenwood.
• ParInt 1.0 Release, A Software Package for Parallel and Distributed Multivariate Integration. Copyright, United States Copyright Office, The Library of Congress, 1999.

Grant Fundings

National Science Foundation Grant: ``Algorithms: Distributed Multivariate Integration in a Problem Solving Environment," with E. deDoncker, K. Kaugars and A. Genz, 2002-present. (Amount: $348,495.)

National Science Foundation Grant: ``Distributed Integration Algorithms and Applications,"with E. deDoncker and A. Genz, 2000-2002. (Amount: $324,000.)

Western Michigan University Grant: ``Computational Science Center," with E. deDoncker, K. Kaugars, A. McGurn and D. Qei, 2001. (Amount $50,000.)

National Science Foundation Grant: "Parallel and Distributed Integration Algorithms," with E. deDoncker and A. Genz, 1994-present. (Amount: $150,000.)

Automotive Diagnostics Grant to develop software for analysis of automobile ignition signals, jointly with R. Trenary. (Amount: $100,000.)

Technical Training Grant from the Indian Agricul tural Statistics Research Institute, 1995. (Amount: $24,000.)

IBM, Rochester Grant: for Development of Simulat ors for Formal Specification Languages, with T. Piatkowski and F. Severence, 1991. (Amount $70,000.)

IBM, Owego Grant: for Development of Formal Spec ifications for the Ada Rendezvous, with T. Piatkowski and L. Lander, 1991. (Amount: $50,000.)

INTEL University Partner Program, with A. Boals, N. Sherwani, and K. Williams, 1990. (Amount: $99,970.)

National Science Foundation Grant: for undergrad uate research, with J. Kapenga and N. Sherwani, 1990. (Amount: $81,841.)

Grant to asses the feasibility of an Engineering Design Institute from the State of Michigan, with T. Piatkowski, M. Kerstetter, et. al. (Amount $60,000.)

A number of grants from Western Michigan Univers ity and the State of Michigan for conducting research in various areas of computer science.