Dr. Khargonekar has received numerous honors and awards. He is among the ISI Highly Cited Researchers, and has a Google Scholar h-index of 60 and g-index of 130, with one paper, “State-space solutions to standard H/sub 2/and H/sub infinity/control problems,” cited 6,895 times. In 1993 he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Other honors include an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1985), the IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award (1991), the George Axelby Best Paper Award (from the IEEE Control Systems Society, 1990), the Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award (American Automatic Control Council, 1993), two Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowships (1992, 2007), and a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1997). At the University of Michigan, he received a teaching excellence award from the EECS department (1992), a research excellence award from the College of Engineering (1994), and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship (1995). At the University of Minnesota, he received the George Taylor Distinguished Research Award from the Institute of Technology (1987).
