Dr. Iftekharuddin was the winner of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia’s (SCHEV) outstanding faculty award for the highest standards of teaching, scholarship and service in the State of VA, 2023. He has been cited among the top 2% researchers in the globe for both career long impact and single-year impact, Research by Stanford University, published online, 2020 and 2021. He is awarded Old Dominion University’s 2020 Faculty Research, Scholarship and Creative Achievement Award. He obtained the best researcher award from three different academic institutions: ODU’s Batten College of Engineering and Technology Research Excellence Award for 2014; University of Memphis’s Herff Outstanding Faculty Research Award in the college of Engineering and Technology for 2011; and North Dakota State University’s Researcher of the Year Award in college of Engineering and Architecture for 2000, respectively. His lab has consistently ranked among top four teams in Global Brain Tumor Segmentation and Patient Survivability Prediction Challenges co-organized by MICCIA and NCI since 2014. He has served as the PI for over $23 million externally funded research projects and successfully led multiple national and international collaborative research projects. Different federal and private funding agencies and industries such as NSF, NIH, NASA, ARO, AFRL, NAVY, US DOT, the Whitaker Foundation, FedEx and Timken Research among others have funded his research.