Best Paper Award, "Are Power Planes Necessary for High Speed Signaling?" Suzanne L. Huh, Madhavan Swaminathan, DesignCon 2012, Santa Clara, CA

Best Paper Award, "A Self-Testable SiGe LNA and Built-in-Self-Test Methodology for Multiple Performance Specifications of RF Amplifiers," Abhilash Goyal, Madhavan Swaminathan, Abhijit Chatterjee, Duane Howard and John Cressler, ISQED 2012, Santa Clara, CA

Outstanding Student Paper Award, "Multi-Layer Fringe-Field Augmentations for the Efficient Modeling of Package Power Planes", Krishna Bharath, Nithya Sankaran, A. Ege Engin and Madhavan Swaminathan, IEEE 17th Topical meeting on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging, Oct. 2008.

IEEE-CPMT Society Ph.D. Student Fellowship, “Microwave Design & Characterization ofa Novel Nano-Cu based Ultra-fine Pitch Chip to Package Interconnect,” Tapobrata Bandyopadhyay, Gaurav Mehrotra, Mahadevan K. Iyer, P.M. Raj, Madhavan Swaminathan and Rao R. Tummala, ECTC 2008

Technical Excellence Award, Madhavan Swaminathan, Krishna Srinivasan, Rohan Mandrekar and Jinwoo Choi, Semiconductor Research Corporation and Global Research Corporation, Sep 2007.

Best Paper Finalist Award, “Compact Electromagnetic Bandgap Structures for Power Plane Isolation Using High-K Dielectrics," Abdemanaf Tambawala, Dr. Ege Engin and Dr. Swaminathan Madhavan, - (Georgia Tech), Pranabes Pramanik, Kazuhiro Yamazaki, John Andreasakis (Oak-Mitsui), DesignCon 2007

Outstanding Poster Paper Award, “Novel Synthesis Method for Designing Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) Structures in Packaged Mixed Signal Systems," Tae Hong Kim, Daehyun Chung, Ege Engin, Wansuk Yun, Yoshitaka Toyota, and Prof. Madhavan Swaminathan, 56th ECTC, 2006

Best Student Poster Award, “3D Integration and characterization of high-Q passives on multi-layer liquid crystalline polymer based substrate," W.Yun, A.Bavisi, V.Sundaram and M.Swaminathan, APMC Dec. 2005.

SRC Inventor Recognition Award, “A Novel Electromagnetic Bandgap (EBG) Structure for Isolation in Mixed-Signal Systems”, J. Choi, V. Govind, M. Swaminathan, SRC TECHCON 05, Oct. 2005.

IEEE Fellow 2006 for Madhavan Swaminathan, for contributions in design tools, design methodologies and electromagnetic interference (EMI) control for power delivery in digitla and mixed signal systems.

Best Poster Paper Award, “Liquid Crystalline Polymer Based RF/Wireless Components for Multi-Band Application”, S. Dalmia, V. Sundaram, G. White, M. Swaminathan, IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference, 2004

Commendable Paper of Transactions (2nd place) Award, "The SOP for Miniaturized, Mixed-Signal Computing, Communication, and Consumer Systems of the Next Decade", Rao R.Tummala, Madhavan Swaminathan, Manos M Tentzeris, Joy Laskar, Gee-Kung Chang, Suresh Sitaraman, David Keezer, Daniel Giudotti, Zhaoran Huang, Kyutae Lim, Lixi Wan, Swapan K. Bhattacharya, Venkatesh Sundaram, Fuhan Liu, P. Markondeya Raj, May 2004

Best Paper of Transactions Award, "Design of integrated low noise amplifiers (LNA) using embedded passives in organic substrates," V. Govind, S. Dalmia and M. Swaminathan, IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, 2004

IBM Outstanding Faculty Award, Madhavan Swaminathan, 2004 and 2005.

Outstanding Student Paper Award, Bhyrav Mutnury, "Macro-modeling of Transistor Level Receiver Circuits", B. Mutnury, M. Swaminathan, M. Cases, N. Pham, D. N. de Araujo and E. Matoglu, IEEE 13th Topical meeting on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging, Oct. 2004.

Shri Mukhopadhyay Memorial Best Paper Award, “Electromagnetic Modeling of Switching Noise in On-Chip Power Distribution Networks”, J. Mao, W. Kim, S. Choi, M. Swaminathan, J. Libous and D. O’Connor, Proceedings of the International Conference on Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility (INCEMIC), Dec. 2003.

Outstanding Student Paper Award, "Extraction of Current Signatures for simulation of Simultaneous Switching Noise in High Speed Digital Systems", R. Mandrekar, M. Swaminathan and S. Chun, IEEE 12th Topical meeting on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging, Oct. 2003.

Presidential Special Recognition Award for Leadership of TC-12 (EDMS), Madhavan Swaminathan, IEEE CPMT Society, May 2003.

Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award for the Advisement of GRAs, Madhavan Swaminathan, Institute Award, Georgia Tech, Apr. 2003

Outstanding Student Paper Award, Erdem Matoglu, “Efficient Statistical Analysis and Diagnosis of High Speed Source Synchronous Interfaces”, E. Matoglu, M. Swaminathan, N. Pham, D. N. de Araujo and M. Cases, IEEE 11th Topical Meeting on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging, Oct. 2002.

Outstanding Faculty Research Advisor Award,Madhavan Swaminathan, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech, 2002.

Outstanding Student Paper Award, Joungho Kim, “Modeling of Irregular Shaped Power Distribution Networks Using Transmission Matrix Method”, J. H. Kim and M. Swaminathan, IEEE 9th Topical Meeting on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging, Oct. 23-25, 2000.

IMAPS Education Award for Graduate Student, Kwang Lim Choi, 1998. Grant Amount: $6,000.

Best Student Paper Award, Premjeet Chahal, “A Novel Integrated Decoupling Capacitor for MCM-L Technology”, P. Chahal, R. Tummala, M. Allen and M. Swaminathan, 46th Electronics Technology and Components Conference, May 28-31, 1996.

Best Student Paper Nomination, Bruce Kim, “High Resolution and Low-Cost Test Technique for Unpopulated MCM Substrate”, B. Kim, M. Swaminathan and A. Chatterjee, Proceedings of the 46th Electronics Technology and Components Conference, pp. 225 - 233, May 28-31, 1996

Second Invention Plateauat IBM, Madhavan Swaminathan, 1995.

Fellowship Award, Madhavan Swaminathan, Northeast Parallel Architecture Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 1987.