“Best Paper Award of the University Stuttgart” for the paper titled: “Constraint-Tightening and Stability in Stochastic Model Predictive Control” by M. Lorenzon, F. Dabbene, R. Tempo and F. Allgöwer which appeared in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 62, n. 7, pp. 3165-3177, July 2017
“IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award” for the paper titled “The PageRank Problem, Multi-Agent Consensus and Web Aggregation: A Systems and Control Viewpoint,” by H. Ishii and R. Tempo which appeared in IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 34, pp. 34-53, 2014
Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences, Institute of Bologna, Italy, Class Physical Sciences, Section Technical Sciences, 2011
Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for “Contributions to the Analysis and Control of Uncertain Systems, for Pioneering the Probabilistic Approach to Robustness,” 2007
Distinguished Member Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society for “Significant Technical Contributions and Outstanding Long-Term Service,” 2005
Fellow of the IEEE for “Contributions to Robust Identification and Control of Uncertain Systems,” 2000
IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) “Automatica Paper Prize Award” for the three year period 1990-1992 for the paper titled “The Robust Root Locus,” by B. R. Barmish and R. Tempo which appeared in Automatica, Vol. 26, pp. 283-292, 1990