The INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) 2001 Prize for Research Excellence in the Interface Between Operations Research and Computer Science, awarded to the paper co-authored by R. Monteiro and Y. Zhang: ``A Unified Analysis for a Class of Path-Following Primal-Dual Interior-Point Algorithms for Semidefinite Programming'', Mathematical Programming 81 (1998) 281-299.
The first recipient (May, 2003) of the Rice University Presidential Award for Mentoring, a faculty award to recognize outstanding achievement in mentoring students.