· Science Award, Parlar Foundation (Parlar Vakfı Bilim Ödülü), 2012
· Young Scientist Award, TÜBİTAK - Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK Teşvik Ödülü), 2002
· Young Scientist Award, Parlar Foundation (Parlar Vakfı Araştırma Teşvik Ödülü), 1994
· Best Paper Award for the work "Multi-resolution Social Network Community Identification and Maintenance on Big Data Platform", IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData), 2013
· 10+ Year Best Paper Award Runner-Up for the work An Efficient Method for Generating Location Updates for Processing of Location-Dependent Continuous Queries, International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2011
· Best Poster Award for the work A Practitioners Guide for Static Index Pruning, 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2009