Professor Sanjay Banerjee was named a 2007 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society. AAAS fellows are chosen annually by their peers to recognize their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.

Dr. Banerjee is the director of the Microelectronics Research Center. He was cited for distinguished contributions to silicon-germanium heterostructures and three-demensional integrated circuits. He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society and won the Industrial R&D 100 Award (with R. Singh) in 2004 and the Electrochemical Society Thomas D. Callinan Award in 2003.