Honors, Awards and Listing
  • Research Initiation Award from National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • Excellence in Research Award, NJIT Board of Oversees
  • Research Merit Awards from New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • NSF Young Investigator Nominee
  • The American Biographical Institute has chosen Professor Frank Shih for distinguished standing and has been conferred with an honorary appointment as the Research Board of Advisors since 2005.
  • Fellow, American Biographical Institute, 2006-now.
  • IEEE Senior Member
  • Honorable Mention Winner of  Pattern Recognition Society
  • Best Paper Award in International Symposium on Multimedia Information Processing, 1997
  • Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1997-02
  • Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century, 2000
  • Outstanding Scientists of the 21th Century, 2001
  • Great Minds of the 21st Century, American Biographical Institute, 2001
  • Man of the Year, American Biographical Institute, 2001
  • Asian/American Who's Who, Rifacimento International, 2002 2003, 2005.
  • 500 Leaders of Science, American Biographical Institute, 2002, 2003.
  • American Medal of Honor, American Biographical Institute, 2002, 2003.
  • Dictionary of International Biography, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge,
  • 2000 Eminent Scientists of Today, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, 2002, 2003.
  • Asia - Men & Women of Achievement, Reguerdon Sdn.Bhd., 2002.
  • 500 Leaders of Sciences, 2003 Edition, American Biographical Institute.
  • International Scientist of the Year, International Biographical Centre, England, 2003.
  • Marquis Who's Who in America, 2003.
  • 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 21th Century, Second Edition, International Biographical Centre, 2004.
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, Dept. of Computer Science, NJIT, 2003.
  • Nomination to the Harlan J. Perlis Research Award, NJIT, 2003, 2004, 2005.
  • Marquis Who's Who in America, 2005.
  • Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1997-2008
  • Great Minds of the 21st Century, American Biographical Institute, 2001-2009.
  • Asian/American Who's Who, Rifacimento International, 2001-2009
  • 500 Great Leaders - Honor Edition, American Biographical Institute, 2009
  • Strathmore's Who's Who, Westbury, NY, 2010.
  • Intellectual of the Year, American Biographical Institute, 2011.