- April, 2017: L2Ork nominated for the People’s Choice Award by the Roanoke Blacksburg Technology Council (RBTC).
- September 4, 2015: L2Ork selected by peer review as one of the six transdisciplinary exemplars among member a2ru research universities, including top 30 research one institutions with transdisiciplinary initiatives in the United States.
- April 21, 2015: OPERAcraft featured in the USA Today writer Greg Toppo’s book The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter.
- DCist.com (November 8, 2014). The Washington DC-based news blog listed Linux Laptop Orchestra (L2Ork) as one of the “eight awesome research projects at Virginia Tech.”
- Summer 2014: Nominated and selected for Virginia Tech Management Academy.
- Special Citation for Community Engagement with Lighting – Lantern Field, Architectural Lighting. August 13, 2013.
- October 14, 2012: Winner of the Newblankets Inc. Satchmo SuitSup Award for work on pd-l2ork.
- October 17-23, 2011: Teacher of the Week, Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research.
- August 29-September 4, 2011: Virginia Tech Scholar of the week.
- February 18, 2011: 1st place in the first international laptop orchestra commission competition for the revamped version of Half-Life composition with added choreography for Linux Laptop Orchestra (L2Ork) and narrator organized by Electric Monster Laptop Ensemble at Montana State University.
- February 4, 2011: winner of 2010-11 Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship award.
- April 3, 2010: VT Linux Laptop Orchestra (L2Ork) featured on the front cover of the international Linux Journal. The magazine also includes eight-page coverage of the ensemble and an interview: Phillips, D. (2010). State of the Art: Linux Audio 2008. Linux Journal. Champlain, NY, HME Publishing Limited: 193 50-57.
- March 5, 2010: recipient of the Virginia Tech XCaliber award for “for exceptional, high caliber contributions to technology-enriched teaching and learning.”
- November 5, 2009: invited to give talk at the TEDxMidAtlantic conference with the theme being “the power of stories,” Baltimore, MD.
- July 9, 2009: with delicate risk audio-visual work (in collaboration with visual artist Dane Webster) was recognized as part of the 2009 Best Animated Short category award at the Frozen Film Festival, San Francisco, CA.
- April 21, 2009: Recipient of the Creative Achievement Award from VT CAUS for the Revo:oveR interactive multimedia installation exhibit.
- November 13-16, 2008: “libALSA, libJACK,… lib-what? I Just Want To Do My Work.” Keynote at the 25th Tonmeistertagung conference, Leipzig, Germany, 274-277.
- Fall 2007-present: Courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science.
- Fall 2007-2010: Courtesy appointment in the School of Visual Arts.
- Spring, 2006: All Your Sprache Are Belong to Strauss voted winner of the 20th anniversary Electroclips composition contest sponsored by the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS).
- 2006-present: First artist fember of the Virginia Tech’s Center for Human Computer Interaction (CHCI).
- 2005-2022: Elected Director of the international Linux Audio Consortium.
- 2004: Winner of the national graduate student award by the Croatia’s National Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports.
- 2004-present: Author of Borealis, the most downloaded and one of the most popular desktop sound themes on kde-look.org.
- 2003: Upbeat composition competition winner, Croatia, Hvar.
- 2003: Presser Music Award finalist, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music.
- 2003: RTMix software featured by software distributions maintained by Stanford and Eastman electroacoustic studios.
- 1999, 2000, 2003: Summer Graduate Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music.
- 1999-2003: Graduate Assistantship Award, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music.
- 1998: SAI composer competition winner, Cincinnati, OH.
- 1993-1998: University Honor Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music.
- 1992: Second place in the National Pascal programming competition, Zagreb, Croatia.