In 2000, Kavraki won the
Grace Murray Hopper Award for her work on probabilistic roadmaps. In 2002,
Popular Science magazine listed her in their "Brilliant 10" awards, and in the same year
MIT Technology Review listed her in their annual list of 35 innovators under the age of 35. In 2010, she was elected as a Fellow of the
Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to robotic motion planning and its application to computational biology." She is also a fellow of the
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a fellow of
IEEE, a fellow of AIMBE and a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2015, she was the winner of the ABIE Award for Technical Leadership from the
Anita Borg Institute. In 2017, Kavraki was honored with the ACM Athena Lecturer award from the
Association for Computing Machinery, which celebrates women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to the field of Computer Science. In 2020, she was awarded the ACM IEEE Allen Newell Award. In 2025, she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Kavraki is a member of the
National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine (IoM)), the
Academy of Athens, the
Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST), the
Academia Europaea, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the
National Academy of Sciences. ==References==