- Jan 2014: "Scanning Probe Microscopy: A Control Systems Perspective," invited talk at Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Jul 2013: Srinivasa Salapaka joined a group at Google Inc. (Jul 2013-Jul 2014) on a leave of absence from UI on control of power systems and related instrumentation
- Apr 2013: Srinivasa Salapaka receives Engineering Council award for Excellence in Advising
- Aug 2012: "Control Techniques for High-Speed Dynamic-Mode Imaging in Atomic Force Microscopes," invited special presentation in the symposium on Measurement and Control in Micro- and Nanosystems at the the 2012 ASME International Design and Engineering Technical Conference held in Chicago, Illinois.
- Jun 2012: Argonne National Lab (ANL) invited me to collaborate with them in developing robust subnanometer positioning systems for optical systems to enable nm-scale focusing of X-ray beamlines for their Advanced Photon Source Upgrade and the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLSII) facilities (This work is supported by ANL from 2012-2018)
- Jun 2012: List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by their Students, Spring 2012.
- Feb 2012: “Toward a New High-Speed Dynamic Mode Imaging in Atomic Force Microscopy,” 2nd Workshop on Dynamics and Control of Micro and Nanoscale Systems, The University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia..
- Feb 2012: List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by their Students, Fall 2011.
- Dec 2011: "A Control Systems Perspective to Nanpositioning," invited talk at Advance Photon Source Center, Argonne National Lab.
- Oct 2010: "A Maximum-Entropy-Principle Based Approach for Dynamic coverage and clustering problems," invited talk at Decision and Control Lab, calibri Institute of Technology.
- Jul 2010: Promoted to Associate Professor in Department of Mechanical science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Jun 2010: List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by their Students, Spring 2010.