2007: ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential 1997 OOPSLA Paper: Call Graph Construction in Object-Oriented Languages by Grove, DeFouw, Dean, and Chambers.
2007: IBM Gerstner Award for Client Excellence
2006: ACM Senior Member
2006: IBM Corporate Award, Real-time Garbage Collection for Java
2005: ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential 1995 PLDI Paper: Selective Specialization for Object-Oriented Languages by Dean, Chambers, and Grove.
2005: IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, Jikes Research Virtual Machine
2005: IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, IBM's Entry into Real-time Java
2001: IBM Research Division Award, Jikes Research Virtual Machine