 He received the "2010 IEEE Circuits and System (CAS) Society Technical Achievement Award" "For seminal contributions to electronic design automation, especially in FPGA synthesis, VLSI interconnect optimization, and physical design automation", and also the 2016 "IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award" "For setting the algorithmic foundations for high-level synthesis of field programmable gate arrays".He is the only one who received a Technical Achievement Award from both the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and the Computer Society.In February 2017, Cong was elected as a member in National Academy of Engineering.