Awards/Achievements

• IEEE Fellow, 2022
• Best Paper Finalist at MobiHoc 2019
• Paper Selected for Fast-Track Review for TNSE at IEEE INFOCOM 2018 (7 out of 312 accepted papers were invited)
• WiOpt’18 Best Student Paper Award
• ACM TKDD on “Best Papers of KDD 2016”
• Kenneth C. Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper Award at ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance 2016
• Best paper award at IEEE INFOCOM 2015
• Notable book in Computing Reviews’ 19th Annual Best of Computing (“Communication Networks — An Optimization, Control and Stochastic Networks Perspective”)
• The Northrop Grumman Assistant Professor (formerly the Litton Industries Assistant Professor) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University in 2010-2012
• CAREER Award from National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2010
• Young Investigator Award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in 2009

Major Awards/Recognition Received by My Students

• Weina Wang won the 2016 Dean’s Dissertation Award in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University
• Weina Wang received the Joseph A. Barkson Fellowship in 2015 from Arizona State University
• Shihuan Liu won Research Excellence Award in 2011 at Iowa State University
• Xiaohan Kang won the 2050 Challenge Graduate Fellowship from Iowa State University in 2010
• Shan Zhou won a Schafer 2050 Challenge Graduate Fellowship from Iowa State University in 2009