Awards & Services

ByteDance Spot Bonus Award

ByteDance, January 2025

This award is given to ByteDance employees with excellent output and ByteStyle. 

I was honored to receive the 2024 Q4 Spot Bonus Award in the Data Department with the recognition of "Achievement Beyond Expectation".

The Alexander Hessel Award for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Electrical Engineering

New York University, May 2024

This award is given in memory of the late ECE Professor Alexander Hessel to a graduate student for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in electrical engineering.

I was honored to receive the award with a completed Ph.D. dissertation draft entitled “Leveraging Machine Learning for Intelligent Traffic Engineering Design in Wide-Area Networks” based on my scholarly contributions over the past 5 years.

The Dante Youla Award For Graduate Research Excellence in Electrical Engineering

New York University, May 2023 [Link]

This award is given in memory of the late ECE Professor Emeritus Dante Youla for timely recognition of important research contributions made by Ph.D. students. The award recognizes one impactful paper in which the awardee is the principal author or a significant external award.

I was selected as the award recipient with a recently published journal paper in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), which is entitled “FlexDATE: Flexible and Disturbance-Aware Traffic Engineering With Reinforcement Learning in Software-Defined Networks”. A Certificate of Merits is awarded to me at the ceremony.

IEEE ICNP 2021 Student Registration Award

Travel Grant Chairs of IEEE ICNP 2021, October 2021

The purpose of the Student Registration Award is to encourage students’ participation in the conference by funding their conference registration. Recipients of this reward show evidence of a serious interest in networking, as demonstrated by coursework and project experience. The program is made possible with the kind support of the IEEE Technical Committee in Distributed Processing (TCDP).

As a first-time ICNP attendee, author, and presenter, I wrote a proposal to apply for the registration award and was selected as the award recipient.

NYU ECE MS Student Academic Achievement Award

New York University, October 2018

The award is given to top MS students in the ECE department, which recognizes their outstanding academic work.

As the award recipient, I am one of the top MS students among 200+ ECE MS students with a perfect GPA (4.0/4.0). A Certificate of Merits is awarded to me at the ceremony.

PolyU EIE Best Semester GPA Award

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, March 2017

The Best Semester GPA Award is given to the student with the highest semester GPA in the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering (EIE) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

In the 2016-2017 Fall semester at PolyU, I got a 4.2/5.0 GPA with two A+ grades in EIE core elective courses and was selected as the award recipient.

PolyU EIE Best Academic Improvement Award

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, March 2017

The Best Academic Improvement Award is given to the student with the highest GPA improvements in the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering (EIE) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

In the 2016-2017 Fall semester at PolyU, I got a 4.2/5.0 GPA with two A+ grades in EIE core elective courses, which is considered a great improvement over previous semesters.

During my PhD studies, I received several scholarships from NYU to cover my tuition expenses. 

• PhD Scholarship (2019-2020)

• Shiv Panwar Scholarship (2019-2020)

• Provost TA’s Scholarship (2020-2024)

• SOE PhD Program Scholarship (2024)

I was also supported by graduate research/teaching assistantships in the ECE department and grants from Fortinet, Inc., CA, USA.

• IEEE Member (2023 – Present)

• IEEE Communications Society Member (2023 – Present)

• IEEE Young Professionals Member (2023 – Present)

• Science Alliance Member of the New York Academy of Science (2022 – 2023)

Invited Peer Reviews for International Journals (Total 47 Reviews)

• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) – 2 reviews

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN)

• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology – 3 reviews

• IEEE Systems Journal – 9 reviews

• IEEE Access – 5 reviews

• IEEE Transactions on Reliability

• Elsevier Neurocomputing

• Elsevier Computer Networks – 2 reviews

• Elsevier Computers & Operations Research

• Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) – 5 reviews

• EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (JWCN) – 3 reviews

• Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS)

• Springer Telecommunication Systems – 6 reviews

• Springer Photonic Network Communications

• Springer Discover Internet of Things – 2 reviews

• Springer Journal of Cloud Computing – 2 reviews

• Springer Scientific Reports

Invited Peer Reviews for International Conferences (Total 11 Reviews)

• IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS) – 2 reviews

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) – 5 reviews

• IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) – 2 reviews

• IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES)

• International Teletraffic Congress (ITC)