Awards/Honors and Talks
Awards and Honors
Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Communications Society (2024-2025)
Faculty Fellowships
Faculty Fellow of U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center, 2017
Faculty Fellow of U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Summer 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015
Visiting Faculty Research Fellow, Korea Telecom Advanced Institute of Technology (KT-AIT), Summer, 2013
3M McKnight Distinguished Visiting Professorship, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, 8. 2004 - 7. 2005
Best Paper/Video/Poster Awards & Honors
Best Paper Award, UKC 2022, Computer and Information Technology Symposium, from the president of KSEA (Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association)
Best Paper Award, IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 2018
Best Video Award, ACM MobiSys, 2014
Best Paper of a Track in IEEE ICCCN, 2014
Best Poster Award, CANSec, 2014, 2015
Among the top five papers in CoNext, 2005
Nominated for best paper award in INFOCOM, 2004
Other Honors
Fellow and Certification in 'Inclusive Teaching for Equitable Learning' by Association of College and University Educators (ACUE), supported by the Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching (FaCET) at UMKC, Fall 2021
Fellow and Certification in 'Effective Online Teaching Practices' by Association of College and University Educators (ACUE), Supported by UM system and Kauffman Foundation, Fall 2020-Spring 2021
Nominated for the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from the School of Computing and Engineering, UMKC, 2016
Nominated for the Outstanding Faculty Award by the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council (IDSC), UMKC, 2014
Featured in IEEE Spectrum, 2014 (Numerous posts on the Internet were followed on the work since then.)
Excellence in Research Award by Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, 4. 2002
Keynotes, Tutorials, Panels, and Recent Invited Talks
Keynote Speaker
The 6th IFIP Internet of Things (IFIP-IoT) Conference, ’IoT Technology Spectrum: From Connectivity to AI-enabled IoT,’ November 2023
The 19th IEEE OITS International Conference on Information Technology, ’Smart Education in (Post) Pandemic Era,’ December 2021
Tutorial Speaker
IEEE Future Networks World Forum, ’The Art of Standardizations in Communications and Networking: similarities, differences, and intricacies,’ Baltimore, MD, USA, November 2023
IEEE International Smart Cities Conference’20, ’Blockchain for Smart City Applications: From Basics Theory to Current and Future Smart City Applications, (Virtual) Budapest, Hungary, September 2020
IEEE NetSoft’18, ’Secure SDN Architectures and Their Applications for IoT and Edge Computing,’ Montreal, Canada, June 2018
Panel Speaker
Panel Speaker, Industry Forum on ’Edge, Edge Intelligence & Edge Intelligent Systems,’ IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), November 2023
Panel Speaker, ’Women in Engineering Panel’ IFIP IoT, November 2023
Panel Speaker, ’Unlocking the Potential of 6G: Shaping the Next Generation of Connectivity,’ IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), September 2023
Panel Speaker, ’Empower Your Passion as a Women in Engineering WICE,’ IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), September 2023
Panel Speaker, ’Internet of Things and Security,’ CANSec, Warrensburg, MO, 2017
Plenary Panel Speaker, IEEE ICCCN, Panel Title: ’Cyber-Physical Clouds: Risks and Opportunities’ Shanghai, China, 2014
Selected Invited Talks
University of North Texas, Invited Department Seminar Speaker, Dept. Computer Science and Engineering, November, 2023
IEEE Webinar (Region 1), Invited Speaker, March 2023
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Dept Seminar Speaker, February 2023
IEEE COMSNETS, Invited Speaker, January 2023
Missouri University of Science and Technology, Invited Department Seminar, September 2022
University of Missouri - St. Louis, Invited Department Seminar, April 2022
The 8th International Conference on Networking, Systems and Security, Invited Speaker, December 2021
ACM SIGCSE’21 TOCE (Transactions on Computing Education) Selected Paper Session Speaker, March 2021
NSF RESET Conference, Invited Speaker, March 2021
IEEE Smart Cities Conference’20 Tutorial - ’Blockchain for Smart City Applications From Basics Theory to Current and Future Smart City Applications,' 2020
IEEE Smart Cities Conference, Kansas City- Core Smart City Presentation, Casablanca, Morocco, October 2019 MidWest Bioinformatics Conference, Invited Speaker, Kansas City, MO, April 2019
IEEE Local Chapter Dinner Meeting Speaker, IEEE Computer Society - Kansas City Chapter, Overland Park, KS, November 2018
IEEE NetSoft’18 Tutorial - ’Security Issues in SDN and IoT Applications’, June 2018
ACM MINK WIC, Invited Speaker, Kansas City, MO, November 2017
CANSec, Invited Talk, Missouri Science and Technology, Rolla MO, October 2017
Concorida University, Montreal, Canada, Department Seminar, October 2017
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, NSF REU (Research Experience for Undergraduate students), Invited Seminar, May 2017
Missouri University of Science and Technology, NSF REU (Research Experience for Undergraduate students), Invited Seminar, May 2017
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA, Invited Department Seminar, May 2017
University of Missouri - Kansas City, MO, USA, Department Seminar, May 2017
University of Missouri (Columbia), Sterling and Vivian Hour Colloquium Series Talk, April 2017
GENI Engineering Conference (GEC 25), Miami, FL, USA, Invited Talk, March 2017
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA, Invited Department Seminar, March 2017
Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China, Invited Department Seminar, December 2016
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China, Invited Department Seminar, December 2016
Pusan National University, S. Korea, Invited Department Seminar, December 2016
Changwon National University, S. Korea, Invited Department Seminar, December 2016
University of South Florida, USA, Invited Department Seminar, November 2016
Seoul National University, S. Korea, Invited Department Seminar, June 2016
Pusan National University, S. Korea, Invited Department Seminar, June 2016
University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK, USA, Invited Engineering College Seminar, April 2016.
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, Department Teleseminar, January 2016
Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY, USA, June 2015