Awards/Honors

2nd place, Seoul City Forum Challenge, 2020

Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP 20) Award, Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), 2020

Best Paper Award, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2019

Best Paper Award, IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, 2018

NASA Glenn Research Center Faculty Fellowship (NGFFP) Award, 2018

Nominated for the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by the School of Computing and Engineering, UMKC, 2018

Faculty Fellow of U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Summer 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015

Best Video Award, ACM MobiSys, 2014, featured in IEEE Spectrum, 2014 (Numerous posts/news were followed on the work since then.)

Best Paper of a Track in IEEE ICCCN, 2014

Best Poster Award, CANSec, 2014, 2015

Best Paper Award from Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration (CIEC), 2013

Montague-CTE Scholar Award (TAMU System Level Teaching Award), 2013-14

Visiting Faculty Research Fellow, Korea Telecom Advanced Institute of Technology (KT-AIT), 2013

Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) Next Generation Leader, 2011

NSF GENI 12th Conference Travel Grant Award, 2011

Teaching Excellence Award, ETID, TAMU, 2010

Cisco Fellowship Award, Cisco Systems, 2010

Cisco Achievement Program (CAP) Awards, Cisco Systems, 2002, 2004, and 2005

Cisco Patent Application Awards, Cisco Systems, 2002, 2003, and 2004

Honeywell Initiative Research Grant Competition Winner, Honeywell Research, 2000

Honeywell Patent Awards, Honeywell Research, 1998 and 2000

Individual Research Achievement Awards, Honeywell Research, 1998 and 1999