Faculty Research Grant, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2024 - 2025 (Principle Investigator)
Title: Prototyping a Distributed and Coordinated Drone Swarm Platform
Research, Scholar, and Artistry (RSA) Grant, Miami University, 2023-2024 (Principle Investigator)
Title: Towards a Distributed and Coordinated Multi-Drone Network: Algorithm Design and Prototyping
NSF Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) Grant, 2022-2024 (Principal Investigator)
Title: ERI: Distributed Learning in Regulation of UAV Communication Networks with Dynamic UAV Lineup
Faculty Research Grant, Miami University, 2021-2022 (Principal Investigator)
Title: Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for UAV-Based Communication Networks
Regionally Aligned Priorities in Delivering Skills (RAPIDS)Â Grant, Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE), 2021 (Key Personnel)
Title: Post-Secondary Workforce Development for Increased Use of Robotics, Additive Manufacturing, and Augmented/Virtual Reality in the Healthcare and Advanced Manufacturing Industries
2024 Exemplary Editor, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS), 2024
Best Paper Award, International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA) 2022
IEEE Senior Membership (since 2022)
Finalist for Best Student Paper Award, ICSR2021 (Co-advisor, 2022)
Best Paper Award, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom), Austin, USA, 2014 (out of 2171 submissions)
Doctoral Thesis Writing Award, University of Waterloo, Canada (2015)
Chinese Government Award for Self-Financing Graduate Students, Canada (2015)
Ontario Research & Development Challenge Fund Bell Scholarship, Ontario, Canada, (2015)