Selected Honors and Awards (University and after)

• Tomlinson Scientist Award, McGill University, 2012
  
  
• Paper “Inferring User's Online Activities through Traffic Analysis” receives the First Place Best Paper Award (out of 87 submissions) of the Fourth ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec’11), 2011
  
  
• Paper "Hardware/Software Partitioning and Pipelined Scheduling on Runtime Reconfigurable FPGAs", published in ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), is the #2 of the Top 10 Downloaded ACM TODAES Articles in year 2010
  
  
• Samuel R. Thompson Professorship, University of Nebraska Lincoln, 2010 - 2014
  

• Outstanding Service Award, 7th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS-2010), 2010
  
  
• New Researcher Award, Quebec Fund for Research on Nature and Technology (FQRNT), 2009
  
  
• Outstanding Leadership Award, 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2009), 2009
  
  
• Best Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII),  for paper “ORTEGA: An Efficient and Flexible Online Fault Tolerance Architecture for Real-Time Control Systems”, 2008
  
  
• Paper "Lightning: A Hard Real-Time, Fast, and Lightweight Low-End Wireless Sensor Election Protocol for Acoustic Event Localization," in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC),Vol. 7, Issue 5, pp570-584, May, 2008  Selected as the Featured Article of IEEE TMC 2008 May Issue
  
  
• Discovery Grant Award, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), 2007
  
  
• Mavis Memorial Fund Scholarship Award, College of Engineering, UIUC, 2005-2006
  
  
•  4th Place, International MaRTian Task Robot Competition, in conjunction with RTSS’05, Miami, Florida, 2005

• Outstanding TA Award, Department of Computer Science, UIUC, Dec, 2004

•  Outstanding Rating for Instructors, Incomplete List for Teaching Excellence,  UIUC, Spring, 2004 

•  Saburo Muroga Fellowship, Department of Computer Science, UIUC, 2003-2004
  
  
•  Member,  Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society), 2002-now
  
  
•  C.W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Award, Department of Computer Science, UIUC, 2002
  
  
•  Member, Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, 2002
  
  
•  Ray Ozzie Fellowship, Department of Computer Science, UIUC, 2000-2001
  
  
•  Rockwell Automation Fellowship, Tsinghua University, 1998
  
  
•  Siemens Fellowship, Tsinghua University, 1997
  
  
•  Chia-Chiao Lin  Mathematics and its Applications Scholarship, 3rd Prize, Tsinghua Univ., 1997 
  
  
• Outstanding Graduate, Medal and Honor, Tsinghua University, 1996
  
  
• Meritorious Award, The Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM-96), COMAP, USA, 1996
  
  
• First Prize, The Mathematical Contest in Modeling (China), 1995
  
  
• Champion, Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 1995
  
  
•  Xiong Qinglai Sholarship for Mathematics Excellence, Tsinghua University, 1994
  
  
• Outstanding Student Scholarship, First Class, Tsinghua Univ., 1993-1995