Selected Honors and Awards
- Best Paper Award: paper "What Appears Suboptimal May Surprise You: A Fixed-Rate Schedul- ing Policy for Geo-Distributed CoFlows," receives the Outstanding Paper Award of The 29th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE ICPADS 2023), 2023
- Best Paper Award: paper "CATS: A Computation-Aware Transaction Processing System with Proactive Unlocking," receives the Best Paper Award from The 2023 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2023), 2023
- Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), 2021
- Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, 2021
- Best Paper Award: paper "One for All: Traffic Prediction at Heterogeneous 5G Edge with Data-Efficient Transfer Learning'' receives the Best Paper Award from 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2021) Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium, 2021
- Best Paper Award: paper "A Cost-Efficient Metadata Scheme for High-Performance Deduplication Systems'' receives the Best Paper Award from The 23rd IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (IEEE HPCC 2021), 2021
- Best Paper Award: paper "CE-Dedup: Cost-Effective Convolutional Neural Nets Training based on Image Deduplication''receives the Best Paper Award from The 19th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA 2021), 2021
- IEEE Fellow, IEEE, 2020
- ACM Distinghuished Member, ACM, 2020
- Best Paper Award: paper "RadioLoc: Learning Vehicle Locations with FM Signal in All-Terrain Environments'' receives the Best Paper Award from The 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (IEEE MASS), 2019
- 2017 Mitacs Award for Exceptional Leadership, MITACS, 2017
- Best Paper Award: paper "Towards a Cost-Efficient MapReduce: Mitigating Power Peaks for Hadoop Clusters'' receives the Best Paper Award of the Year from Tsinghua Science and Technology and IEEE, 2015
- Outstanding Young Canadian Computer Science Researcher Prizes, The Canadian Association of Computer Science/Association informatique Canadienne, 2014
- William Dawson Scholar (Chair Professor), McGill University, 2014 -
- Tomlinson Scientist Award, McGill University, 2012
- Best Paper Award: paper "Inferring User's Online Activities through Traffic Analysis" receives the First Place Best Paper Award (out of 87 submissions) from 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 the year 2010
- Samuel R. Thompson Chair Professorship, University of Nebraska Lincoln, 2010 - 2014
- Outstanding Service Award, 7th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS-2010), 2010
- John R. Evans Leaders Fund Award, Canada Foundation for Innovation, 2009
- 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 the 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, pp.570-584, 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, 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