Awards
- George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper Award 2021, K. C. Dey, L. Yan, X. Wang, Y. Wang, H. Shen, M. Chowdhury, L. Yu, C. Qiu, and V. Soundararaj, A Review of Communication, Driver Characteristics and Controls Aspects of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC), IEEE transaction on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 491--509, 2016
- The MASS 2019 Conference Outstanding Service Award
- AWS Machine Learning Research Award 2018-2019
- One of the 100 Distinguished TPC members of IEEE INFOCOM 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
- The ICCCN 2017 Conference Outstanding Leadership Award
- IEEE INFOCOM 2017 "Best-in-Session-Presentation" award, 2017
- Best paper award: Towards Green Transportation: Fast Vehicle Velocity Optimization for Fuel Efficiency, Proc. of The 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), December 12-15, 2016, Luxembourg
- IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) Award for Excellence (Mid-Career Researcher), 2015
- Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow, July 13, 2010 (7 were chosen from the entire computer science and engineering field)
- NSF CAREER Award, 2013
- IBM Faculty Award, 2015
- Best Paper Runner-Up Award: EAFR: An Energy-Efficient Adaptive File Replication System In Data-Intensive Clusters, Proc. of the 24th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), August 3-August 6, 2015, Las Vegas, Nevada
- The ICCCN 2015 Conference Outstanding Leadership Award
- The ICCCN 2014 Conference Outstanding Leadership Award
- The Sigma Xi Clemson Chapter Young Investigator of the Year Award for 2013
- Meritorious Service: "Top Reviewer" for IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2014
- Meritorious Service: "Top Reviewer" for IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems, 2014
- Meritorious Service: "Prolific Reviewer" for IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems, 2013
- 2010 Clemson University Board of Trustees Award for Faculty Excellence, 2011
- Best paper award: Efficient and Locality-aware Resource Management in Wide-area Distributed Systems, Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS), 2008
- Best paper award nominee (5/51 accepted papers): Leveraging Social Networks for P2P Content-based File Sharing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Proc. of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2011 [acceptance rate: 20%]
- Best paper award nominee (4/271): PAIS: A Proximity-aware Interest-clustered P2P File Sharing System, The 9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID), 2009
- Undergraduate Mentor Thesis Award at the University of Arkansas in 2009
- Distinguished Invited Talk, awarded by China 973 Wireless Sensor Network Lab & self-organization Network and Network Computing Center, June 2008.
- Faculty Commendation for Teaching Commitment for the 2006-2007 year in University of Arkansas