Awards
- Google Cloud Research Innovator 2024
- Honored as a 2025 Highly Ranked Scholar - Lifetime All by ScholarGPS (ranked at #35 in Distributed computing)
- Honored as a 2024 Highly Ranked Scholar - Lifetime in the Specialty of Distributed Computing by ScholarGPS (ranked at #38 in this field)
- Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow, 2010 (only seven awardees in United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa)
- Distinguished Member of IEEE INFOCOM Technical Program Committee: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
- George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper Award, IEEE Transaction on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) 2021
- Recognition of Service Certificate for IoTDI 2021
- IEEE CCGrid 2021 Conference Outstanding Service Award 2021
- The MASS Conference Outstanding Service Award 2019
- Amazon AWS Machine Learning Research Award 2018 and 2019
- The ICCCN Conference Outstanding Leadership Award: 2014, 2015, 2017
- IEEE INFOCOM 2017 "Best-in-Session-Presentation" award, 2017
- The IEEE NAS Conference Outstanding Service Award 2017
- Best paper award, 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 (three awardees nationwide)
- Best Paper Runner-Up Award, the 24th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), August 3-August 6, 2015, Las Vegas, Nevada
- IBM Faculty Award, 2015
- Meritorious Service: "Top Reviewer" for IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2014
- Meritorious Service: "Top Reviewer" for IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems, 2014
- The Sigma Xi Clemson Chapter Young Investigator of the Year Award for 2013
- NSF CAREER Award, 2013
- Meritorious Service: "Prolific Reviewer" for IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems, 2013
- 2010 Clemson University Board of Trustees Award for Faculty Excellence, April 2011
- Best paper award, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS), 2008
- 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