Honors/Awards:

• As a professor:
  • Nominee of the 2006-2007 Excellence in Teaching Award for Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
  • NSF Career Award, Jan 2006
• As a student:
  • ICS student travel grant, June 2002
  • ACM Sigmetrics student travel grant, June 2002
  • IBM research fellowship, 2001-2002 (27 recipients nationwide out of more than 250 applicants)
  • Best Graduate Research Assistant award in the CSE department partment at Penn State for outstanding research, 2001 (1 awarded per year)
  • Dean's fellowship, College of Engineering, Penn State, 1997-2000 (3 awarded per year)