MAJOR HONORS AND AWARDS

• Best paper award, International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), 2017
• Teaching Excellence Award of Department of Computer Science, UMass Lowell, 2016
• Best paper award, International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) 2016
• Award of Excellence, GeekPwn 2016 Ethic Smart Life Hack Competition
• Erich Spengler Student Cyber Paper Award (best student paper award) with students, The Colloquium for Information Security Education (CISSE), 2016
• Spotlight Paper of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), February 2014
• Best paper award, International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), 2013
• Best paper award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Communications and Information Security (CIS) Symposium, 2013
• Teaching award, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2011
• Spotlight Paper of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), July 2010
• Best paper award, International Conference on Communications (ICC): Information and Network Security Symposium, 2008
• The Merrill Hunter Award for Excellence in Research, Dakota State University, 2008
• 1st place, Oral Competition in the Student Research Week, Texas A&M University, 2005
• Graduate Student Research Excellence Award, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2004
• 2nd Place Graduate Winner, ACM International Student Research Contest, 2002
• Elite Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1996
• Excellent Student Scholarship, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 1991 - 1995.