Recipient of six best paper awards, including the IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize (2014), IEEE Katherine Johnson Young Author Best Paper Award (2015), and IEEE Heinrich Hertz Award (2016).
Early-career technical achievement awards from three IEEE ComSoc Technical Committees.
Multiple faculty honors at Virginia Tech: Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award (2017), Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research (2020), and named fellowships including Steven O. Lane Junior Faculty Fellowship (2018), College of Engineering Faculty Fellowship (2018), and Elizabeth and James E. Turner Jr. ’56 Faculty Fellowship (2019).
Other honors: 2008 Agilent Engineering and Technology Award, UT Austin MCD Fellowship, UT Austin WNCG Leadership Award (2013), inaugural IIT Guwahati Young Alumni Achiever Award (2020).
Ph.D. advisees awarded VT ECE Blackwell Award for Best Dissertation/Research: Anish Pradhan (2024, winner), Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid (2023, winner), Chiranjib Saha (2021, first runner-up).
TPC Co-chair for IEEE WCNC 2022 and IEEE PIMRC 2024; editorial board member of several IEEE journals; currently serves on the Executive Editorial Committee for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.