Auburn University Creative Research & Scholarship Award, 2018
NSF CAREER Award, 2010
Co-recipient, 2022 Best Journal Paper Award, IEEE ComSoc eHealth Technical Committee
Co-recipient, 2021 Best Paper Award, Elsevier/KeAi Digital Communications and Networks Journal
Co-recipient, 2021 IEEE Internet of Things Journal Best Paper Award
Co-recipient, 2021 IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award
IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award (co-recipient)
2018 Best Journal Paper Award and 2017 Best Conference Paper Award from IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (co-recipient)
2004 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems
Best Paper Awards from WCSP 2024, IEEE GLOBECOM (2023 x2, 2019, 2016, 2015), IEEE ICC (2022, 2013), IEEE WCNC 2015 (co-recipient)
Best Demo Awards from IEEE INFOCOM (2024, 2022) and IEEE SECON 2017 (co-recipient)
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
Member-at-large, IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors (BOG)
ComSoc Technical Committee Board Director (2022–2025)
Vice President of Technical Activities, IEEE Council of RFID (2024–2027)
General Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2022
TPC Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2018
TPC Vice-Chair, IEEE GLOBECOM 2022
Research Experience
Postdoctoral Research Associate and then Research Scientist, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2003–2006
Joined Auburn University as Assistant Professor in 2006; currently Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
McWane Endowed Professorship, 2012–2015
Samuel Ginn Endowed Professorship, 2015–2020
Currently Earle C. Williams Eminent Scholar Professor and Director of the Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center (WEREC) at Auburn University
Education
B.E. in Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, 1994
B.Ec. in Enterprise Management, Tsinghua University, 1994
M.E. in Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, 1997
M.S. in Systems Engineering, Polytechnic University (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering), 2000
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering), 2004