Awards and Honors

 

Research Recognitions and Publication Awards

  • ACM Senior Member, January 2023.
  • NSF CAREER Award, "CAREER: Towards Proactive and Collaborative Mobility-Aware Edge Intelligence", 2022. News!
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE CloudCom, 2019.
  • IEEE Senior Member, June 2019.
  • Excellence in Scalable Computing for Early Career Researchers, 2017 IEEE TCSC Award.
  • Best Application Paper Honorable Mention, Best Paper Award Competition in IIE Transactions (2nd place among all journal papers published in issues 47:7 through 48:6), 2017.
  • Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award, 2016 IEEE TCSC.
  • Featured Article of the IIE Industrial Engineer Magazine in the January 2016 Issue, 2016.
  • Finalist for the IBM Research Best Student Paper Award competition, 2015 INFORMS Service Science.
  • Featured Article in the April-June 2015 Issue of Cloud-Link (presented by the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative), 2015.
  • Best Student Paper Award - INFORMS ENRE (Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section), 2014.
  • Best Paper Runner-Up Award - INFORMS Service Science, 2014.
  • Runner-Up Award for the Best Student Paper Competition of the 2014 Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) - College of Sustainable Operations, 2014. News!
  • Featured Article of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems in the December 2014 Issue, 2014.
 

Awards and Recognitions

  • Outstanding Service Award, ACM/IEEE SEC 2023.
  • The University of Delaware Faculty Excellence Award, 2023. (nominated)
  • COE Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Entrepreneurship, 2023. (nominated)
  • Outstanding Service Award, CCGrid/ICFEC 2021.
  • The winner of the 2015 Michael Conrad Award for Outstanding Graduate Research Publication, 2015. (one recipient per year)
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 2015. (one recipient per year)
  • Winner of the Olbrot Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Research, College of Engineering, 2015. (two recipients per year)
  • The winner of the Ralph H. Kummler Award for Distinguished Achievement in Graduate Student Research, among all graduate students in the College of Engineering, 2014. News!
  • Summer Dissertation Fellowship, WSU, 2014.
  • Winner of the Olbrot Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Research, College of Engineering, 2013-2014.
  • Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award, 2013-2014.
  • General Motors Computer Science Scholarship, 2012.
  • Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, 2012.
  • Graduated with honors, Computer Science Department, University of Science and Technology, 2004.

Travel Awards

  • Travel Grant to attend Microsoft Research Faculty Summit: Systems | Fueling future disruptions, sponsored by Microsoft Research, 2018.
  • Travel Grant to attend NSF NeTS Early Career Workshop, 2015.
  • Travel Grant to attend CRA-W Early-Career Mentoring Workshop, 2015.
  • Student Travel Grant to attend IEEE IPDPS'14 (PhD Forum), sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing, 2014.
  • Student Travel Grant to attend IEEE BigData'14 (Doctoral Consortium), sponsored by NSF, 2014.
  • Student Travel Grant to attend IEEE/ACM CCGrid'14 (Doctoral Symposium), sponsored by NSF, 2014.
  • Full scholarship to attend the 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, 2014.
  • ACM Student Research Competition Travel Award to attend GHC'14, sponsored by Microsoft Research, 2014.
  • Full scholarship to attend the 2013 NextProf Workshop at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2013.
  • Student Travel Grant to attend ACM Sigmetrics'13, sponsored by NSF, 2013.
  • Full scholarship to attend the 2013 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, sponsored by Neustar Inc., 2013.
  • Dean of Students Office Travel Award to attend IEEE CLOUD'13, WSU, 2013.
  • Full scholarship to attend the Summer School on Algorithmic Economics at Carnegie Mellon University, 2012.
  • Full scholarship to attend the 2012 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, sponsored by Dropbox, 2012.
  • ACM Student Research Competition Travel Award to attend GHC'12, sponsored by Microsoft Research, 2012.
  • Dean of Students Office Travel Award to attend ICPP'12, WSU, 2012.
  • ACM Student Research Competition Travel Award to attend SC'11, sponsored by Microsoft Research, 2011.
  • College of Engineering Travel Award, WSU, 2011, 2012, 2013.