Honors and Awards:

2015 Miller Professional Development Award for Distinguished Research, University of Kansas (KU)

Visiting Faculty Fellow, 2015 Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)

Best Paper Final Runner-up, 2014 IEEE Conference on Green Communications (online GreenCom)

Miller Scholar 2014, School of Engineering, University of Kansas (KU)

Summer Faculty Fellow, 2014 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

Summer Faculty Fellow, 2013 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

Best Paper Final Runner-up, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Commuincations (ICC)

SAMSUNG Award 2011, SAMSUNG GROUP

Individual Gold Medal 2011, SAMSUNG Telecommunications America

New Faces of Engineering 2011, Diversity Council, National Engineers Week Foundation.

Global SAMSUNG Best Paper Award 2010, Global SAMSUNG Technical Conference 2010.

Global SAMSUNG Best Paper Award 2008, Global SAMSUNG Technical Conference 2008.

Graduation Day Talk, Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop 2008.(check out online).

Texas Telecommunication Consortium (TX TEC) Fellowship 2003 - 2004.

Exceptional Student of Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2003.

Exceptional Student of Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2001.