- Fellow, Mid-American Conference Academic Leadership Development Program, 2023-2024
- Keynote Speaker, 2015 IEEE International Conference on the Edges of Innovation for Smarter Cities
- Best Service Award as the Local Chair of IEEE MASS 2014 (The 11th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems)
- Keynote Speech Invitation, The 8th International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad-hoc Networking (WiMAN 2014)
- Best Paper Award Nomination at The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008 had a paper acceptance rate of 16%; our paper was the paper selected and nominated by the Network Architectures and Protocols track, a top 10% among papers accepted.)
- Minority Junior Faculty Award with Career Enhancement Grant, Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Foundation, 2004
- Inducted to Phi Beta Delta, an Honor Society for International Scholars, 2003
- Student Paper/Poster Prize, IEEE 2002 Sarnoff Symposium on Advances in Wired and Wireless Communications, March 13, 2002
- Graduate Fellowship, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2001
- One of the Best Papers of ICATM’01 selected for Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering journal, 2001
- Golden Spike Fellowship, Tsinghua University, 1996
- Tsinghua University – City University of Hong Kong Fellowship, 1995