Honors

Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2023

IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2021-2022.

Best Paper Award, ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN), 2017

Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2015

Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), 2012

Best Poster Award, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2023

Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, 2010

Army Research Office Young Investigator Program Award, 2003

Winston Churchill Scholarship for overseas study at University of Cambridge (1 of 10 selected in the United States), 1994

Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholastic Award (top 5% of Stanford University School of Engineering graduates), 1994

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 1994

Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellowship (1 of 20 selected in the United States), 1994

Phi Beta Kappa Society Membership, 1994

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship (1 of 300 selected in the United States), 1993

Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society Membership, 1993

President's Award for Academic Excellence (top 3% of Stanford University freshmen class), 1991

Represented Texas at the National Speech and Debate Association National Tournament in International Extemporaneous Speaking, 1989, 1990.