Honors and Awards
- Winner of the ECE Outstanding Research Faculty Award, VCU, 2015.
- Nominated for VCU Distinguished Faculty Award, May 2015.
- Research projects featured in VCU School of Engineering Magazine, Vol. 4, Spring 2011, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016.
- Best Paper Award Runner-up, IEEE IPCCC, Austin, TX, December 2014.
- Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), August 2014.
- Best Paper Award Nominee, the 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS), August 2010.
- Best Paper Award, IEEE International conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), July 2010.
- Most Outstanding Teaching Faculty of the year, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tennessee Tech University, April 2010.
- Sigma Xi Research Award, 2010, 2005
- Best Poster Award, NSF REU PI Meeting, Austin, Texas, February 29, 2008.
- Outstanding service award, ISPA’2007, August 30, 2007
- Faculty Research Award, Tennessee Tech University, 2004, 2005, 2007
- Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, 2004
- Who’sWho in Science and Engineering, Marquis Who’sWho, 2005-2006, 2006-2007
- Who’sWho in the World, Marquis Who’sWho, 2006-2007
- Who’sWho in America, Marquis Who’sWho, 2005-2006
Patents
- DRALIC: Distributed RAid and Location Independence
Cache, File pending, Serial Number 60/287,946 (with Qing Ken
Yang)
- STICS: SCSI-To-IP Cache Storage,
US Patent and Trademark Office, US Patent No. 7,275,134 (with Qing Ken Yang)