Selected Honors and Awards

• IIT Sigma Xi Research Award in the junior faculty division, 2013

• Our paper "Quick detection of stealthy SIP flooding attacks in VoIP networks" (co-authored with Jin Tang) is reviewed by the IEEE Comsoc’s MMTC R-Letters

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, Jan. 2011 - Dec. 2015

• Best paper award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2011, June 5-9, Kyoto, Japan

• Invited paper, "Real-time detection of selfish behavior in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks", IEEE VTC-Fall, Ottawa, Canada, Sept. 6-9, 2010

• IEEE ICDCS Travel Grant Award, 2010

• Keynote speaker, "Design of next generation Internet based on application-oriented networking," Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems Workshop (DANMS), 2008, co-located with IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, New Orleans, Nov. 30, 2008

• Best paper award, International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security, and Robustness (QShine'07), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Aug. 14-17, 2007

• Best Paper Award (3rd Place), IEEE Electro/Information Technology Conference (EIT), Chicago, Illinois, May 17-20, 2007.

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, 20

Honors and Awards by My Students

• Jin Tang, IEEE INFOCOM Student Travel Grant Award, 2012

• Jin Tang, co-receipient of IEEE ICC Best Paper Award, 2011

• Jin Tang, IEEE INFOCOM Huawei Best Demo/Poster Award (Second Prize), 2011.

• Hongkun Li, IEEE INFOCOM Student Travel Grant Award, 2011

• Jin Tang, IEEE GLOBECOM Student Travel Grant Award, 2010

• Devu Shila, IEEE ICDCS Student Travel Grant Award, 2010

• Devu Shila, Networking Networking Women Fellowship Award, for organizing an N2 Women event at ICDCS 2010

• Xiaohua Tian, IEEE EFSOI 2010 Student Travel Grant Award

• Xiaohua Tian, Fieldhouse Research Fellowship Award (only one awardee each year), IIT, 2009

• Yong Hao, First Place Student Research Poster award, Graduate Division, IIT Research Day, May, 2008

FUTURE NETWORKING RESEARCH LABORATORY                      (under development)

Last Updated: June 5, 2013