Honors and Awards

  • MICRON & TEL UPWARDS Faculty, Dec. 2023.

  • Research Excellence (Major Sponsored Proposal) Award, Research and Innovation, Virginia Tech, Oct. 2023.

  • Virginia Tech Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Fellow, Virginia Tech, Aug. 2023.

  • Featured Author, IEEE, April-May 2023.

  • Best Paper Award Nomination, IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2022.
    Paper title: Low-Complexity Channel Matrix Calculation for OTFS Systems with Fractional Delay and Doppler.

  • Charles K. Kao Best Paper Award, 29th Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC), 2020.
    Paper title: Reservoir Computing Meets Wi-Fi in Software Radios: Neural Network-based Symbol Detection using Training Sequences and Pilots.

  • Best Paper Award Nomination, 21st International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2020.
    Paper title: Accurate and efficient quantized reservoir computing system.

  • Virginia Tech College of Engineering Faculty Fellow, 2019.

  • Virginia Tech Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) Junior Faculty Award (JFA), 2019.

  • National Science Foundation (NSF), Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2018.

  • Best Paper Award,IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing Committee (TCGCC) in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2018.
    Paper title: Realizing Green Symbol Detection Via Reservoir Computing: An Energy-Efficiency Perspective.

  • Best Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2018.
    Paper title: A Deep Learning Based Approach for Analog Hardware Implementation of Delayed Feedback Reservoir Computing System.

  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems Technical Committee (TAOS) in International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2018.
    Paper title: Realizing Green Symbol Detection Via Reservoir Computing: An Energy-Efficiency Perspective.

  • Miller Professional Development Award for Distinguished Research, KU. (2016)
    Only one awardee is selected across all tenure track and tenured faculties in the School of Engineering in KU.

  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). (2016)
    It is for our paper about “circuit and system level design and optimization in energy harvesting wireless communications”. IEEE GLOBECOM is one of the two flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society. Each year the conference attracts about 3000 submitted scientific papers and dozens of proposals for industry events.

  • USAF Faculty Fellowship, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFSOR). (2016)

  • Miller Scholar, School of Engineering, University of Kansas (KU), 2015.

  • National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR First Award, State of Kansas, 2015.

  • USAF Faculty Fellowship, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFSOR), 2015.

  • New Faculty General Research Fund Award, University of Kansas Research Center (KU Research), 2015.

  • Visiting Faculty Research Fellowship, Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), 2014.

  • Outstanding Service Award, University of Missouri Kansas City, 2014.

  • University of Missouri Faculty Scholar, University of Missouri System Academic Program, 2013-2014.

  • Equipment Award, Texas Instruments University Program, 2013, 2014.

  • Equipment Award, NVIDIA Academic Partnership Program, 2013.

  • Travel Grant, National Science Foundation Advanced Roadmap Workshop, 2013.

  • National Candidate for New Faces of Engineering, National Engineers Week Foundation, 2012.

  • Best Paper Award Nomination IEEE Conference on VLSI Design, Automation and Test, 2011.

  • Student Travel Grant, IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2008.

  • Best Paper Award Nomination, IEEE Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging (EPEP), 2006.

  • `A' Scholarship, Presented annually by the Electronic Engineering Department at Shanghai Jiao Tong University for Top 1 student in terms of academic performance within the whole department (1/273, award rate: 0.37%), 2002.

  • Outstanding Student of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (top 5%) 2000 & 2002.
    Awarded by Shanghai Jiao Tong University for academic excellence once every two years.

  • Huawei Fellowship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2001.

  • Excellent Student Leader, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2000.

  • Second Prize, National Physics Olympiad, 1999.

  • Second Prize, National Mathematics Olympiad, 1999.

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