Honors, Awards, and Recognition

Regents Professor, University of Arizona (2021–present).
Kenneth VonBehren Endowed Professor, University of Arizona (2015–present).
Distinguished Alumni Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University (2020).
IEEE Fellow (2010).
Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (2021).
IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2013 and 2014).
IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Communications Outstanding Service Award (2012).
Arizona Engineering Faculty Fellow (2011–2014).
Chair of Excellence ("Catedra de Excelencia"), University of Carlos III de Madrid, 2011 (one US awardee selected in that year).
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2017–2020).
Fulbright Senior Specialist Award (2011).
Best-paper award, ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWim’18), for the paper “FastLink: An efficient initial access protocol for millimeter wave systems,” (coauthored with Irmak Aykin), 2018.
Best student-paper award, International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CrownCom 2007), for the paper “Price-based spectrum management in cog- nitive radio networks,” (coauthored with Fan Wang and Shuguang Cui), 2007.
NSF CAREER award, 1998.
Coauthored paper “Exploiting frame preamble waveforms to support new physical-layer functions in OFDM-based 802.11 systems,” was selected by the IEEE COMSOC as a Tech Focus paper on prototyping wireless networks, 2018.
Runner-up for best-paper award, WiOpt 2014 Symposium (4 finalists selected from 167 submissions) for the paper “On the throughput of full-duplex MIMO in the multi-link case,” coauthored with Diep Nguyen and Stephen Hanly.
Runner-up for for best-paper award, IEEE 2005 Technical Committee on Multimedia Communication for the paper “A playback-adaptive approach for video streaming over wireless networks” (co-authored with M. Hassan), Proc. of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2005 Conference - Wireless Communication Symposium.
International Thoman Fellowship Award for Outstanding Doctoral Candidates, 1994. ASAI Scholarship, ASAI Association (1992–1995).
Michigan State University Summer Graduate Fellowship, 1995.