Awards and Honors

 

IEEE Fellow since 1998

 

Fellow, Minnesota Supercomputer Institute

 

Center Director, National Science Foundation I/UCRC Center on Intelligent Storage since 2009

 

National Science Foundation, Director’s Award for Collaborative Integration, September 8, 2008

 

IEEE Certificate of Appreciation, 2007

 

Member of International Advisory Committee, Institute of Information Science, Academic Sinica, Taiwan, 2008-present

 

Member of International Advisory Board of the Journal of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea, 2007-present

 

Invited Distinguished Speaker, William and Mary College, November 2008

 

Invited Keynote Speaker, D2D Workshop, October 25, 2008, Shenzhen, China

 

Invited Keynote Speaker, SNAPI08, Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os, September 2008, Baltimore, Maryland

 

Invited Keynote Speaker, IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, Oct. 18, 2008, Shanghai, China

 

Invited Keynote Speaker, International Workshop on Wireless Security and Privacy, June 20, 2008, Beijing, China

 

Invited Keynote Speaker, Workshop on Mission Critical Networks, April 18, 2008, Phoenix, Arizona

 

Invited A* Visiting Professor, Data Storage Institute, Singapore, January 2009

 

Invited Speaker, Symantec, Mountain View, California, April 2008

 

Invited Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications, August 2007

 

Invited Keynote Speaker, Korean Computer Congress (KCC), June 2007

 

Invited Sensor Network Panel Organizer at Infocom, May 2007

 

Invited Speaker, Boeing, Seattle, May 2007

 

Invited Keynote Speaker at IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications, June 2007, Newport Beach, California

 

Invited Speaker at Boeing, March 2007

 

Invited Plenary Speaker at Navy Undersea Distributed Networked Systems Conference in Newport, RI, February 13-15, 2007

 

Invited Keynote Speaker at NASA Earth Science Web Meeting in San Diego, February 13-14, 2007

 

Invited Keynote speaker at Trusted Computing Group Annual Meeting, January 2007, Atlanta

 

Invited Speaker at DOE Salishan High Speed Computing Conference, April 2006

 

Invited Speaker at Cisco Fast Router Symposium, August 2006

 

Invited Speaker at Distinguished Lecture Series at Michigan State University, November 2006

 

Invited Keynote Speaker at GENI Great Plains Network Workshop, Nov. 2006, Kansas State University

 

Invited keynote Speaker, the 9^th IASTED Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, August 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii

 

Invited Plenary Speaker, the IEEE Conference on Next Generation Web Services and Practices, Seoul, Korea 2005

 

Digital Technology Center, Outstanding Service Award, 2004

 

Invited Korea IT Promotion Agency Distributed Visiting Professor at Chung-An University,

 

Invited Speaker, Han-Wha S&C, Seoul Korea, June 17^th, 2003

 

Invited Keynote Speaker at Digital Convergence Workshop, June 18^th, 2003

 

Invited Speaker at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology), June 20^th, 2003

 

Invited Speaker, Seoul National University, June 25^th, 2003

 

Invited Keynote Speaker at  Korea Electronic Conference, July 9^th, 2003

 

Invited Speaker at  Samsung Electronics,  July 15^th, 2003

 

Invited Speaker at  HanYang University, July 16^th, 2003

 

Invited Speaker at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, July 25^th, 2003

 

Invited Keynote Speaker, Workshop on Architectural and OS Support for Multimedia Applications, Minneapolis, August 1998

 

Invited Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Internet Technology, 1998

 

Invited Keynote Speaker, Pacific Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, July 1998

 

Invited Keynote Speaker, 11th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada, Nov. 11-13, 1998

 

Certificate of Appreciation from IBM, 1997

 

Invited Distinguished Visitor, National University of Singapore, 1996

 

Best Paper Award, International Conference on Computer Design, Austin,

Texas 1998, "Finding the Longest Simple Path in Cyclic Combinatorial Circuits," (with Y.C. Hsu and S.Z. Sun)

 

"On the General False Path Problem," Proc. of Design Automation Conference 1989, pp. 555-560 (with H.C. Yen). This paper has been nominated for the best paper award.