Awards and Honors

 

IEEE Fellow since 1998

 

Fellow, Minnesota Supercomputer Institute

 

IEEE Certificate of Appreciation 2007

 

Invited Sensor Network Panel Organizer at Infocom, 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 Speaker at GENI Great Plains Network Workshop, Nov. 2006, Kansas State University

 

Invited keynote Speaker, the 9th 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, Seoul, Korea for 3 months in 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.

 

 

 

Major University Committees and Contributions

 

Chair, Institute of Technology Honors and Awards Committee, 2005-2006

 

Assisted in establishing a joint computer engineering degree in ECE and CSE Departments

 

Assisted in establishing a joint Bachelor Degree in Information Technology in Networking between North Hennepin Community College and the University

 

Assisted in establishing Intelligent Storage Consortium in Digital Technology Center

 

Served on Internet2 Ad Hoc Committee to assist CIO from 1996 to 1999

 

University Distance Learning Committee, 1997

 

Institute of Technology Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1996-1998

 

Institute of Technology Honors and Awards Committee, 2003 – present

 

Elected to University of Senate, 3-year term, 2003-2005

 

Participated and Chaired several search committees; currently serves on ADC Chair Search Committee and was the Chair of the ADC Chair Search Committee from 2002 to 2005

 

 

 

Other Research Accomplishments

 

A U.S. patent was received on December 8, 1992.

Patent No. 5,170,482 for "Improved Hypercube Topology for Multiprocessor Computer Systems" (with R.Shu)

 

 U.S. patent pending

"Weighted Striping for Multimedia Servers with Heterogeneous Types of Disks" (with Yuewei Wang)

 

U.S. patent pending

“Reducing Bandwidth Requirement for Delivering Video over Wide Area Networks with Proxy Servers” (with Wei-hsiu Ma)