Awards and honors

Selected Awards and Honors – Professional

• ACM/IEEE IPSN Best Research Artifact Runner-up Award, 2024
• DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2023
• CISCO Research Award, 2023
• ACM ImmerCom Best Paper Award, 2023
• ACM UbiComp 2022 Best Poster Award [ More information ]
• Facebook Research Award, 2021 [ Award information: Facebook ]
• NSF CAREER Award, 2021 [ Award information: NSF ] [ Pratt School article about the award ]
• Duke University Pratt School of Engineering Nortel Networks Professorship, 2020 – present
• IEEE/ACM IPSN Best Research Artifact Award, 2020 [More information]
• IBM Faculty Award, 2020
• National Academy of Engineering’s US Frontiers of Engineering (US FOE) Symposium Invitation, 2020
• N2 Women Rising Star in Networking and Communications, 2019 [News item]
• IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award, 2016 [News item]
• MIT EECS Rising Star, 2013 [News item]
• Columbia University Jury Award for Outstanding Achievement in Communications, 2013
• Google Anita Borg USA Fellowship, 2012 [News item]
• Best Student Demonstration Award, ACM SenSys 2011 [News item]
• IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications, 2011 [News item]
• Best Speaker Award, ACM MobiSys 2011 Ph.D. Forum [News item]
• Finalist, Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship, 2011
• Columbia University Presidential Fellowship, 2008 – 2013
• Alexander Graham Bell NSERC CSG Ph.D. Fellowship, 2008 – 2010
• Canadian Graduate NSERC CSG M.Sc. Fellowship, 2005 – 2007
• Ontario M.Sc. Graduate OGS Fellowship, 2005 – 2007 (declined)
• Xerox Canada Inc Scholarship, 2004

Selected Recognitions – Other

• Triathlon USA National Age Group Competition Qualifier, 2011, 2017 [Blog post about the 2017 Nationals], 2018

Selected Media Coverage

• Simulated Human Eye Movement Aims to Train Metaverse Platforms, NSF Discoveries, March 2022,
• MIT Horizon, Edge Computing Series: Edge Computing and Other Technologies: The Advantages and Opportunities of Edge Computing (Nov. 2021), An Overview of Edge Computing’s Impact on Other Technology Fields (Dec. 2021).
• Augmented Reality, Fog, and Vision: Duke Professor Outlines Importance of Smart Architectures, Network World, 2018.
• If Donald Trump Were Actually a Battery, New Yorker Magazine, 2017
• The OpenFog Reference Architecture: A Baseline for Interoperability in the IIoT Cloud-to-things Continuum, Embedded Computing Design, 2017
• Editor-in-Chief’s Top 3 Pick for 2014, IEEE Communications Technology News, 2015
• The Internet of You, MIT Technology Review Business Report, 2014
• Human Motions Will Power the Internet of Things, Say Energy Harvesting Engineers, MIT Technology Review Physics ArXiv Blog, 2013

Duke University Articles

• AR-assisted Guidance System for Retinal Laser Therapy, Duke Eye Center VISION Magazine, July 2023. [more information]
• The Dawning of the Age of the Metaverse, October 2022. Duke ECE Magazine cover story.
• Simulated Human Eye Movement Aims to Train Metaverse Platforms, March 2022
• Students Code Alternate Realities, August 2020
• Creating an Intelligent Internet of Things, September 2018