Awards

Received as Individual Scholar:

•    National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2009.

•    Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2010.

•    Best Paper Award, the 13th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems (WUWNet’18), Article no. 5, Shenzhen, China, December 3-5, 2018.

Received as Graduate Student Advisor:

•    3rd Place Winner Award for the IEEE CSS Video Clip Contest 2015. Q. Tao, M. King-Smith, A.D. Muni, V. Mishra, S. Cho, J. P. Varnell and F. Zhang, “Control Theory-Autonomous Blimp.”

•    Best Poster Award in IEEE/MTS Oceans 2019. Marseille, France, June 17th-20th, 2019.

•    Best Student Paper Award in 2021 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2021), Delft, Netherland, July 12th-16th, 2021.

Institution and School Awards:

•    GT Lockheed Inspirational Young Faculty Award, 2010.

•    GT ECE Roger P. Webb Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 2011.

•    Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis Award to Wencen Wu advised by Fumin Zhang, 2014.

•    Hesburgh Award Teaching Fellow, 2017. Awarded for Excellence in Teaching.

•    Fellow of Provost’s Emerging Leaders Program, 2020.