SIGCOMM: G: Many-to-Many Beam Alignment in Millimeter Wave Networks

• 2019 IEEE Fellow • 2018 Dean’s List of Excellent Teachers (2019, 2018, 2017, 2015) • 2018 Google Faculty Research Award • 2017 ACM MobiSys Best Paper Award • 2017 Named Jerry Sanders III AMD Scholar • 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award from CS@UIUC • 2015 ACM Sigmobile Rockstar Award • 2015 IBM Faculty Research Award • Best Demo, HotMobile 2015 • 2013 UbiComp Best Paper Honorable Mention • Best Paper Candidate, ACM MobiSys 2012 • Winner of ACM MobiSys Best Poster, Runner up for ACM MobiSys demo, 2011 • Runners Up of ACM MobiSys Demo Contest, 2011 • 2010 Winner of ACM MobiCom Student Research Competition • 2009 Hoffmann Krippner Award for Innovations in Engineering • Appointed Nortel Network Assistant Professor of ECE, 2009 • 2007 NSF CAREER Award • Vodafone Graduate Fellowship, 2005 • Motorola Center for Communications Fellowship, 2004 and 2003 • Best Paper Award – Personal Wireless Conference (PWC) 2003 • University Silver Medal, B.Tech, 2000

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