Professional Honors and Distinctions
| ISI Highly Cited Researcher, Thomson Reuters | |
| 2010 Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award, Purdue University, USA | |
| Vice-President of IEEE Communications Society, 2010-11 | |
| Recipient of the 2007 IEEE Communications Society Publications Exemplary Award (Worldwide award with a maximum of one recipient/year) | |
| Promoted to IEEE Fellow, 2003 (The highest honor bestowed in IEEE) | |
| Founding Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | |
| IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, 2004-2008 | |
| Plenary Speaker at the 2008 United States National Science Foundation/North American
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association Globalization Workshop |
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| Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Journal Selected Areas in Communications - Wireless Series | |
| Technical Program Chair, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications, the premier and flagship IEEE conference in telecommunications (> 3000 paper submissions) | |
| General Chair, 2007 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, the premier IEEE conference wireless communications (> 1500 paper submissions) | |
| Promoted to Senior Member of IEEE, 1997 | |
| URSI Young Scientist Award, Paris, September 1992 | |
| David Ross Fellowship at Purdue University, 1986-1988 | |
| US AID Fellowship, 1981-1990 |