Honors and Service

  • 2023 – ICC Best Paper Award
  • 2022, ACM Fellow
  • 2021 ACM Sigmobile Test-of-time Award for full-duplex.
  • 2020 Fellow of National Academy of Inventors
  • 2020 Best Paper (Honorable Mention) for “High Resolution Diffuse Optical Tomography using Short Range Indirect Subsurface Imaging,” ICCP 2020.
  • 2019 ACM MobiCom Best Community Contributions Award for HealthSense.
  • 2019 ACM Sigmobile Test-of-time Award for WARP.
  • 2018 The IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications (equivalent of the ACM Test-of-time award for Communications Theory).
  • 2018 Teaching/Mentoring Award, Graduate Student Association.
  • 2017 IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award.
  • One of 8 Finalists, Vodafone Wireless Innovation Competition, 2015.
  • 2014, IEEE Fellow.
  • 2011, Best Demo at mHealthSys.
  • 2011, One of 8 Finalists, Vodafone Wireless Innovation Competition.
  • 2009, Hershel M. Rich Invention Award for “WARPnet: A High Performance Platform for Research on Deployed Wireless Networks”.
  • 2006, IEEE Senior Member.
  • 2001, Graduate Student Outstanding Paper Award, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University (for “MMSE Receivers for Multirate DS-CDMA Systems”).
  • 1998-99, Presidential Fellowship (Ameritech Dissertation Fellowship), The Ohio State University (Twelve fellowships awarded based on a university wide competition).

Technology Transfer

  • 2020, Two patents licensed.
  • 2008, Wireless open-Access Research Platform (WARP), an NSF sponsored project, has now been licensed (hardware designs only) and is commercially sold by Mango Communications.
  • 2012, Skylark Wireless, founded by Ryan Guerra to commercialize Argos, scalable massive MIMO base-stations.
  • 2013, Cognita Labs was founded, inspired by research as part of Scalable Health Labs.
  • 2015, OcuCheck was founded, inspired by our work on mobileVision.
  • 2018, CherryPick Analytics was founded, inspired by our undergraduate VIP Digital Gym.

Awards Committees

  • 2021-, Chair, ACM Sigmobile Outstanding Contribution Award
  • 2021-, Chair, ACM Sigmobile Rockstar Award
  • 2018, Chair, ACM Sigmobile Test-of-time
  • 2016-17, Member, ACM Sigmobile Test-of-time

Associate Editor

  • 2021-, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • 2021, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, special issue on Full-duplex Wireless
  • 2014, Lead Guest Editor, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (special issue on Full-duplex).
  • 2006-2010, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
  • 2008-2011, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

General Chair

  • 2014, COMSNETS NetHealth (co-chair).
  • 2012, mHealthSys Workshop at SenSys (co-chair).
  • 2009, WiNMee, Workshop at WiOpt (co-chair).
  • 2008, ACM MOBICOM Workshop: WiNTECH.
  • 2008, Microsoft Cognitive Wireless Networking Summit (co-chair).

Technical Program Chair

  • 2014, ACM MobiCom (co-chair).
  • 2011, Wireless Communications Symposium, ICC (co-chair).
  • 2005,  Wireless Personal Communications Systems, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf.

Other Roles

  • 2018-present, Full-duplex Emerging Technology Initiative.
  • 2019, Co-chair, Tutorials, ACM Sigcomm.
  • 2010, Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).
  • TPC Member (current/past) of ISIT, Infocom, Mobicom, ICC, VTC, WCNC, SIGCOMM workshops etc.