Awards

Professional Awards

  • IEEE VR 2024 Best Demo Honorable Mention Award
  • ACM MobiHoc 2023 Best Poster/Demo Award
  • IEEE INFOCOM 2023 Best Demo Award
  • Distinguished Member of the IEEE INFOCOM Technical Program Committee (2021, 2022,  2023)
  • NSF CAREER Award (2020)
  • Google Faculty Research Award (2020)
  • ACM MobiHoc 2018 Best Poster Award
  • IEEE INFOCOM 2018 Best-in-Session Presentation Award

Student Awards

  • Ph.D. student, Jiangong Chen, received the prestigious Dr. Nirmal K. Bose Dissertation Excellence Award,April 2024.
  • Ph.D. student, Jiangong Chen, received the IEEE VR 2024 Best Demo Honorable Mention Award for his demo “ GPT-VR Nexus: ChatGPT-Powered Immersive Virtual Reality Experience”
  • Graduate students, Xiaoyi Wu, Jiangong Chen, and Rui Tang, and undergraduate student, Kefan Wu, received the ACM MobiHoc 2023 Best Poster/Demo Award for their demo “Demo: Immersive Remote Monitoring and Control for Internet of Things”
  • Graduate students, Zhanchen Dong and Jiangong Chen, received the IEEE INFOCOM 2023 Best Demo Award for their demo “Collaborative Mixed-Reality-Based Firefighter Training”.
  • Ph.D. student, Xudong Qin, received the prestigious Dr. Nirmal K. Bose Dissertation Excellence Award for his Ph.D. thesis “Distributed Offloading Algorithm Design for Mobile Edge/Cloud Computing Systems“, April 2023.
  • Undergraduate student Michael Artlip and Ph.D. student Jiangong Chen won Best Poster Presentation Award in the 8th National Workshop for REU Research in Networking and Systems (REUNS), Denver, Colorado, October 2022.
  • Ph.D. student, Jiangong Chen, received the prestigious Melvin P. Bloom Memorial Graduate Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year. 
  • Graduate students Jiangong Chen and Xinyi Yao received IEEE INFOCOM 2022 Student Travel Grant
  • Graduate students Xudong Qin and Jiangong Chen received IEEE INFOCOM 2021 Student Travel Grant
  • Graduate student Xudong Qin won Outstanding Poster Awards (Second Place) in URI ECBE Graduate Research Showcase and Awards Day 2020
  • Graduate student Jiangong Chen won Outstanding Poster Awards (Third Place) in URI ECBE Graduate Research Showcase and Awards Day 2020
  • Graduate students Xiangqi Kong and Xudong Qin, won Outstanding Poster Awards (Third Place) in URI ECBE Graduate Research Showcase and Awards Day 2019
  • Graduate students Noah Johnson, Salvatore (Turi) Latella, and Xiangqi Kong, won Second Prize in HealthHacks RI 2018
  • Graduate student Salvatore (Turi) Latella received the prestigious Department of Defense Science, Math and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship 2018
  • Undergraduate students Christian, Daniel, and James won the Silver Award in Americas and Award of Excellence in Global Grand Final Competition at the 2018 InnovateFPGA Global Design Contest
  • Graduate student Xiangqi Kong received NSF/ACM MobiHoc 2018 Student Travel Grant