Honors and Awards
- Best Paper Award, IEEE International conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), July 2010.
- Most Outstanding Teaching Faculty of the year, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tennessee Tech University, April 2010.
- Sigma Xi Research Award, 2010, 2005
- Best Poster Award, NSF REU PI Meeting, Austin, Texas, February 29, 2008.
- Outstanding service award, ISPA’2007, August 30, 2007
- Faculty Research Award, Tennessee Tech University, 2004, 2005, 2007
- Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, 2004
- Who’sWho in Science and Engineering, Marquis Who’sWho, 2005-2006, 2006-2007
- Who’sWho in the World, Marquis Who’sWho, 2006-2007
- Who’sWho in America, Marquis Who’sWho, 2005-2006
Patents
- Delta-FTL: A Novel Design to Improve SSD Lifetime via Exploiting Content Locality, file pending (with Guanying Wu)
- DRALIC: Distributed RAid and Location Independence
Cache, File pending, Serial Number 60/287,946 (with Qing Ken
Yang)
- STICS: SCSI-To-IP Cache Storage,
US Patent and Trademark Office, US Patent No. 7,275,134 (with Qing Ken Yang)