Member of Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi.

Nokia 2000 Summer Internship Award.

Excellent Teaching Assistant Awards, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, twice (Spring 1998 and Spring 1999).

“Incomplete Lists of Teachers Ranked as Excellent,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, twice (Fall 1997 and Fall 1998).

Honored Graduate of Tsinghua University, Beijing, 1995.

Top student scholarships awarded every undergraduate year, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 1991-1995.

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Computers.