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  • Aug. 2017: Awarded an NSF grant on server-network cooperative approach for data center energy optimization with my colleague, Prof. Guru Venkataramani
  • Aug. 2017: Keynote speaker at TELNET 2017, Amity University, Noida, India
  • July 2017: Invited paper presentation on speculative execution for deadline-sensitive jobs in cloud at ICCCN, Vancouver, BC
  • July 2017: Invited talk on optical data center networks at OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, New Orleans, LA
  • July 2017: Invited to serve a second term on the editorial board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • May 2017: Received the 2017 SEAS Distinguished Researcher Award
  • March 2017: Keynote talk on reliability in optical networks at DRCN '17 in Munich
  • Feb. 2017: Congrats to Jingxin Wu and Maotong Xu who won second place in Theoretical Posters category at the SEAS R&D Showcase
  • Jan. 2017: Invited talk on optical data center networks at ICNC '17 in Santa Clara
  • Dec. 2016: Served as Chair of ONS Symposium at Globecom '16 in Washington DC
  • Sep. 2016: Elected Chair of the ECE department at GW effective Oct. 1
  • Aug. 2016: Awarded an NSF grant on WDM-based data center networks
  • June 2016: Gave a short course on data center networking at IEEE ComSoc summer school in Trento, Italy
  • March 2016: My doctoral student Farshad Ahdi successfully defended his dissertation
  • June 2015: Invited to chair the TPC of the Optical Networks Symposium (ONS) at Globecom 2016
  • May 2015: Joined Steering Committee of IEEE LANMAN Workshop
  • May 2015: Appointed Associate Editor of IEEE/OSA J. Optical Communications and Networks
  • November 24, 2014: Elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow (Class of 2015). An article on this from my alma mater University of Washington is here.
  • July 2014: Serving as General Co-Chair for IEEE LANMAN 2015
  • Spring/Summer 2014: During my sabbatical, I was visiting EECS/RLE at MIT
  • May 2014: Served as TPC Co-Chair for IEEE LANMAN 2014
  • March 31, 2014: My doctoral student Juzi Zhao successfully defended her dissertation
  • Jan. 2014: Received an NSF grant on optical networks
  • Dec. 2013: Concluded two-year term as Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Optical Networking Technical Committee
  • Dec. 2013: Concluded six-year term as Associate Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • Sep. 2013: Received an NSF grant on cloud computing reliability
  • Sep. 2013: Received a GW STEM education grant from NSF
  • Our book "Cross-layer design in optical networks" co-edited by me and others was published by Springer in March 2013. The book is also available on Amazon.