ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

• UTA College of Engineering Outstanding Research Award, 2003.
  
• Outstanding Faculty Research Award, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, UTA, 2001 and 2003.
  
• Faculty Development Leave, UTA, Spring 2003.
  
• Outstanding Research Award NomineeOutstanding Research Award Nominee and Robert Q. Lee Award for Excellence Engineering Teaching Nominee, College of Engineering, Univ of Texas at Arlington, 2002.

• SAIC Executive Science and Technology Council (ESTC) Best Paper Award in the Information Technology and Communications Track, for the paper ``IDMP: An Intra-domain Mobility Management Protocol for Next-Generation Wireless Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications, Mobile and Wireless Internet, Vol. 9, pp. 38-45, June 2002.
  
• Recognition of ACM Service Awards, for contributions as a founder and organizer of the ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Multimedia (WoWMoM), 2000--2002.
  
• IEEE Computer Society's Appreciation Awards, in recognition of contributions and leadership as General Chair of IEEE MASCOTS 2002
  Conference; Vice General Chair of IEEE HiPC'00 and '01; and General Co-Chair of IEEE MASCOTS'98.
  
• Best Paper Award at
  the International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN-16), Cheju, Korea, Jan 2002.
  the First IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), Brisbane, Australia, , May 2001.
  the International Workshop on Modeling Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Boston, , Aug 2000
  the the Fifth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Seattle, Aug. 1999.
  the 11th ACM/IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'97), Vienna, Austria, June 1997.
  
• Best Paper Award Nominee at
  4th ACM Int'l Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Wireless Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Rome, Italy, 2001.
  13th ACM/IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'99), Atlanta, Georgia, May 1999.
  
• Best Poster Award at
  TxTEC Conference, Texas A\&M Univ, College Station, Jan 2002 (with M. Chatterjee).
  TxTEC Conference, Univ of Texas at Arlington, Jan 2003 (with N. Banerjee).
  
• Recipient of the University of North Texas Student Association Honor Professor Award for outstanding teaching and scholarly research, 1991 and 1997.

• Nortel Networks published a feature article about my research contributions in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing in their 1996 Year Book on Global External Research, highlighting me as a model for university-corporate partnership.
  
• Recipient of UNT's Service Recognition Award (1998).
  
• Distinguished Alumni Award Nominee for outstanding professional achievements, Univ of Central Florida, Orlando, Oct 1997.

• Recipient of the Developing Scholars Award, UNT, Denton, 1996.
  
• Fellowship from Govt of Italy} under the International Short-term Mobility Program for Scientists/Researchers.Was invited to visit the
  Istituto di Elaborazione dell'Informatzione at the Consoglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IEI-CNR) in Pisa, Italy, 1996.
  
• Faculty Development Leave, UNT, 1996.

• Recipient of a Fellowship from Italy under the International Short-term Mobility Program for Scientists/Researchers from Italian and Foreign Institutions, for a research stay at the Istituto di Elaborazione dell'Informatzione at the Consoglio Nazuionale delle Ricerche (IEI-CNR) in Pisa, Italy, 1996.

• Nominated for the Distinguished Alumni Award for outstanding professional achievements, University of Central Florida, Orlando, 1995.

• Nominated for the 'Fessor Graham Award and Decker Scholar Award (1991), and J.H. Shelton Excellence Teaching Award (1993 & 1994) at UNT.

• Included in the Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 2nd Edition, 1994-1995 (also in the 3rd Ed. 1995-96); Marquis Who's Who in the World, 12th Edition, 1995-1996 (also in the 13th Ed.); Marquis Who's Who in the Southwest, 1995; Fifth Edition of the International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, published by American Biographical Institute.

• Invited Speaker at the DIMACS Workshop on Network Traffic Modeling and End-to-End Simulations, Princeton Univ, Oct 1997; Dagstuhl-Seminar on Data Structures, International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany, Mar 1998; ALTEC 5 Workshop on Algorithms and Computation Models for Future Technologies, Charles University, Prague, Mar 1995; Operational Research Society's National Meeting, Chicago, May 1993.

• Receipient of The Leonardo Fibonacci Institute's Scholarship (one among ten) to participate in the Summer Course on Design of Parallel Algorithms, Trento, Italy, June 1993.

• Recipient Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, UNT, 1990.

• Recipient of Cambridge Nehru Scholarship (one among ten), England, 1985.

• Gold Medalist for standing First Class First in B.Sc. (1980) from Ramakrishna Residential College at Narendrapur.

• Gold medals awarded by Gandhabanik Education Society, Calcutta, for outstanding performance in B.Sc. (1980) and B.Tech. (1983) degrees.

• National Merit Scholar, Government of India, 1976-1984.

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