Awards

  • Merit Scholarship by the Government of Pakistan during all years at high school and college.

  • Merit Scholarship by the Government of Pakistan through all years of undergraduate studies.

  • Research Assistantship by the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University.

  • Best Student Paper Award, Supercomputing '90, New York, U.S.A, Oct. 1990.

  • Best Student Paper Award, Supercomputing '91, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A, Oct. 1991.

  • Supervised a student paper that received the Third Prize in the IEEE (Hong Kong Section) undergraduate student paper contest, Sept. 1994.

  • Co-authored a student paper that received the Excellent Achievement Award in IEEE (Hong Kong Section) postgraduate student paper contest, Sept. 1994.

  • Co-authored a student paper that received the First Prize in the IEEE (Hong Kong Section) postgraduate student paper contest, Sept. 1995.

  • Teaching Excellence Award by the School of Engineering, HKUST, Oct. 1996.

  • Merit-Based Double Increment in Salary Award, given by the President of HKUST, in recognition of outstanding research, teaching and service (only one or two faculty members were given this award in a year), May 1997.

  • Early Promotion with Tenure from assistant to associate professor, by HKUST, in recognition of outstanding research, teaching and service (the only assistant professor from the Computer Science Department to have received this award), January 1998

  • Best Paper Award, International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP01), Madrid, Spain, Sept. 2001.

  • Elected Senior Member of IEEE, February 2003.

  • IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Certificate of Appreciate for service 2004-2005, June 2006.

  • 2006 Runners-up for Best Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, April 2006.

  • Ph.D. advisor of Samee Khan, recipient of the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UTA, February 2007.

  • 2007 Best Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, presented at ISCAS, New Orleans, May 2007 (IEEE TCSVT is the 4th ranked journal out of all IEEE publications).

  • Plaque for Abell Distinguished Lecture in Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Oct. 2007.

  • Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), citation: "for contributions to scheduling techniques in parallel and distributed computing systems," effective January 2008.

  • IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation, for conference service, Dec. 2007.

  • Ph.D. advisor of Samee Khan, recipient of the Nortel Outstanding CSE Doctoral Dissertation Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UTA, Feb. 2008.

  • IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Certificate of Appreciate for service 2006-2007, June 2008.

  • IEEE Circuits and Systems Society President Award for Outstanding Associate Editor, June 2008.

  • IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Certificate of Appreciate for service 2007-2008, June 2009.

  • Honorable Mention by the Editor-in-Chief for my paper ranked at number 4 among top ten all time most cited papers of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Jan. 2010.

  • Two additional papers ranked among top most cited papers per year of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Editorial IEEE TPDS, Feb. 2010.

  • External Evaluator invited by Kuwait University to evaluate their M.S. Computer Engineering program, February 2011.

  • Distinguished Speaker invited by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia (Out of the 12 invited speakers 3 were Turing Award winners), March 2011.

  • IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Certificate of Appreciate for service 2010, Sept 2011.

  • Ph.D. advisor of Hafiz Fahad Sheikh, recipient of the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award (certificate and $500 cash prize), College of Engineering, UTA, Feb. 2012.

  • ISTEC Distinguished Lecturer in Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, March 2013.

  • Keynote Speaker, HPC China Big Data Forum 2013, Guilin, China, October 2013.

  • Invited Distinguished speaker, Kuwait University, April 2015.

  • Plaque for Workshop Chair service, International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference, Hangzhou, China, Nov. 2016.

  • Plaque for Workshop Chair service, International Green and Sustainable Computing Orlando, FL, Nov. 2017.

  • Plaque for Steering Committee Co-Chair service, International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference, Orlando, FL, Nov. 2017.

  • Distinguished Life Fellow, The Institute of Doctors, Engineers, & Scientists (IDES), India, Dec. 2017.

  • Keynote Speaker, International Conference on. Infocom Technologies and. Unmanned Systems (ICTUS'2017), Dubai, UAE, Dec. 2017.

  • Plaque for Service, International Conference on. Infocom Technologies and. Unmanned Systems (ICTUS'2017), Dubai, UAE, Dec. 2017.

  • Invited to be a Member of the Advisory Committee for Europen Commision on Energy Efficiency in Computing and Communication, Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 2018.