Awards/Honors

SDSU President’s Leadership Fund Award, 2012.
Los Alamos Award for outstanding poster at ACSESS Industry Forum, SDSU, 2012.
Best Paper Award at International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA-2011) organized by International Society for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA), 2011.
ACS CINF Excellence Award to two Graduate students (2007 and 2008)
ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow at Air Force Research Lab, Rome, NY, Summer 2008
ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow at Air Force Research Lab, Rome, NY, Summer 2007
Thomas G. Pine Faculty Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, SDSU
Senior Member of IEEE.
K.S. Krishnan Award of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India (1997).
Young Scientist Award of Indian Science Congress Association (1997).
Best Paper Award of Systems Society of India in 19th National Systems Conference (1995).
First in M.E. (Electronics & Control Engineering) at BITS, Pilani, India.
University Merit Scholarship during B.S. and National Scholarship during High School.

Research Awards & Contracts ($2M at SDSU)

Air Force Research Lab ($100K, PI), QoE-oriented Spectrum Information Distribution for Multimedia over DSA Networks, 09/01/11 – 05/31/12.
Air Force Research Lab ($475K, PI), Multimedia based Integration of Cross-layer Techniques, 12/15/10 – 09/31/13.
TrellisWare Technologies Inc. (SBIR, Phase I), Cognitive Cross-layer Protocols for Multi-Hop Transmission, $28,800, 01/01/2011 – 09/30/2011.
California Energy Commission ($250K, PI), An Integrated and Cognitive Home Energy Management System for Demand Response, 9/15/09 – 9/30/11.
Air Force Research Lab ($396K, PI), Design of Intelligent Cross-layer Routing Protocols for Airborne Wireless Networks under Dynamic Spectrum Access Paradigm, 1/29/2008 – 12/31/2010.
Information Institute, Rome, NY ($100K, PI), Cross-layer Design for Robust and Scalable Video Transmission in Dynamic Wireless Environments, 8/31/09 – 8/30/10.
NSF MRI ($220K, PI), MRI: Acquisition of a Test-bed for Next Generation Cognitive Radio Wireless Networks, 8/1/2007 – 7/31/2010.
NSF CCLI ($150K, Co-PI), Integration of 4G Heterogeneous Network Laboratory into the Electrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum, 3/01/2008 – 2/28/2012.
ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow at AFRL, Rome, NY ($17K, PI), QoS-aware and Cross-Layer Routing Protocols for Airborne Wireless Networks under Dynamic Spectrum Access Paradigm, 6/23/2008– 8/15/2008.
Sprint Advanced Technology Labs ($35K, PI), High Speed Video Streaming over 4G Mobile WiMAX Networks, 9/14/2008.
University Grants Proposal Award ($6,085, PI), Design of QoS-aware Cross-Layer Routing Protocols for MANETS under Dynamic Spectrum Access Paradigm, 1/01/2008 – 6/30/2009.
ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow at AFRL, Rome, NY ($15K, PI), QoS-aware Cross Layer Design of Transport Protocols for MANETs under Dynamic Spectrum Access Paradigm, 5/28/2007– 7/20/2007.
Cisco University Research Program Award (subcontract from Rochester Institute of Technology) ($25K, PI), Routing in support of Differentiated Services in Large-scale Ad Hoc Networks, 6/1/2006 – 6/30/2009.
Sprint Advanced Technology Labs ($25K), PI, Cellular Video Telephony, 08/15/2006.

Recieved at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY (2002-2006): ($700K)

Sprint Advanced Technology Labs ($25K), PI, Video Telephony in 3G EV-DO Cellular Networks, 1/20/06.
DOE National Energy Technology Lab, Morgan Town, WV ($50K, Co-PI), Intelligent Control via Wireless Sensor Networks for Advanced Coal Combustion Systems, 1/1/06 – 12/31/06.
CISCO Systems University Research Program ($75K, Co-PI), Reliable End-to-end Routing/ Transport Protocols in Integrated Cellular and Ad Hoc Networks, 7/1/05-12/31/06.
CISCO Systems University Research Program ($77.5K, Co-PI), Light-weight Security Protocols for Large-scale, Low-energy Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, 7/1/05-12/31/06.
NSF IUCRC Center for Identification Technology Research, WVU Morgan Town ($81K, Co-PI), Encryption of Biometric Templates using Biometrics as Key, 1/1/06 – 6/30/07.
NSF IUCRC Center for Identification Technology Research, WVU Morgan Town ($110K, Co-PI), Interoperability, Performance and Fusion Issues in Fingerprint Sensors, 1/1/05 – 6/30/06.
NY State Energy Research Development Agency (NYSERDA) ($240K, Co-PI), Image Processing for Measuring Losses in Electric Motors, 7/1/05-6/30/07.
Coulter Foundation (from gift to Clarkson University) ($27.5K, PI), Development of Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Research, 1/1/03-12/31/04.

Teaching Awards

Recognition for Teaching Excellence at Clarkson University (2004).
First in Intensive Teaching Workshop among 71 participants, for training in effective teaching and communication skills using modern methodology at BITS, Pilani, India (1991)