HONORS AND AWARDS

• Fellow of American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
• Best Paper Award, 2018 Identity, Security, and Behavior Analysis (ISBA) Conference
• Fellow, IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2010.
• Fellow, IAPR, the International Association of Pattern Recognition, 2006.
• Fellow, OSA, the Optical Society of America, 1993.
• Fellow, SPIE, the International Society of Optical Engineering, 1991.
• Listed in Marquis Who's Who in Sciences and Engineering.
• Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World.
• Philip Dowd Fellowship, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 2003.
• Eta Kappa Nu Award for Outstanding Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 2003.
• Outstanding Research Award, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 2008.
• Co-author of the Best Student Paper in Data Storage area, Data Storage Technical Committee of IEEE Communications Society, 2008.
• Co-author of the 2010 Best Student Paper award at the SPIE conference on Automatic Target Recognition, Orlando, FL, 2010.
• Co-author of the Best Innovative Paper award at the Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS) conference, 2010.
• Co-author of the Best Paper Award at BTAS Conference, 2013.
• Adjunct Professor Appointment, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 2013.
• U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering, CMU, 2014.
• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA), Sendai, Japan, March 2016.
• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016.