Professional Activities:

Honors And Awards

• SIGSIM-PADS Best Paper Award, 2014.
• CNS Best Paper Award, 2012.
• NSF CAREER Award, 2006.
• FIU 2010 Top Scholars in Research, 2010.
• FIU SCIS Excellence in Service Award, 2009.
• GEC Travel Grant (several times).
• Beijing Outstanding Student Award in Physics and Engineering, 1992.
• University Academic Excellence Award, 1990–1993.
• University Scholarship, 1988–1989

Professional Services

• Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), 2014-
• Associate Editor, Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 2009-.
• Steering Committee Member, ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (SIGSIM-PADS), 2013-.
• Guest Editor, Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Special Issue on Advanced and Distributed Simulation, 2009.
• Steering Committee Member, ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS), 2008-2012.
• General Co-Chair, 26th ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2012), Zhangjiajie, China, July 15-19, 2012.
• General Chair, 4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2011), Barcelona, Spain, March 21-25, 2011.
• General Chair, 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2010), Miami Beach, Florida, August 17-19, 2010.
• Program Co-Chair, 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2010), Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain, March 15-19, 2010.
• Track Coordinator, Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Networks and Communications Track, Savannah, GA, December 7-10, 2014.
• Local Coordinator, 4th GENI Engineering Conference (GEC4), Miami, Florida, March 31-April 2, 2009.
• Program Chair, 22nd Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2008), Rome, Italy, June 3-6, 2008.
• Proceedings Co-Editor, 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Monterey California, December 2-5, 2006.
• Publicity Chair, 19th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2005), Monterey, California, June 1-3, 2005.
• NSF Panelist: 2008, 2009

Program Committee Membership:

• ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation(SIGSIM-PADS), 2013-2014.
• International Conference on Systems Simulation (AsiaSim), 2013.
• Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2013.
• ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS), 2005-2012.
• Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), 2009-2012.
• IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2008-2012.
• IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-time Applications (DS-RT), 2008-2012.
• International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom), 2009-2010.
• ICST International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools), 2009-2012.
• Others (many lost count): WSC 2012; HPCC 2011, 2012; ICC 2012; SN 2008-2011; DCPerf 2011; ChinaCom 2009, 2010; WCNC 2010, 2011; ICISTM 2009; ICNSC 2008, 2009; ICCCN 2008-2011; IWCMC 2007

Other Professional Activities

• Member of ACM, 2003-current.
• Member of IEEE Computer Society, 2003-current.
• Member of IEEE Communication Society, 2006-2009