Honor and Awards
- AAIA Fellow 2022 (Asia-Pacific Artificial Intellience Association)
- ACM Fellow 2019 - for contributions to the modeling and design of distributed systems
- AAAS Fellow 2018 - for distinguished contributions to the field of distributed computing systems
- Fulbright Specialist Scholar, 2017-18
- ACM Sigmetrics Test of Time Award 2016
- IEEE Fellow 2013 - for contributions to the design and analysis of distributed systems and computer networking
- ACM Distinguished Scientist 2009
Best Paper Awards and Finalists
- Best paper runner-up award, ACM/IEEE Intl Conference on Green and Sustainable Computing conference, 2023
- Best paper runner-up award, ACM Buildsys conference, 2021
- Best paper, IEEE International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), 2020
- Best paper finalist, ACM/IEEE Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis(SC20)
- Best poster award, ACM Sensys 2020 Conference
- Best paper Runner-up award, ACM e-Energy 2020 Conference
- Best paper finalist, ACM HPDC 2019 Conference
- Best paper award, ACM e-Energy 2019 Conference
- Best paper finalist, ACM Buildsys 2017 Conference
- Best paper finalist, ACM Buildsys 2014 Conference
- Best paper award, ACM/IEEE IWQOS symposium, Montreal, 2013
- Best paper runner-up, ACM eEnergy conference, Berkeley, CA, 2013
- Best papers of IEEE PerCom 2012 conference (one of three papers chosen for this honor)
- Best paper award, IEEE COMSNETS 2012 conference, Bangalore, India.
- Best paper, ACM Sigcomm GreenNets 2011 workshop, Toronto, Canada
- Best papers of ACM VEE 2009 conference (one of four papers chosen for this honor)
- Best paper award, USENIX 2007 Annual Technical Conference
- Best paper award, ACM Multimedia 2005
- Best student paper award, Autonomic Computing Conference 2005
- Best student paper finalist, ACM Multimedia 2005
- Best paper in the performance category, WWW Conference 2002
- Best paper award, IEEE WISE 2002
Other honors and awards
- Conti Research Fellow 2020-21
- NASA JSC Director’s Innovation Group Achievement Award, Oct 2017 (given to NASA REALM project that we are part of)
- NASA AES Innovation Award 2017 (given to NASA REALM project that we are part of)
- UMass President Science and Technology Award, 2017, 2012 and 2007
- Google Faculty Award, 2016 and 2013
- IBM Faculty Partnership Award, 2003, 2001, 2000
- AT&T VURI Award
- Keynote talks: IEE Milcom workshop 2022, ACM FateSys 2021, Aspen Tech Summit 2021, Asplos Edge Computing Workshop 2019, CPSWeek Fog Computing Workshop 2019, Cloud Control 2018, ACM ICPE 2013, ACM Greenmetrics 2013, IEEE E6 workshop 2012, TCS TECS week 2012
- Distinguished Lecture talks: Juniper Networks 2022, UMBC 2019, Colorado State 2018
- Lily Foundation Teaching Fellow 2002
- NSF Career Award 1999
- Best Dissertation Award, University of Texas Computer Science, 1999
- Microelectronic and Computer Development Fellow, Univ of Texas, 1993
- IIT Silver Medal, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay 1993.
- JN Tata Scholarship, 1993.