Selected Distinctions

• First place best paper award (2011) at the 7th Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop published by ACM for paper entitled "A Class of Cyber-Physical Switching Attacks for Power System Disruption".
• Best paper award finalist (2008) at the IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Mission Critical Networks for paper entitled “A Secure Integrated Routing and Localization Scheme for Broadband Mission Critical Networks”.
• Outstanding Professor Award (2007), ECE Department, Texas A&M University.
• Association of Former Students College Level Teaching Award (2006), Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University.
• Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award (2005), Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University.
• Marquis Who's Who Biographical Listings (2006-present).
• IEEE Senior Member (2003).
• Best Electrical Engineering Professor Award (2002), ECE Club, University of Toronto.
• Gordon Slemon Teaching of Design Award (2002), ECE Department, University of Toronto.
• Bell Canada Junior Chair-holder in Multimedia (1999-2002), ECE Deptartment, University of Toronto.
• University of Toronto Fellowship, University of Toronto.
• NSERC PGS B Scholarship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
• NSERC PGS A Scholarship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
• Edward S. "Ted" Rogers Fellowship, Communications Group, ECE Department, University of Toronto.
• Governor General's Academic Medals Program Certificate for exceptional academic performance in an undergraduate degree program in Canada.
• SCIEX Industrial Scholarship, SCIEX, Inc., in recognition of excellence in instrumentation design.
• F.C.C.P. - John Hin Chung Tsang Memorial Scholarship for graduating from Electrical Engineering undergraduate program with the highest standing in telecommunications courses at the University of Toronto.
• J. E. Reid Memorial Prize for achieving the highest aggregate percentage in the Fourth Year subjects pertaining to electronic communication at the University of Toronto.
• Andrew Alexander Kinghorn Scholarship for achieving the highest average for all undergraduate Engineering programs at the University of Toronto.
• Canada Scholarship awarded by the Canadian Government for academic excellence.
• J. W. Billes Open Entrance Scholarship awarded by the University of Toronto for academic excellence.
• Petro Canada Award for academic excellence.
• Mississauga Hydro Award for academic excellence.