Dept. of Computer Science
University of California Davis
June 7, 2012:
Excellence in Postdoctoral Research. Awarded by UC Davis for exceptional performance in post-doctoral research. This award was given to 3 scholar from 21 finalists among a pool of 1000+ post-
doctoral scholars at UC Davis
June 1, 2012:
Paper accepted in MOBICOM 2012. The work is titled "Temporal Quality Assessment for Mobile Videos"
December 8, 2011:
Design Contest Winner at 25th International Conference on VLSI Design, 2012. The work is titled "Hardware Architecture for Pairwise Statistical Significance
Estimation in Bioinformatics Problems"
October 26, 2011:
Awarded Best Paper Award at 14th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications 2011. The work is titled " Investigation of Scalable Video Delivery using H.264 SVC on an LTE Network"
September 19, 2011:
Featured on Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blog "A Who’s Who Among the CIFellows" for pursuing groundbreaking research. Posted in July, 2011
Auguest 23, 2011:
Paper titled "Using Chaotic Maps for Encrypting Image and Video Content " accepted for ISM 2011
April 21, 2011:
Awarded 2011 Zaffarano Award, Honorable mention
to recognize superior performance in publishable research by an Iowa State University graduate student.
A committee appointed by the Graduate Dean, consisting of faculty in several disciplines and one member of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, select the student whose publishable research record while at ISU is most worthy of this prize.
April 21, 2011:
Guest Lecture in course EEC173B: Design Projects in Communication Networks on "Wireless media access & Multimedia Compression and communication basics".
February 09, 2011:
Selected by ISU Alumni Association for 2011 Iowa STATEment Makers. Iowa 'STATEment Makers' is an honor that recognizes the early personal and professional accomplishments and contributions to society of Iowa State University's young alumni (graduates under 32 years of age).
December 11, 2010:
Paper with Dr. J Zambreno titled, "A Chaotic Encryption Scheme for Real-time Embedded Systems: Design and Implementation
" accepted for publication in Telecommunication Systems special issue on Chaotic Cryptography (Springer).
November 23, 2010:
Paper with Dr. P Kumar titled, "Efficient compression and network adaptive video coding for
distributed video surveillance" accepted for publication in Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer).
November 19, 2010:
Guest Lecture in course ECS 152 Computer Networks on "Networks and Multimedia".
July 27, 2010:
Awarded NSF CI Fellowship for 2010-11.
July 14, 2010:
Awarded Research Excellence Award (2010) by Iowa State University.