Honors & Awards
- Best Paper Award, The 28th International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering, 2017
- Annual Faculty Service Excellence Award, School of Computing and Information Sciences, FIU, 2013
- Annual Faculty Research Excellence Award, School of Computing and Information Sciences, FIU, 2009
- Excellence in Faculty Scholarship, FIU, 2008
- Executive Dean’s Award in Service, College of Engineering and Computing, 2006
- Ranked among the top 15 scholars in Systems and Software Engineering worldwide during 1999 - 2003 by Journal of Systems and Software, vol.76, No. 1, 2005
- FIU Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, 2005
- Annual Faculty Service Excellence Award, School of Computing and Information Sciences, FIU, 2005
- Annual Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, School of Computer Science, FIU, 2003
- Best Paper Award, The 11th International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering, 1999
- Who’s Who in Information Technology, 1997
- Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 1995
- Research Initiation Award, NSF, 1993
- Who’s Who Among Young American Professionals, 1992
- Annual Graduate Student Research Excellence Award, Virginia Tech, 1989
- Epsilon Pi Upsilon, Virginia Tech, 1986
- European and American Student Association Fellowship, Ministry of Education, China, 1985 - 1986
Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 1989
- MS, Computer Science, Nanjing University, China, 1984
- BS, Computer Science, Nanjing University, China, 1982