Honors and 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
• FIU Top Scholars, FIU, 2008.
• Executive Dean's Award in Service, College of Engineering and Computing, FIU, 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, 91-97.
• 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 Profesionals, 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.