National Science Foundation Career Award, Networking Research Program, 1999.
Teaching Excellence Award, Division of Undergraduate Education, University of California, Irvine, 2002.
Best Paper Award, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking (CCN) Conference, Las Vegas, Jan 8th – 10th, 2006.
Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Workshop on Multimodal Sentient Computing: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems (WMSC 2007) held in conjunction with IEEE CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) 2007.
Best Overall Idea Award & Best System Architecture Award at IEEE RTSS ’07 Ph.D. Forum, for Minyoung Kim, Nikil Dutt, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Carolyn Talcott. xTune: Online Verifiable Cross-Layer Adaptation for Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems, SIGBED Review, Volume 5, Number 1, January 2008, Special Issue on the RTSS Forum on Deeply Embedded Real-Time Computing.
Best Student Poster Award, in the IEEE/ACM 11th International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID2011) Newport Beach, May 2011, USA. Cloud Based Framework for Rich Content Mobile Applications.
Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Teaching, University of California, Irvine, 2014.
Dean’s Award for Service, University of California, Irvine, 2015.
US IGNITE Extreme Software Defined Networking (SDN) Challenge – 1st Prize, Team DSM, 2015.
2016 NCWIT Extension Services Transformation (NEXT) Award for Excellence in Promoting Women in Undergraduate Computing. With Drs. Artis, Blackwell, Regan, Richardson, Venkatasubramanian, and Ms. Rewal.
Best Paper Nominee, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP) 2016.
Best Paper Award, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCOM) 2017.