Advanced WirelEss Systems and Multimedia Networking Lab (AWESM Lab)


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AWESM Lab Team [back to top]

  • Doctoral Students:

    • Wesley O'Quinn: BS (Double Major) from Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, since Summer 2020 (Electrical/IC Design Engineer at Southern Nuclear, Baxley, GA)

    • Junwei Ma: MS from University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, since Fall 2020

    • Aaron Smith: MS from Auburn University, Auburn, AL, since Summer 2022 (Software Excellence Manager at Northrop Grumman Corp., San Diego, CA)

    • Anthony Jye-Ru Chen: MS from Clemson University, Clemson, SC, since Fall 2022

    • Ziqi Wang: BS from Auburn University, Auburn, AL, since Spring 2023

    • Bernard Amoah: BSc. from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, since Fall 2023

  • MS Students:

    • Alfred Mcleod, non-thesis MSEE with wireless concentration

    Made in Auburn [Mathematics Genealogy][back to top]

    Student Awards and Honors [back to top]

    • Wenqian Zhang, ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award, Chapter Winner of 2022

    • Chao Yang and Xuyu Wang, Best Journal Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society eHealth Technical Committee, Dec. 2022

    • Ziqi Wang, Runner up of the Best Project Award, for his Capstone Project titled "Gesture Controlled Home Assistant," Dec. 2022 (Technical Mentor: Shiwen Mao)

    • Anthony Chen, Woltosz Fellowship, Aug. 2022 ~ Aug. 2026

    • Chao Yang and Xuyu Wang, Best Paper Award, The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'22), Seoul, South Korea, May 2022

    • Chao Yang and Xuyu Wang, Best Demo Award, IEEE INFOCOM 2022, Virtual Conference, May 2022

    • Zhitao Yu: Runner-up of the Best Paper Award, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC'22), Virtual Conference, Jan. 2022

    • Mingjie Feng: The 2021 Best Paper Award, Elsevier/KeAi Digital Communications and Networks Journal

    • Chao Yang: Outstanding Doctoral Student for 2020-2021, Auburn University, Apr. 2021

    • Xuyu Wang and Lingjun Gao: IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, recognizing the best systems paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Oct. 2020

    • Ticao Zhang: IEEE Access Journal's “Article of the Week,” May 2020

    • Chao Yang: Best Paper Award, IEEE Globecom 2019

    • Chao Yang: NSF student travel grant for IEEE Globecom 2019

    • Chao Yang: Honorable Mention, the 2019 IEEE ComSoc Student Competition on “Communications Technology Changing the World,” for a project titled “Driving Fatigue Detection System based on RFID,” Nov. 2019

    • Tino Monroe:  The 2019 URMD Grad Cohort Award, Computing Research Association (CRA) (https://cra.org/)

    • Tino Monroe: GEM Associate Fellow Award, The National GEM Consortium, 2019 (http://www.gemfellowship.org/)

    • Tino Monroe: Intel, Pre-Silicon Validation Intern, Hillsboro, OR, Summer 2018

    • Yu Wang: summer intern at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, Summer 2018 and Spring 2019

    • Kefan Xiao: summer intern at Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA, Summer 2018

    • Kefan Xiao: The IEEE ComSoc MMTC 2017 Best Conference Paper Award

    • Mingjie Feng: 2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, Apr. 2018

    • Mingjie Feng, ECE outstanding international graduate student, Auburn University, 2018

    • Mingjie Feng, Best Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2017

    • Xuyu Wang, Runze Huang, and Chao Yang, Honorable Mention, the 2017 IEEE ComSoc Student Competition on “Communications Technology Changing the World,” for a project titled “On contact-free vital sign measurement in healthcare Internet of Things,” Nov. 2017

    • Xuyu Wang and Xiangyu Wang: IEEE PIMRC 2017 Best Student Paper Award, Oct. 2017

    • Yu Wang: Top 500/Round 3 (among 64,000 participants), Google Code Jam 2017, June 2017

    • Xuyu Wang and Runze Huang: IEEE SECON 2017 Best Demo Award, June 2017

    • Mingjie Feng: IEEE SECON 2017 Student Travel Grant Award, June 2017

    • Xuyu Wang: summer intern at Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute North America (GEIRI North America), Summer 2017

    • Kefan Xiao: summer intern at Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA, Summer 2017

    • Kaiwei Wang: IEEE GLOBECOM 2016 Best Paper Award, Dec. 2016

    • Mingjie Feng: Graduate Travel Grant, Auburn University Graduate School, Dec. 2016

    • Kefan Xiao: Graduate Travel Grant, Auburn University Graduate School, Dec. 2016

    • Kefan Xiao: IEEE GLOBECOM 2016 Student Travel Grant Award, Dec. 2016

    • Xuyu Wang: Graduate Travel Grant, Auburn University Graduate School, Apr. 2016

    • Zhifeng He: Graduate Travel Grant, Auburn University Graduate School, Apr. 2016

    • Mingjie Feng: Top International Graduate Student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, International Student Organization, Auburn University, Apr. 2016

    • Zhifeng He: Outstanding Doctoral Student for 2015-2016, The Graduate School and The Graduate Student Council, Auburn University, Apr. 2016

    • Zhifeng He: IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 Best Paper Award, Dec. 2015

    • Kefan Xiao: Woltosz Fellowship, Aug. 2015 ~ Aug. 2019

    • Ningkai Tang: Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship, Aug. 2015 ~ Aug. 2019

    • Yu Wang: The 2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) Best Paper Award, New Orleans, LA, Mar. 2015

    • Xuyu Wang, Lingjun Gao, Yi Xu, Kefan Xiao, and Zhifeng He: Honorable Mention, for their project “Smart Traffic Grid” in the Global Urban Datafest multi-city hackathon, Auburn competition, Mar. 2014

    • Yi Xu: ECE Department’s nominee to Meriwether Fellowship, Auburn University Graduate School, Feb. 2014

    • Ningkai Tang: ECE Department’s nominee to the Auburn Uninversity Graduate School Master's Thesis Awards, June 2014

    • Yingsong Huang: Auburn University’s nominee to the national competition for distinguished dissertations sponsored by the Council of Graduate Schools and ProQuest, June 2014

    • Yingsong Huang: The 2014 Auburn University Graduate School Distinguished Dissertation Awards (one of four awardees), May 2014

    • Yi Xu: Outstanding International Graduate Student Award for Academic Excellence in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, 2013 ~ 2014

    • Xuyu Wang: co-recipient of the Second Prize of Natural Scientific Award of Ministry of Education, China in 2013, based on his MS work with former advisor Dr. Xinbo Gao at Xidian University, Xi’an, China

    • In Keun Son: Runner-up for the 2013 Fabio Neri Best Paper Award

    • Zhifeng He: ACM CRAB'13 paper was selected as one of the best papers from ACM Mobicom 2013 workshops for fast-track journal publication in ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R)

    • Yu Wang: Graduate Travel Grant, Auburn University Graduate School, Dec. 2013

    • Reza Ashtari: Graduate Travel Grant, Auburn University Graduate School, Dec. 2013

    • Reza Ashtari: published a paper in the Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE'13) and presented a poster at the conference based on his REU work

    • Xuyu Wang: Woltosz Fellowship, Aug. 2013 ~ Aug. 2017

    • Mingjie Feng: Woltosz Fellowship, Aug. 2013 ~ Aug. 2017

    • Hui Zhou: The IEEE ICC 2013 Best Paper Award

    • Yi Xu: summer intern at NEC Laboratories American, Princeton, NJ, Summer 2013

    • Zhefeng Jiang: summer intern at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill NJ, Summer 2013

    • Yingsong Huang: Outstanding International Graduate Student Award for Academic Excellence in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, 2012 ~ 2013

    • Yingsong Huang: Outstanding International Graduate Student Award for Academic Excellence in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, 2012 ~ 2013

    • Yu Wang: Third Best Poster Award, The NSF Broadband Wireless Access and Applications Center (BWAC) Kickoff Meeting, Biosphere 2, Tucson, AZ, Apr. 2013

    • Yingsong Huang: Graduate Travel Grant, Auburn University Graduate School, Dec. 2012

    • Donglin Hu: Outstanding Doctoral Student for 2011-2012, The Graduate School and The Graduate Student Council, Auburn University, Apr. 2012

    • Donglin Hu: inducted to honor society Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), Apr. 2012

    • Yingsong Huang: inducted to honor society Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), Apr. 2012

    • Yi Xu: inducted to honor society Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), Apr. 2012

    • Donglin Hu: IEEE MILCOM 2011 Student Travel Grant Award, Nov. 2011

    • Yingsong Huang: IEEE MILCOM 2011 Student Travel Grant Award, Nov. 2011

    • Yu Wang: Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship, Aug. 2011 ~ Aug. 2015

    • Donglin Hu: Outstanding International Graduate Student for Academic Excellence in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, 2010 ~ 2011

    • Donglin Hu: Second Place in the ECE Department Graduate Student Poster Competition, Feb. 2011

    • In Keun Son: IEEE MILCOM 2010 Student Travel Grant Award, Oct./Nov. 2010

    • Jing Ning: Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship, Aug. 2010 ~ Aug. 2014

    • Donglin Hu: Vodafone Fellowship, Dept. ECE, Auburn University, 2008

    • Yingsong Huang: Vodafone Fellowship, Dept. ECE, Auburn University, 2008

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