Honors & Awards

  • Having ESI Highly Cited Research Papers in Computer Science) (as of 01/2018)Web of Science
  • IEEE TCSC ECR Award for ExcellenceIEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing for Early Career Researchers, 2016-2017 (a prestigious award given to 3-4 people selected from around the world)
  • IEEE Best Paper AwardThe 13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2016), Brasilia, Brazil, October 10-13, 2016
  • IEEE Outstanding Leadership AwardIEEE
  • Outstanding CSC AlumnusHonored by China Scholarship Council (CSC)- Chinese Government Scholarship Unit, Offered on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of CSC, 2016
  • Provincial Excellent PhD Thesis AwardAwarded by Hunan Provincial Educational Department, Hunan Province, China (Top one in the Province in academic award year 2015-2016 for the PhD thesis submitted in 2013-2014)
  • Young Scientist, 2015Awarded by National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in the Youth Scientific Class, 2015
  • Outstanding PhD Thesis Award, 2015Awarded by Central South University, China (The first one among the four theses awards, selected from around 60 PhD theses in 2013 and 2014) [Candidate for China Hunan Provincial Doctoral Thesis Award] [Link]
  • Best Paper Award @ IEEE ISPA’13, Melbourne [国际学术会议最佳论文奖]Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Guojun Wang, Jiannong Cao, Jie Wu, “Local Monitoring and Maintenance for Operational Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA’13), Melbourne, Australia, 16-18 July, 2013.
  • Top-Notch Innovative PhD Student Fellowship (2012-2013)Awarded by Central South University and the Hunan Provincial Science Foundation,China [2012-2013 学年度拔尖创新博士生奖学金]
  • Hunan Province PhD Research and Innovation Research GrantAwarded by the Hunan Provincial Science Foundation, China [2012年度湖南省研究生教育创新工程项目经费]
  • Best Paper AwardMd Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Guojun Wang, and Jiannong Cao, “Resource-Efficient Vibration Data Collection in Cyber-Physical Systems,” the 2012 14th Annual Academic Conference of School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University [ 信息科学与工程学院第十四届研究生学术年会优秀论文奖].
  • Outstanding Master Degree Dissertation AwardAwarded by Hunan province, China (2010-11) [湖南省优秀研究生学位论文奖]
  • Excellent Master Degree Dissertation AwardAwarded by the Central South University, China (2010) [ 中南大学优秀研究生学位论文奖]
  • Distinguished International Student AwardAwarded by Chinese Government Scholarship Council (CSC), 2009. [ 2009 年优秀外国留学生奖]
  • Full PhD Scholarship (2009)Sponsored by Chinese Government Scholarship Council (CSC) [中国政府奖学金对于博士学位]
  • Full Master Degree Scholarship (2006)Awarded by Asia Foreign Scholarship under ‘Chinese Government Scholarship (CSC). [中国政府奖学金对于硕士学位]
  • One-Year Diploma ScholarshipRecipient of the diploma in Computer Application sponsored by the IDB-BISEW IT Scholarship Project (3rd round). http://www.idb-bisew.org/
  • Academic Financial AssistanceRecipient of it for the duration 2002-2003, 2003-2004 on BSc. degree studies.
  • IT InternshipHonored by the Alpha Soft System Ltd., Bangladesh, in 2005.
  • Certificate Course on Advance Programming (VB. Net, C#)Selected for the course offered by the Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), Bangladesh, 2004
  • Industrial Training Support Selected for the training offered by the Grameen Phone Ltd (Leading Telecommunication Company in Bangladesh), 2003.