Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Communications Society (2024-2025)

Faculty Fellowships

• Faculty Fellow of U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center, 2017

• Faculty Fellow of U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Summer 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015

• Visiting Faculty Research Fellow, Korea Telecom Advanced Institute of Technology (KT-AIT), Summer, 2013

• 3M McKnight Distinguished Visiting Professorship, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, 8. 2004 - 7. 2005

Best Paper/Video/Poster Awards & Honors

• Best Paper Award, UKC 2022, Computer and Information Technology Symposium, from the president of KSEA (Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association)

• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 2018

• Best Video Award, ACM MobiSys, 2014

• Best Paper of a Track in IEEE ICCCN, 2014

• Best Poster Award, CANSec, 2014, 2015

• Among the top five papers in CoNext, 2005

• Nominated for best paper award in INFOCOM, 2004

University Award

• Chancellor’s Award for Inclusive Opportunity and Excellence, 2025

Other Honors

• Fellow and Certification in 'Inclusive Teaching for Equitable Learning' by Association of College and University Educators (ACUE), supported by the Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching (FaCET) at UMKC, Fall 2021

• Fellow and Certification in 'Effective Online Teaching Practices' by Association of College and University Educators (ACUE), Supported by UM system and Kauffman Foundation,  Fall 2020-Spring 2021

• Nominated for the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from the School of Computing and Engineering, UMKC, 2016

• Nominated for the Outstanding Faculty Award by the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council (IDSC), UMKC, 2014

• Featured in IEEE Spectrum, 2014 (Numerous posts on the Internet were followed on the work since then.)

• Excellence in Research Award by Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, 4. 2002

Keynotes

• ACM MINK WIC (Midwest Women-In-Computing Conference), Kansas City, USA, October 2025 

• EU IoTalentum, Salamanca, Spain, January 2025

• The 1st Workshop on Intelligent Crowd Engineering, In Conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 'Intelligent Crowd Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities,'  Abu Dhabi, UAE October 2024 

• The 6th IFIP Internet of Things (IFIP-IoT) Conference, ’IoT Technology Spectrum: From Connectivity to AI-enabled IoT,’ November 2023

• The 19th IEEE OITS International Conference on Information Technology, ’Smart Education in (Post) Pandemic Era,’ December 2021

Tutorials

• Tutorial, IEEE Future Networks World Forum, ’Building a Private 5G Testbed Using Open Source Platforms for Future Network Research,’ Dubai, UAE, October 2024 

  • Tutorial Speakers: Baek-Young Choi, Venkat Rao Manavarthi

• Tutorial, IEEE Future Networks World Forum, ’The Art of Standardizations in Communications and Networking: similarities, differences, and intricacies,’ Baltimore, MD, USA, November 2023

  • Tutorial Speakers: Baek-Young Choi, Ranganai Chaparadza, Sejun Song 

• Tutorial, IEEE International Smart Cities Conference’20, ’Blockchain for Smart City Applications: From Basics Theory to Current and Future Smart City Applications, (Virtual) Budapest, Hungary, September 2020

  • Tutorial Speakers: Baek-Young Choi, Kaushik Ayinala

• Tutorial, IEEE NetSoft’18, ’Secure SDN Architectures and Their Applications for IoT and Edge Computing,’ Montreal, Canada, June 2018 

  • Tutorial Speakers: Baek-Young Choi, Sejun Song, Alex Sprintson

Panel Speaker

• Panel Speaker, Industry Forum on ’Edge, Edge Intelligence & Edge Intelligent Systems,’ IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), November 2023

• Panel Speaker, ’Women in Engineering Panel’ IFIP IoT, November 2023

• Panel Speaker, ’Unlocking the Potential of 6G: Shaping the Next Generation of Connectivity,’ IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), September 2023

• Panel Speaker, ’Empower Your Passion as a Women in Engineering WICE,’ IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), September 2023

• Panel Speaker, ’Internet of Things and Security,’ CANSec, Warrensburg, MO, 2017

• Plenary Panel Speaker, IEEE ICCCN, Panel Title: ’Cyber-Physical Clouds: Risks and Opportunities’ Shanghai, China, 2014

Selected Invited Talks 

• IEEE Webinar - Computer and Communications Societies Chapter, Invited Speaker, January 2025

• University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, January 2025

• Workshop on AI for 6G, organized by IEEE Spain Signal PRocessing and Communications Joint Chapter, IEEE ComSoc WICE, University of Carlos III (UC3M), Madrid, Spain, January 2025

• EU IoTalentum, Salamanca, Spain, January 2025

• National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, August 2024

• National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, August 2024

• National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Tainan, Taiwan, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, August 2024

• National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, August 2024

• IEEE ComSoc Bahrain and Karachi Section Chapters, Virtual Distinguished Lecture, July 2024 

• Seoul National University, Seoul, S. Korea, BK21 Expert Seminar, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, Summer 2024

• Yonsei University, Seoul, S. Korea, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, July 2024

• Kyunghee University, Seoul, S. Korea, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, July 2024

• Pusan National University, Pusan, S. Korea, BK21 Expert Seminar, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, Summer 2024

• IEEE ComSoc Young Professionals (YP), Webinar, Invited Speaker, June 2024

• University of North Texas, Invited Department Seminar Speaker, Dept. Computer Science and Engineering, November, 2023

• IEEE Webinar (Region 1), Invited Speaker, March 2023

• University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Dept Seminar Speaker, February 2023

• IEEE COMSNETS, Invited Speaker, January 2023

• Missouri University of Science and Technology, Invited Department Seminar, September 2022

• University of Missouri - St. Louis, Invited Department Seminar, April 2022

• The 8th International Conference on Networking, Systems and Security, Invited Speaker, December 2021

• ACM SIGCSE’21 TOCE (Transactions on Computing Education) Selected Paper Session Speaker, March 2021

• NSF RESET Conference, Invited Speaker, March 2021

• IEEE Smart Cities Conference’20 Tutorial - ’Blockchain for Smart City Applications From Basics Theory to Current and Future Smart City Applications,' 2020

• IEEE Smart Cities Conference, Kansas City- Core Smart City Presentation, Casablanca, Morocco, October 2019 MidWest Bioinformatics Conference, Invited Speaker, Kansas City, MO, April 2019

• IEEE Local Chapter Dinner Meeting Speaker, IEEE Computer Society - Kansas City Chapter, Overland Park, KS, November 2018

• IEEE NetSoft’18 Tutorial - ’Security Issues in SDN and IoT Applications’, June 2018

• ACM MINK WIC, Invited Speaker, Kansas City, MO, November 2017

• CANSec, Invited Talk, Missouri Science and Technology, Rolla MO, October 2017

• Concorida University, Montreal, Canada, Department Seminar, October 2017

• Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, NSF REU (Research Experience for Undergraduate students), Invited Seminar, May 2017

• Missouri University of Science and Technology, NSF REU (Research Experience for Undergraduate students), Invited Seminar, May 2017

• University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA, Invited Department Seminar, May 2017

• University of Missouri - Kansas City, MO, USA, Department Seminar, May 2017

• University of Missouri (Columbia), Sterling and Vivian Hour Colloquium Series Talk, April 2017

• GENI Engineering Conference (GEC 25), Miami, FL, USA, Invited Talk, March 2017

• Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA, Invited Department Seminar, March 2017

• Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China, Invited Department Seminar, December 2016

• Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China, Invited Department Seminar, December 2016

• Pusan National University, S. Korea, Invited Department Seminar, December 2016

• Changwon National University, S. Korea, Invited Department Seminar, December 2016

• University of South Florida, USA, Invited Department Seminar, November 2016

• Seoul National University, S. Korea, Invited Department Seminar, June 2016

• Pusan National University, S. Korea, Invited Department Seminar, June 2016

• University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK, USA, Invited Engineering College Seminar, April 2016.

• Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, Department Teleseminar, January 2016

• Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY, USA, June 2015