Harpreet S. Dhillon - Awards and Honors
Selected Awards and Honors
2022, Elected AAIA Fellow for “outstanding achievements in the area of Machine Learning for Communication Systems”
2022, Elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions to heterogeneous cellular networks (IEEE Fellows Class of 2023) (VT News)
2022, Promotion to Full Professor, Virginia Tech
2022, AI2000 Most Influential Scholars (#18 in Internet of Things), AMiner, Tsinghua University
2021, IEEE ComSoc Wireless Communications Technical Committee (WTC) Outstanding Young Researcher Award for research contributions to the field of wireless communications and for service to WTC
2021, WiOpt Best Student Paper Award, 19th Int. Symp. on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt)
2021, AI2000 Most Influential Scholars (#15 in Internet of Things), AMiner, Tsinghua University
2020, IEEE ComSoc Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) Early Achievement Award for fundamental contributions to stochastic geometry and heterogeneous cellular networks
2020, IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Committee (RCC) Early Achievement Award for contributions to radio communications (WNCG News)
2020, (Inaugural) IIT Guwahati Young Alumni Achiever Award (NDTV News)
2020, AI2000 Most Influential Scholars (#16 in Internet of Things), AMiner, Tsinghua University
2020, Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, Virginia Tech College of Engineering (Link)
2019, Named the Elizabeth and James E. Turner Jr. ’56 Faculty Fellow, Virginia Tech (VT News)
2019, Early tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, Virginia Tech
2019, Virginia Tech Favorite Faculty Award, Virginia Tech Division of Student Affairs
2019, Elevated to IEEE Senior Member, IEEE
2019, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters Top Editor Award, IEEE Communications Society
2018, Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics
2018, Named College of Engineering Faculty Fellow, Virginia Tech College of Engineering (Link)
2018, Named the Steven O. Lane Junior Faculty Fellow of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech
(VT News)
2017, Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) (VT News)
2017, Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award, Virginia Tech College of Engineering (Link)
2016, Virginia Tech Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) Junior Faculty Award
2016, IEEE ComSoc Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Communications Letter, IEEE Communications Society
2015, National Science Foundation CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award
2015, IEEE ComSoc Young Author Best Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society
2014, IEEE ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society
2014, Best Student Paper Award, European Wireless Conference (WNCG News)
2014, Viterbi Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Southern California
2013, Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (UT ECE News)
2013, Wireless Networking and Communications Group leadership award, The University of Texas at Austin
2013, Exemplary Reviewer, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Society (IEEE Xplore Article)
2010, Microelectronics and Computer Development (MCD) Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin
2008, Agilent Engineering and Technology Award (best undergraduate research thesis award), Agilent Technologies
2007, NASA Tech Briefs Create the Future Design Contest: Honorable Mention (among top 3 projects in the medical category worldwide)
2006, Recipient of several student awards in Techniche (IIT Guwahati, India) including the Best Student Paper and the second Best Hardware Project
Recent Keynotes, Tutorials, and Other Key Invited Talks
- (Keynote) Drone-Assisted Cellular Networks: Modeling and Fundamentals
DroneCom: 4th International Workshop on Drone Assisted Wireless Communications for 5G and Beyond, ACM MobiCom 2021, New Orleans, US, March 28 - April 1, 2022. - (Invited Seminar) Poisson Line Cox Process: Distributional Properties and Applications to Vehicular Networks
LINCS-NEMO Workshop on Vehicular Networks, Laboratory for Information, Networking and Communication Sciences (LINCS), Paris, Mar 10-11, 2022. (Video Lecture) - (Short Course) Machine Learning in Communications
JTG/IEEE ITSoc Summer School in Information Theory, Signal Processing, Telecommunication, and Networking, IIT Kanpur, India, June 28-July 1, 2021. (Video Lectures)
Second offering: SPARC Project Event, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India, Jan 21-24, 2022. - (Keynote) Random Sequential Adsorption: A Multilayer Extension and its Applications to Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks
Fifth Symposium on Spatial Networks, School of Mathematics, Bristol University, Oct 23, 2020. - (Keynote) Integrated Access and Backhaul: Foundations and Design Insights
India Research Network 2020 event organized by Samsung Research India - Bangalore, India, Sept. 21-25, 2020. - (Keynote) An Application of Grassmann Clustering in Massive MIMO
Open-RAN Workshop, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 25-28 May 2020. - (Invited Seminar) Role of Age of Information in the Internet of Things
Workshop on 5G Technology that Fuels Massive IoT Growth, IEEE 5G World Forum, Bangalore, India, Sept. 2020. - (Invited Seminar) Random Networks on Lines: Stochastic Geometry for Vehicular Systems
IEEE Radio Communications Technical Committee (RCC) Meeting at the IEEE ICC 2020. Invited to present for being the winner of the RCC Early Achievement Award 2020. - (Invited Seminar) Stochastic Geometry for Smart Cities
Building Blocks for Smarter Cities Workshop, Virginia Tech Research Center - Arlington, July 29, 2019. - (Keynote) Poisson Cluster Process and its Applications to Cellular Networks
Third Symposium on Spatial Networks, School of Mathematics, Bristol University, UK, Sept. 13, 2018. - (Invited Tutorial) Poisson Line Process: Historical Perspective and Applications to Vehicular Networks
Short Course on Stochastic Geometry, School of Mathematics, Bristol University, UK, Sept. 11, 2018. - (Invited Seminar) 3GPP-inspired Stochastic Geometry Models for Cellular Networks
Texas Wireless Summit, WNCG, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, Nov. 6, 2017.
10th annual Huawei University Days, Futurewei R&D Center, Chicago, IL, Aug. 4, 2017. - (Invited Seminar) Modeling and Analysis of Emerging Trends in Device-to- Device Networks
Communications Theory Workshop, Orange County, CA, May 2015. - (Invited Seminar) Modeling and Analysis of Clusters and Exclusion Zones in D2D Networks
Simons Conference on Networks and Stochastic Geometry, Austin, TX, May 2015. - (IEEE ComSoc Webinar) Small Cells, Big Gains: Increasing Cellular Capacity (by 1000x)
IEEE ComSoc webinar (sponsored by InterDigital), Mar. 26, 2015. - (Invited Seminar) Spatial Models for 5G Networks: Beyond Homogeneous Poisson Point Processes
Qualcomm Corporate R&D Academic Lecture Series, San Diego, CA, Dec. 10, 2015. - (Invited Tutorial) Small Cells, Big Gains: Increasing Cellular Capacity by 1000x
24th Virginia Tech Symposium on Wireless Communications and 10th Annual Wireless Summer School, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, May 28-30, 2014.
Main Research Grants
2022, NSF grant CNS-2225511, NSF-AoF: Vision-Guided Wireless Communication Systems (Role: Co-PI) (VT News)
2021, NSF grant CNS-2107276, Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: Localization in Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks: Fundamentals, Algorithms, and Measurement-inspired Simulator (Project Website) (Role: PI)
2020, NSF grant ECCS-2030215, Collaborative Research: SWIFT: SMALL: Enabling Seamless Coexistence between Passive and Active Networks using Reconfigurable Reflecting Surfaces (Project Website) (Role: PI)
2020, NSF grant AST-2037870, SII Planning: ARIES: Center for Agile, RelIablE, Scalable Spectrum (Role: Co-PI)
2019, NSF grant CNS-1923807, SpecEES: Collaborative Research: DroTerNet: Coexistence between Drone and Terrestrial Wireless Networks (Project Website) (Role: PI)
2018, NSF grant CNS-1814477, NeTS: Small: Fundamentals of Internet-of-Things with Energy Harvesting and Edge Intelligence (Project Website) (Role: PI)
2017, NSF grant CPS-1739642, CPS: Small: Statistical Performance Analysis and Resource Management for Cyber-Physical Internet of Things Systems (Role: PI)
2017, NSF grant ECCS-1731711, SpecEES: Collaborative Research: Stochastic Geometry Meets Channel Measurements: Comprehensive Modeling, Analysis, Fundamental Design-tradeoffs in Real-world Massive-MIMO Networks (Role: PI)
2017, National Spectrum Consortium grant NSC-16-RPP-04, LTE Output Power Characterization and LTE Output Power Aggregation Models (Prime: Draper) (Role: PI)
2016, NSF grant IIS-1633363, BIGDATA: Collaborative Research: IA: Big Data Analytics for Optimized Planning of Smart, Sustainable, and Connected Communities (Project Website) (Role: Co-PI)
2016, NSF grant CNS-1617896, NeTS: Small: Joint Backhaul and Radio Access Design for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (Project Website) (Role: PI)
2016, Junior Faculty Award, Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science at Virginia Tech (Role: PI)
2015, NSF grant CCF-1464293, CRII: CIF: Towards Self-Powered Heterogeneous Cellular Networks (Role: PI)
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