In 2008, he was one of the three recipients of Purdue "Class of 1922 Helping Student Learn Award." In 2005, he received Purdue ECE Chicago Alumni Award for the recognition of "outstanding scholarship among early career faculty." In 2004, he obtained NSF National Science Foundation "Career Award", a five-year research grant, for studying energy conservation by operating systems. He obtained a Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 2002 and BSEE from National Taiwan University. In Fall 2011, he was a visiting associate professor at the Department of Computer Science of Natinal University of Singapore.