2024: John C. Butler Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Natural Science and Mathematics, UH
2023: Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, IEEE Visualization (Paper: “Extract and Characterize Hairpin Vortices in Turbulent Flows”)
2019: Honorable Mention Short Paper Award, IEEE Visualization (Paper: “Graph-assisted Visualization of Microvascular Networks”)
2017: Honorable Mention Poster Award, IEEE Visualization (Paper: “Correlation Study of Attributes for Unsteady Flow”)
2016: Best Paper Award, IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (Paper: “Critical Point Cancellation in 3D Vector Fields: Robustness and Discussion”)
2016: Junior Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, College of Natural Science and Mathematics, UH
2016: NSF CAREER Award
2014: Best Paper Award, IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (Paper: “2D Vector Field Simplification Based on Robustness”)
2013: Honorable Mention Award, IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (Paper: “Visual Analysis of Uncertainties in Ocean Forecasts for Planning and Operation of Off-Shore Structures”)
2011: Best Paper Award, IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (Paper: “Edge Maps: Representing Flow with Bounded Error”)
Research Experience
2025–present: Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston
2023–present: Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston
2018–present: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston
2012–2018: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston
2009–2012: Postdoctoral Researcher, Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, University of Utah
2002–2004: Assistant Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Guangxi University, China