NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2011.
2021 IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award.
2021 IAAI Deployed Application Award for the paper 'Preclinical Stage Alzheimer's Disease Detection Using Magnetic Resonance Image Scans'.
2014 Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award.
Co-author of the paper that received 3rd place award at the 2011 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras.
Best Student Paper Award at IEEE ICME 2006 for 'Design and Verification of Communication Protocols for Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Systems'.
Recipient of the EPSCoR First Award, two UNL Layman Awards, IBM Patent Application Award, and Princeton and Brown University Graduate Fellowships.
2017 IEEE Green Communications & Computing Technical Committee Best Journal Paper Award for 'Analysis of Energy Efficiency in Fading Channels under QoS Constraints'.
Supervised Ph.D. students who received the Graduate School All-University Doctoral Prize in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
One of her papers was among the Top 25 most downloaded in IEEE Sensors Journal during January–September 2017 and June 2018.