Research Interests:
Fault-Tolerant Computing
Computer and Network Security
Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing
Performance Evaluation of Distributed Systems

Honors and Awards
Fenn College Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, Cleveland State University, May 2007.
Merit-Based Award, Cleveland State University, 2008, 2009, 2012
The Best Paper Award of the 2012 International Conference on Distributed Computing Engineering. Paper Title: “Concurrent Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Software-Transaction-Memory Based Applications”
Most Promising Research Award of the 2007 Middleware for Web Services Workshop. Paper Title: “BFT-WS: A Byzantine Fault Tolerance Framework for Web Services”
Best Paper Award on Computer Systems of the 2002 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems Paper Title: "End-to-end latency analysis and evaluation of a fault-tolerant CORBA infrastructure", with L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith
National Chi-Sun Yeh Thesis/Dissertation Award on Experimental Physics, for my M.S. thesis, P. R. China, 1993
Science and Technology Award, for my research work on C60, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China, 1994
Guanghua Scholarship, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China, 1991-1992