- VMware Faculty Fellowship, 2014 (PI)
- FIU SCIS Excellence in Research Award ,2014
- U.S. Air Force Visiting Faculty Fellowship, 2014
- “RET in Engineering and Computer Science SITE: Research Experience for Teachers on Cyber-Enabled Technologies,” National Science Foundation, 2014 – 2017 (Senior Personnel)
- “CAREER: Coordinated QoS-Driven Management of Cloud Computing and Storage Resources“, National Science Foundation, 2013 – 2018 (PI)
- U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2013
- Excellence in Student Mentoring, Florida International University School of Computing and Information Sciences, 2012
- “Research Experiences for Veterans,” National Science Foundation, 2012 – present (PI)
- “Research Experiences for Undergraduates,” National Science Foundation, 2010 – present (PI)
- FIU SCIS Excellence in Student Mentoring Award ,2012
- XLS Hosting Faculty Award, XLS Hosting (The Netherlands), 2010 – 2012
- “MRI: Development of an Integrated, Geospatial Analytics Research Instrument,” National Science Foundation, 2011 – 2014 (Co-PI)
- “Cross-Layer Virtual Machine Resource Management on Chip Multiprocessing Simultaneous Multithreading Systems”, RESEED Award from Florida International University (PI)
- “A Research and Educational Framework to Advance Disaster Information Management in Computer Science PhD Programs,” Department of Homeland Security, 2010-ST-062-000039, 2011 – 2015 (Co-PI)
- “Streamlining High-End Computing with Software Persistent Memory,” National Science Foundation, CCF-0937964, 2010 – 2013 (Co-PI)
- “HECURA: Collaborative Research: QoS-driven Storage Management for High-end Computing Systems,” National Science Foundation, CCF-0938045/CCF-0937973, 2009 – 2012 (PI)
- Best Student Paper of the 4th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2007)