• Selected Honors:

    • IEEE Fellow
    • Awards for papers
      • Runner-Up Award, 2012 International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC), Authors: Ghazale Hosseinabadi and Nitin H. Vaidya.
      • Best Paper Award, 2010 International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC). Authors: Vijay Raman and Nitin Vaidya.
      • Best Paper Award, 2010 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN). Authors: Vartika Bhandari and Nitin Vaidya
      • Best Student Paper Award, 2007 ACM ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), Authors: Vartika Bhandari and Nitin Vaidya.
      • Best Paper Award, 2003 International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (PWC), Authors: Romit Roy Choudhury and Nitin Vaidya.
      • Best Student Paper Award, 1998 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Authors: Young-Bae Ko and Nitin Vaidya.
    • Listed in An Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois at Urbrna-Champaign, Spring 2006 (for ECE 498nv Wireless Networks course)
    • Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Communications Society, 2006-2007
    • Distinguished Visitor Program speaker, IEEE Computer Society, 1998-2001.
    • 1995 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation


  • Selected Professional Activities:

    • General Chair, Co-located 2010 ACM MobiCom-MobiHoc conferences.
    • Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, January 2005 - December 2007
    • Editor-in-Chief, ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), October 2003 -- December 2004
    • Editorial Board Member for:
      • Foundations and Trends in Networking, February 2005 - present
      • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, December 2001 -- December 2007
      • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, March 2001 -- March 2003
      • Wireless Networks (WINET) journal, jointly published by ACM and Baltzer Science Publishers (a Kluwer company), September 2000 -- May 2002
      • Computer Networks journal, Elsevier Science Publisher, July 2000 -- August 2002
    • Program Co-Chair, ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), September 2003.
    • Workshop Co-Chair, Workshop on Wireless Security (WiSe), September 2002.
    • General Chair, ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking Computing (MobiHoc), October 2001.
    • Co-Founder, ACM MobiHoc (initiated in 2000)
    • Co-chair, Workshop on Principles of Mobile Computing (POMC), Newport Beach, Rhode Island, August 2001.