Chunming Qiao, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, received the 2015 Distinguished Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Communications Society’s Communications Switching and Routing Technical Committee.

The award recognizes Qiao’s technical contributions in the fields of communication switching and routing.

He was named an IEEE fellow several years ago for his contributions to both optical and wireless network architecture and protocols.

Qiao received the award at IEEE’s Global Communications Conference Exhibition and Industry Forum, held last month in San Diego.