Awards Received

  • Received the IEEE CAI2025 Best Service Award for Dr. Gao's excellent conference leadership and services for 2025 IEEE International Conference on Artifical Intellgence in Santa Clara, May, 2025.
  • Received the IEEE AITest 2024 Best Paper Award for Dr. Gao's group research paper, which is selected from 50+ publications in the sixth IEEE International Conference on AI Testing, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, July 2025.
  • Selected and listed in MARQUIS Who's Who in America in 2020-2021 due to Dr. Gao's excellent research and professional achievements.
  • Selected and listed in MARQUIS Who's Who in America as an industry leader in 2021.
  • Selected and inclusion in 75th Edition of MAQUIS Who's Who in America in 2023. 
  • Received the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship for 2013.
  • Received the KSI Fellow from Knowledge System Institute in SEKE2011.
  • Recognized as a distinguished alumina by the at its 50th Anniversary in November, 2009.
  • Received the Best Paper Award from the Third International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE2009), In Cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society, June 4-6, 2009, Qingdao, China.
  • Selected as the Best Paper in The 8th International Conference for Young Computer Scientists (ICYCS'05) in Sept. 20-22, Beijing, China
  • Named as Global Education Follower by San Jose State University in 2003
  • Received the Best Paper Award in The 13th International Software / Internet Quality Week (QW2000).
  • Received the Best Paper Award in The Third IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE1998), 1998, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
  • 1993-1994 Outstanding CSE graduate student research award for outstanding research on the Ph.D. level.

Journal Editor Board

  • Editorial Board Member - IEEE Software (SCI-Index)
  • Editorial Board Member - Journal of Agriculture (by MDPI) (SCI-Index and Q1)
  • Editorial Board Member - Journal of Smart Cities (by MDPI) (SCI-Index and Q1)
  • Editorial Board Member - MDPI Journal - Software
  • Editorial Board Member - Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SCI-Index)
  • Editorial Board Member - Journal of Energies (By MDPI) (SCI-Index and Q1)
  • Editorial Board Member - Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research (JTAER)
  • Editorial Board Member - Journal of AI and Technology
  • Editorial Board Mmeber - Journal of Frontier Scientific Publishing
  • Associate Editor - International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE)

Global Education Experience

  • Proposed and delivering ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Faculty Lead Program to offer ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø students to study and live at Beijing University of Technology in the summer 2008.
  • Proposed and delivered ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Faculty Lead Program to offer ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø students to study and live at Beijing University of Technology in the summer 2006.
  • Proposed and worked with CMPE department Chair (Dr. Sigurd Meldal) to prepared the joint degree program in M.S. Software Engineering between ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø and Beijing University of Technology in China. The program has been approved by the leaders of both schools and WASC.