Dr. Shang's work includes embedded system design, distributed system design, and low-power mobile system design. He has over 70 peer-reviewed publications in these areas. His recent work has been nominated for the Best Paper Award in ISLPED'10, ICCAD'08, DAC'07, and ASP-DAC'06, and published in MICRO Top Pick's'06. His work on economics-based power-aware protocols in mobile networks won the Best Paper Award at PDCS 2002. He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, and ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies. He won his department's Best Teaching Award in 2006. He is a recipient of NSF CAREER award 2010, and Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award 2010. Shang is PI of NSF award CNS--0910995, 2009--2012, CSR: Large: Collaborative Research: CommonSense -- A Distributed Mobile System for Socially-Collaborative Environmental Monitoring. Shang and his collaborators are developing a distributed mobile system for socially-collaborative environmental monitoring, which will support richer environmental sensing data analysis, and enable better environment awareness and protection via social collaboration.