Professor Felix Xiaozhu Lin has received the Google Faculty Research Award for his project titled "Busting Idle Anomalies on Android Wear". His group is examining operating system designs that make wearable devices such as smart watches more responsive during interaction.

The Google Research Awards are one-year awards structured as unrestricted gifts to universities to support the work of world-class permanent faculty members at top universities around the world. The intent of the award is to support cutting-edge research in Computer Science, Engineering, and related fields.