Grants & Awards
The grants and awards listed below have been instrumental in advancing my research and contributing to the scientific community. I extend my heartfelt thanks to all the organizations and institutions that have strong confidence in my vision and provided valuable support to pursue groundbreaking research.
Grants
Sole PI in the FSU Honors in the Major Mentor Materials Grant, 10/06/2025 - 06/30/2026.
Sole PI in the IGNITE FSU Seed Translational Research Projects grant, 07/14/2025 - 07/13/2026.
Lead PI in the NSF grant “FIRE: An Integrated AI System Tackling the Full Life Cycle of Wildfires in Hurricane Prone Regions”, NSF (#2536578), 09/01/2025 - 08/31/2029.
Lead PI in the NSF grant “CICI: UCSS: Secure Machine Learning as a Service for Collaborative Scientific Research”, NSF (#2530786), 01/01/2026 - 12/31/2028.
Sole PI in the FYAP Grant, Florida State University, 05/11/2025 - 08/07/2025.
Lead PI in the Collaborative Grant between Computer Science and Psychology, Florida State University, 11/01/2024 - 10/31/2025.
Awards
Second Prize Award in BlueSky Track of ICDM, 2025
Best Short Paper Award at ACM SIGSPATIAL, 2025
Featured Interview as a Distinguished Faculty by WCTV (CBS News) Link, 2025
Highlights by CRA Academic Member Book, 2025
Highlights by NSF PATh CICI Presentation Series, 2025
Honors in the Major Mentor Thesis Program, Florida State University, 2025
Featured AI Researcher Honor by Campus Partners, Florida State University, 2025
Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, University of Virginia, 2025
ISO Graduate Academic Excellence Honors, University of Virginia, 2025
The College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Faculty Award, Florida State University, 2024
Louis T. Rader Graduate Research Award, University of Virginia, 2023
Endowed Fellowship Award, University of Virginia, 2022
Best Poster Award, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2022
McVey Fellowship Award, University of Virginia, 2021
