Awards & Recognitions

Winner, Managing Maritime Movements (M3) Hackathon: A Global Hackathon for Small Vessel Route Prediction Models, 2024, $10K
Full Membership in Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, 2024
Highly Ranked Scholar, ScholarGPS, Top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide in Anomaly Detection, Prior 5 years, [link], 2022, 2024
Top 2% most cited scientist globally, Stanford University's Annual Ranking, 2023, 2024 (Ioannidis, John P.A. (2023), ``October 2023 data-update for ``Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"", Elsevier Data Repository, V6, doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.6)
Best Paper Award, IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing 2023
2023 Outstanding Research Achievement Award, USF
2023 Outstanding Dissertation Award, Faculty Advisor, USF
2022 Chih Foundation Research & Publication Award, Faculty Advisor
Finalist at the 2022 Florida Blue Health Innovation Challenge.
Winner, CVPR21 Continual Learning Challenge, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (2021)
Winner, NIST Automated Streams Analysis for Public Safety Challenge, 2020
IEEE BigData Cup Second Rank Award, Global Road Damage Detection Challenge, IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData) (2020)
AI City Challenge Second Rank Award, NVIDIA, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (2020)
IEEE Senior Member, 2020
Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) (2019)
Young Investigator Award, Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education
Collaborative Research Award, Electrical Engineering Department, Columbia University (2015)