.6 🥉Award

  • (Faculty mentor) Nonnegative matrix factorization algorithms with R packages: a comparative study. Student: Anthony Garcia. Received a travel award for the 2022 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM in Washington, D.C., February 3-5, 2022.

  • (Faculty mentor) (acceptance rate: 17%) Student: Anthony Garcia. Selected to participate in the BigDataX (From theory to practice in Big Data computing at eXtreme scales) REU program at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and the University of Chicago (UChicago), Summer 2021.

  • (Faculty mentor) Student: Anthony Garcia. Received the Best Award in the Engineering and Applied Technology Division, the virtual poster competition of the IN LSAMP Annual Research Conference. October 2020.

  • Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award 2020

  • Starting 2013, every year I was named in a survey by multiple students as faculty or staff who had a positive impact on your personal and/or academic development.

  • Excellent oral presentation at the IEEE 3rd Conference on Big Data Analysis. March 2018.

  • Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award 2017

  • Nominee for the IU Northwest Founder's Day Teaching Award, 2013, 2019 and 2020.

  • Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award 2014

  • Sabbatical Leave, Fall 2017.

  • Nominee for membership in the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) in the years of 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021.

  • Richard E. Rosenthal Young Researcher, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2011.

  • Finalist of the competitive postdoctoral position for Computation & Informatics in Biology and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with support from the Morgridge Institute for Research, 2009.

  • Full travel support for the 3nd International Summer School on Logic Programming and Computational Logic in Las Cruces, New Mexico, July 24-27, 2008.

  • Thaddeus B. Curtz Memorial Scholarship Award (the best graduate student of the year). College of Engineering, University of Kentucky, 2008.

  • Kentucky Opportunity Fellowship, 2007-2008

  • University of Kentucky Commonwealth Research Award to support a paper presentation at the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, New Brunswick, NJ, May 23-24, 2007.