Honors & Awards

A. Awards and Scholarships

  • Fellow of the Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing (CSM), The University of Arizona, 2025.
    Monetary Amount: $9,000
  • Outstanding Organizing Committee Member Award at the 2024 IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference (DCAS), April 2024.
  • Outstanding Reviewer Award at the 2023 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 2023.
    Description: In recognition of efforts above and beyond in service of the 60th Design Automation Conference (DAC) Technical Program Committee.
  • University Award for Excellence by a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Central Florida, Spring 2016.
    Monetary Amount: $1,000
    Description:     Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) who are nominated by all course Instructors among all of the degree programs across all of the colleges at the University of Central Florida compete for this prestigious award. Excellence in serving as a Graduate Teaching Assistant is demonstrated by evidence such as Instructor evaluations, student letters attesting to teaching excellence, lab syllabi and materials created, sample projects, and instructional innovations developed, introduced, evaluated, and/or published. During each calendar year, a single GTA is selected by Deans and faculty representatives for this recognition of teaching excellence, instructional innovation, and future faculty potential.
  • Award for Excellence by a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the College of Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Central Florida, Spring 2016.
    Monetary Amount: $500
  • Award for Excellence by a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Central Florida, Spring 2016.
  • Best Presentation of the Symposium Award Winner at the University of California Davis Postdoctoral Research Symposium 2021 (PRS-2021), March 31, 2021.
    Monetary Amount: $250
  • Best Poster of the Conference Award Winner at the ACM Great Lake Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI’19), May 9-11, 2019.
  • Best Student Poster and Second Best Poster Presentation at the Digitally-Mediated Team Learning (DMTL) National Science Foundation (NSF)-Sponsored Workshop, March 31, 2019.
    Monetary Amount: $100
  • Best Paper of the Session and Best Paper of The Conference Award Nominee at the IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED’17), March 13-15, 2017.
  • Frank Hubbard Engineering Endowed Scholarship for the 2019-2020 academic year.
    Monetary Amount: $1,000
  • David T. and Jane M. Donaldson Memorial Graduate Scholarship for the 2018-2019 academic year.
    Monetary Amount: $5,000
  • Daniel D. Hammond Engineering Graduate Scholarship for the 2017-2018 academic year.
    Monetary Amount: $1,000
  • Nominated for the “30-Under-30” award at the University of Central Florida, Fall 2019.
    Description: Nominees must demonstrate aspects of Scholarship, Leadership, Generosity, and Resiliency.
  • Nominated for the Postdoctoral Research Excellence Award at the University of California Davis, Spring 2022.

B. Orchestration of Research and Travel Grants

  • NSF Travel Support to attend the CISE CAREER workshop in Washington DC, April 2024.
    Monetary Amount: $1,500
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Student Travel Grant to attend the IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2019.
    Monetary Amount: $500
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Student Travel Grant to attend the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2018.
    Monetary Amount: $750
  • Student Travel Grant to attend the Design Automation Conference (DAC) Ph.D. Forum, 2019.
    Monetary Amount: $700
  • University of Central Florida Student Government Association Registered Student Organization Conference Participation Grant, 2017, 2018, and 2019.
    Monetary Amount: $14,000
  • University of Central Florida College of Graduate Studies Conference Presentation Grant, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2019.
    Monetary Amount: $2,000
  • University of Central Florida Student Government Association Individual Conference Presentation Grant, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2019.
    Monetary Amount: $2,000