Honors and Awards

• NSF CAREER Award, NSF, April 2024
  

• College of Computing Dean's Excellence in Research Award, Illinois Tech, Jan. 2024
  

• IEEE Senior Member, IEEE, Oct. 2023
  

• Microsoft Accelerate Foundation Models Research Award, Microsoft, Sep. 2023
  

• Best Short Paper Award, ACM SIGSIGM-PADS, June 2023
  

• DARPA AI Forward Scholarship Award, DARPA, May 2023
  

• 2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Data Mining, Aminer, Feb. 2023
  

• AAAI-2023 New Faculty Highlights, AAAI, Nov. 2022
  

• AI Global High-Potential Young Scholar Award, Baidu, April 2022
  

• Cisco Faculty Research Award, Cisco Systems, Inc., April 2022
  

• 2022 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Data Mining, Aminer, Feb. 2022
  

• Finalist, Facebook (Meta) Research Faculty Award, Meta, Dec. 2021
  

• Finalist, Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award, BenchCouncil 2021, Nov. 2021
  

• Google Cloud Research Credits Award, Google, Nov. 2021
  

• IDDP Research Fellowship, GWU, Jan. 2021
  

• Dean's Dissertation Award, ASU, Nov. 2020
  

• Rising Star Award, BDSC 2020, Aug. 2020
  

• Best Reviewer Award, ICWSM 2020, June 2020
  

• CIDSE Doctoral Fellowship Award, ASU, March 2020
  

• ACM SIGKDD Student Travel Award, June 2019
  

• Disinformation Challenge Award Winner, SBP-BRiMS 2018, July 2018
  

• CIDSE Doctoral Fellowship Award, ASU, Aug. 2015