Recent Awards and Honors
Graph Challenge Champions, 2019 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC) Graph Challenge
Awarded for “Write Quick, Run Fast: Sparse Deep Neural Network in 20 Minutes of Development Time via SuiteSparse: GraphBLAS.”
September 2019
May 2019
ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals - 3rd Place, Graduate Category, 2019 ACM Student Research Competition.
Awarded for “Empirical Assessment of Software Documentation Strategies: A Randomized Controlled Trial.” Recognized at the ACM Awards Banquet in San Francisco, California, on June 16, 2019.
March 2019
ACM Student Research Competition - 1st Place, Graduate Category, SIGCSE 2019, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Awarded for “Empirical Assessment of Software Documentation Strategies: A Randomized Controlled Trial.”
March 2018
Travel Funding for the 9th Annual Scientific Software Days, The University of Texas
Received full travel support to attend and present a poster at SciSoft Days at the University of Texas at Austin.
Fall 2017
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University.
Selected from a college-wide competition as one of ∼25 Fellows to teach a course as instructor of record.
June 2016
GPSC Summer Travel Grant, Graduate & Professional Student Council, Texas A&M University
Received grant to attend the Neuromorphic Computing Workshop at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
January 2016
Department Travel Grant, Computer Science & Engineering Department, Texas A&M University
Applied for and received $1,000 grant to attend the SIAM Parallel Processing 2016 conference in Paris, France.
March 2016
Graduate Leadership Excellence Award, Computer Science & Engineering Department, Texas A&M University
Awarded for excellence in leading the Computer Science & Engineering Graduate Student Association (CSEGSA) and introducing biweekly graduate student socials.
Vantage Award, Shell PACO Group, Houston, TX
Contributed to streamlining the PACO Group Shell Graduate Program.
May 2014