Grants and Awards
Research Grants awarded:
1. Funding Agency: New Jersey Health Foundation (US $35000) Feb 2019-Feb 2021
Project: "Targeted Noninvasive Brain Stimulation (T-NIBS) for improving hand dexterity in Stroke patients"
Role: Principal Investigator
2. Funding Agency: New Jersey Commission for Brain Injury Research (US $176230) April 2019-April 2022
Project: "Targeted Noninvasive Brain Stimulation (T-NIBS) for Upper-limb Motor Rehabilitation in Traumatic Brain Injury patients"
Role: Principal Investigator
Media release: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-06/kf-kfa060419.php
Awards and Recognition:
Selected for Training in Grantsmanship for Rehabilitation Research (TIGRR) workshop to attend an intensive one-on-one mentored grant writing workshop at Charleston, South Carolina in January 2022.
Best student paper award for the paper titled “An Iterative Optimization Technique for Robust Channel Selection in Motor-Imagery based Brain-Computer Interface” during IEEE SMC 2014 held at San Diego, USA (2014).
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society’s Graduate Research award to pursue an internship at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany (2016)
IEEE Brain Initiative, “International Student Travel Grant” to attend IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics (SMC 2016) held at Budapest, Hungary (2016)
IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society, “International Student Travel Grant” to attend IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics (SMC 2014) held at San Diego, USA (2014)
Nominated by the Nanyang Technological University to attend the dialogue session of “Quality Assurance Framework for Universities (QAFU) ” with the External Review Panel of Ministry of Education, Singapore (2016)