Recent awards and honors
Outstanding Reviewer Award, IEEE ICDE 2024
Senior Faculty Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, 2023
Long Service Award, PLOS ONE Editorial Board, 2023
Selected for the Mid-Career Research Development Fellows Program, University of Missouri, 2023-2025
Best Short Paper Award Nomination at CIKM 2021
Member of the Environmental Health Sciences Review Committee, NIEHS, NIH (2021-2024)
ACM Senior Member, 2020
N.T. Veatch Award for Distinguished Research and Creativity, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2018-2019
Fellow, Visiting Faculty Research Program, Air Force Research Lab, 2018
National Research Council (NRC) Research Associateship Award, Senior Fellowship Award, National Academies, 2016-2017
UMKC's Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers, Scholars, and Artists, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, 2016
Fellow, U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), 2016
Fellow, U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), 2015
IEEE Senior Member, 2015
IBM Big Data & Analytics Faculty Award, IBM Corporation, 2013
IBM Academic Initiative Faculty Spotlight, IBM Corporation, 2012
IBM Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Award, IBM Corporation, 2010
Graduate Student Research Award, University of Arizona, 2007
Graduate College Fellowship, University of Arizona, 2002
Best Paper Nomination, 16th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), San Diego, CA, 2001
Graduate Tuition Scholarship, University of Arizona, 1999 - 2000
Secured university ranks among freshman (1st rank), sophomore (3rd rank), and junior (4th rank) in the Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering degree program at the University of Pune, India
National Talent Search Scholarship, National Council of Educational Research and Training, Government of India, New Delhi, 1993