Honors and Awards

Recent Awards

• Silver Medal, ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), hosted by ACM SIGBED – 2022-2023

• Outstanding Research Award, ASU Graduate and Professional Students Association – 2021-2022
  (About 10 students awarded annually from 27,000+ graduate students and ~4800 doctoral students)

• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI), ASU – 2018

Select Projects Funded

My research has contributed to the project proposals and participation into the following competitive projects. 

• NSF/Intel Joint Research Center for Computer Assisted Programming for Heterogeneous Architectures (CAPA), 2017–2021
  (Our group was among total three hubs supported nation-wide for this prestigious program. Hubs: MIT/Stanford/UWash; UCLA/Cornell; ASU/Penn/Lehigh.) 

• AI Hardware program, Semiconductor Research Corporation, 2023–2025  (Designing/Optimizing AI Hardware/Software Co-design with AI)

Honors

• Research Spotlight, IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) – 2022 [Coverage: IEEE Bridge Volume 118] [Social Media]

• Research featured on front pages of ASU news, ASU alumni news, ASU Ira Fulton Engineering, ASU SCAI and on ACM News, Communications of the ACM (CACM) news, industry blogs, local media, etc. [Full Article]

• Topical Expert on the Panel for "Architectures" Track, National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop on Sustainable Computing – 2022

• Research works regularly invited and featured in several premier events (ARM Research Summits, NSF/Intel CAPA Annual Days, Future Chips Forum, etc.)

• Certificate of Appreciation (for Outstanding Service as Social Media Chair),  ACM/IEEE Embedded Systems Week – 2021, 2022
  Impact: Established, diversified, and continuously doubled social media presence with ~800/230/380 followers on LinkedIn/Twitter/YouTube, leading to many first-time attendees + more student/minority involvement in design automation and embedded systems communities.
  Note: ESWEEK encompasses three leading conferences in embedded systems – CASES, CODES+ISSS, EMSOFT; two symposia – NOCS and MEMOCODE; several tutorials and workshops; 10+ educational classes; industry paper sessions and talks; student competitions; panel; planned networking sessions; student recruitment events.

• Celebration of Excellence at ASU – 2022-2023

• Invited for Inaugural Google Systems Innovation Summit – 2021 
  (Organized by systems infrastructure research @ Google; Invitations limited to top global PhD students in computing systems.)

• PhD Forum Presentations at ACM/IEEE DAC and IPDPS – 2022 (~30% acceptance rate at DAC )

• SRC Research Scholar, Semiconductor Research Corporation

• Industry recommended paper, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference 2018

Fellowships and Scholarships

• Graduate College Completion Fellowship, Arizona State University – 2022 (1 year funding)
  Merit-based university-wide selection, 1-year fund for top graduating students – ~0.5% of all graduate students at ASU. 

• Doctoral Fellowship, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI) – 2019, 2023

• Engineering Grad Fellowship , Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, ASU – 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023

• Richard Newton Young Student Fellowship, 53rd Annual Design Automation Conference (DAC) – 2016

Travel Grant Awards

I gratefully acknowledge Competitive Travel Grant Awards from: 

• ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) – 2019, 2022

• National Science Foundation (NSF) + ACM Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems (SIGBED) – 2019

• IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) – 2022

• Graduate College, Arizona State University – 2019 

• Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA), Arizona State University – 2016, 2018, 2019

• School of Computing, Informatics, Decisions and Systems Engineering (CIDSE), ASU –  2018, 2019, 2023