Honors, Awards & Professional Certifications

CERTIFICATIONS

• CAP, Certified Analytics Professional - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Certification number 1907.

• CMQ/OE, Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence - American Society for Quality, Certification number 54754.

• DASM, Disciplined Agile Scrum Master - Project Management Institute, Certification number 3239509.

• PMI-ACP, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner - Project Management Institute, Certification number 3626929.

• PMP, Project Management Professional - Project Management Institute, Certification number 2116028.

HONORS & AWARDS

• Societal Impact focused Research and Scholarship Grant, Black School of Business, Penn State Behrend, 2024

• Associate Professor Summer Research Grant, Black School of Business, Penn State Behrend, 2024

• Beta Gamma Sigma Honorary Faculty, Black School of Business, Penn State Behrend, 2024

• Associate Professor Summer Research Grant, Black School of Business, Penn State Behrend, 2023

• Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Journal of Business Analytics, 2021

• Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant, Black School of Business, Penn State Behrend, 2021

• Inspire Award, Black School of Business, Penn State Behrend, 2020

• Early Career Scholarship Excellence Award, Black School of Business, Penn State Behrend, 2020

• Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant, Black School of Business, Penn State Behrend, 2020

• Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2018 

• Faculty and Staff Recognition in Grants & Scholarship Excellence, Eastern Washington University, 2018

• EWU CBPA Research Incentive Award, 2018 

• 2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, Marquis Who's Who

• Marquis Who's Who in America, 2018 Edition

• Marquis Who's Who in the World, 2018 Edition

• Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, International Journal of Production Economics, 2017

• POMS Emerging Scholars Program, 2017

• EWU CBPA Research Incentive Awards, 2017 

• DSI New Faculty Development Consortium, 2016

• INFORMS New Faculty Colloquium, 2016

• UNT COB Dean's Ph.D. Student Travel Scholarship, 2016

• INFORMS Doctoral Student Colloquium, 2015

• DSI PhD Students Consortium Post-Proposal Defense Stage, 2015

• Selected & Participated in MIT-Zaragoza Logistics Center PhD Summer Academy, 2015

• POMS Doctoral Consortium, 2015

• UNT Raupe Travel Grant, 2015

• UNT Toulouse Graduate School Travel Grant, 2015

• UNT Management Science Ph.D. Scholar Award, 2015

• UNT Deedi Prybutok MSCI Doctoral Scholarship, 2015

• UNT Bill Russell Family Scholarship, 2015

• UNT COB General Scholarship, 2014 - 2015 

• UNT COB Dean's Ph.D. Student Travel Scholarship, 2014

• Texas Public Educational Grant, 2014

• UTD Dean Scholarship, 2012 - 2013