Research recognition

• Top 2% of my subfield for single-year citation impact, Stanford University and Elsevier science-wide author database, 2025 and 2026 releases; in the 2026 release, ranked 8,914th of 517,648 authors in Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing. 2026 database | 2025 database

• Featured in the inaugural Spotlight on Transactions column of IEEE Computer (January 2026), which discussed my paper "AI-Generated Versus Human Text: Introducing a New Dataset for Benchmarking and Analysis" (IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2025). Spotlight column | Paper

• Featured research, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), for my IEEE Pulse article, "Water-Content-Aware Machine Learning for Screening Multiphysics Tissue Property Tables" (2026). Article

• Charles A. Dana Category I Grant, Norwich University, academic year 2024 to 2025, awarded from an endowed Dana Foundation fund to tenure-track faculty who demonstrate superior scholarship, teaching ability and university service, with the Dana Category I Lecture "AI Research at Norwich: Recent Progress and What's Next" (February 2025).

• Certificate of Appreciation for scholarly accomplishments (Scholarly Excellence recognition), Office of the Provost, Norwich University, for calendar year 2022, academic year 2023 to 2024 and academic year 2024 to 2025.

Teaching and mentoring

• Thank a Professor recognition, Institute for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Norwich University (2022).

• Innovative Instructor Award, University of Toledo (2021).

• Research Mentor Award, College of Engineering, University of Toledo (2021).

• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Toledo (2020 and 2021).

• Best TA/RA of the Year Award, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Toledo (2018).