Grants
Collaborative Research: SCH: Therapeutic and Diagnostic System for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Integrating Data Science, Synthetic Biology, and Additive Manufacturing. Source: NSF/NIH – SCH. Role: PI. Collaborators: Leopold Green (Co-PI, Purdue University), Bo Wang (Co-PI, Florida Tech), and Mohammad Azad (Co-PI, North Carolina A&T). Amount: $1.2 million. Share: 58% ($703,325). Period: 09/15/2023 - 08/31/2027.
Therapeutic and Diagnostic System for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Source: Office of Naval Research through Blue Integrated Partnerships. Role: Co-PI. Collaborator: Leopold Green (PI, Purdue University). Amount: $140,083. Share: 50% ($70,041). Period: 07/01/2022-06/30/2023.
Awards and Honors
Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Purdue University, 2024
QCRE best track paper finalist, IISE Annual Conference, Virtual Conference, 2021
SPES + Q&P student paper competition finalist, American Statistical Association, Seattle, WA, 2021
QSR best student poster winner, INFORMS Annual Meeting, National Harbor, MD, 2020
Best poster award winner, IISE Doctoral Student Colloquium, IISE Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 2020
Stewart Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2020
LATinE Fellowship, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2020
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2019 and 2020
QCRE best student poster competition finalist, IISE, Orlando, FL, 2019
Best poster award finalist, Georgia Statistics Day Conference, Athens, GA, 2018
William S. Green Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2016-2018
Cum Laude Degree, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 2013
Excellence Fellowship, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 2009 and 2010
Student's Awards and Honors
Yue Jiang: TRACER Grant, Purdue University, 2025
Yue Jiang: SPES + Q&P student paper competition Finalist, American Statistical Association, Portland, OR, 2024
Nicolas Vivas: Outstanding First-time Researcher Award, Purdue University, 2023
Vitor Carvalho: Amazon SCOT/INFORMS Scholarship, Amazon, 2022