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Honors and Awards
BMCC Distinguished Teaching Award, 2021.
Second Place Award, ''Designing a Virtual Reality (VR) Application for Autistic Children'', BMCC ASD Research Group: Ryan Brandt, Sharna Hossain and Jadgesh Inderjeet, Mentor: Dr. Azhar, 2021 AACC/NSF Community College Innovation Challenge.
BMCC Distinguished Teaching Award, Nominated, Spring 2020
Faculty Leadership Fellow of BMCC 2019 Cohort.
Best Paper Award, Sixth International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI), December 2018.
Certificate of Recognition Award for the continued support of The Center for Career Development and BMCC Students, Fall 2018.
Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition Award, In Recognition of Outstanding and Invaluable Service to the Community from Grace Meng, Member of Congress, United States of America, August 2018.
MATLAB Technical Award, Robocup HomeRobotEDU 2018, BMCC CIS Dept Team: Luis Marcano, Treeshan Yeadram, Marco Santana, Mentor: Dr. Azhar, Robocup, Montreal 2018.
Technical Innovation Award, AAAI Robot Competition \& Exhibition, July 2006
For the integration of research and education as demonstrated by the Brooklyn College Educational Robotics exhibition, by Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons, Mohammad Q. Azhar and Valerie Andrewlevich.
Grants & Funded Projects
AI Tech Innovation Hub (PI), CUNY Tech Equity -Google Fund — $255,229 (2023–Present)
NSF IUSE Grant
Bridging the Gap: Designing a Technology Learning Community Integrating Computational Thinking to Improve STEM Engagement Across Disciplines
(PI), NSF Award #2122690 — $499,730 (2021–2024)
NSF ATE: Equitable Pathways to Artificial Intelligence (Co-PI), NSF Award #2100225 — $645,312 (2024–2027)
BMCC Digital Pathways Project (DOE)
(Co-Activity Director & Project Leadership Team Member) — $6,000,000 (2016–2021)
BMCC Technology Learning Community (TLC) Faculty Fellows Program (PI), NSF Award Supplement #2122690 — $99,943 (2023–2026)
Fostering Student Success in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance (Co-PI), NSF Award #1601401 — $770,000 (2016–2019)
CUNY Course Innovation Grant (Collaboration with IBM) (PI) — $9,856 (2019–2020)
Women in Technology Grant (Co-PI) — $24,988.90 (2019–2020)
Minority Science Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP): Institutional Project Retention and Improvements in STEM Education (RISE) (Co-PI) — $750,000 (2015–2018)
CS4HS Google Grant, College of Staten Island, CUNY (Senior Personnel) — $14,875 (Summer 2013)