Awards and Grants
Awards and Honors
Selected as the co-winner of #MyASABEStory one-minute video competition, featuring my journey as an ASABE member. Bonus: featuring some of my gardening ventures! :) See the full video here!
Recipient of the 2023 ASABE Superior Paper Award in Natural Resources and Environmental Systems category. Read the full paper here!
Selected as one of the 1000 UNLEASH Innovation Lab 2019 Talents to work on the “United Nations Sustainable Development Goal: Clean Water and Sanitation” at Shenzhen, China. The business model our team developed to address the issue of lead-contaminated water in the US can be found here.
Featured on SDG Talks podcast in Aug 2020. Topic- "Breaking down The Water-Energy-Food Nexus and the Power of Duckweeds"
Awarded 2019 Purdue College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award. The award and my Ph.D. research were featured in Purdue Graduate Ag Research Spotlight.
Named one among six honorees selected to Class of 2019 “New Faces of ASABE-Professionals”.
Placed second in ASABE 2019 Boyd-Scott Graduate Student Paper Competition
Featured on AGU Ecohydrology Meet a Leaf Blog
Won ASABE Ethics Video Competition 2016 and received travel grant to attend ASABE Annual International Meeting
Selected as one among 25 researchers worldwide for Green Talents Award 2014 sponsored by German Ministry for High Potentials in Sustainable Development
Successful Grants
Penn State Institute of Energy and Environment Seed Grant 2021-2022 ($30,000) as co-PI. Title: A one-stop online platform for water-energy-food nexus research: Integrating systems modeling and deep learning-based literature mining.
Purdue Women in Engineering Travel Grant to attend 2017 ASABE Annual Meeting ($800)
Purdue Women in Engineering Travel Grant to attend National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, Maryland (May 31-June 3, 2017) (All expenses paid)
Purdue Graduate Student Government Travel Grant to attend 2018 ASABE Global Water Security Conference for Agricultural and Natural Resources ($750)
All-expense paid grant for a 3-month research stay in Germany in 2015 as part of Green Talents Awards
“Lloyd V. Berkner Travel Fellowship” in 2013 and 2014 for attending AGU Science Policy Conference (All expenses paid)