Honors & Awards

Research Grants & Honors

• AIS Distinguished Member (2025)

• AIS Entrepreneurial Innovation Fellowship, Kauffman Foundation (2025) ($6,500) 

• Best ERF Paper Award, The Americas Conference on Information Systems (2025)

• Advanced Practices Council of Society for Information Management ($5,000)

• MIS Quarterly Author Development Workshop Selected Attendee (2024)

• MIS Quarterly Reviewer Development Workshop Selected Attendee (2024, 2025)

• Doctoral Consortium Fellow, The Americas Conference on Information Systems (2025)

• Doctoral Consortium Fellow, AOM Annual Meeting CTO Division (2024, 2025)

• Doctoral Consortium Fellow, BU Platform Strategy Research Symposium (2024)

• Doctoral Consortium Fellow, European Digital Platform Research Network (2024) 

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Travel Funding (Grant #: 2328, $1024)

• Syntheticusers.com Research Grant ($6,000)

• Top 25% ERF Paper, The Americas Conference on Information Systems (2023)

Temple University

• 2nd Research Advancement and Impact Seed-funding (RAIS) Symposium Award (2026) ($2,500) 

• Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) Funding (2026) ($1,000)

• 1st Research Advancement and Impact Seed-funding (RAIS) Symposium Award (2025) ($4,000) 

• Research Enhancement for Competitive and Accelerated Publishing (RECAP) Award (2025) ($1,200)

• 1st Place, PhD Student Research Competition, Fox School of Business (2024)

• People’s Choice, PhD Student Research Competition, Fox School of Business (2024)

• Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) Funding (2024) ($5,000)

• 27th Young Scholars Interdisciplinary Funding (2023) ($3,500)

• 26th Young Scholars Interdisciplinary Funding (2023) ($2,500) 

• 25th Young Scholars Interdisciplinary Funding (2022) ($1,800)

• 24th Young Scholars Interdisciplinary Funding (2022) ($1,250)

University of Connecticut

• Nominee for the Graduate Hall of Fame (2021)

• 2021 Spring Scholarship (Top 1 academic performance, $2,925)

• 2020 Spring Scholarship (Top 1 academic performance, $2,925)

• 2020 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Scholarship ($449)

University of Nottingham

• Inspirational Women Awards (The Only Student Awardee) (2019)

• Outstanding Graduate Awards (2019)

• Provost’s Scholarship (2019) ($2,150) 

• Provincial Scholarship (2018) ($850) 

• Outstanding Student Awards (2017, 2018) 

• Dean’s Scholarship (2017, 2018) ($850) 

Professional Certificates

• Certificate of Completion, AIS SIGDITE PhD Research Seminar on Digital Innovation, Transformation and Entrepreneurship  (co-hosted by Dr. Jan Recker & Dr. Youngjin Yoo) (2025)

• Certificate for Online Teaching, Fox School of Business (2025)

• Certified Reviewer for Information Technology for Development (2024) 

• Certified Peer Reviewer for Elsevier (2024)

• Certificate for PhD Teaching Academy, Fox School of Business (2023)

• Certified Tableau Desktop Specialist (2020)

Societal and Academic Organizations

• 1st Place, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales Business Competition (2019)

• Achievement Award, Research for Digital Transformation, Peking University (2018) 

• Outstanding Volunteer, 3rd Global SME Summit, Global Alliance of SMEs (2017)

Media Coverage

• AIS Member Spotlight 

• AIS InSider (Jan 1, 2026); AIS InSider (Oct 16, 2025); AIS InSider (Aug 21, 2025); AIS InSider (Nov 6, 2024)

• The Fox Brief (July 25, 2025)