Achievements

Bucknell University

• • (2025) Selected as one of 16 recipients (top 7.3% of 219 reviewers) of the Outstanding Reviewer Award for IJCB 2025, in recognition of providing constructive and thorough feedback on assigned papers. [list of recognized reviewers]

  • (2024) Received Best Paper Award of IJCB 2024, Congratulations to all the contributors! IJCB 2024 Award Winners 

  • (2024) Received Best Reviewer Award at IJCB 2024! 

  • (2024) Was invited to serve on multiple NSF review panels. It has been an outstanding experience and an excellent opportunity to learn. 

  • (2023) Received Outstanding Reviewer Award from The IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) is the premier international forum for biometrics and related technologies research. Six reviewers of 230 reviewers were recognized for their outstanding effort in making IJCB 2023 a great success, Outstanding Reviewers – IEEE IJCB 2023 (ieee-biometrics.org)

  • (2023) Hung Ngo was awarded second prize in the ACM Student Research Competition at The Richard Tapia Conference 2023 for his research on "A Touchless Typing Approach Using Apple Augmented Reality Kit and Sequence-to-Sequence Learning." 

Hofstra University

• • (2021) Best Reviewer Award from the International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2021)  

Syracuse University 

• • (2018) The paper titled "Context-aware Active Authentication Using Smartphone Accelerometer Measurement," published at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPRW) in 2014, received the Highest Impact Award at CVPR 2018.

  • (2017) Popular Choice Award, 3 MT Thesis Competition 

  • (2017) Recognition for Distinguished Service to the Board of Trustees, Syracuse University, NY 

  • (2016) Doctoral Consortium Award by IEEE Biometrics Council, at the 7th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS 2016) 

  • (2015) GSO Travel Grant Award for attending the 6th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS 2015) 

Jawaharlal Nehru University

• (2010) Junior Research Fellowship by University Grant Commission, India

• (2010) National Eligibility Test Certificate for Professorship at Indian Universities and Colleges by University Grant Commission, India

• (2009) Rank #1 in order of merit

• (2007-09) Won several prizes in national-level competitions organized by top universities in India.

At National Institute of Computer Education, Affiliated to Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communications, Bhopal, MP

• (2005) Rank #1 in order of merit