Active Funding Awards
NSF award: Targeted Infusion Project: UDC-CSEC-ENGAGE Project - Aligning Emerging Technologies to Improve Cybersecurity Education and Cultivating a Talented Cyber Workforce, Co-PI, National Science Foundation, $399,924, 10/1/2024 - 09/30/2027
NSF award: Collaborative Research: CUE-T: HBCU Learning Community-based Intervention in Computing, Co-PI, National Science Foundation, $654,004, 07/15/2023 - 06/30/2026
NSF award: Collaborative Research: CISE-MSI: RPEP: SaTC: HBCU Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity (AI-CyS) Research Partnership, $152,350, August 2021 ~ October 2024. In this project, we collaborate with six other HBCUs and two national labs and research in video authentication in near real-time and reinforcement learning autonomous cybersecurity agents.
Honors
Nominated and selected fellow of Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership (CASL), June 2019 ~ June 2020
Nominated and selected fellow of Opportunities for UnderRepresented Scholars (OURS) Institutional Leadership Certificate Program, 2014
Invited attendee of the annual meeting of The Presidents’ Circle of National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and Institute of Medicine (IOM), May 21-22, 2014, Washington, D.C.
Outstanding University Service Award School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of the District of Columbia, April 23, 2014.
Nominated and selected fellow of Myrtilla Miner Faculty Fellow (MMFF) program, University of the District of Columbia, 2012-2013.
Nominated and selected participant of Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Conference, hosted by National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Nov. 2011, California. One of the sixty-five participants selected nationwide that year.
Nominated and selected participant of Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) Summer Leadership Institute, July 2011, Colorado.
Nominated and selected participant of Preparing Critical Faculty for the Future (PCFF) program of AAC&U, 2011. One of the two Women of Color Faculty Members at UDC.