Awards/Honors

2024 - Certificate for Excellence in Undergraduate Research at Old Dominion University. 

2023 - National Science Foundation – Association for Women in Mathematics Travel Grant.

2023 - Nominated for Old Dominion University College of Sciences Early Career Distinguished Research Award 2023.

2022 - Invited at the IMS New Researchers Conference 2022, George Mason University, Fairfax VA, USA.

2020 - Summer Research Fellowship, Old Dominion University.

2020 - Profiled "Comparison of smoking-related DNA methylation between newborns from prenatal exposure and adults from personal smoking" on NIH Intramural Blog.

2019 - Abstract Scholarship for “Interaction between polygenic risk for reduced pulmonary function and farming exposures in the Agricultural Lung Health Study” from Assembly of American Thoracic Society (ATS), Dallas TX, USA.

2018 - Travel Award for poster presentation and poster blitz on “Unique newborn methylation signatures of maternal smoking during pregnancy not observed in adults from personal smoking” at the UW CHARGE Baltimore meeting, Baltimore MD, USA.

2018 - Abstract Scholarship for “Unique methylation signatures of maternal smoking exposure during pregnancy” from Assembly of American Thoracic Society (ATS), San Diego CA, USA.

2017 - Best Paper Award for the paper “Exploring the importance of cancer pathways by meta-analysis of differential protein expression networks in three different cancers” at Biostatistics Workshop on Statistical Inference on Biomedical Big Data, University of Florida, Gainesville FL, USA.

2017 - University of Florida the Public Health and Health Professions Dean’s Ph.D. Travel Award for contributed oral presentation at ENAR, Washington D.C, USA.

2015 - Travel Award from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) for contributed oral presentation at Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics (FACM '16), Newark NJ, USA.

2014 - 2nd Prize for Excellent Research presented on “An integrative exploratory analysis of –omics data from the ICGC cancer genomes lung adenocarcinoma study” at the 13th Annual International Conference on Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis, Boston MA, USA.

2014 - University of Louisville Graduate School Council Travel award for oral presentation competition on “An integrative exploratory analysis of –omics data from the ICGC cancer genomes lung adenocarcinoma study” at the 13th Annual International Conference on Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis, Boston MA, USA.

2012 - 1st place in the Master’s program of Statistics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.