Awards
Earned the 2017 College of Engineering Award as an outstanding PhD student in the EECS department. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o-0S1T_2x7H69nkwigOMgv2_z9j9-l4K/view?usp=drive_link
Honored with the Guest of Honor Award at the 1907 Celebration of Women in Engineering in 2017 and 2019. https://engineering.missouri.edu/2019/12/banquet-celebrates-excellence/
Received the 2020 National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Collegiate Finalist Award.
Participated in the Medical Informatics Training Program during Summer 2018 (internship) at Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC/NIH), engaging closely with senior research staff.
Received travel grants to participate in the prestigious 2018 and 2019 CRA-W Grad Cohort for Women Workshops in San Francisco, CA, and Chicago, IL respectively.
Featured in two University of Missouri's College of Engineering articles, acknowledging my substantial research contributions during doctoral studies.
Won the National Science foundation (NSF) Professional Development Award in iREDEFINE workshop, a unique opportunity due to the large numbers of ECE departments chairs attending the event, the workshop received 56 excellent applications and only 13 graduate students have been selected across USA.
Selected as an IEEE EMBS student paper competition finalist (one of 15 out of >2000 papers) at EMBS16, receiving full registration fee waiver, travel/lodging grant, and an opportunity to present in a special session. https://embc.embs.org/2016/2016-embs-student-paper-competition-finalists/.
Awarded a prestigious full funded PhD scholarship from The Higher Committee for Education Development in Iraq (HCED) in 2013.
