Awards
Below is a collection of awards and honors recieved in recognition of contributions to research, professional service, and community engagement
2026
Divison Nominee for the Veiled Director’s Cup Team Award, AFRL Sensors Directorate
Member of the Generating Adversarial Activity Models Automatically (GAAMA) team who was nominated by their second-level supervisor (Division Chief) for an AFRL product for a warfighter for classified operational use
Divison Nominee for the Dr. Samuel M. Burka Memorial Award, AFRL Sensors Directorate
Award recognizes the most significant in-house scientific accomplishment of the year; Nominated by second-level supervisor (Division Chief)
Division Nominee for the Lab Scientist of 2025 Q4, AFRL Sensors Directorate
Award recognizes significant contributions made during the final quarter of 2025; Nominated by second-level supervisor (Division Chief)
2025
2024 Chapter Excellence Award, INFORMS
The INFORMS Cincinnati-Dayton Chapter was selected based on its performance in membership, providing value to members, providing value to the community, communications, special initiatives, and administrative tasks in 2024
Best Track Paper Nomination, 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
Nominated for the HICSS Decision Analytics and Service Science Track’s best paper for “Zero-shot comparison of large language models (LLMs) reasoning abilities on long-text analogies” (19 papers nominated out of 132 accepted papers across 34 mini-tracks)
HICSS58 Best Paper Nominations Read the paper2024
Division Nominee for the Brian M. Hendrickson Memorial Award (Team), AFRL Sensors Directorate
Award recognizes exceptional team research accomplishment in exploratory or advanced development and contribution of technology to the Air Force; Nominated by second-level supervisor (Division Chief) for contributions to the “Analogical Learning” team
Judith Liebman Award, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Award for student volunteers who have been “moving spirits” in their university, local chapter(s), and the Institute
Student Leadership (Graduate Level) Award, Waves of Change STEM Conference
Award given to a graduate student with a creative verve, accomplished academic record, & proven desire to help others succeed
STEM Advocate of the Quarter for Quarter 1 of 2024, AFRL Multi-domain Sensing Autonomy Division
Selected by second-level supervisor for involvement with TechFest Dayton, a K-12 STEM oureach expo
Chief’s Pick for Quarter 4 of 2023, AFRL Multi-domain Sensing Autonomy Division
Selected by second-level supervisor for work contributions
2023
Divison Nominee for the Air Force Civillian of the Year (Category II) Award, AFRL Sensors Directorate
Nominated by second-level supervisor for work contributions throughout 2023; Category II corresponds to employees with equivalent rank between GS-9 and GS-11
Inno Under 25, Dayton Business Journal
Recognition of the top founders, entrepreneurs, innovators, and leaders under 25 in the Dayton ecosystem
2021
Notable Fall 2021 Graduate, Wright State University
Featured as one of three notable students participating in Wright State University’s Fall 2021 commencement ceremony
Laureate Award (Distinction: Service), Tau Beta Pi
Award given annually to up to five student members who outstandingly exemplify the “spirit of liberal culture in engineering colleges”
About the Tau Beta Pi Laureate Award Wright State University Newsroom Article
1st Place Award of Excellence (Higher Education), Technology First
Award given to one Dayton-area undergraduate project in the field of information technology (IT) or analytics among the three finalists
2nd Place Undergraduate Technical Paper Competition Global Finals, Institute for Industrial and System Engineers (IISE)
Selected by a panel of judges among 10 global finalists; Co-author and presenter on project entitled “Putting a smile on redesigning: A dental facility layout problem”
James W. Barany Student Award for Excellence, Institute for Industrial and System Engineers (IISE)
Award given to a graduating senior who has brought distinction to industrial engineering at their institution
Harold M. King Fellowship No. 60, Tau Beta Pi
Award based on merit to support Tau Beta Pi members pursuing graduate study (<8.5% selection rate); Specific fellowship is given to a “recipient whose participation in his/her technical society is judged worthy of special mention”
List of 2021 -2022 Tau Beta Pi Fellows Wright State University Newsroom Article
1st Place Great Lakes Regional Undergraduate Technical Paper Competition, Institute for Industrial and System Engineers (IISE)
Selected by a panel of judges to represent the Great Lakes region in the Global Finals at the IISE Annual Meeting with the project, “Putting a smile on redesigning: A dental facility layout problem”
2020
2nd Place Mini-poster Competition (Undergraduate Category), OR/MS Tomorrow
Selected by a panel of judges for the mini-poster on “Cramming questions: Quiz bowl set optimization”
2nd Place Undergraduate Technical Paper Competition Global Finals, Institute for Industrial and System Engineers (IISE)
Selected by a panel of judges among 10 global finalists; Sole author on project entitled “Cramming questions: Quiz bowl set optimization”
INFORMS Scholarship, OR/MS Tomorrow
One of twelve scholarship receipents to attend the INFORMS Annual Meeting (at the time of the award the scholarship was exclusively for undergraduate students)
UPS Scholarship for Female Students, Institute for Industrial and System Engineers (IISE)
Awarded one of IISE’s national scholarships for the 2020-2021 academic year
1st Place Great Lakes Regional Undergraduate Technical Paper Competition, Institute for Industrial and System Engineers (IISE)
Selected by a panel of judges to represent the Great Lakes region in the Global Finals at the IISE Annual Meeting with the project, “Cramming questions: Quiz bowl set optimization”
2019
Records Scholar No. 1476, Tau Beta Pi
Receiptient of one of Tau Beta Pi’s undergraduate scholarships (56% selection rate)