Awards

• SEAS Early Career Researcher of the Year Award (2026)

• CSE Excellence in Research Award (2025)

• NSF CAREER Award (2025)

• Best Paper Candidate Award (IJCAI 2025 GLOW Workshop)

• UB CSE Junior Faculty Research Award (2023)

• Presidential Fellowship, OSU (1-3 per department, highest honor for final-year Ph.D. students)

• Outstanding Reviewer Award, NeurIPS, ICML, AISTATS

• University Fellowship, OSU

NSF Awards

• PI, NSF/ECCS, ‘‘CAREER: Large-Scale Multi-Objective Learning: Novel Algorithms and Fundamental Theory’’, 2025-2030.

• PI, NSF/CCF, ‘‘Collaborative Research: CIF: Small: New Theory, Algorithms and Applications for Large-Scale Bilevel Optimization’’, 2023-2026.

• PI, NSF/EPCN, ‘‘Collaborative Research: Distributed Bilevel Optimization in Multi-Agent Systems’’, 2023-2026