Honors

  • Award for Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2021
  • Innovations in Education Award, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2020
  • Best Application Paper Award in IISE Transactions, for the paper “Modeling of a three-dimensional dynamic thermal field under grid-based sensor networks in grain storage,” 2020
  • Best Paper Award (second runner-up) in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, for the paper “Causation-based Monitoring and Diagnosis for Multivariate Categorical Processes with Ordinal Information,” 2020
  • Best New Application Paper Award (first runner-up) in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, for the paper “Structural Degradation Modeling Framework for Sparse Datasets with an application on Alzheimer’s Disease,” 2020
  • Best Paper Award in Quality, Statistics, and Reliability Section of INFORMS, for the paper “Collusion Detection and Ground Truth Inference in Crowdsourcing for Labeling Tasks,” 2019
  • Dr. Hamed K. Eldin Outstanding Early Career IE in Academia Award, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2019
  • Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), 2019
  • Feigenbaum Medal Award, American Society for Quality (ASQ), 2019
  • Feature Article in IIE Magazine, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020
  • Feature Article in INFORMS Magazine, 2016
  • Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award (2nd place), Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), 2014
  • Richard A. Freund International Scholarship, American Society for Quality (ASQ), 2013
  • Best Student Paper Award in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC), for the paper “Adaptive Sensor Allocation Strategy for Process Monitoring and Diagnosis in a Bayesian Network,” 2013
  • Best Student Paper Award in Data Mining Section of INFORMS, for the paper “Health Index Development Based on Sensory Data Fusion for Degradation Modeling and Prognostic Analysis,” 2012
  • Best Student Paper Award Finalist in Quality, Statistics, and Reliability Section of INFORMS, for the paper “Physician Performance Assessment Using a Composite Quality Index,” 2012
  • Gilbreth Memorial Fellowship, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), 2012
  • CELT/BP Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award Finalist, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011 (one nominee for each School at GT)
  • Outstanding Research Poster Presentation Award, Georgia Tech Research and Innovation Conference, 2011
  • Wall George Stipend Fellowship, Department of Industrial and System Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009 - 2010