Honors & Awards

  • NISS New Researcher Award (2026)
    Presented a research talk on Efficient Deep Gaussian Process Surrogates via Mini-Batch Latent MAP Estimation.

  • Graduate School Travel Fellowship (2026)
    Supported travel to present Efficient Deep Gaussian Process Surrogates via Mini-Batch Latent MAP Estimation.

  • ASA/IMS Spring Research Conference Student Travel Award (2026)
    Supported participation in the conference, where I presented research on Efficient Deep Gaussian Process Surrogates via Mini-Batch Latent MAP Estimation.

  • Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2026)
    Awarded by the College of Natural Science at Michigan State University in support of dissertation completion.

  • ASA/IMS Spring Research Conference Student Travel Award (2025)
    Supported participation in the conference, where I presented research on Deep Intrinsic Coregionalization Multi-Output Gaussian Process.

  • IMSI Poster Acceptance (2025)
    Presented a poster at the Kernel Methods in Uncertainty Quantification and Experimental Design program.

  • Harkness Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award (2023–2024)
    Recognized for exceptional teaching contributions by the Department of Statistics and Probability at Michigan State University.

  • Undergraduate Research Competition First prize (2019)
    Developed a facial expression recognition system in R using k-nearest neighbors, random forests, and support vector machines.