Awards, Recognitions, and Honors

Scientific Achievement Award (2026)
Unit: Alumni Association
Organization: Oregon Institute of Technology

"The Scientific Achievement Award pays tribute to alumni who have contributed to remarkable advancements in the sciences. Each recipient must have exhibited an accomplishment in the area of scientific research, discovery, and/or innovation. Through their achievement, they bring great honor and distinction to the University."

Hoefer Award for Student-Faculty Research (2026)
Unit: Faculty Research Committee
Organization: University of the Pacific

"The purpose of this award is to encourage, recognize, and reward the "teacher-scholar" model for faculty which supports teaching and student learning as the primary activities while recognizing scholarship and research as vital to that enterprise.  This award exemplifies Pacific's commitment to teaching and learning in all its academic endeavors.  The award recognizes outstanding performance in a joint student-faculty research/creative project.  The award is awarded to a faculty member(s) and an undergraduate student(s) for work on a single research or creative project."

Best Paper Presentation Award (2024)
Venue: 2024 Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Paper Title: "Evaluation of Ensemble Learning for Mitigating Adversarial Attacks in Industrial Object Detection"

Best Paper Award (2024)
Venue: 2024 IEEE Cyber Awareness and Research Symposium
Paper Title: "PaciPhish: Intelligent and Interpretable Phishing URL Detection Framework"