Awards & Fellowships

Honors & Awards

  • Best Paper Runner-Up Award, IEEE/ACM international conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), Washington, D.C., 2022
  • Societal Impact Fellows Award, Faculty Awards Convocation, Purdue University, 2022
  • Best Community-voted Presentation Award, EAI International Conference on Safety and Security in IoT (SaSeIoT), Cyberspace, 2021
  • NSF Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Aspiring Principal Investigator Award, 2020
  • Nominated for the Eli J. Helen Shaheen Award from the CSE Dept, College of Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 2020 (this is the most prestigious award, annually given to three outstanding graduating students, one from each of the three colleges consisting of many departments)
  • Outstanding Research Assistant Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 2018 (awarded to a top student annually)
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, Graduate School and Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Notre Dame, 2018 (awarded to top 3 teaching scholars annually)
  • Best Paper Nomination, IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), Chicago, Illinois, October 2016
  • First Place Winner, Poster Presentation, CS Research Day, University of Memphis, Spring 2014
  • Dean’s Award, BUET (awarded annually to students with GPA above 3.75 in
    2 consecutive semesters, received 4 times), March 2004 to March 2009
  • Merit Scholarship, BUET (awarded to top 10 students, received 8 times), March 2004 to March 2009

Grants & Fellowships

  • Scholarship of Engagement Fellowship, Office of Engagement, Purdue University ($1,500) (2023 — 2024)
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Fellowship, Center for Instructional Excellence, Purdue University ($2,000) (Summer 2023)
  • PI, Clifford B. Kinley Trust ($25,000) (May 2022 — August 2023)
  • PI, OURScholars, Office of Undergraduate Research, Purdue University (covers 1 AY stipend for 2 students/project, funded 2 projects as PI) ($4,000) (August 2022 — May 2023)
  • PI, Stay Summer Scholars, Office of Undergraduate Research, Purdue University (covers summer stipends, housing, and 9-credit registration for 2 students/project, funded 3 projects as PI and 1 project as Co-PI) ($20,000) (May 2022 — August 2022)
  • PI, Discovery Park Undergraduate Research Internship (DURI) Fellowship, Office of Undergraduate Research, Purdue University (covers 1-semester stipends for 2 students) (January 2022 — April 2022)
  • Societal Impact Fellowship, Office of Engagement, Purdue University ($1,000) (Spring 2022)
  • IMPACT (Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation) program — Innovative Learning, Center for Instructional Excellence, Purdue University ($10,000) (Spring 2022)
  • PI, Interdisciplinary Research Grant, Office of Research, Fordham University (April 2020 — December 2021)
  • Social Innovation Research Fellowship, Fordham University (covers stipends for faculty and 2 students) (May 2020 — May 2021)
  • PI, Faculty Research Grant, Office of Research, Fordham University (July 2020 — March 2021)
  • IBM-Fordham Summer Research Fellowship, Office of Research, Fordham University, Summer 2020 (covers faculty summer salary and stipends for 2 students)
  • International Conference Travel Grant, Office of Research, Fordham University, 2020 ($2,000)
  • Distinguished Teaching Scholar Fellowship, Computer Science and Engineering Dept., University of Notre Dame, Fall 2017 to Summer 2019 ($210,530 for 2 years)
  • IBM Research Travel Grant Award, IBM Research, June 2019 ($900)
  • NSF/IEEE Student Travel Grant Award, IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), Xian, China, June 2019 ($1600)
  • Notebaert Professional Development Award, Graduate School, University of Notre Dame, 2015 ($3000), 2016 ($800), 2019 ($1600)
  • Graduate Student Union (GSU) Conference Travel Grant, University of Notre Dame, 2015 ($550), 2016 ($275), 2017 ($400), 2019 ($500)
  • Zahm Research Award, Graduate School and College of Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 2018 ($800)
  • NSF/IEEE Student Travel Grant Award, IEEE International Conference on Body Sensor Network (BSN), Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2018 ($475)
  • NSF-funded Ethical Leaders in STEM (EL-STEM) training program, University of Notre Dame, Fall 2017 to Spring 2018 ($1400)
  • NSF/IEEE Student Travel Grant Award, IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), Park City, Utah, August 2017 ($1150)
  • NSF-funded Social Responsibilities of Researchers (SRR) training program, University of Notre Dame, Fall 2016 to Spring 2017 ($1400)
  • NSF/ACM Student Travel Grant Fellowship, ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) and International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), Osaka, Japan, September 2015 ($1400)
  • CSE Department Professional Development Fund, University of Notre Dame, 2015 – 2018
  • EECS First-Year Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, October 2014 to September 2015 ($47,894 for 9 months)
  • Bangladesh–Sweden Trust Higher Study Travel Fund, Fall 2010 ($900)