Selected Honors & Awards

2026
Google Gemini Academic Program Award ($10,000)
🏆 2026
Best Paper Award
AI4Research Workshop at AAAI 2026
🎓 2026
Thinking Machines Lab Tinker Teaching Grant ($15,000)
🔬 2026
Thinking Machines Lab Tinker Research Grant ($5,000)
2025
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program Award
🏆 2025
Second Place in Agentic Reasoning (3/332, corresponding author)
NeurIPS 2025 CURE-Bench Data Competition
🏆 2025
Best Paper Honorable Mention Award (3/170)
ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (BCB)
2024
Best Student Paper Award (2/201)
ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (BCB)
📝 2024
Outstanding Reviewers
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
2023
EECS Rising Star
2023
ACM SIGBio Best Paper Award (1/191, first author)
ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (BCB)
🏆 2023
Biomedical and Health Informatics Data Hackathon — 1st Place
IEEE Healthcare Summit
🔬 2023
AMIA AI Showcase Stage I–III (first author)
✈️ 2022–23
NSF Student Travel Award
IEEE BHI and ACM BCB
🏆 2022
Finalist of the John H. Moe Award for Best Basic Science e-Poster (first author)
Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) 57th Annual Meeting
📰 2022
IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering Annual Featured Article (co-first author)
🏆 2022
Best Paper Award
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Reality
🏆 2021
Best Poster Award (1st Place)
IEEE Healthcare Summit
🏆 2021
Top 10 Teams
AMIA/HL7 FHIR Applications Competition