Selected Awards and Honors

  • Best-of-the-Best Conference Paper Award, IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, 2022.

  • INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Award Runner-Up (student track) (as Advisor), 2022.

  • Systems Council Distinguished Lecturer, 2022-2024.

  • Semi-plenary speaker, IFAC SSSC 2022.

  • INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Award Runner-Up (student track) (as Advisor), 2021.

  • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2021.

  • NSF CAREER Award, 2021.

  • Plenary Speaker for IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, 2020.

  • Outstanding Student Paper Award (as an advisor), IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, 2020.

  • Best Student Paper Award (as an advisor), American Control Conference 2020.

  • Invited to participate in National Academy of Engineering's 2021 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.

  • Best Paper Award, INFORMS Data Mining, 2018.

  • Best Student Paper Finalist Award (as advisor), IEEE American Control Conference, 2018.

  • INFORMS ENRE Energy Best Publication Award, 2016.

  • INFORMS Optimization Society Prize for Young Researchers, 2015.

  • Best Student Paper Finalist Award (as a co-author), 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2014.

  • Postgraduate Scholarship of NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada), 2009-2011.

  • F. A. Gerard Prize (Best Master's Thesis Award) in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science of Concordia University, 2009.

  • Best Paper in Session Award, ACC 2007, ACC 2010.