1. Best Paper Award Winner in the DAIS Division of IISE, for the paper “Interpreting and Visualizing Distance Covariance via Additive Decomposition of Correlations formula”, 2023

  2. Best Paper Award Finalist in the QCRE Division of IISE, for the paper “Graph-aware Tensor Topic Models for Individualized Passenger Travel Pattern Clustering”, 2023

  3. Feature Article in IISE Transactions, “Process Modeling with Multi-level Categorical Inputs via Variable Selection and Level Aggregation”, 2022

  4. The Best Paper Award from IISE Transactions, for the paper “Holistic Modeling and Analysis of Multistage Manufacturing Processes with Sparse Effective Inputs and Mixed Profile Outputs”, 2021.

  5. Best Student Paper Award Finalist in the QCRE Division of IISE, for the paper “Additive Tensor Decomposition Considering Structural Data Information”. 2020

  6. Best Paper Award Finalist in the Quality, Statistics and Reliability Section of INFORMS, for the paper “Holistic Modeling and Analysis of Multistage Manufacturing Processes with Sparse Effective Inputs and Mixed Profile Outputs”, 2020.

  7. Best Paper Award Finalist in the Data Mining Section of INFORMS, for the paper “Ranking Features to Promote Diversity: An Approach Based on Sparse Distance Correlation”, 2019.

  8. E. Wayne Kay Graduate Scholarship from the SME Education Foundation, 2018.

  9. Feature article in IISE Transactions “A prediction and compensation scheme for in-plane shape deviation of additive manufacturing with information on process parameters”, 2017.