Awards

  • IBM Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention), 2023

  • IBM Outstanding Innovation Award, 2023

  • IBM Research Accomplishment Award, Dec. 2023
    for contributions to "advancing optimization techniques for next-generation distributed intelligence"

  • IBM Invention Plateau Achievement Award, Nov. 2023

  • IBM Entrepreneur Award, 2023

  • FL-NeurIPS Outstanding Paper Award, 2022

  • NeurIPS top reviewer, 2022

  • Best Paper Runner-Up Award of UAI, 2022

  • IBM Research Accomplishment Award, Dec. 2021
    for contributions to "science of accurate, robust, and generalizable AI"

  • IBM Invention Plateau Accomplishment Award, Nov. 2021

  • IBM Patent File Award, Feb. 2021

  • Research Excellence Award, Iowa State University, Feb. 2017

  • Graduate and Professional Student Senate Research Award, Iowa State University, 2015

  • First-Place Winner, National Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, China, 2009