Awards

IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement 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