Awards

  • NSF SHF Award, NSF Collaborative Research: SHF: Small: Towards Robust Deep Learning Computing on GPUs, September 2021.
  • Best reviewers Award, International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2021), July 2021.
  • Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship, SJSU Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering, May 2021.
  • NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award, CRII: SaTC: Physical Side-Channel Attacks in Biometric System, April 2021.
  • COVID-19 Extramural Funding Incentive Program Award, Vice President for Research & Innovation, San José State University, January 2021.
  • University Faculty Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA) Assigned Time Award, Vice President for Research & Innovation, San José State University, May 2020.
  • University Grants Academy (UGA) Award, Research Foundation in the San Jose State University, Jan. 2020.
  • College of Engineering Professional Faculty Development grant, August, 2019.
  • Faculty Travel Grant, Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering at SJSU, May 2019.
  • IAPR TC4 Best Student Paper Award: “On the Vulnerability of ECG Verification to Online Presentation Attacks”, International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), 2017.
  • UConn’s prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut, 2017.
  • Pre-doctoral Summer Fellowship, ECE Department, University of Connecticut, 2017
  • Best Paper Award: “A study of Power Supply Variation as a Source of Random Noise”, at 30th International Conference on VLSI Design & 16th International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID), 2017.
  • Best Poster Award for hardware security, at FICS Research Annual Conference on Cybersecurity 2016
  • Doctoral Student Travel Award, University of Connecticut, 2016
  • Pre-doctoral Summer Fellowship, ECE Department, University of Connecticut, 2016