awards

DARPA Disruptive Idea Award Research Award DARPA NeurIPS Neuroscience Workshop details
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program Award Research Award NVIDIA Academic Grant Program announcement
Best Paper Award — AAAI ColoRAI Workshop Paper Award AAAI ColoRAI workshop workshop site
Outstanding Research Faculty Award (department nomination) Research Honor University of Virginia announcement
Fellowship in AI Research Research Fellowship LaCross Institute program overview

Notable Reviewer Service Award International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) press
NMSU Computer Science Star Award Research Distinction New Mexico State University press

Best Paper Award Nomination Best Paper Nominee NeurIPS — Pruning has a Disparate Impact on Model Accuracy conference page
Caspar Bowden PET Award Research Award Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium award site
IJCAI Early Career Spotlight Research Spotlight International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence program
Google Research Scholar Award Research Award Project: Equity of Differentially Private Decision Processes recipients
NSF CAREER Award Research Career Award Project: CAREER: End-to-end Constrained Optimization Learning press award page
Best Paper Award — IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Paper Award Differentially Private Optimal Power Flow for Distribution Grids IEEE TPWRS

Top Reviewer Award Service Award NeurIPS Program Committee (2021 – 2022) 2022 2021
Amazon Research Award — AWS AI Research Award Project: Towards Understanding the Unintended Disparate Impacts of Private ML Systems award page
ISSNAF Mario Gerla Young Investigator Award Research Award Italian Embassy in the United States press
ACP Early Career Research Award Research Award Association for Constraint Programming award page
Best Paper Award — IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Paper Award Privacy-Preserving Power System Obfuscation: A Bilevel Optimization Approach IEEE TPWRS

NSF RI Grant — Deep Constrained Learning for Power Systems Research Grant $500K collaborative award with Georgia Tech award page
Differentially Private Temporal Map Challenge Award Research Challenge Winner National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) challenge recap

AI*IA Best AI Dissertation Award Research Dissertation Thesis: Exploiting the Structure of Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems AI*IA
Visionary Workshops Paper Award Paper Award AAMAS — A Realistic Dataset for the Smart Home Device Scheduling Problem for DCOPs proceedings
Best Student Paper Award Paper Award CMSB — Constraint Programming in Community-based Gene Regulatory Network Inference

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