Honors and Awards

NVIDIA Hardware Grant, January 2022

Adeno-associated virus design with a language model grounded in 3D structure
Awarded two NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB GPUs

UC Berkeley - UCSF Bioengineering Department: Brodie Endowed Fellowship, 2022

Awarded additional funding for Fall 2022

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Program (NSF-GRFP): Honorable Mentions, 2021

Diversification and Characterization of Novel Chimeric Adeno-associated Viruses using Probabilistic Modeling and Deep Transformer Networks

Fulbright Student Program: Research Fellowship for Sweden, 2019

Investigating Potato Immunity Interactions through Multiple Lines of Evidence
Awarded full financial support for 10 months of research at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Program (NSF-GRFP): Honorable Mentions, 2019

Statistical and Network Approaches for the Determination of Obligate Dependencies in Microbiomes

University of Tennessee, Office of Undergradaute Research: Travel Grant Award, 2018

Comprehensive Spectral Analysis of Pyrolysis-MBMS Data Using Statistical Learning and Bioinformatics Approaches
Awarded full travel funding to the American Instutite for Chemical Engineers Annual Student Meeting in Pittsburg, PA