Fellowships, honors, invited talks, and professional service contributions.
Stony Brook University. Selected for interdisciplinary research on bias in data, humans, and institutions. Collaborating across psychology, political science, sociology, and linguistics.
Grant for Project "SWAPNO" — online training framework development for underserved populations.
Fellowship for excellence in Master's thesis research on cloud computing confederation models.
Received recognition for outstanding review quality at CHI 2026 (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems).
Received recognition for outstanding review quality at IUI 2026 (ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces).
Best Poster in the Intelligent Systems domain for "The Effects of Color and Familiar Visual Context on Chart Comprehension and Memorability" at the CS Department Graduate Research Day 2022.
International award for Project "Shohoj Sonchoy — Easy Savings" — financial technology solutions advancing digital inclusion in Asia-Pacific.
Recognized for excellence in teaching and student support.
Awarded multiple times with student evaluations averaging 4.7–5.0 / 5.0.
Attended the Innocence Network Conference (April 10–11, 2026), participating in sessions on AI, Innocence Intake, and "Scaling Justice with AI: New Tools, New Capacity, New Possibilities." Funded by NSF BIAS-NRT.
Delivered a guest lecture on "MisVisFix: Detecting, Explaining, and Correcting Misleading Visualizations using LLMs" at SUNY Old Westbury, New York.
Presented "Charts-of-Thought: Enhancing LLM Visualization Literacy Through Structured Data Extraction" at the IEEE Visualization Conference.
Presented "MisVisFix: An Interactive Dashboard for Detecting, Explaining, and Correcting Misleading Visualizations using LLMs" at the IEEE Visualization Conference.
Presented "Leveraging LLMs for Personalized Public Messaging" at CHI 2025 Extended Abstracts.
Presented "Joint Cognition of Both Human and Machine for Predicting Criminal Punishment in Judicial System" at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems, Singapore.
Presented "A QoS and Profit-Aware Cloud Confederation Model for IaaS Service Providers" at the 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
🏅 = Received Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews