Honors & Awards

 

  1. INFORMS Computing Society Best Student Paper Prize – Runner Up Prize (as a co-author), 2022.
    for the paper: A Graph-based Decomposition Method for Convex Quadratic Optimization with Indicators

  2. Outstanding Reviewer Award, NeurIPS, 2021.

  3. INFORMS ENRE Best Student Paper Award (as a co-author), 2020.
    for the paper: Smoothing Property of Load Variation Promotes Finding Global Solutions of Time-Varying Optimal Power Flow

  4. Outstanding Student Paper Award of of the IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), 2020.
    for the paper: Absence of Spurious Local Trajectories in Time-Varying Optimization: A Control-Theoretic Perspective

  5. Best-of-the-Best Conference Paper Award of the 2020 Power & Energy Society General Meeting, 2020.
    for the paper: Load Variation Enables Escaping Poor Solutions of Time-Varying Optimal Power Flow

  6. IEOR Faculty Fellowship Award, 2019.
    UC Berkeley

  7. INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Award, 2018.
    for the paper: Graphical Lasso and Thresholding: Equivalence and Closed-form Solutions

  8. Finalist for American Control Conference Best Paper Award, 2018.
    for the paper: Closed-Form Solution and Sparsity Path for Inverse Covariance Estimation Problem

  9. Katta G. Murty Best Paper Award, 2018.
    for the paper: Graphical Lasso and Thresholding: Equivalence and Closed-form Solutions

  10. Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2017.
    UC Berkeley

  11. Marshall-Oliver-Rosenberger Fellowship Award, 2017.
    UC Berkeley

  12. Best Reviewer Award, 2016.
    IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

  13. Armstrong Fellowship Award, 2014.
    Columbia University