Research support & recognition

Research support, fellowships, certificates, and selected academic recognition.

Research support & fellowships

External and institutional support for research and training.

NIHNamed Personnel2024–present

NIH/NIAID R01 AI173333

Identifying and modeling immune correlates of protection against congenital CMV transmission after primary maternal infection.

Named personnel and postdoctoral researcher on the joint Weill Cornell Medicine and Duke project, contributing multiscale scientific machine learning, in silico vaccine-efficacy modeling, and maternal-fetal immune analyses.

NSFFellowship2023–2024

NSF NRT Fellowship in AI & Machine Learning for Digital Health

Two-year, stipend-supported Bridges to Digital Health graduate fellowship, Award #2125872, at West Virginia University. The NSF Advanced Certificate in Machine Learning & Data Science for Digital Health was awarded in 2026.

Fellowship2023

WVU

Graduate Summer Machine Learning Research Fellowship

School of Mathematical & Data Sciences, Eberly College of Arts & Sciences, West Virginia University.

Selected honors

Selected awards, travel support, and certificates.

2026
NSF Advanced Certificate in Machine Learning & Data Science for Digital HealthNational Science Foundation · BridgesDH NRT
2025
Excellent Editor AwardInternational Journal of Modeling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing · World Scientific
2023
AMS Travel GrantAmerican Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting
2022
MDS22 Travel Award & JMM Travel AwardSIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science · Joint Mathematics Meetings
2020–21
Graduate Student Travel GrantsWest Virginia University
2017
Best Paper Award & Excellence in Graduate ResearchShiraz University of Technology
2010–11
Exceptional Talented Student AwardShiraz University of Technology
2006
Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award