Named in Stanford’s World's Top 2% Scientists 2025.
Honorable Mention for Aminer AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Data Mining (2025).
Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2024) on fairness in real-world AI.
Received Emory URC Research Award (2025), NSF NAIRR Pilot Award (2025), DHS grant via CAOE (2023), multiple Cisco Faculty Research Awards.
Awarded Microsoft Accelerate Foundation Models Research Award (2023), DARPA AI Forward Scholarship (2023), AAAI New Faculty Highlights (2023), Meta Research Award finalist (2022), and ASU Dean’s Dissertation Award (2020).
Research supported by federal agencies (NSF, DARPA, IARPA, DHS, DOE) and industry partners (Cisco, Google, Microsoft).
Papers accepted at top venues including ICLR, NeurIPS, EMNLP, NAACL, TheWebConf, KDD, CIKM, COLING, AACL, AMIA, DSAA, etc.
Led an NSF-funded project on open-source anomaly detection (2024) with UIC, USC, and Lehigh.
Published a perspective on protecting LLMs from jailbreaks in Communications of the ACM (2025).