May 2025: Co-chairing the Special Track on AI for Social Impact at AAAI 2026
April 2025: Recipient of the Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award for work on digital agriculture
January 2024: Awarded College of Engineering Research Initiative grant with Profs. Boian Alexandrov and Joel Paulson to apply ML to additive manufacturing optimization
2021: Paper 'Dual Mandate Patrols for Green Security' received Best Paper Runner-Up at AAAI-21
Published multiple papers at top venues including NeurIPS, AAAI, AAMAS, UAI, ICLR, and IJCAI on topics such as differentiable optimization, decision-focused learning, restless multi-armed bandits, Stackelberg games, and interpretable contact tracing
Organized and hosted the virtual AI for Social Impact Seminar Series at CRCS in 2020
Co-organized AI for Social Good workshops and tutorials at IJCAI and other conferences