IEEE ComSoc Early Achievement Award from the Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC), 2022
NSF CAREER Award ($487k) in 2021 for project: 'CAREER: Adaptive Communications and Trajectory Design for UAV-assisted Wireless Networks: a Multi-Scale Decision Framework' (CNS-2129015)
NSF supplement ($50k) to CNS-1642982 in 2020 for experiments on NSF PAWR Powder platform
Purdue Seed for Success Award in both 2017 and 2018
Isabella Sassi Bonadonna Award from AEIT (Italian Association), 2013 ($16k)
Scholarship from Fondazione Ing. Aldo Gini, 2010
Toni Mian scholarship for best MSc thesis, 2010
Multiple publications in top-tier IEEE journals including TCOM, TCCN, TIT, TON, and JSAC
Research Experience
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Southern California (2013–2015)
Assistant Professor at Purdue University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2016–2020)
Assistant Professor at Arizona State University, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering (2021–2023)
Promoted to Associate Professor at Arizona State University in 2023
Principal Investigator of NSF grant CNS-2129015 (since 2021)
Led NSF grant CNS-1642982 (2016–2021)
Co-PI on DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) project (2016–2019)