2024 Best Paper Award from IEEE RAS TC on Model-based Optimization for Robotics for T-RO paper "Consensus Complementarity Control for Multi-Contact MPC"
Advised Brian Acosta’s PhD thesis on "Real-time Perception and Mixed-Integer Footstep Control for Underactuated Bipedal Walking on Rough Terrain"
Advised William Yang’s PhD thesis on "Controlling Contact Transitions for Dynamic Robots"
Mentored Bibit Bianchini, recipient of the 2025 John Goff Prize and selected for the 2024 Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop
Organized and participated in multiple workshops at top conferences including RSS 2025 and ICRA 2025