Awards

Carnegie Classifications Transition from IU-CPR to ACE (2022 – ongoing)

The project is high-impact and of national interest. It brought Kean University to collaborate with Indiana University-Bloomington and the American Council of Education(ACE). Leading a group of faculty and students developing a Question Answering application for ACE using Large Language Models. Now partially funded by ACE

• Release Time for Research award 2021 and 2022, Kean University, Comprehensive Atlas of Population Health Vulnerabilities for Communities in the US (2021 - 2023)

• Vice President - Education and Training, New Jersey Big Data Alliance, 2021 – ongoing. Elected by representatives from eighteen New Jersey higher education institutions

• Insider NJ profiled my COVID-19 research, Insider NJ (2021) • Kean News, 2021, Profiled my COVID-19 research (2021)

• South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) testimonial on COVID-19. Research that assisted the SCDHEC in developing vaccine policy (2021)

• Nominated for 2021 Presidential Award for Distinguished Scholarship, 2021, Kean University. • Summer Research Fellowship, Kean University, 2021 – 2023

Training Course

1. Natural Language Processing with Attention Models, course completed, September 2022, Coursera, online.

2. 2022 National Workshop on Data Science Education, University of California Berkeley, June 27 – July 1, 2022 (https://data.berkeley.edu/2022workshop)

3. Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence: Deep Learning Specialization, November 2018, Coursera, online. Courses completed Convolutional Neural Networks Sequence Models Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization Neural Networks, and Deep Learning Structuring Machine Learning Projects.

4. Tackling the Challenges of Big Data, an online program developed by the faculty of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 2014.