Honors spanning research, teaching, community engagement, and early career milestones
Top 5% of all submissions. The paper introduces a framework drawn from Cézanne's painting practice to critique and reconceive evaluation in multimodal AI systems.
Blue Sky Best Paper Award (Runner-up)
27th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2025), Canberra, Australia. Awarded for the MUSE framework paper.
Silver Reviewer, ICML 2026
Recognized among the top reviewers at the International Conference on Machine Learning.
UNL College of Engineering Research Excellence Award
University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering.
Holling Family Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Inclusive Teaching
UNL College of Engineering.
Students Choice Award — Outstanding Teaching of Graduate-Level Courses
UNL Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Students Choice Award — Outstanding Teaching of Undergraduate-Level Courses (100–200)
UNL Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Students Choice Award — Outstanding Teaching of Undergraduate-Level Courses (100–200)
UNL Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
UNL Parents Association Award
Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Students.
Concluding session of the faculty workshop series on community-engaged research. Three awards at a single event.
Chair's Prize, Ph.D. Poster Competition
Spring 2013 Department of Software and Information Systems Ph.D. Poster Competition, UNC Charlotte.
Best Student Award
Highest grade in CSE 5510 (Mobile and Distributed Computing Systems), School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia.
Australian Development Scholarship (AusAID)
Sole recipient in the Information Technology category from Bangladesh, awarded in recognition of founding and operating a non-profit IT startup for rural development.
2nd Position with First Class, M.Sc. in Physics
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.