Honors and Awards
AAAI 2018 Best Technical Demo Award: "Cognitive Assistant for Visualizing & Analyzing Exoplanets"
Fast Company Innovation by Design 2016 Finalist for Graphic Design & Data Visualization
Career Achievement Award, Black Engineer of the Year Awards 2013.
ACM Senior Member, October 2012.
Modern-Day Technology Leader, Black Engineer of the Year Awards 2008.
Honorable Mention - SIGCHI Best of CHI 2007 Award for full paper "Task and Social Visualization in
Software Development: Evaluation of a Prototype."
Intel Foundation Graduate Fellowship 2001-2002.
IBM Research Graduate Fellowship, 1998-2001.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in HCI, 1996-1998.
Graduated With Honors in Computer Science from University of Maryland, 1995.
John H. Franklin Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Academic Performance, 1995.
James A. Yorke Young Researcher Award, 1994.
OMSE Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Academic Achievement, 1991-1995.
Full Academic Scholarship, 1993-1994.
Dean's List for eight semesters at University of Maryland, 1992-1995