Selected Awards

Selected awards:

• 2025, R&D 100 Award in Software Category PRESTO: Privacy REcommendation and SecuriTy Optimization.
• 2024, Outstanding Mentorship, ORNL Computer Science and Mathematics Division.
• 2023, CRA Early and Mid Career Mentoring Workshop.
• 2022, Applied Energy, Highly cited research paper award Intelligent multi-zone residential HVAC control strategy based on deep reinforcement learning.
• 2021, IEEE Senior Membership.
• 2020, IEEE BigData Conference, Best Paper Runner-Up, ‘Methodology for interpretable reinforcement learning model for HVAC energy control’
• 2020, Community Outreach and Service, ORNL Computer Science and Mathematics Division.
• 2020, Heidelberg Laureate Forum.
• 2019, US Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Women in Clean Energy Symposium and Awards.
• 2018, International Guest Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
• 2018, CRA-WP Early and Mid Career Mentoring Workshop.
• 2017, Grace Hopper Celebration.
• 2017, ACM-W Europe Celebration Women in Computing Conference.