Awards

Academic Awards & Honors

  • Best Paper Award, Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) 2022
  • Honorable Mention Award, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI) 2022
  • Honorable Mention Award, ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2021
  • Best Paper Award, Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) 2020
  • Best 4 Papers, IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2010

Grant Support

  • UMass Public Interest Technology Award: “Designing and Evaluating Voice-enabled Conversational Journaling for Parkinson’s Patients,” (PI)
    • Award Period: 4/1/2023 – 10/30/2023, $9000
  • National Science Foundation (NSF), SATC: CORE: Medium: “Principles and Algorithms for Visual Data Exploration Under Differential Privacy,” (Co-PI)
    • Award Period: 7/1/20 – 6/30/24, $1,191,106
  • National Science Foundation (NSF), S&CC Planning Grant: “MAPPING INSTABILITY: Building an Intelligent Community Agent Platform for Understanding the Impact of Large-Scale Crisis on Small Town Communities,” (Co-PI)
    • Award Period: 01/01/21 – 07/31/23, $146, 941
  • UMass ADVANCE Collaborative Research Seed Grants, “MAPPING INSTABILITY: The Effects of the Pandemic on the Civic Life of a Small Town.” (Co-PI)
    • Award Period: 11/11/20 – 11/11/21, $15,000
  • UMass ADVANCE Collaborative Research Seed Grants, “Towards Reducing Social Inequality in Local-level Public Participation by Giving Voice to Marginalized Populations” (Co-PI)
    • Award Period: 04/14/21 – 04/14/22, $12,000
  • UMass Interdisciplinary Faculty Research Award, “Sustaining the Creative Arc: Implementing a Cross-Disciplinary Analysis and Problem-Solving Method for Design Thinking” (Co-PI)
    • Award Period: 2020 – 2022, $40,000