{"id":524,"date":"2016-11-23T20:05:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T04:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unquote.ucsd.edu\/nmahyar\/?page_id=524"},"modified":"2025-06-17T13:38:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:38:46","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading mb-5 has-medium-font-size\">Academic Awards, Honors &amp; Fellowships<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" style=\"margin-bottom: -5px\">\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Honorable Mention Award<\/strong>, ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>PIT@UMass faculty fellowship<\/strong>, Public Interest Technology Initiative at UMass Amherst, 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Harvard Radcliffe Fellow<\/strong>, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, 2023-24<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong>, ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong>, EuroVis 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Best Paper <strong>Runner-up<\/strong><\/strong> <strong>Award<\/strong>, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems Journal (TiiS), 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Recognition of Service in Appreciation to Contribution to ACM<\/strong>, Program Co-Chair ACM C&amp;C 2021 Conference<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Honorable Mention Award<\/strong>, ACM  Designing Interactive Systems (<em>DIS<\/em>) 2021<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong>, ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (<em>CSCW<\/em>) 2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Outstanding Paper Award<\/strong>, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, 2017<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Honorable Mention Award<\/strong>, ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (<em>ISS<\/em>), 2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Best Poster Honourable Mention<\/strong>, ACM Graphics Interface (<em>GI)<\/em>, 2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong>, IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (<em>VAST<\/em>) 2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Best Research Note Honourable Mention<\/strong>, Graphics, Animation and New Media (<em>GRAND<\/em>), 2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Best 4 papers<\/strong>, IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (<em>VAST<\/em>), 2010<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading mb-5 has-medium-font-size\">Grant Supports &amp; Fellowships<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" style=\"margin-bottom: -5px\">\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship<\/strong>, Harvard University\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Award Period: 9\/1\/23 &#8211; 5\/31\/24, Amount: <strong>$78,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>National Science Foundation (NSF), <a href=\"https:\/\/nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1954814&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\">SATC: CORE: Medium<\/a><\/strong> (Co-PI),\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Award Period: 7\/1\/20 &#8211; 6\/30\/23, Amount: <strong><strong>$1,191,106<\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>National Science<\/strong><strong>Foundation (NSF)<\/strong>, Mentor for a Computing Innovation Fellow 2021,\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Award Period: 1\/1\/2022- 12\/31\/2022, Amount: $241,936.00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>National Science Foundation (NSF)<\/strong>,<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2125183&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2125183&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\">Smart and Connected Society (SCC)<\/a><\/strong> (PI),\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Award Period: 10\/1\/2021- 9\/30\/2022, Amount: <strong>$ 146,941.00<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>UMass ADVANCE Collaborative Research Seed Grants <\/strong>(PI),\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Award Period: 11\/11\/20 &#8211; 11\/11\/21, Amount:<strong> <strong>$15,000<\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>UMass ADVANCE Collaborative Research Seed Grants<\/strong> (PI),\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Award Period: 04\/14\/21 &#8211; 04\/14\/22, Amount: <strong>$12,000<\/strong> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>SAP ARC North America Fellowships<\/strong> (Multi-touch interfaces), University of Victoria\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Award Period: 09\/1\/2008 &#8211; 09\/1\/2011, Amount: <strong>$105,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Women in Development Scholarship<\/strong>, University of Victoria, 2010<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Institute of Research Management and Consultancy Award<\/strong>, University of Malaya, 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Awards, Honors &amp; Fellowships Grant Supports &amp; Fellowships \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-524","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/524\/revisions\/2667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/nmahyar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}