2024 Dean's Research Scientist Award, College of Science, George Mason University
Research Fellow at ICERM, Brown University (Fall 2020)
George Mason’s 2020 Career Connection Faculty Award
Dean’s Early-Career Excellence Award, College of Science, George Mason University (2015)
US Junior Oberwolfach Fellow, NSF travel grant (2012 and 2017)
Associate Editor for multiple journals: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC), SIAM Review (SIREV), Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (JOTA), Mathematical Control and Related Fields (MCRF)
President of SIAM Washington Baltimore Section (Feb 2023–Present); previously Vice President (Feb 2022–Feb 2023)
Co-Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Discrete and Continuous Models (July 2021–December 2024)
Principal investigator or co-PI on numerous federally funded projects from NSF, ONR, AFOSR, DARPA, etc., spanning 2018–2029
Joint work with Rainald Löhner on high-fidelity simulation of pathogen propagation featured in SIAM News (2021)
Research Experience
Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
Director, Center for Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (CMAI)
Affiliate Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware (2019–Present)
Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University (2016–17)
Member of Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group (ISTEG), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2022–Present)
Member of Research Advisory Committee for College of Science, George Mason University (2023–Present)
Co-organizer of the semester program 'Stochastic and Randomized Algorithms in Scientific Computing: Foundations and Applications' at ICERM, Brown University (Spring 2026)