- Best Paper Award: For our research paper titled Needles in a Haystack: Student Struggles with Working on Large Code Bases at the ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER). August 2025.
- Best Student Paper Award: For our research paper titled Faculty Identities and Their Effects on Implementing Culturally Relevant Pedagogies at Hispanic-Serving Institutions at the ACM Global Computing Education Conference (CompEd). December 2025.
- Best Undergraduate Teacher Award: Department-wide teaching award for excellence in undergraduate teaching in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at University of California, San Diego. 2022-23.
- Best Paper Award: For our research paper titled Live-coding vs Static Code Examples: Which is better with respect to Student Learning and Cognitive Load? at the Australasian Computing Education (ACE) Conference. February 2020.
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Capstone Ph.D. Teaching Award: University-wide teaching award in recognition of outstanding achievement as a graduate student instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. March 2019.
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Best CS Graduate Student Instructor Award: Department-wide teaching award for excellence in teaching as a graduate student instructor in Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison. May 2018.
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UW-CS Thank You Award: UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department’s Thank You Award for Efforts in Increasing Diversity in Computer Sciences. May 2018.
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UW-CS Thank You Award: UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department’s Thank You Award for Creating Pathways for Women to Major in Computer Sciences. May 2017.
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Cisco’s CAP Award: Cisco’s Achievement Program (CAP) award for outstanding contributions to Diameter Credit Control Protocol (DCCA). January 2012.
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Cisco’s Star Award: Cisco’s Star performer award for developing a successful technical on-boarding program for new hires. April 2011.
- CEG Alumni Association Endowment Award College of Engineering Guindy (CEG) Alumni Association’s Endowment Award for outstanding performance during the first two years of undergraduation in Information Technology. February 2008.