Grants and Awards

  • NSF 21-591. Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative (CRII), CRII: SCH: Developing a new hybrid interactive machine learning software tool for cancer researchers, 2022 - 2026 ($174,716), Principal Investigator (PI)
  • NSF 21-574. Engineering Research Initiation (ERI), ERI: A New Spatial Image Analysis of the Tumor Microenvironment for Cancer Immunotherapy, 2022 - 2025 ($199,198), Principal Investigator (PI)
  • Weisberg Faculty Research Award (Junior), Marshall University 2022
  • Summer Research Award, Predicting heterogeneous cellular regions of tumor microenvironment in whole slide images using deep learning, Marshall University 2022
  • Creative Discovery and Research Scholar Award, A comprehensive survey of deep learning algorithms in digital pathology, Mentor, Marshall University Spring 2023
  • Creative Discovery and Research Scholar Award, Interactive multimodal cancer data integration on histopathology and radiology, Mentor, Marshall University Spring 2023
  • Creative Discovery and Research Scholar Award, A study of deep learning models on semantic image segmentation to enhance the accuracy of a breast cancer diagnosis, Mentor, Marshall University Summer 2022
  • Creative Discovery and Research Scholar Award, A study of predicting the behavior of walking insects using deep learning techniques, Mentor, Marshall University Spring 2022
  • Cross-disciplinary Research Facilitation Grant, Exploring and forecasting of Harmful Algae Blooms (HABs) in the Ohio River using artificial intelligence, multiple-PI, Marshall University 2021 - 2022
  • John Marshall University Scholar Award, Quantitative spatial analysis of tumor cells via collaborative deep transfer learning, Marshall University 2021
  • Summer Research Award, Developing an unsupervised learning tool for whole slide image analysis, Marshall University 2020
  • Cross-disciplinary Research Facilitation Grant, Developing a Novel Machine Algorithm for Murine Brain Section, multiple-PI, Marshall University 2019 - 2020
  • Google Cloud Platform Research Grant, Investigating the interactive machine learning tool with the deep-learned features, PI, Google 2019 ($5,000)
  • Dissertation Award, Georgia State University 2016
  • Second Century Initiative (2CI) Presidential Fellowship, Georgia State University 2015
  • Brain and Behavior Fellowship, Georgia State University 2013, 2014
  • Best Paper Award, RACS 2010
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