Honors, awards,
and recognition.

40 Under 40 Award

Puget Sound Business Journal

Best in Track Paper · Best Complete Paper Nominee

ICIS 2025

1st Place — Wharton People Analytics White Paper Competition

for “The Narrative AI Advantage? A Field Experiment on Generative AI-Augmented Evaluations of Early-Stage Innovations”

PhD Mentor Award

Foster School of Business

2nd Place — INFORMS’ Doing Good with Good OR

for Reducing Air Pollution with Machine Learning

Winner — Zetta Prize

Fan Favorite for Best Application of Artificial Intelligence in Industry

1st Place & Audience’s Prize — MIT Research Slam

the Three Minute Thesis Competition

1st Place — MIT Cognex Poster Competition

for work on Holistic AI for Medicine

2nd Place — The $100K Audacious Challenge Competition at Google X

for a project on ecosystem conservation

1st Place — INFORMS Poster Competition

for work on Holistic AI for Wildlife Analytics

1st Place — UNESCO & VIVA Tech AI for the Planet Contest

for overall research on wildlife conservation

3rd Place — MIT Generator Research Competition

for research on wildlife monitoring

Winner — INFORMS’ William Pierskalla Best Paper Award

for research on fighting the COVID-19 pandemic

1st Place — IEEE’s Advancing Technology for Humanity Contest

for overall research on wildlife monitoring

1st Place — La Recherche & Sciences et Avenir Sustainable Development Contest

for the wildlife monitoring project

1st Place — Centrale Paris Alumni Society’s Engineering for Social Good Contest

for the wildlife monitoring project

Charles E. Summer Memorial Teaching Award

voted on by graduate students to honor faculty who go above and beyond to engage and challenge students

Lex N. Gamble Family Award for Excellence in Case Development & Curriculum Innovation

UW Foster School of Business — for distinctive work developing teaching cases and innovating curriculum

Poets & Quants 40 Under 40 Best Business School Professors

Master of Science in Information Systems Faculty Excellence Award

UW Foster School of Business

Dean’s Excellence Award for Graduate Teaching

UW Foster School of Business

Master of Science in Information Systems Faculty Excellence Award

UW Foster School of Business

Charles E. Summer Memorial Teaching Award

voted on by graduate students to honor faculty who go above and beyond to engage and challenge students

MSIS Excellence in Innovation & Teaching Award

UW Foster School of Business

Graduate Student Council Teaching Award — MIT Sloan School of Management

awarded to one faculty member or teaching assistant for excellence in a graduate-level course

Outstanding Teaching Assistant — MIT Sloan School of Management

for exceptional teaching practices

1st Place — ORC Common Experience Deep Learning Challenge

MIT Operations Research Center

INFORMS Student Chapter Annual Award — Cum Laude

for our work as MIT INFORMS officers

Centrale Paris’ Talents Award

Centrale Paris’ highest award — fewer than 5 of 3,000 students a year, for a record of outstanding achievements combined with academic excellence

Official Congratulations from the French Minister of Education

for placing in the top 100 students at the nationwide French Baccalauréat (GPA 20.18 / 20.00)

Robert B. Guenassia Scholarship

awarded by MIT’s Office of Graduate Education to two students a year

Jean Gaillard Memorial Fellowship

awarded by the Harvard Committee on Scholarships, based on academic excellence

Centrale Paris Alumni Society Scholarship

in recognition of academic excellence and service to the community