Awards & Honors

  • Invited to speak at the Federal Information Integrity R\&D Interagency Working Group (IIRD IWG) briefing, 2023
  • Selected as a Young Scientist to attend the 6th World Laureates Association Forum, 2023
  • Selected Participant for DARPA AI Forward Workshop, 2023
  • Women Leaders of Conversational AI by Project Voice, Class of 2023
  • The 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT2021) Best Demo Paper Award, 2021
  • The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2020) Best Demo Paper Award, 2020
  • Amazon Scholar, 2019-Present
  • Selected as Panelist of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2019-Present
  • ACL2018 Best Demo Paper Nomination
  • Invited by the Secretary of the US Air Force and AFRL to join the Air Force Data Analytics Expert Panel to inform the Air Force Strategy 2030, 2018
  • RPI Trustee Celebration of Faculty Achievement, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
  • World Economic Forum Global Future Council Member on the Future of Computing, 2016-Present
  • "Young Scientist" selected by World Economic Forum, 2016-2017
  • NLPCC2016 Best Student Paper Award, 2016
  • IBM Watson Faculty Award, 2014-2015
  • Google Research Award, 2014-2015
  • "Best of ICDM2013" paper by Knowledge and Information Systems, 2013
  • "Best of SDM2013" paper by Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 2013
  • "AI's Top 10 to Watch" Award by IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2013
  • Edward P. Hamilton Development Chair Professorship, 2013-Present
  • CUNY Employee Recognition Award, 2013
  • CUNY Chancellor's "Salute to Scholar" Award, 2012
  • IBM Watson Faculty Award, 2012
  • PACLIC Best Paper Runner-up, 2012
  • CUNY Junior Faculty Research Award in Science and Engineering, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2012
  • CUNY Chancellor's "Salute to Scholar" Award, 2010
  • U.S. National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2010-2015
  • Google Research Award, 2009-2010
  • Computing Research Association Travel Scholarship, 2008
  • Sigma Xi Member, 2007-Present
  • Grace Hopper Woman in Computing Scholarship, 2006/li>
  • Sandra Bleistein Prize, 2006
  • McCracken Program Fellowship, 2002-2007

Current Research Grants

  • DARPA Environment-driven Conceptual Learning (ECOLE), 2023-Present
  • DARPA Knowledge-directed Artificial Intelligence Reasoning Over Schemas (KAIROS), 2019-2024
  • NSF AI Institute on Exceptional Education, 2023-Present
  • DARPA In the Moment (ITM)}, 2023-Present
  • DARPA Semantic Forensics (SemaFor), 2020-Present
  • DARPA AIE Modeling Influence Pathways (MIPs)}, 2022-Present
  • DARPA Computational Cultural Understanding (CCU), 2022-Present
  • DARPA Influence Campaign Awareness and Sensemaking (INCAS), 2021-Present
  • NSF AI Institute on Molecular Synthesis, 2020-Present
  • NSF AI Institute on Agriculture, 2020-Present
  • DoE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, 2022-Present

Past Research Grants

  • NSF IIS Medium, Scientific Discovery via Knowledge Extraction, 2017-2023
  • DARPA Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives (AIDA), 2017-2023
  • Amazon AWS Cloud Credits for Research, 2021-2022
  • DARPA GAILA, Multi-media Language Acquisition, 2019-2022
  • DARPA LORELEI, Exploiting Language Information for Situational Awareness (ELISA), 2015-2022
  • DARPA Causal Exploration of Complex Operational Environments (CauseEx), 2017-2021
  • IARPA Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language (MATERIAL), 2017-2021
  • Army Research Lab Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance, 2009-2019
  • Tencent AI Lab Rhino-Bird Gift Fund, 2019
  • NSF Building Innovative Capacity (BIC), 2016-2019
  • Edward P. Hamilton Development Chair Professorship, 2013-2019
  • DARPA Seedling Award, Cross-media IE, 2015-2017
  • Bosch Research Award, 2014-2018
  • DARPA Deep Exploration and Filtering of Text (DEFT), 2012-2017
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2010-2017
  • IARPA Mercury, 2016-2017
  • Google Research Award, 2014-2016
  • Air Force Research Laboratory DREAM, 2014-2016
  • DHS Center of Excellence for Command, Control and Interoperability, 2014-2016
  • IBM Watson Faculty Award, 2014-2015
  • Disney Research Award, 2014-2015
  • Consultant to Altima, AFRL, 2013-2014
  • IBM Watson Faculty Award, 2012-2013
  • NSF IGERT Award, 2012-2016
  • DARPA Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT), 2011-2013
  • NSF EAGER Award, 2011-2013
  • CUNY Junior Faculty Research Award in Science and Engineering, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2012
  • DARPA Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE), 2008-2011
  • NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates Award, 2011-2013
  • PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2010-2012
  • CUNY Faculty Publication Fellowship, 2009-2010
  • Google Research Award, 2009-2010
  • NSF-sponsored JHU Summer Workshop on Unsupervised Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge from N-Grams, 2009
  • CUNY GRTI Program, 2008-2010
  • CUNY Research Enhancement Program, 2008-2010