Professional

Awards

  • Best Paper Award: Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2022)

  • Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship (Apr 2020)

  • Sloan Research Fellowship (Feb 2020)

  • Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering, Faculty Teaching Award (May 2019)

  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award (Feb 2019)

  • Management Science and Engineering, Graduate Teaching Award (Jun 2018)

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (Jun 2016)

  • George M. Sprowls Award: MIT Ph.D. thesis award in computer science (Nov 2015)

  • Machtey Award: Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2015) student paper award

  • Best Paper Award: Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2014)

  • Machtey Award: Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2014) student paper award

  • Best Paper Award: Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2014)

  • William A. Martin Memorial Thesis Award: 2nd place MIT masters thesis in computer science (Nov 2013)

  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSFGRFP) (Sep 2011)

  • Akamai Presidential Scholarship: awarded 1 year tuition coverage and living stipend (Sep 2011)

Service

  • Co-organizer of Data Structures and Optimization for Fast Algorithms program at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing in Fall 2023

  • Program committee member for ITCS 2023

  • INFORMS 2022 Nicholson student paper competition committee member

  • INFORMS 2021 Nicholson student paper competition committee member

  • Co-chair of STOC 2021 workshop committee

  • Program committee member for STOC 2021

  • Program committee member for COLT 2019

  • Program committee member for ITCS 2019

  • Program committee member for STOC 2018

  • Co-organizer of a workshop on User-Friendly Tools from Continuous Optimization in STOC 2017

  • Program committee member for SODA 2016

  • Co-organizer of several sessions on Theoretical Advances in Linear Optimization in ICCOPT 2016