Awards/Honors
Conference/Journal Recognition Awards:

RSS Pioneers 2022
     1 of 30 selected as "the world's top early career researchers"
     in Robotics

Nominee for the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Sceince
Henry Prentiss Becton Graduate Prize for Exceptional Research Achievement
      Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Nominee 2022

Editor's' Top 5 Picks of 2021: Science Robotics
     "Manipulation for Self-Identification, and Self-Identification
       for Better Manipulation
"

Cover Article: 
Science Robotics. May 2021.
     "Complex manipulation with a simple robotic hand through
       contact breaking and caging"

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
     Finalist for Best Paper in Manipulation
    "Pre-Grasp Sliding Manipulation Planning of Thin Objects Using
      Soft, Compliant, or Underactuated Hands"

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
    Finalist for Best Paper in Manipulation
    "Learning Modes of Within-hand Manipulation"

National Science Foundation Emerging Researchers National 
Conference (ERN)
    Second Place in Computer Science and Information Management
    “Computer Vision ‘See and Avoid’ Simulation using OpenGL
     and OpenCV



Fellowships:

Harding Bliss Graduate Prize 2023
   Selected as the graduating doctoral student who has "done
   the most to further intellectual life at Yale SEAS"

NSF Graduate Research Fellow


Robert E. Apfel Graduate Fellowship (Yale University)

Tau Beta Pi Fellow

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention


Scholarships:

National Barry M. Goldwater Scholar

National Tau Beta Pi Scholar

Youngstown State University Scholars Program USXXI                    
     Full-Funded Academic Merit Scholarship  
 

Recognition and Honor Societies:

Ohio State Senate Recognition Award

Ohio State House of Representatives Recognition Award                    
 
ΦΚΦ National Honor Society                                                          
 
ΠΜΕ National Math Honor Society                                              
 
ΤΒΠ National Engineering Society

Gould Honors Society (YSU's Phi Beta Kappa)
                                                                
                                            



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