Media Mentions
&
Awards

Awards and Recognition

🏅 IST Travel Award, 2025 🏅

Was awarded the Travel award from PennState IST for my presentation at EMNLP 2024 at Miami

🏅 EMNLP  Outstanding Reviewer, 2024 🏅

Was selected as one of the outstanding reviewer for the EMNLP 2024 conference.

🏅CSCW DEI Recognition Award, 2024 🏅

First authored paper on the analysis of BPC (broadcast police communication) and its impact on society won the diversity, inclusion and equity award at CSCW ’24.

🏅 IST Travel Award, 2023 🏅

Was awarded the Travel award from PennState IST for my presentation at EMNLP 2023 at Singapore

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🏅 EMNLP Outstanding Paper Award, 2023 🏅

First authored paper on the critique of sentiment analysis was awarded the Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP ’23

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🏅 DocEng Best Paper Award, 2023 🏅

Collaborative work on analysis of privacy policy was awarded as the best student paper at DocEng ’23

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🏅 TrustNLP Best Paper Award, 2023 🏅

First authored paper on disability bias in language model was awarded as one the best papers at ACL ’23 Trust NLP workshop

🏅 Nittany AI Challenge Semifinalist, 2023 🏅

Selected and awarded as one of the Top 20 teams in the AI Hackathon for ChoroNews: A News-based AI Timeline Summarization Application

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🏅 HackPSU Hackathon Winner, 2019 🏅

The Best SaaS Application award & Overall Best Application Runner-up 

Developed Beyond Tweet Platform that integrates census data and tweet sentiment for market predictions

🏅 Honeywell Innovation Hackathon, 2017 🏅

Awarded the top innovative product for the development and deployment of an AI Medical Audit Model

Media Mentions

November 2024, PennState News “Broadcast police communications may pose privacy risks, especially to Black men” 

June 2024, Mozilla Tech News “Nothing About Us, Without Us: Disability Justice and AI” 

March 2024, Fast Company Tech “How can we make AI less biased against disabled people”

November 2023, PennState News “Trained AI models exhibit learned disability bias, IST researchers say”

November 2023, AI Hub News “A Critical Survey Towards Deconstructing Sentiment Analysis: An Interview”

October 2023, PennState News “Most websites do not publish privacy policies, researchers say”

April 2023, PennState News “Positive triggering method reduces nationality bias in large text generators”

October 2022, The Hill “Common AI language models show bias against people with disabilities”

December 2021, VentureBeat “How Bias Creeps into the AI Designed to Detect Toxicity”

May 2021, PennState News “Study of police language aims to find patterns that may lead to tragic outcomes.”