Category: Honors/Awards

I was honored to be selected as the 2019 Teacher of the Year at Westmont’s Commencement. It was a complete surprise to me, although I probably should have realized something was up when my partner casually mentioned that she “thought she’d go to Commencement this year”. I thought, “I guess she wants to hear the…

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I’m honored that the ACM has recognized a book to which I contributed as being one of the “Best of Computing” books for 2014.  

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The Office on Information Technology, the Council on Student Experience and the Teaching Learning & Technology Center at UCI awarded Prof. Tomlinson, Prof. Nardi and myself the Instructional Technology Innovation Award for 2015! It comes with a engraved trophy and a $1000 cash award and was for the online course “Global Disruption and Information Technology“

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I am honored to have received the 2014 Outstanding Professor for the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science.  This award is a student granted award and is part of the UCI yearbook’s annual honors.  My students are the best!

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I received the UCI Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research for work that I did with a team that merged augmented reality with Kinect point clouds.

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My co-authors and I received a ten-year impact award for a paper we wrote in UBICOMP …. ten years ago: Inferring High-Level Behavior from Low-Level Sensors This is a terrific honor and I’m very proud of being part of it!

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I am proud to be the recipient of the ICS Dean’s Award for Teaching as part of the UCI Celebration of Teaching Awards. (Despite the web page’s information, I really received it in 2013)

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I’m very proud to have been awarded, with my co-authors, a 5-year prominent paper award from the AI Journal for the paper,  Learning and Inferring Transportation Routines.  Here is the text of their award: This paper introduces a hierarchical Markov model that can learn and infer a user’s daily movements through an urban community, and…

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I’m very happy to have been awarded, along with my co-authors, the Computing Community Consortium Sustainability Award at CHI 2012 for the paper, Collapse informatics: Augmenting the Sustainability & ICT4D Discourse in HCI

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I am honored to receive the UCI Donald Bren School for Information and Computer Science School’s Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Teaching.  This award is for 2008 and is on behalf of the UCI ICS School which grants these honors annually to teachers who have demonstrated excellence in undergraduate education.

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I am thrilled and honored to have been awarded the 2005 ISWC Best Paper award for our paper on “Fine-grained Activity Recognition by Aggregating Abstract Object Usage“. It was a collaborative effort amongst myself, Dieter Fox, Henry Kautz and Matthai Philipose. There are few research honors that are exhilarating as a best paper award.

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I am honored to be part of a lineage of grad students who have been awarded the University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Educator’s Endowed Fellowship. It is a validation of the effort that I put into teaching and an honor to know that my colleagues notice and care about it.

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I am honored to be part of a lineage of undergraduate and graduate students who have been awarded the University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Bob Bandes Award. It is an award that honors the memory of a great grad TA by encouraging new generations of teachers.

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I am honored to have been awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. This generous competitive award funds doctoral students in disciplines that are deemed to be supportive of the U.S. National Defense for 3 years. It does not require military service. In is comparable to the NSF Graduate Fellowship.

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I am honored to have been awarded a Association of Naval Engineering Scholarship. This competitive award provides stipends to graduate and undergraduate students in disciplines that support Naval Engineering.

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I am honored to have been awarded a Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) Scholarship. This generous competitive award provides tuition and stipends to undergraduate students who intend to pursue a career in the Navy

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I am an Eagle Scout. I earned my award in 1989 with an Eagle Scout project that entailed using a very early database system to catalog tombstones in the Fairfax County area.  Most of the tombstones were under threat from development and contained genealogy information that is otherwise unavailable.

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