Honors “Spotlight Talk: Awarded to the top 5% of conference papers at ICLR” — 2023 “Honorable Mention: Awarded to top workshop papers on LLMs at the NeurIPS Workshop on ITIF” — 2023 “Best Paper Award Finalist: Awarded to top workshop papers on RLHF at the AAAI Workshop on SafeAI” — 2023 “Distinguished Paper Award: Awarded to top conference papers at AAAI” — 2021 “ Distinguished Teaching Award Finalist: Awarded to a few top teaching assistants” — 2019 “NSF Graduate Research Fellowship: Awarded to high‑potential PhD students early in their career” — 2018 “NSF Grant on Robust Intelligence: Awarded $450,000 to conduct research on decision making under uncertainty” — 2018 “PhD Candidate with Distinction: Awarded to top PhD students for excellence on the PhD candidacy qualifier exam” — 2018 “Victor Lesser Graduate Scholarship in AI: Awarded to a top incoming PhD student in AI” — 2016 “Valedictorian: Awarded to the top graduating student in college” — 2014 “Excellence Award in Computer Science: Awarded to the top graduating student in computer science” — 2014 “Excellence Award in Philosophy: Awarded to the top graduating student in philosophy” — 2014 “Intern of the Year: Awarded to the top graduating student for excellence in industry” — 2014 “Summa Cum Laude: Awarded to graduating students with at least a 3.85 GPA” — 2014 “Presidential Scholar Student Speaker: Selected to give 6 talks to top accepted prospective students” — 2013 “Deans’ Circle: Admitted to an honors organization with only the top 3% of students” — 2010 “Deans’ List: Awarded to students with at least a 3.6 GPA” — 2010 “NSF Technology Full Scholarship: Included a full scholarship for all years of college” — 2010 “Fiovranti Memorial Scholarship for Athletics: Awarded for excellence in cross country and track and field” — 2010