Honors 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 — 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