- 2026 – Became Associate Editor for The Plant Phenome Journal Editorial Board
- 2025 – Became Guest Editor for the Ecology & Society Journal
- 2024 – Received $40,000 from NIH for the “Customized Infant Feeding Accessories for Breastfeeding Success” project
- 2024 – Founded SIUE’s ACM-W Student Chapter
- 2023 – Received SIUE’s STEP Grant
- 2023 – Received the First “e” Award at SIUE
- 2023 – Keynote speaker at the North American Plant Phenotyping Network (NAPPN) conference
- 2022 – Top 5% of Principal Investigators who submitted External Grants at SIUE
- 2022 – Featured in NRT’s Aided Career Panel
- 2022 – Featured in NRT’s STEAM Initiative
- 2022 – Began my tenure-track Assistant Professor position at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE)
- 2022 – Defended my Ph.D dissertation ‘Unsupervised Cosegmentation and Phenotypes for Multi-Modal, -View, and -State Imagery‘ at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
- 2022 – Received the 2022 NAPPN Graduate Student Award in Research and Service
- 2022 – Presented at the American Meteorological Society in artificial intelligence methods for dynamic environments in plants
- 2021 – Received my PhD Candidacy
- 2021 – Dissertation Research Spotlight
- 2020 – Book Chapter Publication – Data Driven Techniques for Plant Phenotyping Using Hyperspectral Imagery
- 2020 – Science Communication Online Programme (SCOPE) Completion
- 2020 – Council for Resilience Education Feature
- 2020 – Council for Resilience Education Honor
- 2017 – Mid-America Transportation Center Scholar’s Program – Graduate Guest Speaker
- 2016 – The Tab – Featured in UK Article
- 2016 – Spotlight REU in Railway Safety