Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, 2005
North Carolina State University
M.S. in Industrial Engineering, Minor in Computer Science, 2000
North Carolina State University
B.S. in Industrial Engineering (Summa Cum Laude), 1999
North Carolina State University
Nominee, Best Paper Award, INFORMS Data Science Workshop, November 2020, (with Ph.D. student Maria G. Baldeon Calisto)
Finalist, Best Student Paper Award, Computer and Information Systems Division, Institute of Industrial Engineers,
May 2018, (with Ph.D. student Maria G. Baldeon Calisto)
Selected to attend the NSF-funded Advanced Manufacturing Workshop: Preparing the Next Generation of Researchers,
Ames, IA, October 2017
Selected to attend the NSF-funded Minority Faculty Development Workshop, Berkeley, CA, September 2016
Best Paper Award, Computer and Information Systems Division, Institute of Industrial Engineers, May 2016,
(with Ph.D. student Iman Nekooeimehr)
Travel Grant, Women in Industrial Engineering Academia Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey, January 2012
ASEE Manufacturing Division Best Presentation Award, American Society for Engineering
Education, June 2010
Ph.D. student Athina Brintaki received the USF Graduate and Professional Student
Council's Graduate Student Award, March 2010
USF College of Engineering Research Week Poster Award, November 2008 (with Ph.D. student Athina Brintaki)
Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award (3rd place national level), Institute of Industrial Engineers, May 2006
Best Student Paper Award, 14th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems,
IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, March 2006
IIE Graduate Research Award (2nd place national level), Institute of Industrial Engineers,
May 2002
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