Awards

Date Awards, Honors and News
Feb 2023 Featured in Baltimore CBS News WJZ TV in AI Series and UMBC News"
Oct 2022 Selected as Female Associate Professor Cohort VI of the ADVANCE Leadership at UMBC"
Aug 2022 First-placed Award ARL Sponsored Hackathon and Presentation in Human-Guided System Adaptation (HSA) Science Challenge and Hackathon Week. Columbia University, NY"
June 2021 ACM Service Recognition Award for contributions as General Chair for the 30th edition of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI)
Feb 2021 Accelerated Translational Incubator Pilot for the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR)Award for developing "COVID-Matter: A Scalable Multimodal Sensory Machine Learning Framework for COVID-19 Diagnosis and Pandemic Prevention"
Feb 2020 Outstanding Evening Session Award for co-organizing an evening session entitled “The Smartest Designer in The Universe”, 67th ISSSC Conference
Feb 2020 ISSCC-SRP Best Poster Student Research Preview Award, 67th ISSSC Conference
Aug 2018 Army Research Lab Senior Fellowship
May 2017 Best Paper Award-Honorary Mention IEEE 50th ISCAS Conference
May 2017 Best Paper Award-Honorary Mention, Neural Systems and Applications Technical Committee of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Mar 2017 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award
May 2016 Best Paper Award ACM GLSVLSI Conference
2011 Nominated for Best PhD Dissertation Award

Services

Service to the Department
ECE Graduate Program Director, Fall 2021-Present
Other Committees
Department Executive Committee, Member, Fall 2021-Present
Undergraduate Committee, Member, Fall 2014- Present
CSEE Faculty Search Committee, Member, Fall 2015-May 2016
Department Chair Search Committee, Member, December 2015-Mar 2015
ECE Graduate Committee, Member, Spring 2011-Fall 2014
ECE Faculty Search Committee, Member, Fall 2014-May 2015
Department Executive Committee, Member, Spring 2013-June 2015
Northrop Grumman-UMBC Graduate Fellowship Committee, Member, Spring 2014-2015

Other
Academic adviser for 15 Undergraduate Computer Engineering Majors, Spring 2014-Present
Mentor for The Center for Women In Technology (CWIT) Scholars, Fall 2015- Present
Judge for Engineering Design Competitions for High School Girls, February 2012

Professional Service
Keynote Speaker
The 27th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems (ICECS 2020), November 2020.
The 14th IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference (DCAS2020), November 2020.
The 2nd IEEE AI Circuits and Systems Conference (AICAS 2020), Genoa, Italy, September 2020.

Editorial Board
Corresponding Guest Editor IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), 2021-2022.
Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), 2016-2017
Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I (TCAS-I), 2015-2016

Conference Chair Activities
Technical Program Co-Chair, tinyML Research Symposium, March 2023
Tutorial Co-Chair: The 21st IEEE NEWCAS Conference, June 2022
Moderator and Co-Organizer: Evening Session “The Bright and Dark side of Artificial Intelligence (AI)” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), February 2022
Technical Program Co-Chair, tinyML Research Symposium, March 2022
Special Sessions Co-Chair: IEEE AI Circuits and Systems Conference (AICAS 2021), September 2021
General Chair: 30th ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) Conference, September 2020
NSF Aspiring PI Workshop Organizer: The third workshop of NSF CSR Aspiring PIs, NSF Alexandria, VA, May 2020-cancelled due to COVID-19
Technical Program Chair: The 29th ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) Conference, Washington DC, May 2019
Local Arrangement Chair for the 50th IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’17)

Special Session Organizer/Session Chair
Special Session Organizer and Chair, “Low Power on-device Tiny Machine Learning Processing for Emerging Applications”, 56th IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Monterey, CA, May 2023
Special Session Organizer and Chair, “Low Power Autonomous and Smart Systems” the 57th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 2023
Special Session Organizer and Chair: “Low Power Autonomous Systems”, IEEE AI Circuits and Systems Conference (AICAS 2022), May 2022
Special Session Organizer and Chair: “Low Power AI-assisted Health Monitoring”, IEEE AI Circuits and Systems Conference (AICAS 2021), May 2022
Special Session Organizer and Chair: “Low Power Autonomous Systems”, IEEE AI Circuits and Systems Conference (AICAS 2021), May 2021
Session Co-Chair, “Digital and Machine Learning Circuits and Systems”, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference-Student Research (ISSCC-SRP), San Francisco, February 2019
Session Co-Chair, “Deep Learning and Biomedical Circuits”, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference-Student Research (ISSCC-SRP), San Francisco, February 2018
Session Organizer and Chair, “Efficient Embedded Systems Approaches Enabling Long-term and On-line neuroimaging”, The Cognition and Neuroergonomics Collaborative Technology Alliance (CaN-CTA), Special Session, Gainesville, Florida, October 2017
Session Organizer and Chair, “Deep Learning for Embedded Real Time Systems”, 50th IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Baltimore, US, May 2017
Session Organizer and Co-Chair, “Ultra-efficient Approaches Enabling Long-term, Mobile EEG for Brain Monitoring”, 50th IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Baltimore, US, May 2017
Session Organizer and Chair, “Wearable Biomedical Big Data Computing Session”, 49th IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’16), Montreal, CA, May 2016
Session Chair, “Biomedical Signal Processing Track”, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS), Atlanta, Oct. 2015
Session Chair, “Brain Computer Interface and Processing Track”, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS’15), Atlanta, Oct. 2015
Session Chair, “Biomedical Signal Processing and Systems”, 48th IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Lisbon, May 2015
Session Chair, 24th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), Washington DC, May 2013
Session Chair, 44th IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2011
Session Chair, 45th IEEE Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, March 2011

Secretary
IEEE P1890 Standard Committee for Error Correction Coding of Flash Memory, 2013- present

Technical Program Committee (TPC)
IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits, 2022-2023
tinyML Research Symposium, 2020
IEEE AI Circuits and Systems Conference (AICAS 2020), 2020
ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) Conference, 2016-2019
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference-Student Research (ISSCC-SRP), 2013-2020
IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2011-present
IEEE Women in Circuits and Systems Workshop (WiCAS), 2011-present
IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2012-2015
IEEE Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop (LiSSA), 2011-2012

Grant Proposal Panel Member and Reviewer
Ten NSF Panels at the Directorate for Computer and Information Science (CISE): 2011-present.
Two DOE Panels at the office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR).

Reviewer
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I and II (TCAS-I, TCAS-II)
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integrated Systems (TVLSI)
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP)
IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS)
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD)
IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)
IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS)
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference-Student Research (ISSCC-SRP)