Recognition and Awards

Selected Society Affiliations

• Distinguished Member, Association for Computing Machinery (Since December 2020)

• Member, New Voices in Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, National Academies (class 2018)

  • 1 of 18 selected nation-wide for this inaugural class.

Selected Leadership Awards

• YWCA’s Tribute to Women Award, YWCA Silicon Valley (2019)
  • 1 out of 49 honorees recognized for outstanding achievements in the workplace and beyond
• People Manager Excellence Award, IBM (2018)
  • 1 of 26 selected globally as exemplary managers in IBM Research
• Member of IBM Manager Champion Group, IBM (2018)
  • 1 of 56 selected globally to showcase IBM management at its best and develop exceptional leaders; 1 of 2 selected from IBM Research

Selected External Technical Recognition and Awards

• Outstanding Paper Award, EMNLP Conference (2024) (Twitter Post)
  • Towards Cross-Cultural Machine Translation with Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Multilingual Knowledge Graphs
• Best Demo Award, International Semantic Web Conference (2020) announcement
  • Ontology Mediated Information Extraction with MASTRO SYSTEM-T}
• Participant, World Laureates Forum Young Scientists Forum (2019)
  • 1 out of 100 selected worldwide, 1 of 4 from United States
• Best Paper Runner-up, ACL Conference (2013)
  • Adaptive Parser-Centric Text Normalization
• Best Demo Award, ACM SIGMOD Conference (2005)
  • NaLIX: an interactive natural language interface for querying XML

Selected IBM Recognition and Awards

• Corporate Technical Award, Watson NLP Stack (2022)

• Member, IBM Academy of Technology (2016-2022)
  • Selected for demonstrated exceptional leadership and technical eminence
• Master Inventor, IBM (2014-2022)
  • Selected from the top inventors who have made significant contributions in the last 3 years for both personal invention activity IP-related service to others

• Outstanding Technical Accomplishment, Research Contributions to Watson NLP (2021)

• Technical Accomplishment, Research Contributions to Watson OneConversion (2021)

• Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (2021)
  • For contributions to Watson NLP, particularly on crossilngual natural language understanding
• Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (2021)
  • For contributions to Table Extraction and Understanding for CORD-19

• Technical Accomplishment, Research Contributions to WatsonNLP (2020)

• Technical Accomplishment, Deep Thinking Question Answering (2020)

• Technical Accomplishment, COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium (2020)

• Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (2020)
  • For contributions to Expanded Shallow Semantic Parsing
• Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (2020)
  • For conributions to Document Understanding
• Significant External Honor Award (1 out of 15 across IBM) (2019)
  • For selection into the New Voices Program at the National Academies

• Technical Accomplishment, Expanded Shallow Semantic Parsing and its Transfer to Watson Products (2019)

• Technical Accomplishment, Research Contributions to Document Understanding (2019)

• Technical Accomplishment, IBM Services Solution Advisor and Cognitive Document Risk Analyzer (2019)

• Outstanding Innovation Award (2014)
  • For contributions to Gumshoe Enterprise Search

• Outstanding Technical Accomplishment, SystemT Text Analytics (2013)

• Technical Accomplishment, Gumshoe Enterprise Search (2013)

• Technical Accomplishment, Contribution to eDiscovery products for management and analytics (2010)

• Inventions of the Quarter (2009 Q2)
  • Extensible System and Method for Information Extraction in a Data Processing Syste
• Technical Accomplishment, SystemT and transfer to Notes 8.01 (2008)