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
- Best Demo Award, International Semantic Web Conference (2020) announcement
- 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)
- Best Demo Award, ACM SIGMOD Conference (2005)
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)