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Honors, Invited Talks, Presentations, and Posters
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Honors
Awards & Honors
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Husker AI Days Oral Presentation Award: 1st Place, 'Polymeric Drugs Digital Twin'
2026University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Husker AI Days Poster Presentation Award: 3rd Place, 'Polymeric Drugs Digital Twin'
2026University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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UNL Student Research Days Best Poster, People's Choice Award: 'PolyForm: Drug Discovery'. Award: $100.
2026Office of Research and Innovation and Office of Graduate Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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AIChE Midwest Conference Travel Support - for the 18th Midwest AIChE Conference
2026University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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NSF MICRA-associated Research Support: 'Community-Based Modeling for Improvement of Drought-Resistant Plant Growth'
2025MICRA
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Chemical Engineering Travel Grant for presentation at the AIChE Annual Meeting
2024University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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AIChE Travel Award from the ChemE Department
2024Travel award
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Complex Biosystems Recruitment Challenge: 2nd Place
2024University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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NSF MICRA-associated Research Support: 'Community-Based Microbial Modeling for Drought-Resistant Plant Growth'
2024–PresentNSF MICRA
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Phi Gamma Phi Honor Society: Inducted Member
2023Honor Society
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UNL International Teaching Assistant Fellowship: Fellowship recipient
2023University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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U.S. Department of Defense / NSRI-associated Medical Countermeasure Drug Discovery and Development Research Project
2022–2024NSRI
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Amity Biotechnology Excellence Award: Award recipient
2020Amity University
Funding
Funded Research Support
NSF MICRA-associated Research Support
2024–2025Role: Research contributor
Supported community-based microbial modeling for drought-resilient plant growth through computational modeling and microbial-community analysis.
NSRI / U.S. Department of Defense-associated Medical Countermeasure Drug Discovery and Development Research Project
2022–2024Role: Graduate researcher / computational biology contributor
Supported computational drug-discovery, pharmacometric modeling, digital-twin workflows, and medical-countermeasure research.
Invited
Invited Talks & Seminars
Photonics2026
Plenary Speaker, Bangkok, Thailand
GENARA2026
Plenary Speaker, Mugla, Turkey
11th International Congress on Biomaterials and Biosensors (NextRegen2026)
Invited Speaker, Mugla, Turkey
18th Midwest AIChE Conference, Biomedical Engineering & Pharmaceuticals Session
Invited Speaker
MMOD Symposium, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 'Building Digital Twins for rapid drug discovery'
Invited Talk, UNL
AI in Health Conference, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC): 'Polyform: Polymer Digital Twin, engineering a polymeric drug for pancreatic cancer treatment'
Invited Talk, Omaha, NE
Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Annual Departmental Research Talk, 'Integration of machine learning and first-principles models'
Invited Talk, UNL
International Congress on Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence, and Society (DIGIAI SOCIETY 2025)
Invited Speaker, Mugla, Turkey
Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Annual Departmental Research Talk, 'Data-driven drug repurposing for immune-system-related diseases'
Invited Talk, UNL
Biomedical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 'Application of LLM in Bioengineering'
Invited Talk, UNL
Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Annual Departmental Research Talk, 'Machine learning enables prediction of metabolic-system evolution in bacteria'
Invited Talk, UNL
Presentations
Conference Presentations
FOCAPO-CPC 2027: 'CopolPred: Machine Learning Enabled Prediction of Copolymer Reactivity Ratios'
FOCAPO-CPC 2027: 'Molytics: A Clustering-Driven Machine Learning Framework for Materials Discovery and Model-Guided Experimental Design'
AIChE Annual Meeting: 'Sequence-Programmed Active Drug Engineering (SPADE Twin): An AI Digital Twin for Reaction-Centric Drug Design'
Minneapolis, MN
AIChE Annual Meeting: 'Multiscale AI Framework for Precision Medicine'
Minneapolis, MN
AIChE Annual Meeting: 'Hybrid Deep Learning Framework for Prediction of Copolymer Reactivity Ratios'
Minneapolis, MN
AIChE Annual Meeting: 'AI-Driven Platform for Prediction and Inverse Design In Chemistry and Materials Science'
Minneapolis, MN
AIChE Annual Meeting: 'From Monomer Chemistry to Graph-Based Learning: Evaluating the Role of Chemical Knowledge and Model Architecture In Polymer Kinetics Prediction'
Minneapolis, MN
UNL Biochemistry Seminar Presentation: 'Leveraging Digital Twin for reaction engineering'
UNL
Husker AI Days Oral Presentation: 'Polymeric Drugs Digital Twin'
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
AIChE Midwest Regional Conference Presentation: 'PolyForm: Polymeric Drugs Digital Twin', Biomedical Engineering & Pharmaceuticals Session, 18th Midwest AIChE Conference
MMOD Symposium, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Presentation
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
UNL Biochemistry Seminar Presentation: 'Bacillus subtilis Genome-Scale Modeling'
UNL
MICRA Presentation: 'Community-Based Modeling for Improvement of Drought-Resistant Plant Growth'
UNL Biochemistry Seminar Presentation: 'Data-driven drug repurposing for immune-system-related diseases'
UNL
AIChE Presentation: 'Optimization-Based Framework for Automated Genome-Scale Model Reconstruction upon Resolving Thermodynamically Infeasible Cycles'
San Diego, CA
MICRA Presentation: 'Community in a Spoon: Modeling for Improvement of Drought-Resistant Plant Growth'
UNL Biochemistry Seminar Presentation: 'Machine learning enables prediction of metabolic-system evolution in bacteria'
UNL
UNL Biochemistry Seminar Presentation: 'Machine Learning in Mircobial Research'
UNL
IEMIS Presentation: 'Systems Biology Paradigm for Exploring the Relation Between Obesity and Ovarian Cancer with a Focus on Their Genome-Scale Metabolic Models'
ICDAM Presentation: 'Heuristic Approach Towards COVID-19: Big Data Analytics and Classification with Natural Language Processing'
ICICC Presentation: 'Medical Data Analysis Using Machine Learning with KNN'
Posters
Poster Presentations
AIChE Annual Meeting: 'Understanding Sequential Relevance for Polymer Development Using Deep Learning'
Minneapolis, MN
Invited Highlight UNL College of Engineering Poster Presentation: 'PolyForm: Polymer Digital Twin'
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
MMOD Symposium: 'PolyForm: Polymer Digital Twin'
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
AI in Health Conference 2026 Shaping the Future of Care: 'PolyForm: Polymer Digital Twin'
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Husker AI Days: 'Polymeric Drugs Digital Twin'
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
UNL Research Days: 'PolyForm: Drug Discovery'
UNL
UNL Research Days: 'Soil Microbial Community Transactions'
UNL
UNL Microbiology Symposium: 'Community in a Spoon: Modeling for Improvement of Drought-Resistant Plant Growth'
UNL
COBRA, AIChE Annual Meeting: 'Optimization-Based Framework for Automated Genome-Scale Model Reconstruction upon Resolving Thermodynamically Infeasible Cycles'
San Diego, CA