Fellowships & Awards
2026
Giersch International Conference Travel Award
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt, Germany. Covers conference registration, hotel, and travel.
2025 – 2026
AI 2030 Global Fellowship
Emerging leaders selected for the AI 2030 Global Fellows program for excellence and commitment to Responsible AI.
2025
Best Poster Award — Computational Cryo-EM Workshop
$500
Sponsored by PRX Life (American Physical Society) for best poster on cryo-EM-guided ensemble reweighting.
2025
Berkeley Haas Student Seed Fund Award
$5,000
Grant to support prototype development of the multiscale simulation platform for drug discovery. Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program.
2025
NSF I-Corps National Award
$50,000
U.S. National Science Foundation award to test the scientific value proposition and market pathways for an AI-driven multiscale simulation platform.
2025
CAS Future Leaders
Top 100 global scientists selected for the Chemical Abstracts Service (ACS) Future Leaders program for research excellence and leadership potential.
2025
D. E. Shaw Research Postdoctoral Fellowship
$1,500
Highly selective symposium focused on machine learning, scientific software, and theoretical approaches in drug discovery and biophysics.
2024 – 2027
Flatiron Research Fellowship
Competitive three-year independent research fellowship at the Flatiron Institute (Simons Foundation) in computational and basic sciences.
2024
Merck Research Award for Underrepresented Chemists of Color
Merck Fellowship recognizing significant contributions to chemical sciences and commitment to diversity in STEM.
2023
Merkin Graduate Fellowship
$20,000
UC San Diego fellowship for research excellence and support for international translational medicine research.
2023
Teddy Traylor Award
$3,000
UC San Diego fellowship for outstanding graduate research and conference support.
2022
Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship
$17,000
UC San Diego fellowship for exceptional graduate research, covering university fees and travel.
2021
Bonnie Reiss Carbon Neutrality Student Fellowship
$4,000
University of California Office of the President fellowship for contributions toward university carbon neutrality.
2021
Friends of the International Center Fellowship
$2,000
UC San Diego fellowship for exceptional contribution to international education and global cooperation.
2021
MolSSI "SEED" Fellowship
$42,057
National Science Foundation–funded Molecular Sciences Software Institute fellowship for outstanding software scientists in computational molecular sciences.
2017
Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship
$26,317
Awarded by the Swiss Confederation to exceptional international scholars for outstanding academic merit and research potential.
2012 – 2017
INSPIRE Fellowship
$5,000
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. For exceptional undergraduate students pursuing basic sciences.
Government Grants
AI-driven multiscale simulation platform for accelerated drug discovery
NSF I-Corps · National Science Foundation
Testing the scientific value proposition and market pathways for an AI-enhanced multiscale simulation pipeline combining milestoning, ML force fields, and Brownian dynamics.
$50,000
July 2025 – June 2026
Developing a multiscale milestoning simulation approach for efficient protein-ligand binding and unbinding kinetics
NSF · Award No. ACI-1547580
Foundational NSF award for developing milestoning simulation approaches for predicting drug-target binding and unbinding kinetics with high accuracy and efficiency.
$42,057
Jan. – June 2021