Awards

Honors, certifications, and media coverage.

Honors and Awards

2026 Most Innovative Project Award, ORNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Poster Fair
2025 Invited Participant, German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
2025 People's Choice Award, Oak Ridge Postdoctoral Association Research Symposium
2024 Innovation Award, ORNL
2024 Core Values Nomination for Teamwork, ORNL
2023 Core Values Nomination for Service, ORNL
2022 Poster Presentation Award, Oak Ridge Postdoctoral Association Research Symposium
2021 Best Demo Award, ORNL Software and Data Expo
2020 Most Cited Article Award, International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology
2020 Best Paper Award, Safety
2019 Breakthrough Graduate Scholar Award, University of South Carolina (USC)
2016–2019 M. Bert Storey Endowed Graduate Fellowship (4 times), USC
2018 Participant, Volvo Research and Educational Foundations Advanced Studies Institutes on Sustainable Urban Freight Systems, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2018 Student Honor Panel Presentation, 5th Biennial Marine Transportation System Research & Development Conference
2018 Preparing Future Faculty Award, Center for Teaching Excellence, USC
2017 Highway Safety Information System Excellence in Highway Safety Data Award, Federal Highway Administration
2016 Highway Safety Data Research Paper Competition Award, Federal Highway Administration
2015–2016 Graduate School Travel Grant (2 times), USC
2015 R. L. Sumwalt, Sr. Endowed Travel Fund, USC
2014 Travel Grant, Bangladesh-Sweden Trust Fund
2008–2009 Dean's List Scholarship and University Merit Scholarship, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Certifications

2026 Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute
2021 Postdoc Development Path, ORNL Employee and Organizational Development
2016 Engineer-in-Training (EIT), South Carolina Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Surveyors

Media Coverage

2024 Elevated to IEEE Senior Member, ORNL News
2023 Safe Train Transport, ORNL News
2023 Photo-sharing website powers train disaster maps, WVLT 8
2023 ORNL uses geotagged photos to recreate train routes to help with incidents, WATE 6
2022 Transportation Influencer, TR News No. 338
2019 Graduate Student Spotlight, USC, Civil and Environmental Engineering
2019 Graduate Student Spotlight, USC, Graduate School
2018 News Briefs, TR News No. 316
2018 FHWA R&T Now, January/February
2018 Graduate Student Spotlight, USC, Graduate School
2016 FHWA R&T Now, September/October