\★/ Recipient of FSU Dissertation Research Grant (DRG) 2025. - The Dissertation Research Grant is a highly competitive award paid by The Graduate School to assist doctoral students with their dissertation research. Top 5% of doctoral students are awarded this grant. The Top-tier grant amount is received to help my thesis 'Generative AI for Social Good and Deep Active Learning', especially for the proposal in developing a novel light-weight Visual Language Model (VLM) to work with both unsupervised and supervised medical report datasets which also shares a severity score of the disease along with it.\★/ Recipient of Dean's Award for Doctoral Excellence (DADE) 2024. - The competitive award recognizes meritorious performance from doctoral students in the later phases of their program.\★/ Selected as one of the participants to attend IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025 Doctoral Consortium. - Only 5-10% of the international applications are selected to present their Doctoral Thesis works in front of a panel of senior researchers and discuss their potential impacts in the future.
\★/ Awarded NSF Travel grant (x1) to attend IEEE/CVF WACV 2025. - These awards support the travel costs associated with presenting my thesis work at WACV Doctoral Consortium 2025.\★/ Awarded FSU Congress of Graduate Students (COGS) Travel grants (x3). - These awards support the travel costs associated with presenting research work at various National/International Conferences.