Awards

Awarded the 2025 UConn-AAUP Teaching Innovation Excellence Award by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) at the University of Connecticut.
April 2025
Nominated for the Career Competency Innovation Award by UConn’s Center for Career Readiness and Life Skills.
April 2025
Nominated for the Undergraduate Career Mentor of the Year Award by UConn’s Center for Career Readiness and Life Skills.
April 2025
Received micro-internship funding to hire a student assistant for enhancing the introductory programming course by leveraging generative AI, with a focus on inclusivity for neurodiverse students.
June 2025
Received micro-internship funding to hire a student assistant for enhancing the introductory programming course by leveraging generative AI, with a focus on inclusivity for neurodiverse students.
June 2025
Awarded UConn Scholarship Facilitation Funds (SFF) grants to enhance CodeShuffler interface.
($2000).
Jan.‘25 - Jun.‘25
Received micro-internship funding to hire multiple students for various research projects.
June 2024
Won (as a Joint Director) a mutually-collaborated (with NED University) research grants for the project entitled “Prototype Development of a Modern Aircraft Head-up Display Controller”, funded by Pakistan Air Force.
(Worth PKR 4 million for 2 years ~ 26,000 USD).
Apr.‘19 - Dec.‘19
Awarded funded doctoral research fellowship at Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.
Aug.‘14 - Aug.‘17
Offered NUST Faculty Development Program Scholarship, Pakistan.
(Worth PKR 7.4 million for 4 years ~ USD 48,000).
July 2014
Offered fully funded PhD Research Fellowship at University of Oslo, Norway.
July 2014
Awarded Korean Global IT scholarship for MS studies and research, South Korea.
(Worth KRW 24 million ~ USD 19,500).
Sept.‘10 - Aug.‘12
Awarded traveling grants, by Microsoft Research, to participate in ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), USA.
June 3-7, 2012
Awarded traveling and living grants (thrice), by bio-design automation (BDA) consortium, to give an oral talk in:
IWBDA 2015 (USA), Aug. 19-21, 2015.
IWBDA 2016 (UK), Aug. 16-18, 2016.
IWBDA 2017 (USA), Aug. 8-11, 2017.
Awarded traveling and living grants, by Chosun University , to give a project demonstration and poster presentation in ICFPT 2012, South Korea.
Dec. 10-12, 2012
Awarded traveling and living grants, by Chosun University, to give an oral talk in ICAR 2011, UAE.
Dec. 1-2, 2011
Given a letter of gratitude, by IEEE students’ branch at NEDUET, for conducting a voluntary workshop on LabVIEW, Pakistan.
Mar. 07, 2009