Awards and Professional Recognition

Awards

• Pace University
  • Distinguished Service Award: DPS in Computing Faculty Team
• United States Military Academy at West Point
  • Meritorious Civilian Service Award
  • Department of the Army Certificate of Appreciation
• IBM Corporation
  • Four patent achievement awards
• Graduate School - Cornell University
  • RCA Fellowship
  • Fulbright Fellowship for one-year study at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
• Undergraduate School - Swarthmore College
  • Sharpless Scholarship
  • Westinghouse Achievement Scholarship

Professional Recognition

• Invited expert participating in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Multimodal Working Group
• Member of the Advisory Board of The Institute for End User Computing, a nonprofit organization
• Expert consultant on patent infringement legal cases involving pen computing and handwriting recognition
• Co-chair with Dean Merritt of the 2002 Mid-Atlantic Student Workshop on Programming Languages and Systems (MASPLAS'02)
• Review papers for IEEE, ACM, and other technical publications as an internationally recognized expert in the areas of pattern recognition (especially handwriting recognition/pen computing and speech recognition/voice applications), software engineering, and artificial intelligence.