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About Dr. Byrd

Honours and Awards

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Spring 2021      Oluwaseyi Jaiyeoba on being awarded the Ross-Lynn Graduate Fellowship to support a research                                            assistantship for FY22 (FA21/SP22)

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Spring 2021      Nicole L Dwenger came 3rd place Academic Unit Awards – Poster (Nicole)

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Spring 2021      Nathan Kanter came 3rd place Interdisciplinary Poster (Nathan)

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Spring 2020      Nicole Dwenger's poster (#276) awarded1st place poster for the Undergraduate Research Conference,                                Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Spring 2020      Nathan Kanter on winning the award for best research abstract in the Mathematical and                                                              Computational Sciences category for “Using Information Visualization Techniques to Uncover Patterns                                  in Pubescent Lupus Data”

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2019 – 2020      Nathan Kanter awarded CSoI Scholarship

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2019 – 2020      Allen Zheng awarded CSoI Scholarship

 

2018 – 2019      Elizabeth McGuckin awarded 2018-2019 CSoI Scholarship

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2020      John P. Lisack Early-Career Engagement Award

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2020      OUR Scholar Faculty Award, Polytechnic Institute

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2020      Outstanding Faculty in Engagement, Computer Graphics Technology

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2019      Outstanding Paper Award, Association for the Advancement of

                Computing in Education

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2018      Good to Great Award, Polytechnic Institute

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2018      OUR Scholar Faculty Award, Polytechnic Institute

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2018      NIH Faculty Enrichment Program, Polytechnic Institute

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2017      OUR Scholar Faculty Award, Polytechnic Institute

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2017      IEEE VIS 2017 Best Panel Award

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2017      John P. Lisack Early-Career Engagement, Nomination, Computer Graphics Technology

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2017      Outstanding Faculty in Discovery, Computer Graphics Technology

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2017      Outstanding Faculty in Engagement, Computer Graphics Technology

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2017      CAREER Writing Workshop, National Science Foundation

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2017      CAREER Writing Workshop Phase II, Purdue Office of the Executive Vice President for

                Research and Partnerships

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2016      Super Computing (SC 16) Early Career Program, Super Computing Conference

 

2016      New Computer Science Faculty Teaching Workshop, Computing Research Association- Women/Coalition to                      Diversify Computing

 

2016      Faculty Women of Color in the Academy Professional Development Conference Travel Award,

                Purdue Office of Diversity and Inclusion

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2016      NSF CAREER Travel Award, National Science Foundation

 

2016      PAN REU PI Workshop Travel Award, National Science Foundation

 

2015      2021 White Paper Workshop Travel Award, National Science Foundation

 

2015      Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship, Gordon Research Conference

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