Google Trust & Safety Research for Enhancing Digital Trust: Tailored Financial Fraud Defense for Older Adults Awardee of $90,000.00 - Co-PI (Collaboration with Munster Technological University (MTU). Start Date: Duration: March 2024 -- February 2025

Facebook Explorations of Trust in AR, VR, and Smart Devices Research Fund Awardee of $75,000.00 - Co-PI (Collaboration with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)). Duration: October 2020 – October 2022

Cisco Research Award to Investigate Security and Privacy Practices of Telehealth Services of $102,696.00 - PI (Collaboration with University of Washington). Duration: October 2021 – October 2023

Quantum Authentication - Resources valued for $10,000.00 - PI. Duration: January 2022 – January 2023

Faculty Research Fund for Research for Cybersecurity Awareness for the Disabled Community of $2,979.00 - PI. Duration: June 2021 – July 2023

Faculty Research Fund for Research for the Privacy and Security of Digital Arts of $2,997.80 - PI (Collaboration with Prof. Hollenbach from the Arts & Humanities/Social Sciences). Duration: June 2022 – July 2024

Summer KIHA Research Fellowship to study the Privacy and Security concerns of the Aging Population especially for Chatbots dedicated to address Mental Health Concerns of $3,500.00 - Faculty Mentor. Duration: June 2022 – September 2022

DU International Grant for Examining the Cross-Cultural Security Risk Perceptions for Online Higher Education of $2,500.00 - PI. Duration: May 2022 – May 2023

PinS (Partners in Scholarship) to study ChatGPT’s Efficacy in Summarizing Privacy Policy of $1,500.00 - Faculty Mentor (PI). Duration: May 2023 – Ongoing

PinS (Partners in Scholarship) to study Evaluating the Privacy and Security Perspective of Older Adults Towards Online Dating of $1,500.00 - Faculty Mentor (PI). Duration: February 2023 – September 2023

PinS (Partners in Scholarship) to study Improving Privacy and Security Protocols of Account Remediation Procedures for Web of $1,500.00 - Faculty Mentor (PI). Duration: November 2022 – June 2023

NSF ADVANCE Grant for Improving Equity in STEM of $998,000.00 - Senior Personnel. Duration: August 2021 – Ongoing

CAHSS Dean’s Award for Interdisciplinary Studies (DAIS) of $5,000.00 on Using Mixed-Methods Approach to Understand Professional Needs in Creating Emergent Digital Artworks - Co-PI. Duration: April 2023 – Ongoing

Science Foundation Ireland National Challenge Fund Programme of €199,984.00 on Cyber Safety for Vulnerable Populations - Expert Consultant. Duration: June 2023 – March 2025

Cyber for Boards Project with the Cyber Security Collaborative Research Centre with a funding of A$520,000.00, partnering with CSIRO’s Data-61 and Edith Cowan University - International Collaborator. Duration: November 2023 - Ongoing

Awarded the Provost's Award for Excellence in Academic Advising as Faculty Adviser of the Year at the University of Denver - 2024

Awarded the Distinguished Faculty Award at DU - 2023

Won the Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering’s Innovation Fellow Award - 2022

Won the Best Position Paper Award for "Evaluating the Security and Privacy Risk Postures of Virtual Assistants" at the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP)

Nominated for the Citizen of the Year Award at DU - 2024

Nominated for the Teacher and Faculty of the Year Award at DU from 2021 - 2024

Nominated for the Outstanding Staff or Faculty Member Award (Crimson & Gold Award) at DU from 2022 - 2024

Nominated for the Faculty Scholar of the Year at DU from 2023-2024

Nominated for the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) Rising Star Award at DU 2023

Nominated for the Faculty Career Champion Award at the University of Denver from 2022 - 2024

Nominated as a rising star in cybersecurity by CyberW at Black Hat - 2019

Google Student Award at CRA-E Professional Development Workshop (2019) for teaching-track faculty

Best Student Volunteer Award at CHI - 2018

NSF Student Award for Cybersecurity Summit for Large Facilities and Cyberinfrastructure - 2018

Best Poster Awards at ACM CSCW 2024, IEEE IoTDI 2018 and CEWiT 2017

Semi-finalist for Cyber 9/12 - 2017

Gold-medalist in undergraduate studies at Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (Formerly West Bengal University of Technology).