2024-25 Provost’s Teacher-Scholar Support Program. Cal Poly Pomona. 2024.
NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC). 2023-2024.
Special Projects For Improving The Classroom Experience (SPICE) - 2023-2024. DS-Pathways (DSP): A PolyX Pathway for Data Science Immersive Experience and Practice. Cal Poly Pomona. 2023.
Research, scholarship, and creative activity (RSCA) - 2022. Deepweb and Darkweb Cyber-threat Mining. Cal Poly Pomona. 2022.
Special Projects For Improving The Classroom Experience (SPICE) - 2022-2023. Cyber Defender Pathway (CDP): A PolyX Program for Cybersecurity Instruction. Cal Poly Pomona. 2022.
Faculty-Led Curricular Design for Student Achievement in the CSU - 2021. The Teagle Foundation. Cyber Defender Pathway (CDP): A PolyX inspired Co-curricular Cyber Career Pathway for Computer Science and Related Majors leading to Digital Badges. Cal Poly Pomona. 2021.
Best Presenter award, IEEE Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC 2020). 2020.
Best Paper award, IEEE International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security (ICDIS 2018). 2018.
Travel Grant for the International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), Melbourne, Australia. 2018.
Travel Grant for the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and 2018 Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS), Washington, DC, USA.
Travel Grant for the International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security (ICDIS), South Padre 2018 Island, TX, USA.
Full Ph.D. scholarship from National Council for Scientific and Technological Development 2015 - 2019 (CNPq - Brazil), 2015-2019.
SBPC/GO Award for Science Popularization. Top 2nd master’s thesis in STEM fields. Brazil. 2014.
Full Master’s scholarship from Federal University of Goias, Brazil. 2010 – 2012.
Full Bachelor’s scholarship from Pontifical Catholic University of Goias, Brazil. 1996 – 2000.