Awards 

  • 2021 — Win­ner: Best Pro­pos­al and NSF Trav­el Award, Nat­ur­al Haz­ards Engi­neer­ing Research Infra­struc­ture, NHERI, Sum­mer Insti­tute, Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at San Anto­nio, USA.
  • 2020 — Fea­tured sub­mis­sion: Mul­ti-haz­ard Engi­neer­ing Col­lab­o­ra­to­ry in Hybrid Sim­u­la­tion (MECHS) “3‑Minute The­sis” video com­pe­ti­tion.
  • 2020 — Best Stu­dent Paper Award for “Devel­op­ing real-time hybrid sim­u­la­tion to cap­ture col­umn buck­ling in a steel frame under fire”, 11th Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence on Struc­tures in Fire (SiF2020), Aus­tralia.
  • 2020 — Best Stu­dent Pre­sen­ta­tion Award for “A prac­ti­cal tool for eval­u­at­ing fire induced fail­ure prob­a­bil­i­ty of steel columns designed based on U.S. pre­scrip­tive stan­dards”, 11th Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence on Struc­tures in Fire (SiF2020), Aus­tralia.
  • 2020 — “Sci­ence Engage­ment Break­through of the Year” Final­ist for project “Game-based STEM learn­ing for Pak­istani girls”, Falling Walls Engage, Berlin, Ger­many.
  • 2019 — Chair’s Recog­ni­tion Award, Depart­ment of Civ­il, Struc­tur­al and Env. Engi­neer­ing, Uni­ver­si­ty at Buf­fa­lo.
  • 2019 — Rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the US House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, 6th Annu­al Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion for the Advance­ment of Sci­ence (AAAS) Cat­alyz­ing Advo­ca­cy for Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing (CASE) Work­shop, Wash­ing­ton D.C.
  • 2018 — Lead­ers in Excel­lence Award, Engi­neer­ing & Applied Sci­ences Alum­ni Asso­ci­a­tion, Uni­ver­si­ty at Buf­fa­lo.
  • 2018 — Cer­tifi­cate of Excel­lence in Research, Schol­ar­ship and Cre­ativ­i­ty, Grad­u­ate School, Uni­ver­si­ty at Buf­fa­lo.
  • 2018 — Best Poster Award, “Hybrid sim­u­la­tion for struc­tur­al fire test­ing”, Dept. of Civ­il, Struc­tur­al and Envi­ron­men­tal Engi­neer­ing Grad­u­ate Poster com­pe­ti­tion, Uni­ver­si­ty at Buf­fa­lo.
  • 2018 — First prize and US$2000, Uni­ver­si­ty at Buf­fa­lo Sus­tain­abil­i­ty “World’s Chal­lenge Chal­lenge” Project Ele­vate­Her.
  • 2016 — Sec­ond prize and US$1500, Buf­fa­lo Stu­dent Sand­box Entre­pre­neur­ial com­pe­ti­tion, Social Ven­ture: Women Engi­neers Pak­istan.

Fel­low­ships

  • 2019 — Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Uni­ver­si­ty Women Inter­na­tion­al Doc­tor­al Fel­low­ship.
  • 2018 — Rajeev Cir­cle Fel­low­ship for Social Entre­pre­neur­ship in South Asia, Mot­wani Jade­ja Foun­da­tion, Palo Alto, CA.
  • 2017 — Mark Dia­mond Research Fund PhD Research Dis­ser­ta­tion Grant, Grad­u­ate Stu­dents Asso­ci­a­tion, Uni­ver­si­ty at Buf­fa­lo, NY.
  • 2014 — Ful­bright Degree Award, Insti­tute of Inter­na­tion­al Edu­ca­tion, USA.