Awards 
& 
Honors

Best Poster Award in the Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC 2025), International Conference,  05/2025                                                                          

Google-CASHI Cybersecurity Curriculum Fellowship ($20K) in 2024 - 2026

Best Paper Award in the Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC 2023), International Conference, 05/2023                                                                              

Award of Excellence, Distinguished Faculty Mentor for Victor Lui, SJSU student research competition. 04/2020

Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the College of Engineering at SJSU, 05/2018

Best Paper Award in CS Research Track, In Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2018) 02/2018

Award of Excellence, Distinguished Faculty Mentor for Kunal Goswami, SJSU student research competition. 04/2017

Our team (Kunal Goswami, Keyur Golani, Kalgi Bhatt) on the 2nd place in April 2017 in Juniper Networks - SDN and Network Automation Student Competition 02/2017

College of Engineering Research Professor Award 2016 & 2017

Best Paper Award-Honorable Mention Award (the 2nd place) from the 21st ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT). 06/2016

Our team (Hitesh Padekar’s team) got the first place in Juniper Network Competition. (The students got the internship opportunity and Apple iPAD for each.) 04/2015

Fellowship for NSF Career Award Workshop, Arlington, VA, USA ($1,000) (Given to only 27 junior professors among 217) 03/2014

Travel grant for Grace Hopper Celebration in Women in Computing, Atlanta, USA 10/2010

Travel grant for 7th ACM Conference on Computer Communications Security (CCS), Chicago, USA 11/2010

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at North Carolina State University 04/2004

President Award (Summa Cum Laude), 02/2000.