Grants

• National Science Foundation (NSF)

Project Title: CIS Cyber Scholars Program

Role: Co-PI

• Faculty Enrichment Fund (2022)

Robert Morris University Faculty Enrichment Fund 

Project Title: Development of a Smart Robot Testbed for Internet of  Mobile Things (IoMT) Security, Privacy, and Scalability Research

Role: PI

Awards

• Summer Research Faculty Award (2022)

Robert Morris University Undergraduate Summer Research Academy

• Dissertation Year Fellowship (2019)

Florida International University Graduate School

• SCIS Best Graduate Student in Research (2019)

Florida International University School of Computing and Information Sciences

• Undergraduate Best Poster Award, Runner-up (2021)

Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, (CCSC:Northeast), 2021. 

"Congratulations to Undergraduate researcher, Melinda Goda"

Other Achievements

• My work on "Sensor-Chain: A Lightweight Scalable Blockchain Framework for Internet of Things" during my Ph.D. formed the basis of successful funding from  the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD1097320