• 2009  NSF Federal Cyber Service Scholarship For Service Award, "ASPIRE: An SFS Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education", DUE-0911982, 2009-2011 ($ 2.12 million, with R. Karri, N. Menon, H. Nissenbaum, and R. Zimmerman).

  • 2009  MSI-Wharton Interactive Media Initiative Grant for "The Economic Impact of User-Generated Content: Combining Text mining with Demand Estimation in the Hotel Industry,'' (with P. Ipeirotis)

  • 2009  MSI-Wharton Interactive Media Initiative Grant for "User Content Generation and Usage in Digital Media: Interdependencies, Social Networks, and Mobile Advertising,'' (with S. Han).

  • 2009   NYU-Poly Seed Grant for "The Economics of User-Generated Content in Online Social Media,'' (with V. Dhar and K. Ross, $73,500)

  • 2008  NET Institute Research Grant for "Impact of Product Attributes and Geography in Search Engine Advertising: A Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling Approach".

  • 2007  Best Conference Paper Award Nominee and Best Track Paper Award International Conference in Information Systems (ICIS 2007), ''Estimating Menu Costs in Online Markets'', (with B. Gu)

  • 2007  Marketing Science Institute Grant ''An Empirical Analysis of Search Engine Advertising,'' (with S. Yang, $ 10,000).

  • 2007  Runner-Up Award for ISR Best Published Paper in Information Systems Research for "Internet Exchanges for Used Books: An Empirical Analysis of Product Cannibalization and Welfare Impact", (with M. Smith and R. Telang).

  • 2007  NET Institute Research Grant for "Using Text Analytics to Estimate the Economic Value of Online Product Reviews", (with P. Ipeirotis).

  • 2007  NET Institute Research Grant for "An Empirical Analysis of Sponsored Search in Online Advertising", (with S. Yang).

  • 2007  Microsoft Virtual Earth Award for the research proposal "Local Search for Hotels and Restaurants using Econometrics, Spatial Data, and Image Classification", (Unrestricted Cash Gift of $35,000, with P. Ipeirotis).

  • 2007  NSF CAREER Award, "Identifying and Measuring the Economic Value of Information on the Internet", IIS-0643847, 2007-2012 ($ 500,000).

  • 2006  NET Institute Research Grant for "Search Costs and Menu Costs in Electronic Markets: Theory and Evidence", (with B. Gu).

  • 2006  NET Institute Research Grant for "Electronic Commerce and Local Competition", (with C. Forman and A. Goldfarb).

  • 2006  Microsoft Live Labs Search Award for the research proposal "Combining Econometric and Text Mining Approaches for Measuring the Effect of Online Information Exchange", (Unrestricted Cash Gift of $37,000, with P. Ipeirotis).

  • 2006  NYU Research Challenge Grant for "Consumer Use of Electronic Markets: An Empirical Analysis of New and Used Good Markets."

  • 2005  ACM SIGMIS Best Doctoral Dissertation Award in ICIS 2005 (2nd place).

  • 2005  NET Institute Research Grant for "Used Good Trade and Adverse Selection: A Cross-Country Comparison of Electronic Secondary Markets".

  • 2005  NET Institute Research Grant for "Pricing and Product Line Strategies for Consumer Software", (with A. Sundararajan).

  • 2005  Best Conference Paper Award Nominee, Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2005), "Welfare Implications of Secondary Electronic Markets", (with M. Smith and R. Telang).

  • 2004  Best Conference Paper Award Nominee, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2004), "Price Elasticities and Social Welfare in Secondary Electronic Markets", (with M. Smith and R. Telang).