Awards

Best Professor of the Year Award

Best Professor of the Year Award for the Academic year 2011-2012, University of New York Tirana, Tirana, Albania.

Best Paper Award

Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Data-Driven Sustainability: Analysing SME Growth in Albania”. 4th International Conference on The Tole of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Management for Sustainable Development (ICRIEMSD-2023), 3rd-4th November 2023, OP Jindal University, India.

Best Paper Award

Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Machine Learning in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises Knowledge Management: An Overview of the Latest Trends”. 9th International Conference Computers, Management & Mathematical Sciences (ICCM) 2023, 24-25 May 203, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), India. Proceedings to be published in SCOPUS indexed Springer PROMS.

Best Paper Award

Best Paper Award for the paper titled “An Exploratory Review of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Applications in Healthcare Management”. 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics (ICMLBDA) 2023, 29-30 May 2023, National Institute of Technology, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Proceedings to be published in SCOPUS indexed Springer PROMS.

Outstanding Paper Award

• Outstanding Paper Award in the 2021 Emerald Literati Awards - Che, F., Strang, K.D., & Vajjhala, N.R. (2020). Voice of farmers in the agriculture crisis in North-East Nigeria: Focus group insights from extension workers. International Journal of Development Issues. Volume 19, Issue 1, pp. 43-61. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDI-08-2019-0136. Emerald Insight. Indexed in Scopus, Cabell’s and Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC), Journal Quality List – C. Scopus CiteScore - 0.9 (2020) and 1.2 (2021).

Best Paper Award

• Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Examining Data Mining Classification Techniques for Predicting Early Childhood Development in Nigeria”. International Conference on Data Science and Management - ICDSM 2021. February 19-20, 2021, Bhubaneswar, India. Proceedings of the Conference published by Springer Nature as part of the Lecture notes on Data Engineering and Communication Technologies.

Awards

Best Paper Award for “Data-Driven Sustainability: Analysing SME Growth in Albania”. 4th International Conference on The Tole of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Management for Sustainable Development (ICRIEMSD-2023), 3rd-4th November 2023, OP Jindal University, India.
Best Paper Award for “Machine Learning in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises Knowledge Management: An Overview of the Latest Trends”. 9th International Conference Computers, Management & Mathematical Sciences (ICCM) 2023, 24-25 May 2023, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), India. Proceedings published in SCOPUS-indexed Springer PROMS.
Best Researcher Award (2023) for the academic year 2022-2023. University of New York Tirana, Tirana, Albania.
Best Paper Award for “An Exploratory Review of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Applications in Healthcare Management”. 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics (ICMLBDA) 2023, 29-30 May 2023, National Institute of Technology, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Proceedings published in SCOPUS-indexed Springer PROMS.
Outstanding Paper Award in the 2021 Emerald Literati Awards - Che, F., Strang, K.D., & Vajjhala, N.R. (2020). Voice of farmers in the agriculture crisis in North-East Nigeria: Focus group insights from extension workers. International Journal of Development Issues. Volume 19, Issue 1, pp. 43-61. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDI-08-2019-0136. Emerald Insight. Indexed in Scopus, Cabell’s and Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC), Journal Quality List – C. Scopus CiteScore - 0.9 (2020) and 1.2 (2021).
Best Paper Award for “Examining Data Mining Classification Techniques for Predicting Early Childhood Development in Nigeria”. International Conference on Data Science and Management - ICDSM 2021. February 19-20, 2021, Bhubaneswar, India. Proceedings published in Springer Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communication Technologies.
Best Paper Award for “An Exploratory Study on the Efficacy of Big Data Analytics to Indian SMEs”. International Conference on Business and Economics - ICBE 2018. June 25-27, 2018.
Best Paper Award – Distinguished Research Awards at the 2017 International Conference on Business and Economics and 12th International Conference of Korea Distribution Science Association (KODISA), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
University of Phoenix – School of Advanced Studies (SAS) Research Award Program 2016 – one of the top 4 applicants selected for this award program.
Best Professor of the Year Award for the Academic year 2011-2012, University of New York Tirana, Tirana, Albania.
Doctoral Research Assistantship Scholarship, University of Phoenix, 2012-2013 – one of the top 5 applicants selected for this scholarship.