Awards

Received the Meta AIM Ph.D. Fellowship (a.y. 2025–2026) to support my research, as part of the Meta AI Mentorship program.

Honored to receive the Amazon AI Ph.D. Fellowship to support my Ph.D. research for academic years 2025–2027.

Conferred with the Best Undergrad Thesis Award (Gold Medal) at IIIT Delhi.

Awarded the prestigious Microsoft Research Travel Grant worth 1800 USD for attending the NeurIPS 2022 conference at New Orleans, LA.

Undergraduate thesis paper at NeurIPS 2022 was selected as Spotlight paper. Only 184 out 10411 (1.76%) full submissions (184/2665 ~ 6.9% accepted ones) were selected as Oral/Spotlight at NeurIPS 2022. Paper Social Media

Conferred with the NeurIPS 2022 Scholar Award; includes a lodging grant for attending conference at New Orleans, Louisiana. One of the very few people worldwide to be awarded the same. Link

Kartikeya Gupta Memorial Scholarship 2022 — Only one in college to be awarded scholarship of 100,000 INR for outstanding all-round performance in academics and co-curricular activities. Link Social Media Certificate

Conferred with the Dean's Award for Academic Excellence for the year 2021/22, for outstanding academic performance. Link Social Media

Accepted for MITACS Globalink Research Internship at University of British Columbia, under Prof. F Fard, with fellowship amount of 5,00,000 INR. Link

Awarded the prestigious year-long Chanakya Undergraduate Fellowship of amount 100,000 INR, by IIITD iHub Anubhuti and Department of Science and Technology, to support undergraduate thesis. Link Social Media

First Position in the Humor Analysis using Humor Annotation (HAHA) workshop shared task at IberLEF 2021 — invited for Oral presentation at Spanish Computer Science Congress CEDI20/21. Paper Code Leaderboard

Conferred with the Dean's Award for Academic Excellence for the year 2020/21, for outstanding academic performance. Link Social Media

Financial reward of 2,500,000 INR by Intel and NITI Aayog, to establish an elaborate Atal Tinkering Lab, out of 6000 teams. Link

Only one to be felicitated with the Chairperson's Special Appreciation Award, the most prestigious special award by the Chairperson of Amity Group of Schools for overall achievements in academics, sports and co-curricular activities.

Served as the Head Boy at Amity International School, Pushp Vihar.

Only one to be awarded the prestigious Founder's Trophy, by Dr. Ashok K Chauhan, for exemplary academic performance for seven consecutive years at high school. Link

First position and cash prize at Technovations, TRYST, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, out of 500 projects. Conceptualised and developed a robot to help visually challenged people to cross roads at any time of the day.

Best Project Mention at YRONS (Young Researchers of Natural Sciences), Dubai, over 200 International Project teams. Presented a project on Road Safety by controlling the speed of the cars, as a measure of avoiding overspeeding, using Radio Frequency controller.

First Rank at National Science Fair. Developed an autonomous navigation belt to help visually impaired navigate independently using haptic feedback.

Honourable Mention at Indian National Science & Engineering Fair, organised by Miranda House, University of Delhi and Science Society of India. Did a project on automatically controlling the vehicle speed in sensitive zones using a PID and Radio Frequency controller.

Best Project Award at OOTM (Odyssey of the Mind), EuroFest, Slovakia, in Team category out of 1000 International Teams. Gold Medalist at the fair for designing an actual working car based on 2 propulsion systems.