Awards

  • Grant for NVIDIA Academic Grant Program on "Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning of Gen AI via Adaptive Low-Rank Aggregation", University of Arizona, (12K A100 GPU Hours on Brev amounting to ~$18K)

  • Grant for NSF CISE Core Programs on "SHF:Medium:DILSE:Codesigning Decentralized Incremental Learning System via Streaming Data Summarization on Edge", Rice University, ($1,200,000)

  • Grant for META: Network for AI proposal on "MILES: Multi-device Incremental Learning on Edge via Summarization", Rice University ($50,000)

  • Creative Ventures Fund: Conference and Workshop Development 2022 for “Workshop on Automated AI Tools for Computing and Communication”, Rice University ($10,000)

  • Graduate Teaching Fellowship, TAMU, 2020

  • Best Poster Award, First Annual Computing@SEC, 2019

  • Appointed as Graduate Assistant Lecturer, TAMU, 2018, 2020

  • Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, 2018

  • Selected for IEEE IPDPS PhD Forum, 2016

  • Received numerous Travel Grants

    • IEEE HiPC 2019, Hyderabad, India (TAMU: $500)

    • ACM FPGA 2019, Seaside, CA (ACM: $950)

    • IEEE ICDCS 2017, Atlanta, GA (NSF + TAMU: $1500)

    • IEEE IPDPS 2016, Chicago, IL (NSF: $568)

    • IEEE NCVPRIPG 2013, Jodhpur, India (TCS)

  • Secured All India Rank 2076 (among 455,571 candidates: top 0.41%) in the highly competitive Indian Institutes of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE), 2010

  • Secured All India Rank 1246 (among 1,065,100 candidates: top 0.11%) in All India Engineering Entrance Exam (AIEEE), 2010

  • Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, DPS Vasant Kunj, 2009