Honors & Awards

Recognitions, grants, and academic achievements across research and teaching.

Grants & Research Funding

~$18K Value

NVIDIA Academic Grant Program (2025)

Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning of Gen AI via Adaptive Low-Rank Aggregation

Awarded to University of Arizona. Includes 12K A100 GPU Hours on Brev.

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$1,200,000

NSF CISE Core Programs (2022)

SHF:Medium:DILSE: Codesigning Decentralized Incremental Learning System via Streaming Data Summarization on Edge

Awarded through Rice University. Focuses on co-designing incremental learning systems tailored for decentralized edge environments.

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$50,000

META: Network for AI (2022)

MILES: Multi-device Incremental Learning on Edge via Summarization

Awarded through Rice University via the highly competitive 2022 Network for AI Request for Proposals.

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$10,000

Creative Ventures Fund (2022)

Conference and Workshop Development

Awarded by Rice University for the "Workshop on Automated AI Tools for Computing and Communication".

Academic & Teaching Excellence

Graduate Teaching Fellowship

2020 • TAMU

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Graduate Assistant Lecturer

2018, 2020 • TAMU

2018 Letter 2020 Letter

Best Poster Award

2019 • First Annual Computing@SEC

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Teaching Assistant Excellence Award

2018 • TAMU

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Selected for IEEE IPDPS PhD Forum

2016

Travel Grants

IEEE HiPC 2019

Hyderabad, India

TAMU: $500

ACM FPGA 2019

Seaside, CA

ACM: $950

IEEE ICDCS 2017

Atlanta, GA

NSF + TAMU: $1,500

IEEE IPDPS 2016

Chicago, IL

NSF: $568

IEEE NCVPRIPG 2013

Jodhpur, India

TCS Sponsored

Early Academic Honors

IIT-JEE All India Rank 2076

2010

Ranked among 455,571 candidates (Top 0.41%) in the highly competitive Indian Institutes of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination.

AIEEE All India Rank 1246

2010

Ranked among 1,065,100 candidates (Top 0.11%) in the All India Engineering Entrance Exam.

Gold Medal for Academic Excellence

2009 • DPS Vasant Kunj