Awards & Service

Honors, recognitions, and community contributions.

Awards & Recognition

  • Departmental Rank 1 – M.Tech-PhD, IIT Jodhpur (2022–Present)
  • CHI 2026 Honourable Mention Award (MorsEar)
  • Received OmniBuds earable platform by Nokia Bell Labs, UK (2025)
  • LRN Foundation Travel Grant Awardee for PerCom 2025
  • Finalist – Green Fintech Hackathon, IITJ with Reserve Bank Innovation Hub, Top 4 out of 519 (2024)
  • Prime Minister Research Fellowship (2023)
  • TCS Research Scholar Fellowship (2023)
  • Finalist – Stanford EPIC Data Challenge, USA, Top 5 out of 61 (2023)
  • Finalist | IEEE Smart Mobility Challenge, Saudi Arabia, Top 5 out of 175, Sole Rep. of India
  • Best Poster Award – Industry Day Poster Session, IIT Jodhpur
  • First Runner Up, iS3 – IIT Jodhpur ACM Student Chapter Ideathon (2022)
  • Outstanding TA Award 2023
  • Travel Grant from COMSNETS 2023
  • Registration Grant for EarComp 2022 by Nokia Bell Labs
  • Ph.D. MHRD – GATE Fellowship, 2020–2023
  • Merit Scholarship for academic excellence in B.Tech (2017–2020), Government of Delhi
  • GATE 2020, Percentile: 98.74; CAT 2019, Percentile: 94.13

Community Service

  • Organizing Roles: Social Media Chair for ACM/IEEE COMSNETS 2025, 2026, 2027; Web Chair at COMSNETS 2024
  • Program Committees: TPC Member for HeadSys @ MobiSys 2026; TPC Member of COMSNETS Poster Session 2025, 2026
  • Conference Reviewing: IEEE CHASE, ACM CSCW, NeurIPS, ACM KDD, IEEE SmartComp, ACM CHI, IEEE COMSNETS, IEEE AIoT
  • Journal Reviewing: Pervasive Computing, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, PACMHCI
  • Open Science: Published source code, datasets, and study materials through institutional repositories and GitHub
  • Outreach: Tutorials and science communication at IIIT Sonepat, Nehru Inter College (U.P.), Sarvodaya Sr. Sec. School (Delhi), and colleges across India
  • Memberships: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)