awards
A few notable academic honors and fellowships.
- Bede Liu Best Dissertation Award — 2020 Finalist for the Bede Liu Best Dissertation Award at Princeton University.
- Facebook Systems for ML Award — 2020 Recipient of the Facebook Systems for Machine Learning research award.
- Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship — 2019 Winner of the 2019 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (North America region) — news.
- GS Quantify Innovative Solution Award — 2013 Best-solution award at GS Quantify (Goldman Sachs) for an analytic model of stock prices using a 2D Ising model to estimate the first few moments of price.
- Nurture Program Fellowship (NBHM) — 2010–2013 Selected by the National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM) among the top 20 students nationally for the Nurture Program, and among the 4 recommended for the two subsequent years.
- KVPY Fellowship — 2008–2010 Recipient of the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (K.V.P.Y.) fellowship, one of India's most prestigious government fellowships for a research career in the basic sciences.
- P. L. Bhatnagar Memorial Prize — 2009 Recipient of the 2009 P. L. Bhatnagar Memorial Award as India's highest scorer at the IMO.
- International Mathematical Olympiad — Silver Medal — 2009 Silver Medal at the 50th International Mathematical Olympiad in Bremen, Germany, with the distinction of being India's highest scorer that year.