Awards

• ECE Distinguished Research Fellowship, 2020 — UIUC
  Awarded upon joining the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as a graduate researcher in January 2020.
• Young Innovator Award 2019 — Texas Instruments
  Awarded for most number of patent submissions with less than 3 years of industry experience.

  

• President Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal, 2017 — IIT Bombay
  Awarded to the most outstanding student in terms of general proficiency, excellence in academic performance, extra-curricular activities and social services among all graduating students (1/2612 students). Chief Guest at IIT-B Convocation 2017, Defence Minister of India Shri Manohar Parrikar presented the medal.

  

Other Activities

Tinkerers' Lab — IIT Bombay

I was the student head of Tinkerers' Lab (TL), an alumni-funded maker-space at IIT Bombay. The TL movement has subsequently expanded to multiple IITs. Here I've written why TL is an awesome idea. Below is a presentation I made to the Global Business Forum (GBF) about TL.

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Students' Technical Activities Body — IIT Bombay

I served as the Overall Coordinator of Students' Technical Activities Body (STAB) at IIT Bombay. STAB is an umbrella body of all student-led tech activities ranging from electronics and coding to aeromodelling and astronomy.

Biking

Interested in long-distance biking trip? Let's plan one!

Hobby-Tech

Robowars — our wireless combat bot (Techfest 2012, Engineering Excellence Award). GloveTalk — a gesture-controlled toy car (pre-DL days, used traditional image processing).

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