honors & awards

Recognition and achievements

University of California, Irvine

Beall Family Entrepreneur Award in Computer Science, 2024

Grad Slam (3 min research pitch competition) semifinalist, 2022, 2023, 2024

Bob & Barbara Kleist Endowed Graduate Fellowship, 2023

Beall Butterworth Product Design Competition (1st place, International Track), 2023

Best Social Media Reporter ACM Multimedia Conference, 2022

Student Travel Grant, ACM Multimedia Conference, 2022

Mental Health Hackathon Winner (1 of 30), 2022

Elevator Pitch Competition 2nd place (out of 10), GPS-STEM, 2021

Incoming Graduate Student Fellowship (1 of 350), 2021


Technical University of Munich, Germany

Academic Excellence Scholarship (1 of 200), 2019 - 2020

Masters Thesis Abroad Scholarship (1 of 50), 2020 - 2021

TUM: Junge Akademie Scholar (1 of 40), 2018 - 2020


R.V. College of Engineering, India

Best Outgoing Student (1st in 70) for all-round excellence, 2012 - 2016

Academic Excellence Award (2nd in 70) for highest GPA, 2012 - 2016

Innovative Thesis Award (2nd in 70) for entrepreneurship excellence, 2016