honors & awards
Recognition and achievements
University of California, Irvine
Beall Family Entrepreneur Award in Computer Science $5,000, 2024
Grad Slam (3 min research pitch competition) semifinalist, 2022, 2023, 2024
Bob & Barbara Kleist Endowed Graduate Fellowship $2,500, 2023
Beall Butterworth Product Design Competition (1st place, Brazil Trip), 2023
Best Social Media Reporter ACM Multimedia Conference, 2022
Student Travel Grant $2,000, ACM Multimedia Conference, 2022
Mental Health Hackathon Winner $3,500 (1 of 30), 2022
Elevator Pitch Competition 2nd place (out of 10), GPS-STEM, 2021
Incoming Graduate Student Fellowship $2,500 (1 of 350), 2021
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Academic Excellence Scholarship $2,500 (1 of 200), 2019 - 2020
Masters Thesis Abroad Scholarship US$2,000 (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