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