Awards, Honors and Activities

I have been privileged to receive a few awards/ honors and be a part of various activities that have enriched me both professionally and personally.

Awards/Honors:

• Recipient of the prestigious Robert T. Chien Memorial Award from the ECE Department at  UIUC.

• Recipient of the prestigious Thomas and Margaret Huang Research Award from UIUC.

• Recipient of the prestigious Joan and Lalit Bahl Fellowship from the ECE Department at UIUC.

• Received Research Assistantship from INRIA – Grenoble, France, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA for conducting doctoral research in Computer Science.

• Received the Outstanding Paper Award at the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ACM ICMI) 2015.

• Received a travel award from the NIPS 2016 organizing committee (sponsored by IBM Research) to attend the conference and present a paper.

•  Received research assistantship for conducting research on Pedestrian Re-Identification from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-Madras), 2015 - present.

•  Received student assistantship for conducting research on Human Behavior Modeling from the Institute of Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, 2012 - 2013.

• Received financial assistantship from the Institute of Creative Technologies, University of Southern California for attending the IEEE ICASSP 2014 conference.

•  Received departmental student assistantship for evaluating course-work related submissions for the courses Computer Vision (CS-574, Spring 2014) and Machine Learning (CS-567, Fall 2013) from the Computer Science Department, University of Southern California.

•  Awarded as the Best Student (ranked amongst top 100 students across India) by the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for academic excellence, in the year 2011.

• Stood out as the departmental topper during my undergraduate studies (Rank: 1 in 120).

Activities:

• Reviewer: AAAI, IEEE/CVF CVPR, IEEE/CVF ICCV, ICPR, CVIU, IEEE RA-L

• Served as the interim chair of the Los Angeles (LA) Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) (November, 2014 – August, 2015). Organized meetings, invited talks, etc. for exchange of knowledge and professional networking amongst individuals in the field, based in the Los Angeles area.

• Member of Diabetes Awareness and You, a non-governmental organization based in Kolkata, India. I have organized several street marches and propaganda campaigns to spread awareness about this killer disease.

• I also support Doctors Without Borders, a non-governmental organization and in the past have participated in the activities of the Los Angeles section of the organization.