Awards and Activities

Honors and Awards:

• Best Woman Director of the Year Award (Industry), IIWA, GISR Foundation, 2023

• Women in AI APAC Award in Finance, Sydney, 2023

• Doctoral Dissertation Award, IIIT Delhi, 2022

• Doctoral Dissertation Award, IEEE Biometrics Council, 2022

• One of the top 200 researchers in Mathematics and Science, Heidelberg Laureate Forum, 2022

• Best Reviewer Award, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2021

• AI Innovation Award, Q2, 2021; AI Garage, Mastercard

• Best Reviewer Award, IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), 2021

• AI Excellence Award, Q4, 2020; AI Garage, Mastercard

• Best Poster Award at IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics, 2020

• IARCS/ACM Travel Grant for attending International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019 

• Selected for attending the Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019

• Facebook's Ethics in AI research award, 2019 for research on "Mitigating Bias in Face Recognition For Vast Regional Diversity in India". 

• Dean’s Award for Innovation Research and Development, Foundation's Day, IIIT-Delhi, 2019

• Dean’s Award for Innovation Research and Development, Ten Year Celebration, IIIT-Delhi, 2018

• IARCS/ACM Travel Grant for attending International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017 

• Best Poster Award at IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics, Denver (USA). IJCB is the flagship conference in the area of biometrics, held once in three years (Oct., 2017)

• Overseas Research Fellowship, IIIT-Delhi, 2016

• Best Teaching Assistant award for the course of Machine Learning in Monsoon semester (Jan., 2016)

• Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. Visited Google Shanghai Office to attend Asia-Pacific retreat (Aug., 2015)

• Best Teaching Assistant award for the course of Pattern Recognition in Winter semester (Jan., 2015)

Conference Presentations:

• 'Dual Directed Capsule Network for Very Low Resolution Image Recognition', IEEE International Conference Computer Vision, Seoul (Korea), 2019

• 'Triplet Transform Learning for Automated Primate Recognition', IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Taipei (Taiwan), 2019

• ‘Face Sketch Matching via Coupled Deep Transform Learning’, International Conference on Computer Vision, Venice (Italy), 2017

• ‘Gender and Ethnicity Classification of Iris Images using Deep Class-Encoder’, IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics, Denver (USA), 2017

• ‘Class Representative Autoencoder for Low Resolution Multi-Spectral Gender Classification’, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Anchorage (USA), 2017

Professional Service:

• Technical Chair, CVPR, 2022

• Session Chair for CVPR Workshop on Biometrics, 2021

• Member, Program Committee: IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2021, 2020, 2019; International Conference on Computer Vision, 2021; CVPR Workshop on Biometrics, 2021; International Joint Conference on Biometrics, 2021

• Reviewer, Pattern Recognition (journal) 

• Reviewer, Information Fusion (journal) 

• Reviewer, Image and Vision Computing (journal)

• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems (journal)

• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (journal) 

• Reviewer, IEEE Access (journal) 

• Reviewer, IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (2017) 

• Reviewer, International Conference on Computer Vision (2017)

• Reviewer, International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2018) 

• Reviewer, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (2018)

• Reviewer, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (2018)

Memberships:

• IEEE Student Membership

• IEEE Women in Technology