Other Academic Details
HONORS
Sept. 2021: Best poster award, IBIIS & AIMI retreat, Stanford University, CA.
Oct. 2020: Rising Stars in EECS, U.C. Berkeley, CA.
Oct. 2020: MICCAI NIH Award
Oct. 2018 : Founders Award of Excellence, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY.
Oct. 2018: NSF travel grant to attend and present at ICMI 2018 at Boulder, CO.
July 2017: Women in Computer Vision travel grant to attend and present at CVPR 2017 at Honolulu, HI.
Jan. 2017: Winner, DoE SSL R&D Student Poster Competition.
Jan. 2017: DoE travel grant to attend DoE SSL R&D Workshop in Long Beach, CA.
May 2016: Winner, C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium Poster Competition at Stanford University.
Oct. 2015: NSF travel grant for participating as a finalist at the National Perfect Pitch Competition, Capitol Building, Washington DC.
Feb. 2015: Winner, Perfect Pitch Competition at the NSF ERC for Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications.
Jan. 2011: Ronita Roy Memorial Award for the best lady graduate, Jadavpur University, India.
OUTREACH ACTIVITIES AND LEADERSHIP ROLES
Master Instructor at the Summer High School Program, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Taught courses on Basics of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.
University Chair, Student Leadership Council, NSF ERC for Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA). Helped organize monthly student seminars, invited talks, student industry visits and monthly newsletter of LESA ERC.
Tours of research facilities at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, outreach to high school students regarding careers in engineering through poster sessions on campus and in Computer Science Fair organized in NYC.
RELEVANT GRADUATE COURSEWORK
Machine Learning, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Computational Vision, System Analysis Techniques, Distributed Systems and Sensor Networks, Computer Vision for Visual Effects, Randomized Algorithms, Computational Optimization, Compressed Sensing, Deep Learning, Perception and Action.
RELEVANT GRADUATE ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Mobile eye gaze estimation using Convolutional Neural Networks.
Face recognition via sparse representation.
Comparative study of different approaches of face recognition.
Human body orientation estimation using Compressed Sensing.
Stuck in a loop: Short movie implementing Computer Vision for Visual Effects.
Multi-agent source seeking in a formation.