Awards
IEEE Senior Membership (2023)
A K Singh Young Faculty Award at Assistant Professor level, by IIT Kharagpur (2022) [awarded for contributions towards teaching, research and institutional development]
Donald Berman Award for Best Student Paper at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL) 2021, for the paper titled "Incorporating Domain Knowledge for Extractive Summarization of Legal Case Documents"
Appointed Head of a Max Planck Partner Group of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany, for conducting research on Algorithmic Bias and Fairness (2021 -- 2026)
Best Paper Award at JURIX 2019, the International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, for the paper titled "Identification of Rhetorical Roles of Sentences in Indian Legal Judgments"
TensorFlow Research Award 2019 by Google, for the proposed course "Artificial Intelligence and Ethics", jointly with Dr. Animesh Mukherjee and Professor Niloy Ganguly [USD 7,500] (2019)
IIT Kharagpur Institute Faculty Excellence Award, for Newly-joined Assistant Professors, by IIT Kharagpur (2018)
IEI Young Engineers Award 2017-2018 in Computer Engineering discipline, by The Institution of Engineers (India)
NVIDIA GPU Grant -- donation of a Titan Xp GPU to support AI research (2017)
Runners-up at the MSR India Summer Workshop on Artificial Social Intelligence organised by Microsoft Research India, for the project titled "Utilising Social Media for Disaster Relief: Linguistic Analysis of Resource Requests and Offers on Twitter" (2017) [Youtube link for our final project presentation]
Max Planck-India Mobility Grant -- for visiting the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany to continue collaborative research (2015) (for the 4-year duration 2016--2019)
Humboldt Post-doctoral research fellowship for pursuing post-doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany (October 2014 -- September 2015)
Microsoft TechVista PhD Students Poster Competition, organized by Microsoft Research India: 2nd prize in TechVista 2011, 1st prize in TechVista 2013
Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Progamme, organized world-wide by Yahoo! Research Labs: Honorable Mentions in 2011 and 2012
Awarded Grants to attend International Conferences – SIGIR 2012, WWW 2012 (grants by Google, India), WWW 2011 (NIXI Fellowship), SIGCOMM 2010 (SIGCOMM Travel Grant), WOSN 2010 (USENIX Grant)
Institute Silver Medal at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, for 1st rank in Department in M.Tech. (2007)
Presidents Gold Medal at Bengal Engineering and Science University Shibpur (presently, Indian Institute for Engineering Science and Technology) for 1st rank in University in Bachelors (2005)
Tata Consultancy Services Best Student Award, Bengal Engineering and Science University Shibpur (2005)
Dr. B. C. Roy Memorial Award for best graduating student at Bengal Engineering and Science University Shibpur (2005)