Awards and honors
Panelist on Deep Learning in Industry session at NeuroMatch Academy, 2021
Invited Speaker at John Hopkins University HEMINAR series, 2020
Invited Speaker at RBCDSAI (Robert Bosch Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence), IIT Madras, 2020. Talk available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ7kmkdYuHY
IFCN fellowship for young scientists, 2018 (awarded $1,000 to travel to ICCN conference)
Invited speaker at ICTALS conference on theme 'Big Data in Epilepsy', 2017 and 2019
Speaker at IEEE EMBS, AAN, AES, Brain stimulation conferences on themes centered around ML/AI methods for understanding and improving brain stimulation in epilepsy , 2014-2020
IBB Petit mentor award, 2012
Reviewer for journals including: Journal of Neural Engineering, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Epilepsia, IEEE EMBC, Sensors and Actuators, Dove Medical.
Schlumberger Foundation 'Faculty for the Future' fellowship, 2011 - 2013, (awarded $50,000 per year)
Runner-up GE 'Imagination breakthrough' In India, for India 2007, (awarded pre-placement at GE and Rs. 20,000 cash prize)
BITS alumni merit-cum-need scholarship, 2003-2007, 50% of college fee waived every year.
Sivakumar memorial award for excellence in Biological Sciences (given to 3 out of 200 students), BITS-Pilani, 2006
Coordinator of projects that won 'Best Concept', 'Eye for rural India (IforRI)' and 'Engineering solutions for Indian villages' categories at APOGEE technical festival, 2006
Ranked in the top 0.001% in the Tamil Nadu State Board exams, 2003
Gold medal in Tamil Nadu State math contest conducted by Rajiv Gandhi college of Engineering, 2003