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