Awards and Funding
IEEE Senior Membership, Grade elevation, 2020
Rising Star Award–Invest in Youth Program, European Society of Radiology, 2018
STIBET Assistantship from DAAD/ TUM Graduate School, 2016
IEEE Computer Society Richard E. Merwin Scholarships 2014 (April Cycle) [Citation].
IEEE Student Leadership Award – administered and awarded by IEEE Education Society, 2013[Award Citation].
A.T. Kearney Scholarship for the Falling Walls Conference, Berlin 2012 [Alumni 2012].
DAAD PhD Scholarships for PhD studies at TU München, 2012-2016
UK Commonwealth Scholarships for PhD studies at Imperial College London (relinquished), 2012
Dean's Fellowship, IIT Kharagpur, to attend IECBES Kuala Lumpur, 2010
IEEE Section Volunteer Award towards attendance of IECBES 2010 as Session Co-Chair, 2010
IEEE EMBS Sponsorship for attendance of EMBC 2010 as Founding Chair, IEEE EMB Student Club of IIT Kharagpur to receive EMB Best New Club/Chapter Award, 2010
IEEE University Partnership Program, Special Opportunities Grant for travel to EMBC 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010
KolkataNET Star Student Attendance Fellowship, TEDx Calcutta, IIM Calcutta, 2010
Transducer & BEAM Robotics Workshop, Shaastra 2005, IIT Madras, Awarded for Excellent Performance, 2005
Awarded with NalandaShree Scholarship for performance in Secondary Examination, 2001
Awarded with Merit Scholarships by Academic Culture & Promotion Society for excellent performance in National Level Talent Search Examination (Science) instituted at Bose Institute, Kolkata, 1998
Grants and Funding
IEEE HAC & SIGHT COVID-19 Grant : Portable air purification system for COVID19, [Phase I -- Aug 2020- May 2021 , Phase II rollout in progress]
Co-PI: Prakash Kamaraj (Forus Health)
AI for Earth Microsoft Azure Research Grant and Esri Licenses Award for the research project titled "AgrIndia−Developing tools for sustainable agriculture " [Feb 2018 - ongoing] -- Project Page AgrIndia
Co-PI: Debdoot Sheet, (IIT Kharagpur), Mentor/Patron: Prof. Ranjan Sen (KVK Kapgari), Prof. V K Tewari ( IIT Kharagpur)
IEEE RAS Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (RAS-SIGHT) Funding for the research project titled "Low-cost Handheld Plant Health Monitoring Device for Resource Limited Regions" [Nov 2017 - Oct 2019] -- Project Page AgrIndia
Co-investigator: Tania Bera (IIT Kharagpur), Collaborator: Debdoot Sheet (IIT Kharagpur)IEEE in 2030 Challange Seed Grant: One World, One Education for the project "Using Machine learning to deliver curated online educational content to STEM students" Co-PI: Shahul Hameed (IEEE Kerala Section) [Jan 2018 - Jan 2020]
IEEE Student Enterprise Awards 2014 for project titled ' Molecular Imaging for Non-invasive detection of Malaria' [with Praful. P. Pai and Tanvi Ranjan (IIT Kharagpur)] - funded by IEEE (USA).
All India Young Engineers' Humanitarian Challenge 2011 for project titled ' Cost effective screening system for malaria detection' funded by IEEE Foundation and IEEE Bangalore Section (R10). [IEEEtv]