Achievements and Honors

Excellence in Teaching Assistantship award for the course “Introduction to Electrical and Electronics Circuits (EE-101) in the Autumn semester of Academic Year 2020-21 in IIT-Bombay.

Best paper award in 2021 for the paper: A. Hota, V. Sonti, S. Jain and V. Agarwal, "A Novel Single-Phase Switched-Capacitor Based 5-level Inverter Topology Featuring Voltage Boosting Capability and Common Mode Voltage Reduction," 2021 International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), Hyderabad, India, 2021, pp. 1-5.

Won first prize in Engineer Infinite 2016, a nation wide project competition, among 1500 projects all over India for the project: "Optimized three phase multilevel inverter with common mode voltage elimination"

Serves as the reviewer of the following journals: IEEE transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE transactions on Power Electronics, Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (Springer)

Served as the Teaching Assistant for the NPTEL online certification course "Fundamentals of Power Electronics"

Became a TATA Fellow in 2016 (http://www.tatacentre.iitb.ac.in/people.php)

Secured 855 All India Rank in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2014 among nearly 140,000 examinees

Secured First Class with Distinction in M. Tech, Secondary and Higher Secondary

Secured state level rank of 341 in Joint Entrance Examination among around 100,000 examinees